Tamil Nadu records over 70 percent voting in 38 LS seats as poll fervour draws cine stars, boycotts and odd incidents of violence
Thiruvannamalai: Tamil Nadu’s political landscape has had tectonic shifts since the state last went to polls, the last one for both J Jayalalitha and...
Caste influences what voters decide in UP, Bihar
Saurabh Sharma, Umesh Kumar Ray Lucknow/Patna: As the first phase of voting for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections concluded across eight constituencies in...
3 Pak ministers have links with banned outfits: Bilawal Bhutto
Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples’ Party, chairman, Bilawal Bhutto, has opened a “Pandora’s Box” by alleging that three federal ministers of Imran Khan’s cabinet are open...
March 29, 2019
Pakistan goes to IMF for loan against its poll promise
Islamabad: The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) government took charge in the month of August last year after triumph in the July elections. Its pre-election narrative...
March 25, 2019
Nepal awards 4G mobile network expansion contract to Chinese companies, amid concern of security breaches
Kathmandu: At a time when Chinese telecom companies face international flak for security breach allegations, Nepal's state-owned telecommunication service provider has signed agreements with...
February 20, 2019
Banking by the red light
Mumbai: Since November 2017, commercial sex workers in Mumbai’s Kamathipura area are having a tough time saving money. They have been forced to hide...
Odisha farmers making more money, spend on tractors
Bargarh: Ground reality of Odisha's villages shows there is some truth to recent reports about rural India's improving economic condition. Better facilities and integrated...
How inland fisheries is rescuing Andhra villagers
Vizianagaram: There is a reason why water bodies are considered a resource. From the water they provide to the many living organisms they support,...
As funds crunch ails U’khand ambulance service, hills lose lifeline
Dehradun: With government hospitals across Uttarakhand grappling with a scarcity of doctors, ambulances serve as a lifeline for...
Cancer care in Kashmir under severe strain
Srinagar: Ghulam Ahmad from Kupwara’s Trehgam village has been suffering from colon (intestinal) cancer since 2012. “I felt...
Healthcare in private hands in U’khand as state hospitals wait for doctors
Dehradun: States across India face scarcity of doctors but the problem is severely compounded in Uttarakhand, where efforts by successive...
In this MP village, people have to walk on a tightrope for health, education
Ratlam: Slacklining may be an adventure activity for some, but for the residents of a tiny village...
How Ganga kinaare wala is gravitating to spurious liquor
Kanpur: Kalu Kheda, on the eastern edge of Kanpur city, is like any of the thousand villages that...
Sewage to blame, Dal turns dull
Srinagar: Srinagar's prime tourist attraction, Dal Lake, is no more the scenic beauty it used to be....
Gujarat startup builds bridge of hope to rural areas
Ahmedabad: To provide affordable healthcare in remote locations of Gujarat, often crippled by a shortage of physicians and...
Uttarakhand braces itself for dry days
Nainital: Lokesh Verma, a farmer from Nainital’s Chanfi village, says this is the third year in a...
Treating sewage with floating wetlands
Hyderabad: A radical new method is fast emerging as an effective and sustainable solution to increasing pollution in...
In UP village, cancer is a common visitor as govt looks away
Deoband, Saharanpur: Mohammad Sonu and Shaheen look helplessly at their three-year-old son Aarif, as he plays half-heartedly by...
Mizoram yet to fulfil decade-old promise to ginger farmers
March 19, 2019
Bangladesh’s dichotomy of development and deprivation
Going to class in a cooking pot
3 Pak ministers have links with banned outfits: Bilawal Bhutto
Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples’ Party, chairman, Bilawal Bhutto, has opened a “Pandora’s Box” by alleging that three federal ministers of Imran Khan’s cabinet are open...
March 29, 2019
Pakistan goes to IMF for loan against its poll promise
Islamabad: The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) government took charge in the month of August last year after triumph in the July elections. Its pre-election narrative...
March 25, 2019
Amid crisis from all corners, Pak PM staring at disqualification from office
Since taking over the Prime Minister’s office in August last year, Imran Khan has been dealing with one crisis after another. In the...
March 22, 2019
ISIS Presence in Pakistan, a major threat
Islamabad: Intelligence agencies of Pakistan have warned about threats from terror group Islamic State, also known as ISIS or Daesh, suggesting the home...
March 15, 2019