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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to India as chief guest at the Republic Day parade, and the clutch of agreements signed between the two countries during the 36 hours he spent in the country,

If powerful figures are not subjected to transparent court proceedings, the opacity in the face of a critical issue is likely to undermine public faith in the judiciary

Under e-district project, government services over mobile phones shortly : Giving a fillip to the mobile governance initiatives of the State government, the Kerala State IT

Seventeen years after the first plea was made, the Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced hearing to examine the constitutional validity of the law which makes it mandatory for the CBI to take approval of

Plea for action against KMML for discharging effluents into waterbodies The Southern Bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) here on Tuesday directed the Union Ministry

Environment Ministry contradicts Moily’s statements Contradicting the statements made by M. Veerappa Moily, the Union Environment and Forests

In a major setback to gay rights activists, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review its December 11 judgment, holding that homosexuality or unnatural sex between two consenting adults

Barack Obama may have a to-do pile full of Edward Snowden-related headaches, but the NSA whistleblower might be joining him on one of the world's more prestigious clubs.

It was an encounter with a little girl who suffered from an enigmatic neurological disorder that set molecular geneticist Huda Zoghbi on a journey of unexpected scientific discovery, taking her from the paediatric clinic to a medical laboratory, where she would unravel the genetic origins of a rare and devastating condition — Rett Syndrome.

European news channel Euronews said on Monday that it will launch Africa’s first multi-language news channel in the middle of next year in partnership with the state television of the Republic of Congo. The new venture called Africanews will be headquartered in Brazzaville, the Congo capital.

As Ben Bernanke, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve, must recognise, he is the victim of the law of diminishing returns. In the initial days of the 2008-09 financial crisis, he mobilised the Fed as the lender of last resort. This helped quell an intensifying financial panic and, arguably, averted a second Great Depression. Mr. Bernanke’s role has been much praised and deserves the nation’s gratitude. It is doubtful anyone else would have done better.

This was the year of the outsider at the Australian Open. Few would have picked Stanislas Wawrinka and Li Na as champions ahead of the fortnight in Melbourne. But the outcome was a reminder that the only certainty in sport is its inherent uncertainty.

In a span of about 45 days, the Supreme Court of India has delivered two judgments that have received diametrically opposite reactions — one will count among the Court’s most poorly reasoned judgments while the other is likely to be heralded as one of its finest for its clarity and fidelity to earlier decisions. The contrast between Justice Singhvi’s judgment upholding the criminalisation of homosexuality and that of Chief Justice Sathasivam affirming the rights of mercy-rejected death row prisoners could not be starker.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is likely to complete its Rs 1,500 crore 2G and 3G network expansion programme in the eastern and Northeast by mid-2014. The development will boost the service quality of the State-owned telecom major in the region. “BSNL is investing around Rs.1,500 crore in expanding and improving the existing 2G and 3G network. We expect it get completed in the next few months,” BSNL CGM (Calcutta Telephones) Gautam Chakraborty said.“Work has already begun and we have received adequate equipment for the setup in our circle,” he added. Mr. Chakraborty said once the project was implemented, service quality and capacity would get a boost in the eastern regions of West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and the Northeast. BSNL was planning to expand GSM lines by over 4 million lines for the region, the contract for which was bagged by Chinese vendor ZTE Telecom India. BSNL is expanding its capacity by 10 million GSM lines (2G and 3G) to help increase its subscriber...

Journalists of Bastar are often exposed to serious security threats by Maoists who want to release a statement or by the police who want to gather information BLURRED LINE:The financial survival of a journalist in rural India, especially in Bastar, depends directly on outside interests. A condolence meeting in Bijapur district, south Chhattisgarh, for slain journalist Sai Reddy. The Maoists claim they killed him last December. —PHOTO: SUVOJIT BAGCHI Sometime in the early summer of 2013, while preparing for a motorbike ride in the forests of Bastar, the State administration came up with a request to this correspondent — to mediate with left-wing rebels to recover the body of a