'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
Educational institutions remained closed even as the weather office forecast heavy downpour in the next three days in the state, Puducherry and coastal Andhra Pradesh.
How Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar find themselves in a huge controversy.
Hence, the claims by the Government that this will end the menace of black money and corruption are simply outlandish. Also, the simultaneous introduction of Rs 2,000 note undermines their claim and it simply does not fit the storyline of an attack on black money and corruption.
With the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party seat-sharing talks deadlocked over the latter's insistence on getting more seats to contest the assembly polls, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday said he is against breaking the alliance but party workers feel the ally's "body language is anti-Congress".
'Human rights violations are there in rural areas and in cities. In rural areas it is crude and in the open. In urban areas it is well hidden.' 'Awareness has grown several fold. India has 160 national and state human rights institutions. No other country in the world has this.' 'Unfortunately the right to association, right to assembly, freedom of expression, right to protest and discuss are all being curtailed systematically one by one.'
The non-oil, non-finance sector of the economy is under severe stress.
PM Modi addressed a crowded UNESCO gathering, speaking of the importance of culture.
The NITI Aayog's views are in contrast to the National Health Policy.
In 2006-07, TCS had employed 7,000 people in the eastern states.
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of rural habitations with population of less than 1,000 has declined sharply
'People are getting admitted to hospital two to three days before their death in a very serious respiratory compromise state and they are passing away within 48 hours.' 'Those who are coming early in the disease, the minute they are suspicious that they have COVID-19, the recovery rate has been much, much, higher.' 'The moral of the story is: We must destigmatise COVID-19.' 'People should be told: 'Look, if you have anything like this, please come immediately'.'
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday addressed the nation on the eve of the 68th Independence Day.
The proposed changes to the child labour law to allow children and adolescents to work for their families would be most retrograde and regressive, say Shinzani Jain and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
After Brexit, ethnic minorities in Britain worry about their future.
The UK University League Tables and Rankings 2016 ranks the best institutes for graduate prospects.
'Poverty-stricken and drought-affected families in Bundelkhand and Marathawada are selling their children for as little as a few hundred rupees.'
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on how to pick the right international education.
To the extent that monetary variables affect investment, the weather, thus, looks far less clement.
When most nonagenarians are content to pass their time in their neighbourhood's gardens, Raj Kumar Vaishya, 96, has enrolled himself in the Patna-based Nalanda Open University to pursue his lifelong dream of earning a masters in economics, reports MI Khan.
Gimmicks such as appointing high-profile brand ambassadors like Sachin Tendulkar will not work.
Rohini Bhajibhakare won't waste a moment on this statistic because she has far more important things to do.
Mumbai-based oncologist Dr Shona Nag dispels the myths surrounding cancer.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
'We eat first, they later; we sit on chairs and they on the floor; we call them by their names and they address us by titles,' writes Tripti Lahiri, author of Maid in India.
Kolkata's creme de la creme turned up at the launch of Bandhan, The Making of a Bank, but the evening nevertheless had an informal touch typical of the young bank with CMD Chandra Shekhar Ghosh personally welcoming the dignitaries, reports Indrani Roy/Rediff.com.
Dhadak is a film that turns Nagraj Manjule's vision into naught, only so that a few more zeroes can be added to Karan Johar's bank account, says Sreehari Nair.
To do so, the government will have to tackle a number of broad development challenges successfully, says Shankar Acharya
It is not a good idea to take the line that since demonetisation happened in the third quarter, everything that happened then was a consequence of that, says Chief Statistician TCA Anant.
'The RBI is not releasing Rs 2,000 notes for the last 10 days; probably they have stopped printing it.'
Adhil Shetty, CEO, BankBazaar.com shares his thoughts on what could help make digitisation and going cashless easier in the New Year.
'I told all those Indians in Cheen there are some netas who go on holiday and don't work. Here I am, working and working, going on so many yatras, shaking hands with all big world netas till my hands feel they will fall off' 'Hai Hai, so much remains to be done, so many countries still to be visited...'
In a first of a special series on second generation Indian Americans giving back to India, we begin with Meghana Sreevatsava's story.
There is lack of scientific basis in computing the poverty line, says govt.
Not only did Barack Obama mention and quote Thomas Kailath in his remarks before presenting the Stanford University professor emeritus of engineering with the National Medal of Science, the President also cited Kailath as a shining example of the brilliant talent of immigrants who make invaluable contributions to the United States and the world.
Pope Francis on Friday called upon the world community to put aside their "partisan interests and sincerely strive to serve the common good".
'It all runs on sugar-coated lies. If I like something, I will want to believe it.'
