Among states, Kerala has the lowest (0.55 per cent) and Bihar has the highest (33.76 per cent) level of poverty. In NFHS–4, Kerala's poverty figure was 0.70 per cent. Kerala's recorded poverty rate is ...

Phool’s (Chandan’s mother) cracked heels serve as the film’s most striking visual metaphor. The imagery of the cracked heels ...

Deindustrialisation in the US started with the end of the Second World War. Till 1944 US happened to be the manufacturing hub of the world. The declining share of manufacturing in GDP began since ...

The aim of promoting public transport and the role of governments across the globe are quite different to how the Government of India and most state governments look at public transport.

In light of these circumstances, we demand that the government immediately constitute a Judicial Enquiry headed by a Judge of the Supreme Court to probe the circumstances leading to Puran Kumar’s ...

Both these incomplete aspects can be satisfactorily completed once we recognize Hindutva as a thoroughly modern phenomenon. In fact we need to recognize it as the Indian version of a fascistic upsurge ...

On Friday, at 2:30 p.m. IST, bringing an end to much discussion and speculation, the Nobel Committee declared that the Peace Prize will be given to this Venezuelan opposition leader– Maria Corina ...

For the past two years, the US-backed Israeli regime has waged a relentless war of destruction on Gaza, leaving entire communities devastated. A humanitarian crisis looms large due to the scarcity of ...

Yet, while the Bihar SIR and the nationwide revision were being planned, nationally recognised parties, including the CPI (M), which had positively responded to the ECI’s initiative, were kept in the ...

Chief Minister Stalin announced legislative measures during a CPI (M)-organised protest; he called for immediate ceasefire and intervention by the Indian government.

It can be considered to be at par with the Museum of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing, opened to mark the centenary of the formation of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The only difference ...

This clearly implied that the principle of universality of voting right, a Constitutional right recognised by successive Supreme Court judgments, would be discarded. The second question was whether ...