President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday reminded the literary icons and artists who are returning their awards in protest against growing intolerance, that they should not let their emotions overrun reason and that disagreement must be expressed thro
The consequences of deficient 2015 monsoon are likely to be far-reaching and the government has been advised to wake up to frame policies. According to a report by industry body Assocham, after pulses, rice prices may shoot up in the coming months
The Delhi government has allocatted Rs 209 crore for setting-up 1,000 Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics in various areas of the national capital. For this financial year, the government had made a budgetary provision for setting up 500 moha
Maharashtra government has recommended examinations in all schools as students tend to ignore studies, encourage parents’ participation and increase in schools work to eight hours. In its report on the draft of national
In the run-up to the winter session of Parliament, opposition parties have started a coordinated effort to demand a debate on the issue of "growing intolerance" and passage of a resolution condemning such incidents. The parties see
Will Paris attacks affect refugee crisis and bring back xenophobia in European society? At least an indication of the attacks that claimed 127 people in the French capital by eight gunmen are going to have an effect on the refugees has been given
Why the pulse prices are high The single biggest factor responsible for high pulse prices is its low production in the country. India is the biggest consumer of pulses in the world but the country’s
GN Bureau New Delhi Union power minister Piyush Goyal has said that the implementation of the revival package of the near bankrupt state-run discoms will result in total savings of nearly $30 billion (nearly Rs 1.99 l
Five years ago the road leading to Nunglamubarik village in western Uttar Pradesh, some 150 km from Delhi, was lined with sugarcane crops. Poplar tree cultivation was just picking up in this farmers’ village which we had visited in Mar
Diwali is likely to be a subdued affair this year as middle and lower income families cut their festive spends by 43%, a survey by industry body ASSOCHAM has said. The study has attributed this reduction in spending to high prices of daily food it
Indian army is now on cloud. Defence minister Manohar Parrikar today gave the army its Central Data Centre, Army Cloud and Digi-Locker. These facilities are a part of the Digital Army programme and Parrikar said this can be of great
The BJP seems to be a wounded tiger, licking its wounds after the Bihar poll drubbing. There will be a lot of blame game within, as to why the party and its allies could not wrest power from the Nitish-Lalu-Congress Mahagathbandhan and what
India has embraced the Modi government’s Digital India initiative and not to be left behind, human resource development ministry has launched a number of mobile apps and web-based platforms. These applications allow students to access study
Trying to rise above petty politics and showing others that country comes first, finance minister Arun Jaitley today said it will not impact the economic reforms process. "I don`t see it as a setback to the economy... structura
The Meteorological Department has sounded a high alert as a massive cyclone is likely to hit Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining areas on Monday night triggering heavy rainfall. The state authorities have ordered the closure of schools and colleg
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has said that it will adopt a policy of persuasion through education to control population and quoted the `Quran` to claim it favours small families for those who can`t afford to raise big ones.
Alluding to the middle class people’s dream of visiting Kashmir once in their life time, prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday promised to make the state a dream destination again and announced a package of Rs 80,000 crore for all-round d
Aadhaar will receive legislative sanction with the government ready to introduce National Identification Authority of India (NIAI) Bill in the parliament. Finance minister Arun Jaitley, who said that Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM, as
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Jammu and Kashmir today, his first visit after the PDP-BJP coalition came to power in the state. He will address a public meeting at the Sher-i-Kashmir cricket stadium in Srinagar, where he is expected to an
In a reminiscent of the horrific gang rape in Delhi on December 16, 2012, a 19-year-old girl was raped in a moving mini-bus by the driver near Bengaluru. The shocking incident took place near Sulibele Hoskote in a mini-bus near Lakondanahalli cros
