Новости за 07.02.2017

Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation are exclusive clubs for the so-called developed nations which have reached the position they have by exploiting the developing world (“Rewiring the WT...

Overnight, the United States is back to talking about walls and barriers (“U.S. court rejects plea to reinstate Trump’s travel ban”, Feb.6). It is physically cutting off Mexico in the south and is at ...

The lost battle against jallikattu is symbolic of the difference between what is preached and practised (“Ancient sport, new age protests”, Feb.6). We have announced a war against environmental deplet...

Since Independence, the military has remained at the forefront of dealing with the changing character of conflict both along as well as within India’s borders. The worsening security situation today i...

All of humanity will benefit by listening, learning and working with the people of the continent

The tribal bodies’ protest against reservation for women in local municipalities in Nagaland must not be allowed to settle the argument

Tamil Nadu politics is at a murky crossroads, and a dose of realism is needed while taking stock of the choices that its political leadership now faces

Says the Sri Lankan parliamentarian, the eldest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The protests that have convulsed Romania are the largest since the fall of communism in the country in 1989. Hundreds of thousands of Romanians have taken to the streets against the government’s att...

It is a measured gambit by Tamil Nadu. The State has taken the legislative route to grant itself exemption from the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), a uniform examination that will deci...

Seventeen coastal wards in Kozhikode Corporation limits will be covered under a survey as part of Jeevanam, the flagship project of Kudumbasree Community Development Society (CDS), to detect and prov...

The delay in appointing a consultant has held up implementation of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut), a flagship project of the Union Urban Development Ministry, in K...

A strike by contract employees at Indian Oil Corporation’s LPG bottling plant at Udayamperoor continued for the third day on Tuesday with the workers apparently not receiving any assurance from the o...

Demanding timely payment of salaries and arrears, sanitation workers of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) on Tuesday protested against the Delhi government for not giving the cash-strapped ...

Hitting out against the BJP-ruled municipalities, the Delhi Congress on Tuesday said that, if elected, it would be able to make the civic bodies financially self-reliant within two years.Delhi Prades...

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s former Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar, in another blog post, has slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for misusing its powers. Mr. Kumar wrote that t...

The Delhi government will table the budget in the first week of March in the Delhi Assembly. As per government officials, once again 25% of the total budget will be allocated to education sector. Las...

SC was hearing a plea against humour stereotyping the Sikh community

Kailash Satyarthi’s house was one of three homes burgled

Controversial IPS officer Shiv Ram Prasad Kalluri, whose tenure as the Inspector General (IG) of Police of Bastar region of Chhattisgarh saw large-scale human right violations and extra-judicial kill...

: Disappointed by the government’s track record in implementing anti-corruption measures, a group of eminent citizens has decided to take the initiative of setting up a forum to hear complaints of cor...

With the target of eradicating measles by 2020 and controlling rubella, the measles-rubella vaccination drive kicked off in Mysuru on Tuesday.The aim is to vaccinate 7,95,787 children in the age grou...

Panic gripped residents of Chikkabagalu, a village in Malavalli taluk of the district, on Tuesday following the appearance of cracks on a road and the walls of a house. Two walls of the house, belongi...

For students of Hindustan International School, Guindy, Tuesday was a red-letter day. Ken Johnston, one of the four civilian astronaut consultant pilots from the Apollo Moon Programme was amongst the...

Petitioner says encroachments have led to flooding