Digital technology key to fighting poverty: India
Digital technology can play a key role in fighting poverty, which can have disastrous consequences like fomenting armed conflicts and refugee crises, Indian lawmaker Santosh […]
Development News
State’s grain production up despite drought
Farmers have to be lauded for 73 lakh tonnes grain production, says TNAU Vice-Chancellor Despite drought, Tamil Nadu recorded 73 lakh metric tonnes of food […]
Let’s make rural India smart, one app at a time
By Osama Manzar With the government gung-ho about a Digital India and Smart India, here are a few apps that it can develop to bring […]
PM Narendra Modi bats for outcome based approach for rural development
Batting for an outcome-based approach for rural development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the country has sufficient resources to deliver benefits to the […]
Measuring The Impact Of Reforms On India’s Clinical Trial Environment
By Mathini Ilancheran The clinical trial environment in India has seen a downward trend since 2013, when the government approached the Supreme Court regarding the […]
Courting the environment
A recent Supreme Court order, reinstating a ban on the sale of firecrackers before the Diwali festival, is the latest in the long line of […]
India should diversify agriculture, says agro-experts
Despite rapid economic progress, India still has one of the highest number of malnourished and hungry people in the world and so India should diversify […]
Forest cover increasing but forest land degrading, top official says
By Malavika Vyawahare India set itself the ambitious target of increasing stored carbon it its forests by 25-30%, a goal that cannot be met by just […]
Uneven rains, lower cultivation to hit agriculture growth: Nomura
By Sayantan Bera India’s foodgrain production and agriculture growth is likely to be lower in 2017-18 due to lower plantings of Kharif crops and uneven […]
India Supreme Court rules sex with child bride is rape
India’s Supreme Court has struck down a legal clause that permits men to have sex with their underage wives. The clause, which was part of […]