The use or misuse of MPLADS fund remains a serious concern as it amounts to refusal of timely intervention by the people’s representatives
Lekshmi Parameswaran
Ever imagined what it is to be a toothless lion? Endowed with the powerful exterior but...
Ramesh Kumar Raja
Monsoon hits Kerala first and the southern Indian state on the Malabar Coast receives excessive rains during the season. But what follows next brings misery to the residents. Water logging and flooding at various places, including...
Lekshmi Parameswaran
Like the one rotten mango that can spoil a bag full of ripe mangoes, a negative connotation is enough to rob a word of its meaning. Poverty is one such word that has been reduced to the narrowest...
‘Mukhyamantri Balika Cycle Yojna’ launched by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in 2006 may be a modest intervention but is leading to big changes
Ramesh Kumar Raja
Fourteen-year-old Sulekha Kumari, a daughter of illiterate parents, is confident about pursuing her dream of ...
Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board’s recent initiative to curb air pollution from brick kilns is unlikely to succeed
Ramesh Kumar Raja _
A t a time when an assortment of measures is being taken to rein in air pollution in...
India will be one of the youngest nations in the world with almost 140 million individuals in their 20s by the year 2030. India, thus, has the potential to have one in every four graduates of the world to...
With just 10 to 20 per cent of world’s potential tiger habitat of 1.2 million sq km, India possibly harbors over 70 per cent or more of world’s tigers
Sagarika Ranjan
Everyone is overjoyed as the roars of the wild...
Musical Saga in the Making...
Sagarika Ranjan
“Like most great inventions were a result of some accident, Bajanaama and the series also just happened,” says Amar Nath Sharma, former civil servant and an ardent music lover. “While strolling down a street...
Dr UDIT RAJ | BJP MP AND NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, ALL INDIA CONFEDERATION OF SC/ST ORGANIZATIONS
This year is quite special in that it marks the 125th birth anniversary of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the great social reformer and the principal...
NASA's Mars Rover 'Curiosity' recently completed 3,000 days on Mars. To celebrate the moment, the Curiosity team released a panorama captured by the rover...
India’s new National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, after a gap of 34 years, following
prolonged consultations at all levels promise revolutionary changes and integration of
the...