World leaders pledged to conquer poverty, climate change and other problems by 2030, but many say they are not on target to meet the goal Rohingya refugee children pose for a picture at the Balukhali camp i

By Rajnish Singh    New Delhi, September 25 (IANS) The Centre is ready with a list of states and Union Territories for the first digital National Population Register (NPR) under census 2021 putt

By Venkatachari Jagannathan (   Chennai, September 24 (IANS) Contradictory views were voiced out by space experts in India on the country's space agency's Mission 2.0 following the failure of th

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the President of United States of America (USA), Mr. Donald Trump at the Howdy Modi, in Houston, USA on September 22, 2019. (PIB Photo)   By Arul Louis&nbs

By Mayank Chhaya    Chicago, September 21 (IANS) The Vikram moon lander likely crashed at about 184 miles per hour (mph), a speed at which nothing of value could have survived, a highly respecte

By Natalia Ningthoujam    New Delhi, September 22 (IANS) The Bollywood actress has come of age, and that has been happening for a while now. The heroine-oriented film is a reality, so is a

New Delhi, September 21 (IANSlife) If art is recession proof then galleries which house some of the most famous works as well as artists need to make their presence felt. Which is possibly one of the reaso

Chennai, September 20 (IANS) Keep the technology simple; freeze the mission profile and don't change it till the last moment; carry out the simulation tests to the maximum possible level -- these are some of th

Indigenous Tembe warrior Ronilson Tembe poses for a portrait on the Alto Rio Guama indigenous reserve as he waits for police to arrive with other members of his tribe in Para state, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 4,

New Delhi, September 17 (IANS) US President Donald Trump joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's diaspora event in Houston next week will be a message for the world and it is up to Pakistan what they wish to rea

By Vishnu Makhijani     New Delhi, September 17 (IANS) He's a Gujarati Jain, a strict vegetarian since birth and the only child of his parents. He refused to join the family jewellery busin

Corn plants are seen in a farm in Lujan, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina August 2, 2019. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian   Global over-dependence on a relatively small number of staple foods le

New Delhi, September 16 (IANS) To make the Swachh Bharat Mission a success, India mobilised huge resources for information, education and communication (IEC) activities, with a new report estimating that the ca

By Robinder Nath Sachdev  IANS   The ducks seem to be lining up for President Donald Trump to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Indian-American community event slated to be held on Septe

By Anindya Banerjee    New Delhi, September 15 (IANS) 150 years after his birth, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is at the centre of a political wrangle with both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (B

New Delhi, September 15 (IANS) With India pressing for traceability of WhatsApp messages to check the spread of fake news, Nick Clegg, Facebook Vice President, Global Affairs and Communications, has offered alt

New Delhi, September 15 (IANS) Launched five years ago, the Swachh Bharat Mission announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the verge making India a completely open defecation free (ODF), enabling people

BY AMIT KAPOOR  IANS | September 14   Every century has its own defining moment. For the nineteenth century, it was the juxtaposition of imperialism with the industrial revolution while for the

A indigenous man from the Tabajara tribe is seen in Tocantins river before the I World Games for Indigenous People in Palmas, Brazil, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino   An online project ai

By Vishnu Makhijani    New Delhi, September 13 (IANS) Diplomat-politician-author Shashi Tharoor says he is no scholar of Hinduism and only seeks to give his readers an overview of the faith "as