The Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill cleared by the Cabinet after a long gap of 13 years of the Supreme Court guidelines on the vital issue raises an important question

In an effort to ensure relevance to emerging realities and to cast important light on challenges that persist, three new indices were introduced in 2010 in the UNDP’s Human Development Report.

Army Chief Gen. V.K.

Poor social infrastructure, in areas of education and health, has ensured that India secures a low 119th rank in the United Nation’s Human Development Index.

India and the US can be expected to sign a few pacts on “development-related subjects” such as agriculture, health, education and clean energy.

Measure for measure? At least it seems so.

Facing a cash crunch, the MCD has come up with a house tax settlement scheme for those whose dues are pending under the old rateable value system (RVS).

Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika was on Thursday conferred an honorary degree of D.Litt. by the Delhi University, where he had studied for five years in the 1960s.

A man, said to be mentally deranged, allegedly killed his two daughters, one of them seven-month-old, before killing himself by jumping before a train in neighbouring Ghaziabad.

If crackers add to the air and noise pollution during Diwali, the largescale adulteration of sweets and the unhygienic conditions under which they are made can simply kill people or be a source of som