Chandigarh, October 19 (IANS) It is a vote for realistic versus populist poll promises in the election to 90-member Assembly in Haryana, where the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress are locked in a straight

New Delhi, October 18 (IANS) With over 35,000 cooperative societies under its umbrella, the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO) is generating massive amount of data that needs to be analysed, pars

By P.K.Jha    New Delhi, October 18 (IANS) Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary in the Union Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, on Thursday said that the animal husbandry and dairy depa

REUTERS File Photo   NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 17 (PTI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over the global food situation wherein "more than 820 million people do not h

 A plastic bottle drifts on the waves of the sea at a fishing port in Isumi, east of Tokyo, Japan November 21, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo   LONDON, October 17 (Reuters) - Global bo

By Sirshendu Panth    Kolkata, October 15 (IANS) Successful micro-level field experiments like the one that established a connect between barefoot children, whooping cough and school drop outs i

New Delhi, October 14 (IANS) Indian-origin MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, his wife and one-time Ph.D student Esther Duflo, and Harvard professor Michael Kremer have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economi

Mumbai, October 14 (IANS) As Rahul Gandhi returns to India and kickstarts his belated campaign trail on Sunday for Assembly elections scheduled just seven days away, BJP is almost done with its campaign with it

BY D.C. PATHAK    The most important takeaway from the informal summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping at Mamallapuram, formerly Mahabalipuram -- the second since Wuhan that

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi exchanging the gifts with the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu on October 12, 2019. (PIB Photo)   New Delhi, Oc

New Delhi, October 11 (IANS) Nobel laureate and noted child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has said he will demand the formation of Global Task Force for all UN agencies to attain goals related to the welfa

New Delhi, October 11 (IANS) Read the epiphanies - sudden and striking realisations - of a girl born with SCID (severe combined immune deficiency) who died two months before her 19th birthday and through whose

By Rohan Agarwal    New Delhi, September 29 (IANS) The 'Swachh Bharat Mission of the Modi government is an "example-setting programme for the world" and a "game-changer" as it altered the way In

Kashmir As I see It: From Within and Afar    By Ashok Dhar; Rupa Publications (May 2019) New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) August 5, 2019 has become a landmark in Indian history when the Parliament re

New Delhi, September 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi's week-long visit to the US was extremely successful, with his focus on the big picture as he very subtly made a case for India's global leadersh

By Vishnu Makhijani    New Delhi, September 28 (IANS) Translations are an important step towards the democratisation of literary culture as they break down elitist distinctions. Inter-lingual tr

New Delhi, September 27 (IANS) How did five entrepreneurs weather the dotcom bust around 18 years back to launch a successful e-grocery venture that is valued at $950 million today? You may read about it i

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands speaks at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 (GES 2019) in The Hague, Netherlands June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw   After 10 years of travelling the g

By Venkatachari Jagannathan    Chennai, September 27 (IANS) Did the failure of India's moon lander Vikram's navigation systems result in its crash-landing on the lunar surface on September 7 is

By Rajnish Singh    New Delhi, September 26 (IANS) The pre-test recce of the first digital initiative under Census 2021 covering 75 districts across India is on completion mode and would finish