India has called for a ceasefire, release of all hostages, and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Hamas conflict through dialogue and diplomacy, and New Delhi welcomed the agreement on the first......
The government aims to cover around 60 million people in the age category, irrespective of income, with an assured 5 lakh annually to be shared within the family. IMAGE: Senior citizens aged 70......
'Rahul Gandhi only does things that his appointed people tell him to do. I tried to meet him and highlight the problems but I could not meet him.' IMAGE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives to......
On his 200th birth anniversary, Utkarsh Mishra/Rediff traces the life, thought, and legacy of Dadabhai Naoroji, the Grand Old Man of India. IMAGE: Dadabhai Naoroji. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons......
'For the first time in this country, perhaps the first time anywhere, we are going to use backwardness index.''It is a fundamental shift in the discourse in the country's social justice.' IMAGE:......
The government's initiative to migrate SEZ data from NSDL software to ICEGATE system for streamlined reporting of import data caused double counting of gold imports, resulting in inflated figures......
Encouraged by a robust 16.7 per cent industrial output in January, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday the economy is on the path of fast recovery and will end the fiscal with a growth......
With Indian statistics facing heavy criticism from all quarters in recent times, the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), which is responsible for coordination of statistical activities in the......
Reflecting a persistent slowdown, industrial production in May contracted by 1.6 per cent, lowest in the past 11 months, on account of poor show by the manufacturing and mining sectors. The......
Companies that have been reluctant to share their production and sales data with the government for calculation of various indices will now be forced to do so. According to the Collection of......
Palak and Anuja endear us to their bittersweet world, observes Sukanya Verma. Anuja begins with a girl telling her tween sibling a Panchatantra story about how a faithful mongoose saved a farmer's......