Education minister and Koderma MLA Neera Yadav sparked outrage in July 2015 when she garlanded a picture of APJ Abdul Kalam when the former President was still alive. That outrage was missing in 2017-...

The 242km Tatanagar to Shalimar — an intercity station serving Howrah and Calcutta — railway route can look forward to a daily passenger train run by a private entity after the Union ministry of r...

Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Mizoram are among the states, which are close to taking the the percentage of people living below the poverty line to 10.95 per cent by 2030.This has been reflected in...

The government will come out with a white paper in four months to cut taxes on steel companies and make them competitive, steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday.Pradhan said the Niti Aayog w...

When Yogi Adityanath called the army 'Modiji ki sena', the election Commission sent him a 'love letter', the Congress said today, criticising the poll panel for letting off the Uttar Pradesh chief min...

States will have to become key agents of growth to help achieve India’s target of becoming a $5 trillion economy, Niti Aayog chief executive officer Amitabh Kant said on Saturday. Speaking at an eve...

DoNER minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said the Northeast should focus on the bamboo industry in a big way, as this is a sector which has not received attention in spite of the fact that over 60 per...

An overwhelming anxiety about health brought about the lockdown as a means of protection. But the state of lockdown itself brings on a different set of anxieties, not all of which can be articulated w...

Progress is rarely linear; each step forward gives rise to newer challenges. The existence of such challenges was evident in the findings of a survey which was recently made public. The survey, conduc...

The government is trying to ensure the outright sale of PSUs within four months of issuing documents to potential investors, a move aimed at speedier conclusion of the entire process, an official said...