State owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) said it has resumed 167 projects involving an investment of Rs 14,000 crore as the government has partially lifted lockdown restrictions in certain loca...

A very distinguished virologist whom I happen to know believes that the lockdown in India was an overreaction. His argument is that since the coronavirus was coming to India from outside, testing and ...

The Bantala leather hub, which houses around 400 tanneries, has got a new name along with infrastructure proposals that could attract investment of Rs 80,000 crore and create employment for 5 lakh pe...

Maharajganj, on the border with Nepal, rarely makes news. And its alienation is such that the most potent issue in this Lok Sabha constituency is the one raised by a doctor. It is an issue that can g...

News about the Indian economy, even from official sources, has begun to look bleak. Between October and December 2018, the economy grew at 6.6 per cent, the slowest in the last five quarters. The grow...

By 11am last Wednesday, Salim had collected all the household trash littering the lanes in the central Delhi neighbourhood of Regar Pura and dumped it in the local garbage yard.If he were a regular ci...

The Jalpaiguri district administration has agreed to the request of the railways to carry out non-technical repairs of the tracks under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNR...

The grim employment scenario in urban India got aggravated while the rural sector showed some improvement in the last week of May, with researchers attributing the uptick in the villages to seasonal s...

Where is the demand generator?The balancing act implicit in the package may be a deft move to stir entrepreneurial energies and shake up the economy, but what is missing is that big demand trigger whi...

The Madras High Court on Thursday upheld the rejection of candidature of a woman, who had applied for a job, by Chennai Metro Rail Limited on the ground that she was overqualified. Justice S. Vaidya...