NEW DELHI: In what could send the government back to the drawing board to rework the route to economic recovery, rainfall prediction was lowered by the earth sciences ministry putting the foodgrain belt of India — Punjab and Haryana — on notice for a failing monsoon. UPA pundits hoping to post an economic recovery on the basis …
WASHINGTON: India’s older population is projected to quadruple by mid-century, while that of the world is expected to triple, the US Census Bureau has said. In its latest report, the Census Bureau said the world\’s 65-and-older population is projected to increase from 516 million in 2009 to 1.53 billion in 2050. The older population of the …
Akshaya Mukul, TNN “In Bihar, teachers complain to the Dalit parents that their children wear dirty clothes and they smell in the classrooms” “During a school visit in Rajasthan, while asking who gets beaten up regularly and why, children immediately pointed out to a student. He was a Dalit” “Teachers don’t give proper attention to …
A city court Wednesday dismissed the plea of the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) to make a representation on behalf of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots allegedly involving former union minister Jagdish Tytler. The court, however, allowed Lakhwinder Kaur, wife of Badal Singh who was killed in the riots, to take part in …
Pakistan may be thumbing its nose at India by releasing wanted terrorists like Hafeez Saeed, but New Delhi is veering around to the view that talks with Islamabad that were suspended after the 26/11 Mumbai attack should be resumed as engagement, however frustrating, would be better than benign neglect of the source of its terror …
The Assam Rifles troops gunned down two unidentified persons suspected to be militants in an encounter near Tengnoupal area in Manipur’s Chandel district on Monday, reports here said. Some arms and ammunition were also recovered from the encounter site, sources added. The two bodies have been sent to RIMS hospital here for identification on Tuesday. …