In a token relief to India’s central government employee, when retail inflation for is hovering around 9%, government on Friday increased dearness allowance by 7% with effect from January...

It seems the word "consensus" has no meaning for the parliamentarians of India, at least under this UPA 2.0 this seems to be the biggest issue, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finds its really...

Today 80-year-old environmentalist G D Agarwal--on mission to clean sacred river Ganga-- ended his fast in Delhi as government agreed to most of his demand. 

India’s coalition government was rocked by a fresh corruption scandal on Thursday after it was accused of forgoing $210 billion in potential revenues by selling coal assets too cheaply to...

Say it power of Maa Maati Maanus (3M) or weakness coalition politics, the newly appointed Railway Minister Mukul Roy did what party supremo ordered him to do, i.e. the roll back of fare hike.

Watching porn has moved out of college and schools. Now, MMS and porn sticks have become more famous among the oldies sitting in legislative halls. 

 One man's loss other man's gain, that is what happens in case Dinesh Trivedi and Mukul Roy. After the forced exit of Trinamool Congress minister Dinesh Trivedi from the Railway Ministry...

“I regret the departure of Shri Trivedi,” PM said in Lok Sabha adding that the Railway Minister had presented a budget which promised the “vision” outlined by his...

According to latest estimates, India's overall poverty declined to 29.8% in year 2009-10, 7.3 percentage points lower that 37.2% reported in 2004-05, the Planning Commission informed Monday. <...

The enquiry will be done with the help of the Reserve Bank of India and the IT department, that will look to the alleged stake of several Mauritius based entities in Devas Multimedia Pvt Ltd which...

Where diplomacy ends, financial blackmailing and mudslinging or rather muscling starts and this has been exemplified by US.  US as usual-its naked pragmatist approach has been dangling the...

National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW), an umbrella mission to strengthen inter-sectoral convergence and facilitate the process of coordination of all the women’s welfare and socio...

First time in the history of India, women outnumbered men in number of literates added during the decade. 110.07 million Women were added in out of total 217.70 million added literates in the...

We could not have imagined our childhoodwithout encyclopedia. Even in our lingua franca (sarcastically though)we can easily recall a rote learner to be termed as the ‘chalta-firta’ ...