On his official work visit to Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh engaged in extensive talks on bilateral, regional and global issues with his Japanese counter...
Imagine: Every time money is withdrawn from the home ministry's or the railway department's bank account, you will get an alert on your mobile. You can even che...
In India, over two lakh people, including about 80,000 children
below the age of 15 years, die because of malaria. The claim is made by a
study publis...
The Supreme Court has asked the government to come up with a 'real number' on people living below poverty line (BPL). The court said that the official data clai...
South Korean steel major Posco's India project faces a huge cloud of uncertainty. The expert panel set up by the environment ministry has accused the company of...
By no means should it seem amazing – that bicycle ownership (30"50 per cent) in Indian cities is much higher than ownership of cars (3"13 per cent) and two-whee...
We cannot solve the problems that we have created with the same thinking that
created them.' –
" Albert Einstein
The
phrase 'sustainable development' buz...
'Economic growth is our overriding priority; there is no doubt that we have to grow at 8 to 9 per cent a year, but not at the cost of environment, not at the co...
'There is no substitute to women empowerment. If we have to bring social equality in the country, women have to be happy in individual homes as well as society....
With an aim to provide clean fuel to rural India, the finance ministry has approved the oil ministry's proposal to provide extremely subsidized cooking gas conn...
