'Nitish Kumar acts like a dictator'

'Nitish Kumar is fooling the people of Bihar.''He will not probe anything because if he does so, he will be trapped himself.' IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar offers flowers to Goddess......

Maharashtra passes 10% quota bill for Marathas, leaves OBCs untouched

The Maharashtra legislature on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill providing 10 per cent reservation for the Maratha community in education and government jobs. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde tabled......

AIIMS-Like Centre For Animals In Delhi

Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   In a major development, the Centre, for the first time, has initiated a draft proposal for setting up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences......

DU to drop Pak poet Mohammed Iqbal who penned 'saare jahan se achha'

Those who laid the foundation to break India should not be in the syllabus, Delhi University vice chancellor Yogesh Singh said after the academic council passed a motion to remove a chapter on......

Health budget hiked by 28%; medical seats increased

To ensure availability of specialist doctors at the secondary and tertiary levels, the Centre on Wednesday announced the creation of additional 5,000 post-graduate seats every year, even as it......

How Modi can ensure the success of Digital India

Appropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions, says Shyam Ponappa. There’s a “List of 10 Things” for realising India’s potential that......

Demographic dividend or impending catastrophe?

No country has grown without educating its people. India's shameful lag in primary and secondary education has persisted for several decades, and the crisis in higher education is now threatening a......

Bihar struggles to pay the price of liquor ban

Incentives for industries have been rolled back and teachers have gone without salary for months as the state grapples with the after-effects of the ban While speaking at a conference in Patna in......

How athletes are giving back during the coronavirus pandemic

IMAGE: (Picture for representational purpose only) Medics wait to check people, who recently travelled from China, at the specially setup coronavirus ward at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest......

Wonder cricketer Dhanawade behind bars for arguing with cops

Pranav Dhanawade, the 16-year-old wonder boy, who became the first batsman in the world to score 1000 runs in one innings, has once again made it to the headlines after being detained for a slight......

NYC teacher arrested for flying drone at US Open stadium

Daniel Verley, 26, was charged with reckless endangerment, reckless operation of a drone and operating a drone in a New York City public park outside of a prescribed area for doing so. The......