India becomes open-defecation free but many challenges ahead

The challenge now will be mainly be to sustain India's open-defecation free status

Universal Basic Income explained in less than two minutes

With an eye on the 2019 elections, the BJP-led government may announce a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme. Under UBI, every citizen, …

NITI Aayog ineffective in curbing inequality: Report

Latest India Exclusion Report flags several areas of concern

Unemployment rate rose to 6.9 per cent in October: study

It also said that labour participation was lowest since January 2016

Sit up India, start worrying

Start Up India is a niche project that is unlikely to create the kind of job opportunities we need

Cabinet approves amendments to power tariff policy

Policy claims to ensure 24X7, affordable power for all

POOP – It’s not crappy!

If we utilized whole lot of crap India produced per day through open defecation, we could light around 1,092,000 street lights or 72,800 stoves …

Modi back to ‘vikaas’ hardline

Prime Minister seems to have gone back on promises to farmers

At industry's behest

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar's decision to lift the moratorium of 8 critically polluted clusters of the country is inexplicable. The …

About sleepless nights at PMO and the diwan

Are bureaucrats under Modi regime so hard-pressed that settees in office have become a necessity?

Simply Put : Ahmedabad wall

A Modi motto on innovation

A simplistic formulation ignores the reality of India's research environment and the constraint it faces

Sunaina Rawat and the dilemma of Bharat

The new government has to focus on the rural population, their aspirations and the economy

Gujarat's estimate of malnourished children lower than national survey: CAG

Gujarat government considered only underweight children to assess malnutrition levels and not stunting and wastage

Where are the doctors’ bodies when common man suffers due to poor treatment?

Notwithstanding lack of government support, the medical associations are strangely absent whenever the needy suffers due to unethical practices, …

Two seasons of separation and a deep political desperation

It feels good that agriculture features high in political discourse but, again, it is misdirected

Farewell to welfare

The budget is a patch work of abandoned schemes revived or existing ones being re-named. This is all for rural development

Is an environmental apocalypse approaching India?

The Union government scarcely conceals its contempt for the environment working assiduously to dismantle environment protection.

मोदी जी, आपने महामारी को भी इवेंट बना दिया

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निजी या सरकारी: कृषि पर कौन कर रहा है कितना निवेश

प्रधान मंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी कृषि में अधिक निजी निवेश चाहते हैं, लेकिन यह पहले से ही निजी निवेश पर कायम है

‘Accelerating exodus from farming key to achieve target of doubling income’

To double farmers’ income reduce the number of farmers, suggest policy makers

Modi’s rural sojourn: Take piped water to 4,620 households everyday

The challenge is to sustain supply; most habitations covered with drinking water have slipped back to non-covered status due to drying up of sources

Prime Minister confers Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes

Narendra Modi conferred the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s prestigious prizes for 2016, 2017 and 2018 at Vigyan Bhawan in …

Dalit activists, leaders decry Prime Minister’s ‘Christ-like’ act

It is just a gimmick to fool Dalits whereas their real problems are unaddressed, they say