Top US think-tanks have questioned the secrecy of trial and the US NSA visit here next weekend is expected to see some plain speak by India...

Can India become a superpower when its doctors may not know surgery, bank personnel may not be good at accounting and police may have bribe...

Experts think the pressure that falls upon the underlying tectonic plates after excess rainfall in India and Bangladesh could have triggere...

The problem of agriculture calls for a longterm solution. Lakhs of farming households across the country are crying out for a helping hand.

Databases are entering welfare delivery across India. And Delhi’s failed experiment with databases shows how not to use them, reports ET.

Some of the extreme laggard states were MP which picked up just 42% of its share , Bengal (50%), Bihar (52%) and Maharashtra (62%).

Private companies have hijacked the government's flagship scheme to provide food to poor children and their mothers, a report of the SC com...

What the UIDAI should do is mostly resolved. But some ministries have other ideas on how it should go about it.

A group of activists staged a demonstraton here to protest against EU-India trade deal which they allege have a severe negative impact.

The government is reaching out to civil society to avoid being caught on the wrong foot while identifying the poor.

Two Planning Commission member came out in revolt against the panel's affidavit to the Supreme Court that those spending Rs 32 a day in urb...

Aruna Roy lashed out at the Planning Commission's new criteria for poverty line submitted to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The state government on Monday offered marginal relief to residents reeling under the double blow of higher diesel and cooking gas (LPG) pr...

For several years now, the union government has been trying to get private parties to construct godowns instead, which it could then hire.