Critical agenda of politically empowering Indian women
Prrime Minister Narendra Modi has given a brave new vision for 2022 as India turns 75: a new India, prosperous and inclusive, not through appeasement […]
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India, Bangladesh ink 22 pacts in key sectors
While an accord on the sharing of Teesta waters continued to elude them, India and Bangladesh on Saturday signed 22 agreements, including five in defence […]
India has over 10 million cancer patients
India is a country with over 10 million cancer patients, data culled by TOI from QuintilesIMS, a technology-driven healthcare service provider shows. So, even as […]
‘Country’s gender gap can be reversed’
BAMBOLIM: Saying that the negative gender gap in the country could be reversed, Union minister Maneka Gandhi, on Friday, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
Why is India getting hotter?
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) says the country is on an average 0.6 degree Celsius hotter than a century ago. 2016 was the warmest year […]
Moderate changes in Indian diets could benefit both health and the environment
Moderate changes to typical Indian diets could help to ‘future proof’ the Indian food system against the predicted decline in availability of groundwater over the […]
Symbiosis University to present roadmap on making higher education in India ‘world-class’
Are there no Indian universities with potential for competing with the best in the world? And if the answer is yes, then what’s holding them […]
Wages of 47% rural job scheme workers delayed, reveals data
Most of the workers in MGNREGA, the Centre’s rural job scheme, did not receive timely wages in 2016-17, underlining a challenge for the Narendra Modi […]
Smart India Hackathon 2017: Narendra Modi calls for youth participation in development; terms democracy, a ‘collective responsibility’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed more than 10,000 engineering students who were participating in Smart India Hackathon 2017 via video conferencing. The 2-days hackathon […]
Govt to rev up farm growth plan with ‘Raftaar’
NEW DELHI: Turning its focus on post-harvest infrastructure, the Centre has planned to completely revamp the existing 10-year-old Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana to take farming […]