'Hindutva is the language you speak today'

'Education played the most significant role in entrenchment of Hindutva ideology in coastal Karnataka.' 'Teachers of most of the schools, junior colleges, degree colleges and universities are......

India's digital health mission likely to face privacy issues

The initiative has the potential to, as PM Modi put it, ‘bring revolutionary changes in India’s health facilities’, but there are several challenges in its implementation, report......

Are we on the brink of water wars?

'Nature does not send us a bill, so we ignore them in decision making until we hit a moment of crisis, such as the current shortage of water.' IMAGE: A child victim of Maharashtra's drought.In any......

'There is corruption in judiciary. I can't change that overnight'

The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to the inability of the executive to deliver and the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good, says Law Minister Kapil Sibal. In......

RBI leaves key rates unchanged, sees more upside risks to inflation

  Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday kept the key policy rate unchanged citing higher upside risks to 'inflation trajectory' but said the central bank will remain......

Nasscom shows interest in Israel start-ups

Israel, far smaller than India, has managed to report the second highest number of merger and acquisition transactions in the start-up products space. And, the nascent but fast growing Indian......

Domestic demand key to survive shocks: Pranab

A robust domestic demand will be key to withstanding the shocks and uncertainties that come with a global economy, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday. "We have to deepen and broaden......

Indian Cricket League scores with advertisers

As more and more players join Subhash Chandra's Indian Cricket League, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has threatened the players. When the matter was raised in Parliament, BCCI president......