Sunday, April 28, 2024
By Vikas Datta | IANS A huge statue of Karl Marx was unveiled in his birthplace in the German city of Trier to mark his 200th birth anniversary on May 5 — and it was donated by the Chinese government. But wasn’t China’s move towards market...
06 May 2018
By Sanjoy K Roy | IANS In 1999, as part of a British Council showcase programme, I travelled to the Edinburgh Festival and that set in motion the idea of creating platforms for Indian contemporary and classical art forms across the world. Working cl...
06 May 2018
It praised India’s Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Scheme for providing some 37 million free liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections in the past two years that help promoting the use of clean household energy. The WHO’s updated estimations reveal...
02 May 2018
Long-term exposure to traffic-related pollution may significantly increase the risk of asthma in early childhood, a study has warned. The findings, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, showed that living close to a major road ...
02 May 2018
By Anjali Jaiswal & Amartya Awasthi | IANS With Earth Day top of mind this week, what do you think is among the top strategies for protecting the planet from climate change? Improving air conditioners? Yes, thats true for India and the world. Wi...
26 Apr 2018
By Rajnish Singh | IANS With only two months to go for the monsoon rains to arrive, relocating Rohingya refugees to a safe place has emerged as a serious concern for the Bangladesh government. It has also created a sense or worry for India’s Borde...
26 Apr 2018
By Taponeel Mukherjee | IANS Author H. Jackson Brown Jr once remarked: “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” For global investors and businesses, India in the 21st century is that very dance floor — but we must hasten...
26 Apr 2018
By Amit Kapoor | IANS Any undergraduate student of economics would vouch for the fact that an economy in a recession requires a fiscal stimulus package (or more government spending and lower taxes). Such a stimulus can only be managed if the economy...
25 Apr 2018
By Arun Kumar Das | IANS That some 2.37 crore people have applied as the Indian Railways kicked off the process of filling up over 88,000 posts is clearly indicative of the “jobless growth” the country is experiencing. But the exercise has a pos...
25 Apr 2018
By Azera Parveen Rahman | IANS Wiry shrubs and clumps of brown-green fill the semi-arid landscape of Kutch in western India. Many of these patches have, over the years, made way for “more productive” agricultural land. This greening of “wastel...
20 Apr 2018
By Vishal Gulati | IANS Increasing the acreage of wet crops like rice — and also increasing the watering structures in areas that already have wet crops — appear to be helping the sarus crane’s unseasonal nesting and also their multipl...
19 Apr 2018
At a time of growing distrust and general indifference to human suffering, doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here on Thursday noted how prompt action of office colleague in one instance and of a spouse in another case helped give two brain stro...
14 Apr 2018
A new early warning satellite system has revealed that India along with Spain, Morocco and Iraq faces the risk of shrinking reservoirs that can lead to taps going dry. It has highlighted poor rains in 2017 to show the shrinking of the Indira Sagar da...
13 Apr 2018
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern that a number of quacks practicing medicine are playing with the lives of people and posing a great risk to society. “A number of unqualified, untrained quacks are posing a great risk to the entire soci...
13 Apr 2018
By Alok Kumar, Neil Buddy Shah & Ronald Abraham | IANS The NITI Aayog recently launched the first round of ranking of India’s Aspirational Districts. The ranking, based on the socio-economic performance of 100+ districts, marks the initiation ...
12 Apr 2018
By C. Uday Bhaskar | IANS The four-day DefExpo 2018 that opens outside Chennai on April 11 has been innovatively and generously showcased as “India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub” and a large number of platforms and military inventory i...
12 Apr 2018
Masazo Nonaka, a 112-year-old Japanese man residing in the country’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, was recognised as the world’s oldest living male, Guinness World Records said on Tuesday. Born on July 25, 1905, Nonaka received a certifica...
10 Apr 2018
By Anand Singh | IANS Moving beyond the five hill networks that are major tourist attractions, Indian Railways is planning to also preserve its old five-metre gauge tracks built during its early days in the British era to promote heritage tourism. ...
08 Apr 2018
By Arnav Joshi | IANS When Aristotle seminally made a distinction between the polis and the oikos, laying the early foundations of the confidential zone, he did so around clear societal demarcations and a very different understanding of what was pri...
06 Apr 2018
By Nury Vittachi | IANS This columnist once watched a 60-minute BBC TV documentary on the railways of Lahore simply because the remote control was on another chair. Heartless people call this “laziness”, but I prefer “terminal indol...
06 Apr 2018
By Mamta Aggarwal | IANS Jayamma Bhandari was orphaned at the age of three and spend her childhood in grim poverty. She was forced into the sex trade by her husband. But unlike other victims who are forced into the murky business, she decided to cha...
05 Apr 2018
By Arun Kumar Das | IANS Faced with alarming levels of muck and choking weeds, Dal lake, the main tourist attraction in the Kashmir Valley, is gasping for breath — and the once-pristine waterbody seems to be in dire need of intervention by a...
04 Apr 2018
By Somrita Ghosh | IANS Periods: The word is no longer taboo. Both women and men, in recent times, have spoken out about menstrual health and there has been quite a lot of awareness over it through films and other medium. Unfortunately, there is not...
03 Apr 2018
Scientists have discovered a way to stop the spread of rice blast, a fungus that destroys up to 30 per cent of the world’s rice crop each year. The researchers found that chemical genetic inhibition of a single protein in the fungus stops it from s...
26 Mar 2018
Kochi, March 23 (IANS): Powered by a range of concrete technological innovations, Kerala needs to leverage its full potential to lead a technological revolution in the coming years, industry experts said here on Friday. Kerala’s High Power IT Commi...
25 Mar 2018
