Bengaluru: While higher education funding has seen a 28% increase in real terms, school education has witnessed a 3% decline during the last six years to Rs 39,000 crore, according to government budget data. The expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) has also shown steady decline, from […]
KOCHI, India – A woman aged 46 has become the third to enter the Sabarimala Hindu temple in Kerala in defiance of an ancient ban on females of menstruating age, the office of the chief minister said on Friday. It was not immediately clear how the woman, a […]
Ratan Kumar once battled India’s brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning — helping make the world hotter still. With India’s AC market expected to explode from 30 million to a billion units by 2050, […]
NEW DELHI – India’s annual economic growth probably moderated to 7.4 percent in the July-September quarter, according to a Reuters poll, weakening just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist led-government gets set for an election due by May. That is still faster than China, but a come […]
As India marks the 10th anniversary Monday of the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, five survivors recall their ordeal and reflect on how it has impacted their lives. – ‘I gave birth in silence’ – Viju Chavan went into labour at the Cama and Albless Hospital on […]
All the front-line staff deployed in trains and at stations viz. Ticket Checking Staff, Train Superintendents, Guards, Station Masters etc. are properly trained in rendering First-Aid open view web desk Ministry of Railways is providing the First Aid emergency care & medical facilities at all Railway Stations and […]
open view web desk It’s hard to miss the message Sivakasi sends when driving into town after acres of dry, uncultivated land: this is a place for combustion. This town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu built its reputation on fireworks, firecrackers and matches. Posters and […]
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