Jai Ho! Democracy

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Cast: Om Puri, Annu Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Satish Kaushik, Adil Hussain, Aamir Bashir Read More

Ill-timed Rain Damages Crops in 1.8cr Hectares Across 13 States

Recent rains and hailstorm in different parts of the country had damaged Rabi crops in about 181 lakh hectares of land across 13 states during February 28-March 16 with UP ...

How does India’s Budget fare on sustainable development?

India’s new government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced its first annual Union Budget on Saturday. The budget was hailed as pro-poor and pro-growth, bu...

Modi needs to do a Swacch Regulation programme in the energy sector

The Union Cabinet’s decision to auction cancelled coal blocks was announced by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday with only a passing reference that the governme...

Does India need a bank for women?

India’s government thinks so. Plans for such a bank – the first state-run one of its kind in India – were announced in the annual budget. Finance Minister...

Scarlett Johansson, Oxfam charity part ways in dispute over Israeli settlements in West Bank

JERUSALEM – Scarlett Johansson has parted ways with the international charity Oxfam because of a dispute over her work for Soda Stream, a company operating in a West ...

Strengthening African health systems

A group of current and former African finance ministers discussed ways to improve the management of public health systems at an early October roundtable convened by Harvard...

A Shifting Balance of Power

The notion and practice of power is arguably what creates and maintains large societies. Since the role of government is conceived to be so integral in safeguarding our soc...

Annual Report: India 2013

Republic of India

Head of state Pranab Kumar Mukherjee(replaced Pratibha Patil)

Head of government Manmohan Singh

Torture and other ill-treatment, e...