Consider weather, climate while planning 'one nation, one poll': IMD

'If people are in the queue, they should have sufficient water to drink. There should be a provision for first aid and health workers to help if people faint or suffer from sunstroke... and there......

Parched South India faces biggest water crisis

Kerala, Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are facing a severe drought this year, affecting many lives. Karnataka: Worst drought in decades The Krishnaraja Sagara Dam, which stores water from the......

Pradip Tripathi moves to Cabinet Secretariat as govt effects major bureaucratic rejig

Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday. A......

How Modi plans to change babudom

The PM is keen to fill 40 per cent of the joint secretary level openings with outsiders.R Rajagopalan reports. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi interacts with secretaries of all......

Plan to make Maharashtra drought-free by 2019 fails miserably

Despite Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis' ambitious plan, 40 per cent of the state is reeling from drought and its water tanker economy is booming. As of February 2019, the state government......

Scorching summer may hit water supply and fodder

In the first of a two-part series, Sanjeeb Mukherjee examines the impact of the upcoming summer on agriculture and drinking water supply. Summers have set in and if weather predictions and current......

Will Govt Cut PSBs Loose?

Merely bringing down the government stake below 51% may not find any taker for the PSBs.The government must bring down its holding to at least 26%, recommends Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration:......

Monsoon: Damage control begins

Plan ready for more than 600 districts; price stabilisation on for pulses, grains A day after the India Meteorological Department lowered its monsoon forecast, the government on Wednesday swung......

Sports Shorts: We will have Olympics next year, says Coates

IMAGE: IOC official John Coates. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/File Photo/Reuters The Olympic movement faces its biggest challenge in four decades in getting a streamlined Tokyo Summer Games up and......