Like his father Lalu Yadav, his younger son, the leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav took to aggressive posture and announced headline-grabbing promises for the voters even before Bihar INDIA bloc ...

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of poverty in India, drawing on secondary data from national surveys and expert committee reports. The findings reveal a steady decline in income poverty ...

Economic development and its sustainability depends on the inter generational savings and their productive investment. Productive investment gets a boost if it is accompanied by innovations in various ...

The Central Trade Unions, sectoral federations/associations and Samyukt Kisan Morcha call for a Nationwide massive mobilisation all over India at district level and at state headquarters on 26th ...

If a question is asked—what has the USA done to topple leftist governments in Venezuela during the 21st century, the answer would be— almost everything. What is more, at this moment it appears ...

The Nobel Peace Prize is always controversial. There will always be opponents to those who receive the Peace Prize. But sometimes it rigidly violates the norms of peace. From history we know that ...

There are seasons in a teacher’s life that unfold quietly, like old lessons half-remembered. It begins with the first appointment that brings hope, the years of service that test patience, the ...

(Author: Adama Srinivas Reddy (sreevare13 [at]gmail.com) teaches at the Kakatiya Government College (Autonomous) Hanumakonda, and is a Founding Member of the Society for Change in Education, Telangana ...

The latest round of repression of leading activists of the Ladakh Apex Body (LAB)---putting them under house arrest when they sought to organize a peaceful protest march---shows once again the ugly ...

Out of the City’s Citadel. Let me get out of the city: the straitjacket of traffic jams the institutionalised insanity of corporations, the corpse of what was once humanity. Let ...

Buoyant by the success of the cash distribution scheme of women in MP and Maharashtra, on 26 September, Rs 10000 has been given to each of 75 lakh women in Bihar under a scheme ‘Mukhyamantri Mahilal ...

But there is a strong push for Indian Knowledge Systems, as evident from the addition of courses on Kala Ganana (traditional Indian time keeping), Bharatiya Bijganit (Indian algebra), Shulva Sutra ...