This may be apocryphal, but has a rich ring of credibility given the cast of characters involved. The story goes that Giani Zail Singh, as president of India, would walk down to the South Court of Ras...

The ban on single-use plastic, which was notified in August 2021 by the Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change, has now come into force. Plastic cutlery items, sweet boxes, invitati...

“The GST Council has decided to include pre-packed and pre-labelled foodgrain and other items under the GST tax slab of 5 per cent which will make small manufacturers and traders uncompetitive i...

India and the European Union will resume their second round of discussion for a comprehensive free trade agreement in September in Brussels. Commerce ministry officials said the first round of talks, ...

A dozen US lawmakers have written a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to file a formal request for consultations with India at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over its "dangerous trade...

Survival skill Sir — For hundreds of years, the kitchen was demarcated as the exclusive domain of women. The idea of men cooking or helping out in the kitchen — especially those from cer...

Double-facedness is not supposed to be a virtue. But the line between virtue and vice no longer holds in New India whose elected political regime thrives on presenting ‘two faces’ to the n...

The Unicef has brought to focus an old problem that has taken calamitous proportions in recent times — malnutrition. It has estimated that almost eight million children under the age of five are...

Cheerleaders may croon even when there is not much to cheer about. Consider the case of the trumpeting of the controversial Agnipath scheme by several leading lights of Indian industry. They are of th...

A senior researcher of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, which prepared the global Environmental Performance Index 2022 report that put India at the bottom of the 180 countries assesse...