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'Cycle will go, motorcycle will come': In one UP village, many Yadavs are rooting for Akhilesh Having raised five children, Savitri Yadav, a widow in her fifties, was at that stage of life w...

Demonetisation may temporarily slow down the economy: President Pranab Mukherjee In his New Year address to governors and lieutenant governors, he said the poor would need some help 'to alleviate t...

India reduces baby deaths but still has not met its 2012 targets India has fallen short of the 67% reduction in infant mortality over 25 years that it had set in its Millenium Development Goals. ...

Uncooperative federalism: Kiran Bedi bullying Puducherry’s elected government harms Indian democracy Modi once called it the Delhi Sultanate. But today, he has become a mirror of the Congress' ten...

The World Bank has bowed to Indian pressure on Indus Waters Treaty: Pakistan's former commissioner The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty is once again in the news, especially for the role being playe...

On first official visit to coastal state, Portugal’s Goa-origin PM is sucked into a poll eve row Antonia Costa, Portugal’s Prime Minister of Goan-Indian descent arrived in Goa for a visit to...

The Daily Fix: Demonetisation is the best argument for restoring the autonomy of the RBI   The Reserve Bank of India’s note to the parliamentary committee on demonetisation conf...

No WhatsApp For Babus, Said Puducherry Chief Minister. Kiran Bedi Just Nixed His Ban Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi said that social media should be used by government officials ...

Tax collections for 2016-2017 will exceed Budget estimate of Rs 16.3 lakh crore, says Arun Jaitley The finance minister said demonetisation had not affected revenue collections, even as states ...

Uttar Pradesh: Bahujan Samaj Party announces nomination list, names 100 candidates Party chief Mayawati declared 36 tickets for Muslim members.     The Bahujan Samaj Party announced ...

Green court's order for an audit of buildings in Delhi is a new frontier in the fight for clean air Indoor air quality receives far less attention even though a significant portion of the populatio...

 Film actress turns to film maker butyfull heroine Twinkle Khanna rurns producer It was reported last month that actors Akshay Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan will share screen space afte...

Why the flops ‘Dil Se’ and ‘Johnny Gadaar’ were game-changers for Bollywood In an excerpt from a collection of 50 significant Hindi film titles from 1995-2015, a seasoned film critic makes t...