Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said that the annual rate of decline in poverty between 1993-94 and 2004-2005 was 0.74 per cent per year. Since 2004, it has been

The unexpected and sudden grounding of the HPT-32 basic trainer aircraft fleet, coupled with the ageing fleet of Kiran Mk-I, has snowballed into a crisis whereby the flying training of the Indian Air

A major reason for continuing insurgency and extremism is the tardy implementation of the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA) in the country, Union tribal welf

As part of the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF) programme that was launched here on Saturday, young professionals will work in Maoist-affected and tribal areas across the country inc

Young graduates, who will work in Maoist and tribal areas under the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF) programme, will be paid Rs 65,000 per month for the two-year stint. “It’s like a

An indefinite curfew was on Sunday imposed in the sensitive Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the walled city following incidents of stabbing and heavy stone-pelting, police said.

The incidents

The gulf between the ruling Congress, in particular, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, and the Owaisi brothers of the MIM is widening. The recent broadside by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, against

Former DSP D. Nalini, who quit her job to demand statehood for Telangana, is learning politics the hard way, fighting for a seat to contest the byelections from — in the absence of money power and a p

Look who wants to discover what you are surfing, trending, emailing, searching, downloading, torrenting and chatting on the Internet. Having twice tried and failed to pass legislation to oversee what

Anti-Corruption Bureau Director-General Boobathi Babu finally relieved Additional Director K. Srinivas Reddy, who is heading the probe into the liquor scam, from his post on Friday and proceeded to go