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......
'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.'......
As the dust finally settles on the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections 2019 and Bharatiya Janata Party along with its NDA allies emerges as the clear winner, here is a list of who won in each of the......
A railway inquiry has blamed a downpour and panic due to people mistaking the cries of a vendor for the September 29 Elphinstone foot overbridge stampede in Mumbai that killed 23 people and......
Indian roads are far more unsafe than its railways. A sense of urgency is required to tackle India's embarrassing record on road safety, says Vinayak Chatterjee. IMAGE: The total number of road......
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......
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......
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......
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......
Stepped up public expenditure must be accompanied by focused policies, advises Vinayak Chatterjee. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has let it known that in the......
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'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......