The External Affairs Ministry's extensive use of social media to reach out to citizens got a further boost on Friday with the launch of a new service called Twitter Seva that will enable timely, transparent and large-scale response to citizens' tweets in real time. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may hope to ride out the demonetisation storm because his opponents' lack credibility at the national level, apart from being divided, and because of the extraordinary patience of the ordinary people in accepting their inconvenience....
India's economy is based mostly on cash. Moreover, much of it operates informally because of excessive rules and taxes. The government bureaucracy is notorious for its red tape, lethargy and corruption, forcing people to get by on their wits....
A Chinese newspaper on Thursday warned India against using the Dalai Lama and Mongolia against China, saying employing proxies to counter Beijing was way beyond New Delhi's capability....
In November, the WHO declared that Zika was no longer a global emergency, but it did not change the global risk assessment even in December. Like most mosquito-borne diseases Zika too is a seasonal disease that could repeatedly return. A vaccine for Zika therefore seemed to catch the imaginations of medical rese...
It's a law ostensibly meant to aid the recovery of debts but could result in the back-door acquisition of property by non-Kashmiris in Jammu and Kashmir. Little wonder then that it's stirred a hot debate in the state, where only Kashmiris are permitted to acquire property....
The Kardashians could have learnt a lesson or two from her, or did, so did Paris Hilton, whose great-grandfather was one of her many husbands. But Hollywood actress Sari 'Zsa Zsa' Gabor was the original socialite, never letting her lack of acting prowess keep her name out of the limelight with her extravagant and glamorous lifestyle, a long stri...
There have been many books depicting the Kashmir issue from a man's perspective but hardly any from the women's point of view -- on their suffering and misery. And this is why Mahjoor, Chairperson of the Jammu and Kashmir State Commission for Women, decided to write the book....
Gangu Kundaikar is a small-framed, sari-clad woman who rises at 3 a.m. every day, wraps a cloth around her waist so fish do not soil her sari, and takes a rented vehicle to the Malim jetty in Panaji, North Goa, 8 km from her village in one of Indias most prosperous and literate states....
Supreme Court Order on national Anthem (November 2016) has asked theatres to play the national anthem before a film show begins “for the love of the motherlandâ€. ...
