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 ...

THE far-Right block of the European parliament has assembled at the Auditorium Hotel, responding to a call under the banner of Patriots for Europe. Of the 720 members of the European parliament, 86 ...

The brutal sexual assault of a second-year MBBS student in Durgapur, West Bengal, has sparked a severe political backlash against the state administration. The outrage stems not only from the gravity ...

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 ...

A DELEGATION of the CPI(M) visited China at a time when both, the world and China, are experiencing extraordinary scenes. Our six-member team visited Beijing and the provinces of Hubei and Zhejiang, ...

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 ...

North Bengal faces a severe catastrophe as relentless rain triggers devastating landslides and floods. Hill towns have been buried, rivers have breached their banks, and key bridges have been washed ...