Jaipur: Social and behaviour change plan to fight under-nutrition

The Gautam Budh Nagar administration has issued stringent guidelines for the canteens running in various schools of the district on Thursday. According to the district administration, the guidelines have been issued because of the irregularities found in the ...

'The issue is not UIDAI's surveillance powers, but the government's.''Aadhaar enables the government to access and link wide-ranging databases that hold a wealth of personal information.''Contrary to official claims, the Aadhaar Act offers virtually no protection against possible misuse of that information.' Photograph: Reuters After chasing Jean Dreze for two months, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf finally secured responses from the economist who played a central role in conceiving the ...

Vladimir Putin cruised to victory in Russias presidential election on Sunday, giving him at least another six years in power as Moscows relations with the West become increasingly strained. Putin, who has ruled Russia for almost two decades, recorded his best ...

Posted by Equitymaster After opening the day in red share markets in India witnessed choppy trading activity and are presently trading well below the dotted line. Sectoral indices are trading on a mixed note, with stocks in the realty sector and stocks in the ...

The government is betting on agriculture and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) to boost economy and create jobs, according to Bakul Dholakia, an economist and the former Director of Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIM-A). He said the country ...

BANKING Budget proposals Key schemes announced Bank recapitalization program has been launched with bonds of Rs.80,000 crore being issued in the year. This coupled with reforms agenda named Enhanced Access and Service Excellence (EASE) program Dedicated ...

On Thursday, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the last full budget of the Modi government. Arun Jaitley, who arrived in the Lok Sabha to present the general budget for the fiscal year 2018-19, was the center of attraction between journalists and ...

'Four years into his tenure and Modi still has no idea what is wrong with the agriculture sector!' IMAGE: Farmers plant saplings in a paddy field in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Photograph: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters The Narendra D Modi government's last full-fledged Budget before the 2019 general election is being touted as 'pro-farmer' and 'agriculture friendly'. However, P Chengal Reddy, chief advisor, Consortium of Indian Farmers, feels the sops given to farmers in the Budget are an eyewash.

At the 12th R N Kao memorial lecture at the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) headquarters in New Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir Governor N N Vohra delivered an elloquent speech, in which he discussed the efficient and speedy implementation of the National Security ...