Amid increasing pointers to a slowdown in the hinterland, the Government is planning to conduct its Sixth Economic Census in collaboration with states during the course of this year.

In the middle of a raging, divisive debate in Jharkhand over the provisions of a law that aims to protect the tribals’ land, several politicians, including some in the ruling coalition, are battlin

NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Feb 17 – The Krishak Mukti Sangaram Samiti (KMSS) today accused the Group of Ministers of betraying the wishes of the people of Assam by agreeing to continue the construction of th

Delhi residents are ahead of the others in terms of earning and spending, says a new government survey.

Worried over the delay and uncertainty over implementation of the country’s largest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the shape of Posco’s project, the Union Government has sought the latest statu

Following reports of a Tamil Nadu-based school discriminating against a 12-year-old student after he was found HIV-positive, an NGO Wednesday announced to launch a nationwide initiative to raise pu

A cross section of people concerned about the power tariff hike being considered by the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission, met its chairperson Romila Dubey in Jalandhar on Wednesday.

Ahmedabad: Tribal districts, which were the torch-bearers for the girl child in Gujarat, boasting of a far healthier number of girls in 0-6 age group, too have shown a decline in the past decade. Sociologists see this trend as alarming as almost all non-tribal districts in Gujarat are already reeling under a skewed sex ratio.
All the tribal districts including Dang, Dahod, Panchmahals, Tapi, Valsad, Narmada and Bharuch, have posted a decline in the child sex ratio in 0-6 age group as per figures of Census 2011.

Vesting legal power in the Commissioner, Indore division, the Madhya Pradesh Government has authorised him to lawfully redress applications submitted to him by persons displaced by the Maheshwar hy