Scientists have for the first time spotted the little Indian field mouse in farms and granaries in the cold, high-altitude region of Ladakh and called for surveillance and management of this crop pest...

The government on Wednesday decided to provide an interest subsidy of 3 per cent to merchant exporters on shipments of products from MSMEs and labour intensive units.“The proposal will entail benefi...

In its 2014 election manifesto, the Bharatiya Janata Party promised to “increase irrigated land [by] completing the long pending irrigation projects on priority”. The prime minister, too, has repe...

The Indian economy has started to judder again and although it is still too early to read in the trends an affirmation of a pan-industry slowdown, there are clearly some very worrying signs. There has...

To encourage students to bring about a positive change in the society, Tarapore School is organising the Young Leaders Fellowship Programme for the second year in a row. Over 200 students of classes X...

After all, it is not genital mutilation. Or vagina sealing. Those are some of the agonizing traditional rituals for girls in various countries intended to make them attractive to men and sexually fait...

There was a ray of hope for bhakats (monks), cutting across age groups and living for decades at some of the prominent xatras (Vaishnavite monasteries) in Majuli, when Sarbananda Sonowal became the ch...

Amid coronavirus-induced lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday deliberated on ways to reform the agriculture sector with emphasis on agriculture marketing, access of farmers to institutio...

How are your plants feeling today? Believe it or not, students of a steel city school can tell you via emoticons.A day after the first Jharkhand global agri and food summit ended in Ranchi, bright stu...

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday pitched for a federal institution, similar to the GST Council, in healthcare and agriculture as the schemes for these sectors face resistance from states beca...