Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday launched the National Food Security Act via video conferencing from Patna’s Barah village in Punpun block. The scheme will first be implemented in
‘We are concerned about the worsening situation on human rights’ Voicing frustration over the pace of reconciliation in Sri Lanka five years after the end of the war, a visiting official from the United States on Saturday warned that the patience of the international
Meghalaya’s oldest voter and the first Padma Shri awardee from the State, Silverine Swer, passed away at the age of 103 at her residence in the city on Saturday after a brief illness, family sources said.
The Supreme Court Judge Kurian Joseph said that an independent council for conciliation should be formed under the aegis of the Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry as part of the alternative
Delhiites might have got temporary respite from power outages as the power utility NTPC has given power discoms -- BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna -- deadline of February 11 to clear their dues.
Regular users of theses postal items are affected Those who’ve been used to send postcards or letters with stamps of small denominations have been coming away disappointed from post offices in the city.
The U.N. Security Council has targeted illegal wildlife traffickers for sanctions in a pair of resolutions against African armed groups, a step conservationists called unprecedented and a major shift on a
As conservation of wild species becomes more successful, higher levels of human-wildlife conflict are being reported in many parts of the country. The outcome of such encounters is a distressing number
By getting a resolution rejecting the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill for creating Telangana passed by the State Assembly just before the deadline set by President Pranab Mukherjee to consider the Bill
What is it about women that causes leading Republicans to grow clumsy, if not stupid? When even savvy, fluent, attractively populist Mike Huckabee stumbles, you know you’ve got trouble. Having
The notion that a practising Muslim cannot be liberal has become conventional wisdom, but over the past decade it has all changed, writes Hasan Suroor in his new book, India’s Muslim Spring . Excerpts from the book
In the last two years the highest courts in the country have responded to a mass call for more protection for women. Alongside, there have been many judgments from non-constitutional decision-
Leading business chambers and rating agencies have termed retrograde the Cabinet decision to raise the number of subsidised LPG cylinders from nine to 12 per household a year, and said it would hit oil
Satisfied with the Delhi Police Commissioner’s action during Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna, when the prohibitory order was in force, the Supreme Court on Friday disposed of a writ
In a development that took India by surprise, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. aviation regulatory body, announced on Friday that it had downgraded the country’s aviation safety