For instance, it would make it impossible for about half of U.S. lands to sustain the types of plants and animals that now inhabit them. A huge portion of America's protected areas, large and small, ...

Finance Minister Jaswant Singh had remarked that agriculture is the life blood of our economy. A year earlier, his predecessor, Yashwant Sinha had romanticized agriculture, saying that his Budget was ...

The wages of fu ...

The democracy, however imperfect, that we are, it's not possible to suppress active opposition of the multitude, certainly not for long, as Indira Gandhi learnt the hard way. Thus, for any action to ...

The team members, all wearing 'bollgard' caps and accompanied by company officials from Mahyco-Monsanto, actually saw the standing crop in ten acres (out of the 9,300 acres sown with Bt cotton) and ...

Almost all Srinagar residents want peace, azadi, and an end to the authoritarianism of Indian forces. AMIT CHAKRABORTY, who observed the recently-concluded elections in J&K, explains why the polls ...

This is a view that is held by many advocates of the free software movement, who are disappointed by the willingness of State and Central government agencies to rub shoulders with Gates and rely on ...

Prabhu has already hinted at the possibility of levying interlinking surcharge or water tax but the upcoming Union Budget is unlikely to have any such reflection given the fact that elections are only ...

Opposition spokesmen complain that Chavez is a leftist who is leading the country to economic chaos, but underlying the fierce hatred is the terror of the country's white elite when faced with the ...

The Indira-Sheikh accord of 1975 is in news once again. Speaking on the sidelines of a function “Sakshaar Bharat Yatra” organized by JK Bharat Vigyan, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the union Minster of New & ...

On November 12 this year, the Union Cabinet decided to amend the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, "so that the previous character of a rape victim in her cross-examination is no longer relevant". A ...

Nineteen years ago, one of the most diabolical slaughters in war history occurred in Iraq. Despite the assurances of the Bush I regime that retreating Iraqi soldiers would not be attacked, just the ...