Sustainable Development

Bihar Mukhiyas To Get Smart Phones, Internet-savvy Assistants To Improve Work Efficiency

Move will cut frequent travel to government offices to get schemes sanctioned and will improve monitoring, says Panchayati Raj minister Village heads or mukhiyas in Bihar woul...

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Green tax on vehicles made mandatory in Uttar Pradesh

Number of vehicles in Noida has increased by three folds between 2004 and 2012. To bring vehicular pollution under control, the Uttar Pradesh government has recently made gree...

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Haryana starts marking forest area in Mangar

The Haryana government has started the process of measuring the Mangar forest area in Aravali amid reports of it approving the sub-regional plan. Sources said forest departmen...

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Saving the poor

It was a curious irony. The same day Gabriel Garcia Marquez died, I met another famous Latin writer-the prolific and talented Isabel Allende-giving a talk at a friend’s ...

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600 Indian Sisters working as doctors are motor of rural health services

Religious Sisters graduating from St John’s Medical University in Bangalore are the “motor of rural health services, a unique example of Christian charity”, ...

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Low-Cost Water Is Hard Sell in Delhi Colony

India — In October last year, the resettlement colony of Sawda Ghevra, tucked away in the north-western outskirts of India’s capital, became the site of an urban e...

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It is obvious why farming is dying

The euphoria in the stock markets, after a strong mandate for Narendra Modi, hogs the national headlines. Unfortunately, the loud cries of wailing farm widows have been lost i...

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Child Labour In India

This highly civilized, educated and marvelously scientific world of today says that child labour is simply a severe violation of basic human rights; but in spite of this reali...

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Indian journalists win Diageo’s inaugural women’s empowerment ‘WE’ journalism awards

Diageo, a premium drinks company, has recognized and honoured five winning journalists from across Asia-Pacific for their outstanding reporting of women’s issues at the ...

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Women-only cab service launched in Kochi

ith the support of the Kerala government, a women-only cab service called “She Taxi” has been launched here to ensure safety and empowerment of the fairer sex. Koc...

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RETROSCOPE: THE FLAME THAT STILL BURNS

When Smita Patil Breathed Her Last On The Midnight Of December 13, 1986, The World Of Ci...

December 13 2025

MOVIES: A STARK MIRROR OF EXPLOITATION

In this powerful review, critic Utpal Datta examines The Untold Agony, revealing how Jay...

December 12 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: TALE OF A CRIME THAT CUTS DEEP

A gripping Saudi thriller that uses the framework of a desert murder mystery to expose t...

December 11 2025