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Perfect storm gathering over Smriti Irani's ministry

Rising skills gap, falling exports, low productivity, rising debt and low foreign investment is jeopardising the target set for the textile and apparels sector

Human Development Index: India ranks a dismal 130!

India also fares poorly on maternal mortality rate.

Sushma makes strong pitch for India's permanent seat at UNSC

Swaraj emphasised that the UN must accept it needs fundamental reform.

6 indicators of India's looming demographic disaster

India is experiencing jobless growth and skepticism abounding that the country may not be able to cash in on its demographic bonus

'Human rights are being curtailed systematically'

'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.'

'At the UN, there were times I wished India had a stronger government'

'Under Narendra Modi's leadership, we will be able to regain our rightful place in the community of nations,' veteran diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri, who joined the BJP on January 2, tells Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.

'At the UN, there were times I wished India had a stronger government'