Despite its inability to provide a 40% viability gap funding, usually associated with building expressways which take long to generate…
Mayawati is doing a Narendra Modi on the power front. Farmers in India are wary of governments which talk of…
Long before the UPA government at the Centre drafted the food security bill, the idea occurred to Uttar Pradesh chief…
The food ministry seems all set to spike some of the more ambitious proposals made by the Sonia Gandhi-led National…
The traditional silly season for news has always been the somnolent summer months. When temperatures are high and politicians scarce…
The launch of Aadhaar or Unique Identification number last week has given a fillip to the idea of a smart…
The Forest Rights Act gave them land use rights and mandated that their consent be obtained before acquiring forest land,…
In the end the Allahabad High Court?s verdict on the Ayodhya title suit was one which pleased and displeased all…
A day after the rollout of the first Aadhaar numbers from the tribal heartland of Maharashtra, Aadhaar chief Nandan Nilekani…
Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung has not been given nearly enough credit for his homily that to initiate radical change,…
The Centre and National Advisory Council?s dilemma over the food security Bill seems to have no end. The silence, which…
Wages, payment of wages and monitoring of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act continues to be a problem for the…
The National Advisory Council promised to look into the concerns expressed by the deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission, Montek…
Much of the developmental debate hinges on how our policies are all very well intentioned but we fail when it…
To avoid a big burden on the exchequer from the proposed food security law, the Planning Commission will propose some…
As the September 24 court verdict on Ayodhya draws closer, there appears to be uncertainty, if not incoherence, among the…
The Centre is likely to adopt the now-famous Haryana model for recompensing displaced people whose land is acquired for big…
It?s pouring, and the uneasy atmosphere at a samvaad between 12 major cooperative banks in Karnataka?s Chikmagalur district, and the…
