In veiled criticism of the Ashok Gehlot government on Tuesday, Congress leader Sachin Pilot called for zero tolerance to incidents like the recent killing of a Dalit boy and called for action......
The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) on Monday put all zoos across the country on 'highest' alert and asked them to collect samples fortnightly in suspected cases after a tiger at a United States zoo......
'The jobless armies of youthful India are getting angrier and desperate,' warns Shekhar Gupta.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Brand guru Alyque Padamsee had a favourite boast: Clients ask me......
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted new faces into the Union Council of Ministers keeping an eye on the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. Union Minister of State for Environment,......
Following the publication of this report by Business Standard, the Prime Minister’s Office has clarified that the total sanctioned strength of the PMO has been around 525 in the period......
After recognising its adverse health effects, the govt has now dismissed its own lab reports to conclude that the evidence against plastic is insufficient, says Nitin Sethi. Image: FSSAI in its......
It’s sleepless nights again for the residents of Kamtur village. Located on the fringes of the Kumaraswamy forest range, one of the six iron ore-bearing mountaintops in Karnataka’s......
Even as the Supreme Court is set to hear the petition to ban testing of genetically modified (GM) crops on October 29, the apex body that is supposed to regulate GM crops in the country, the......
Madhav Gadgil headed the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel set up by the ministry of environment and forests in 2010. The report zoned 75 per cent of the Western Ghats into different grades of......
Would we be fourth time lucky? After all, we weathered the 1991 crisis; in fact, we emerged stronger with economic policy undergoing a metamorphosis. The 1997 East Asian crisis and the 2008 global......