Sharad Yadav stirs controversy by alleging that Padma Awards are given to "dishonest" people.
Academicians from around the world mark the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South Africa
#RIPResearch has been trending on twitter since morning, with grieved tweets about the salaries of researchers and a lack of funds allocated to research in India.
Congress today appointed five new PCC chiefs and one regional Congress Committee President.
Former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi on Monday appeared before a court hearing in the case relating to the Aircel-Maxis deal and moved their bail application.
This irony should not be missed. It has grave import for the public since the Indian Railways talk about safety but do not give a damn.
Narendra Modi's acchey din might not be feeling so good to India's babudom. Long used to setting their own schedules and lording it over the public now they have a boss who is only to happy to crack the whip on them. 2014 saw some big changes in the babu's work culture.
A conservative World Bank report estimates the cost of environmental damage to be 5.7 percent of our GDP, without even taking into account the loss of fisheries, biodiversity or non-use value of forests.
All of us know how ridiculously small-time most freebies are but political parties will have their way as long as we hopelessly fall for it.
White-painted roofs are significantly cooler than conventional ones and can save as much as a quarter of power consumption<br /><br /> <br /><br />
Governments around the world work with the industry to jointly develop capacity to fight any national emergency. Unlike pharmaceuticals, biologicals take time to manufacture and require special facilities
A systematic campaign organised by major pharma companies against India is already underway for alleged lack of intellectual property protection.
Here's why should we care about India's dismal placement in the Economic Freedom Index, which incidentally is the same as Pakistan's.
Pushed by the government and riding on hired science, the GM industry is slowly but surely descending on us. But we must demand answers to a few reasonable questions.
If Manmohan Singh wants to undo all the wrongs that Pranab Mukherjee did as FM, what does it say about Singh himself?
A lot of vision is lying orphaned, scattered under the dust of inaction - just shake it up and get cracking.
The rabid greens want to save everything. And nothing is enough for the growth hawk. They can curse or cheer the project clearance spree but neither benefits from their all-or-nothing battle.
The lost amounts may be recouped by charging a very small surcharge on all bank transactions.
So what choices can individuals make when they get their genome (exome in the foreseeable future) sequenced? When the mutation is actionable, one needs to take action; but what if, one has a mutation that increases the risk for Alzheimer's? Forget about it? <br /><br />
A statistical analysis of the results of 2012 admission tests by scientists at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata shows that certain Boards, students from high income families, and urban areas bag most of the IITs.
The Ranbaxy saga of fraud and greed goes beyond that. In India, it shows how our regulators too have failed us.
In a study that surveyed over 500 randomly selected small-farm Indian households over seven years, researchers found that as the rate of Indian farmers adopting GM cotton grew, undernourishment in their families dropped.
Endangered species like the chinkara, spiny tail lizard, fox, and there are a lot more others that will benefit if wasteland areas come under protection just like forest areas.
In a substantive paper published today in the journal Nature Reviews, a group of authors from Singapore, the USA and Brazil evaluate the cost of cancer medication in low and middle income countries.
Unless public change their behavior pattern to make representatives more accountable, India's growth will always lag its optimum growth potential.
Like Carnegie, like Rockefeller, like Gates, like Buffet, the Tatas knew to what end they were creating wealth. To improve society.
"The Supreme Court committee has directed scrapping 42 mining leases in the region of Goa," said lawyer Sandeep Singh.
The focus on Rs 1.76 lakh crore - the top end of the CAG's loss estimate in the 2G scam - is actually reducing the criticism to a farce
Most politicians belong and relate to the broad range of the middle-class FDI in retail will affect. The potential victims of the NIB are the faceless, voiceless poor of the hinterland.