Despite over 170 representatives by civil society organisations, hailing from 17 countries, all of them written to the World Bank’s executive directors calling upon the top banker to defer its ...

However, CPI (M), which split from CPI in 1964, disagrees. It considers October 17, 1920 as the founding day of CPI. On this ...

The other day, a group of friends, all neighbours, got together to spend some quality time on tea post dinner. As were ...

A little less than two months back, I was reading a story in The Hindustan Times by my journalist friend Maulik Pathak with the headline "How Gujarat villages take the dangerous flight of illegal ...

An Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) study, "Labour-force Perception about AI: A Study on Indian White-collar ...

An interesting feature I noticed during my recent visit to restaurants in the United States was the prevalent culture of tipping. While tipping is common in India too, especially in restaurants, ...

Senior Vadodara-based health rights activist Jagdish Patel has forwarded to me an important news item. Emanating from Gansu Province, located in the northwestern region of China, and disseminated by ...

On December 14 falls the birth centenary of Raj Kapoor, referred to as a legend who acquired international fame – especially in the former Soviet Union – at a time when few others in Bollywood could ...