Is V K Singh Up For Promotion?

Different ministers of state in the Narendra D Modi ministry were assigned to receive G20 heads of State and government and other world leaders on their arrival in Delhi on Friday, September 8,......

Aristotle Would Have Envied Ivan

Ivan Menezes and Arvind Subramanian -- whose birthdays were separated by a month and 3 days in 1959 -- became close friends attending the economics course at St Stephen's.Ivan went on to be a......

PHOTOS: India celebrates Ganesh festival amid pandemic

The 10-day Ganesh festival began on Saturday under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, with devotees restricting celebrations to their homes and using online platforms to get 'darshan' of the......

'No fear of India turning authoritarian'

'The objective is not to make India into a one religion place, but to ensure that there is harmonious and peaceful co-existence of all faiths with each of them having their cultural personality.'......

Abhijit Banerjee, 2nd Presidency alumni to win Nobel in Economics

Amartya Sen was the other Presidency alumni to win the Economics Nobel. Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize along with two others - his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on Monday "for......

Will the brand-new Jal Shakti ministry keep India's head above water?

Can the newly-minted Jal Shakti ministry bring water to some 19 crore Indian households that have never had taps or heard the sound of flowing water, wonders Vinayak Chatterjee. The ministry of......

Water-news

The ministry of jal shakti was formed by merging the ministry of drinking water and sanitation, with the ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation, on May 31, 2019. The......

Road building in India is cheapest among Asian nations

The results are likely to please the Indian government, which has been trying to impress on domestic and foreign investors about its efforts to improve the ease of doing business. It costs less to......

Mumbai succumb to Parida's guiles

Mumbai's batsmen succumbed to the guiles of off-spinner Kulamani Parida and were tottering at 100 for seven in their first innings against Railways on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy Elite......

Mumbai succumb to Parida's guiles

Mumbai's batsmen succumbed to the guiles of off-spinner Kulamani Parida and were tottering at 100 for seven in their first innings against Railways on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy Elite......