The researchers experimentally evaluated a programme of agricultural training, capital inputs, and counselling for Liberian ex-fighters who were illegally mining or occupying rubber plantations.

Several events from India’s recent history have been recalled in reports on the contents of former RAW chief A S Dulat’s forthcoming book, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years. The backstories to four of the more significant assertions that Dulat makes.

On July 1, the Centre launched its Digital India push, aiming to empower lakhs of Indians in the country’s remotest corners, and boost economic growth. What is the existing base in the states over which this edifice will stand?

Why expectations from Modi’s Turkmenistan visit must be tempered — there is a timeline, and complexities of terrorism and funding to be resolved first

The researchers estimate that the “accounting cost” per student in a government school in the median state in 2011/12 was Rs 14,615, while the median child in a private school cost Rs 5,961.

There is no denying the fact that without any goldplating of their cost structure, there is little reason for the generation utilities to opt for captive mining.

The IMF paper notes that governments in emerging market economies need to push such efforts at inclusion to make a dent in inequality.

The United Nations has issued an unusual safety advisory, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) have warned of future heatwaves.

Amid growing fears of another drought year, Maharashtra has revived talk of cloud seeding. Indian Express explains the process, what it might achieve.

The Railways hopes to reach all state capitals in the Northeast by March 2020.

The Nabakalebara, divine re-embodiment of Lord Jagannath, happens once every 12-19 years.

The BJP’s rise — it bagged 10 per cent of votes in the 2014 general election, up from 6 per cent in 2009 — seems to be hurting the Left.

The phenomenon behind the unexpectedly good rainfall this June — and whose swing-away now is likely to allow the El Nino to have full play.

Who is doing it — and what they have found so far...

At FICCI, Vajpayee employed his celebrated oratory to sketch his government’s vision of connecting the country through a network of world-class highways.

Swadeshi Jagran Manch, AN RSS affiliate,has described several provisions of the Bill as 'detestable and unacceptable'.

Lets understand what is happening in Greece and what happens now.

The first real possibility of a Grexit emerged in 2012. Since then, it has cost hundreds of billions to keep it in the Eurozone.

Shares of Indian companies with exposure to Europe, including IT firms, faced pronounced selling pressure on Monday.

Probably the Congress’s increasing nervousness about a Raj Bhawan that has a finger on Assam’s pulse as crucial Assembly elections approach.

In 1975, the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency, widely seen as the darkest hour of India’s democracy.

The official reason for not liberalising imports is the possibility of their leading to the closure of many (read, inefficient) domestic plants.

On night of June 25-25, hundreds arrested under Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA). Police wake up JP in middle of the night; he makes his famous comment 'Vinaash kaale vipreet buddhi'.

One lesson of that time turned out subsequently to be a blueprint for Opposition success. It learnt that the adage about Strength in Unity was not just a cliché.