India's overall TFR declines but 5 states yet to achieve replacement-level of fertility: NFHS-5According to the report, India has made significant progress in population control measures in recent times with the Total Fertility Rates ...
09 May, 2022, 07.31 PM IST
Foreign education grants help many in ‘creamy layer’The beneficiaries included several whose annual family income exceeded the yearly fees at the top universities where they were admitted. Wh...
07 Dec, 2020, 10.33 AM IST
Buddhist, Ambedkarite bodies say UP law that penalises mass conversions is a move to quell Dalit resistanceUP's Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, promulgated last week penalises mass conversions - defined by the ordina...
03 Dec, 2020, 09.47 PM IST
IndiGo starts direct flights from Kolkata to YangonThe new flights are designed to cater to business and leisure travellers who are on the lookout for new and affordable flying options betwe...
20 Sep, 2019, 02.07 PM IST
Divided they stand: Why marginal Dalit castes still lack political cloutAmong middle-class educated and employed Dalits who act as opinion makers, or young people in recent years, one can discern opposition to B...
24 May, 2019, 12.27 PM IST
Fertility rate below replacement level for all religions but Hindus and MuslimsThe community with the lowest fertility rate of 1.2 was the one with the highest level of education, especially for women, the Jains.
13 Jan, 2018, 01.12 PM IST
Fertility rate below replacement level for all but Hindus & MuslimsThe average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, or total fertility rate (TFR), has dropped below replacement for all reli...
12 Jan, 2018, 10.13 AM IST
Air India’s Varanasi-Colombo maiden flight takes wingAir India will fly 180-seater Airbus 320-Neo, for the all-economy class flights twice a week, Fridays and Sundays, airline spokesman Dhanan...
04 Aug, 2017, 08.41 AM IST
From Alejandro Inarritu to Vanessa Redgrave: Cannes draws battle-scarred map of the worldCannes has never shied away from taking contemporary politics head on.
28 May, 2017, 12.31 PM IST
Early Harappan, Chalcolithic, Buddhist and Gupta remains found in counrty-wide excavation worksIn Rukministhan of Nalanda at Bihar, the mound revealed several structures like votive stupas, brick walls, a colossal image of Buddha and ...
27 Jul, 2015, 09.21 PM IST
New Delhi to get a Buddhist learning centre post PM Modi's visit to ChinaThe Capital will soon get a centre for Buddhist learning and worship as an extension of PM Narendra Modi's larger outreach towards the reli...
21 May, 2015, 11.33 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Ladakh keeps analysts busy with no clear winner hereOver the next one week, both Congress vice-president Rahul and BJP leader Gadkari are scheduled to campaign in Ladakh, which goes to polls ...
28 Apr, 2014, 06.16 PM IST
Divided Buddhist votes may hit poll results in Northern KashmirBoth Congress vice-president Rahul and BJP’s PM candidate Modi are scheduled to campaign in Ladakh, which goes to polls on May 7.
28 Apr, 2014, 12.15 PM IST
A trip on Mahaparinirvan Express to explore the Buddhist trailA trip on the Mahaparinirvan Express suggests that the transition from one reform movement to another may not have been as smooth as common...
15 Dec, 2013, 06.15 AM IST
- Science & the emerging neo-feudalism
Leaders who throttle dissent and debate, govts that want to perpetually prescribe what adults should not do and teachers who discourage que...
01 Sep, 2009, 02.02 AM IST
- Muslims don't qualify for Dalit quota: Arjun
HRD minister Arjun Singh may have thrown down the gauntlet to his party colleagues and the Left when he all but ruled out the possibility o...
10 Mar, 2007, 03.35 AM IST
- Buddha dumps Deepak Chopra, Shekhar Kapur
This Buddha should have stopped laughing a long time ago. In the ethereal world of appearances and disappearances, the Great One has reinca...
13 Aug, 2006, 12.00 AM IST