World Bank report warns of heatwaves beyond endurance in India

Severe heatwaves, responsible for thousands of deaths across India over the last few decades, are increasing with alarming frequency and soon the country could become one of the first places in the......

Climate Crisis Presents Opportunity For India

India's negotiating posture at multilateral negotiations should be aligned with a significantly transformed development strategy domestically.The positions the country takes at the negotiations......

PLA accelerates fortification of Indian border: Report

In the wake of border clashes along the Sino-Indian border, but harking back well before that, the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) has been bolstering its defensive networks along the undemarcated......

US aid to Pakistan is no panacea, but neither are sanctions

After weighing all the costs and benefits, the next administration is likely to reduce and restructure assistance to Pakistan but not to end it altogether, says Daniel S Markey. It has never been......

'Growth has revived in certain segments'

‘There are some high-frequency indicators where uptick is visible and some where it is not’ IMAGE: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das addresses the media after the monetary policy......

What Telecom Man reveals about India's business-politics links

'It's the brazen corruption involving politicians that makes you sit up years after the event,' notes Nivedita Mookerji after reading B K Syngal's Telecom Man. IMAGE: Brijendra K Syngal. Some......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

'Climate change may cause extinction of rare NE flora, fauna'

A number of rare and endemic species of flora and fauna found in the North East may soon be extinct due to climate change unless conservation efforts are accelerated warns a new report."Species......