The farmers strike of 2020 as an event was a collage of multiple narratives. It tempted one to compare it to the story of the seven blind men and the elephant. As reportage, it lacked the solidity of ...

The Niti Aayog which replaced the decades-old Planning Commission with much fanfare in 2014 appears to have already outlived its usefulness to the states, who now want a new institutional arrangement ...

Through BAU’s BPD Society, hundreds of farmers are practising Amrit Krishi in Ranchi, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, East Singhbhum and Khunti districts. “The society has developed natural farming ba...

The head of India’s coronavirus task force on Tuesday asserted the need for people with symptoms to seek tests without fear and for everybody to wear masks in public spaces, adopt physical dista...

The commerce ministry’s investigation arm DGTR has recommended the imposition of anti-dumping duty for five years on “choline chloride”, a chemical imported from China, Malaysia and ...

Brij Mohan Pandey, 75, was surprised to receive a telephone call from an unknown number inquiring about his well-being. He was informed about measures to prevent coronavirus and asked if he needed an...

Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, urging him to withdraw the recent ordinance that entrusted the Reserve bank of India with powers to suspend the board of directors of u...

The Centre has set up a group of ministers to examine the feasibility of enacting a law that allows farmland to be leased to tenants.Analysts said such a move would help millions of sharecroppers acce...

Niti Aayog member V.K. Saraswat has said the Internet shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir did not have any significant effect on its economy as people there use the Net only for “watching dirty films”....

More than 38,000 doctors, including those retired from the Armed Forces Medical Services, have volunteered to help the government in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, a senior official said on ...