By Vivian Fernandes, New Delhi : Secondary agriculture is an important and independent activity and a division needs to be created in all the three departments of the agriculture ministry to promote it, says the Doubling Farmers' Income (DFI) Committee. In the 9th of...
By Vikas Datta, No other book has gone so far. Last month, Canadian American entrepreneur Elon Musk sent a copy of this science fiction classic into deep space aboard his Roadster, with one of its seminal messages painted on the dashboard. Then another phrase from...
By Saeed Naqvi, The extraordinary feat the BJP has pulled off leaves one breathless. Which other Chief Minister in the country will have a decorated Director General of Police, B.L. Vohra, write in his book, "Tripura's Bravehearts", "Manik Sarkar was definitely unlike...
By Siddhartha Upadhyay, Let me start by saying that I don't want to sound a fanatic, for I don't suggest anything that I can't do myself. I quit smoking recently. And that's no small feat. Tobacco is the most common form of addiction and one of the most harmful as...
By Pervez Bari Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), has vehemently condemned the brazen vandalism of statues/idols which are icons of different ideologies/castes/groups etc. by the affiliates of the saffron brigade. SDPI national president A. Sayeed...
By Amulya Ganguli, The Shakespearean phrase "fair is foul, foul is fair" can be one way of describing the contradictory nature of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) policies in different parts of the country. The party's penchant for trimming its sails in accordance...
By Ranvir Nayar, Over the last seven decades, Indias relationship with France has been steady and stable, but perhaps a bit stale and out of energy -- just like a long-married couple. The election of Narendra Modi in 2014 as the Indian Prime Minister and the advent of...
By Amit Kapoor & Kashish Arora, The use of the internet has undergone rapid evolution in a matter of a few decades. In the 1990s, the internet was described as "a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large...
By Frank Islam & Ed Crego, It was less than one month ago on February 12, that President Trump introduced his American Infrastructure Initiative. Since then, the President has had very little to say about infrastructure as his attention has turned to other matters...
By Rajendra Shende, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the world's fastest-growing economy, and Emmanuel Macron, President of the world's most aggressive climate change saviour, have a rendezvous starting from March 9 in New Delhi. They truly represent the strongest...