As Textiles Minister Smriti Irani settles in to her new job overseeing an industry that is India's largest source of formal jobs, the government's hope that it will continue to be an employment engine is under growing threat, as job-growth plateaus and exports wilt against Vietnamese and Bangladeshi competition...
Even as Sonia Gandhi prepares to pass the baton to her children in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, it is obvious that she is not only opting for semi-retirement a few years too early but also that she is leaving the Congress in more of a derelict state than ever before in its 131 years....
Balloons in blazing colours billow down the ceiling of the Democratic Convention arena in Philadelphia. Then the cameras pull back, enveloping the Obamas and the Clintons in a shower of confetti, as they walk away from the carnival....
That is precisely what 24-year-old Sumegha Gulati, a brilliant and courageous journalist, did on her Facebook page at 12.54 p.m. on Wednesday -- just two days before she passed away on Friday. ...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will lead the Indian delegation to the canonisation of Mother Teresa at the Vatican in September, it was announced on Thursday....
The Ramon Magsaysay and Jnanpith awardee Bengali novelist penned telling commentaries on the sufferings and oppression of tribals, and in a rarity for a city-bred writer, came down from the ivory tower to mingle with them....
This was intended to be a memoir but ended up being a 'procession of images' with a bearing on Muslims in India, more specifically on the rapid 'Othering' of the community after independence in 1947. Veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi's "Being The Other" is a truly remarkable account of all that has gone wrong with Hindu-Muslim relations in...
Sachar committee, in its damning report submitted to the government of India in 2006 put the status of Indian-Muslim “below the conditions of Scheduled Castes and Tribesâ€. In education, employment, income level, representation in the government, and a range of other social and economic indicators, Muslims lag behind all oth...
While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before -- and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men -- they are either marrying early or not finding or not looking for jobs, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of various data. ...
Politics has never been kind in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and electorally the most crucial state. There have been instances in the past when lawmakers have shamed the voters by their conduct....
