The reasons for the decline of Indian academia are more complex than just the influence of IT, however significant that might be, writes Rajesh Kasturirangan.

The government's understanding of an 'inclusive' Budget is simply that it ought to be the provider of welfare for the lower income groups. The evidence so far suggests that this is an attempt doomed from the start, since the government is not very good at administering such programmes. Ashwin Mahesh says that there are better options.

Five years ago, the United Nations set a goal to drastically reduce hunger and poverty in the world by 2015. This September, the UN met at New York with over 850 million people going hungry everyday. To target hunger, an international consultation in April at Chennai had recommended a new approach to the UN, reports Ramesh Menon.

V Jagan Mohan says that Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) can be the vehicles for rural credit in a reforms era.

The hike in defence spending is one of the reasons Budget 2004 did not do enough justification for development expenditure, says Pavan Nair.

Allocations in the annual budget are the real indicators of the government's priorities. It is by studying these that we can really judge how committed the administration is to the goals proclaimed publicly. Jacob John examines Budget 2005 and finds a yawning gap between promises made and the money approved to achieve them.

It is time for the Union Budget 2013. Shankar Jaganathan argues why, in an economy such as India, despite the general public vote against taxes, raising the tax-to-GDP ratio is more critical than restraint in fiscal spending.

The excitement leading up to the budget was almost feverish, but it turned out to be a staid affair in the end. Here's a round-up of some of the key provisions of Arun Jaitley’s maiden budget, presented in Parliament on 10 July.

Expansion of social security benefits, a focus on infrastructure, easing of fiscal deficit targets and rationalisation of the tax structure - these were some of the most prominent features of Arun Jaitley's budget. A look at some of the provisions.

As has been the historical trend, most of the budget announcements on agriculture this year, too, are geared towards benefitting agribusiness rather than augmenting farm income, writes Devinder Sharma.

What could the taxes, allocations and schemes in Arun Jaitley’s budget ultimately mean for the country and its people? Shankar Jaganathan takes a bird’s eye view of the government’s most anticipated annual document for the year.

The case of the Army Chief's true age is only seemingly one of an individual's besmirched honour. It is instead one in civil-military relations, writes Firdaus Ahmed.

The government's recent traditional knowledge digital library will send data to patent offices abroad, so that indigenous knowledge that India abundantly has is not patented overseas. Following India's example, other nations too are showing interest in similarly protecting their interests. Ramesh Menon reports.

Maybe the pro-farmer claim was a typing error. This is a budget crafted for, and perhaps by, the corporate farmer and agribusiness, writes P Sainath.

Going beyond value judgments, T R Raghunandan presents an objective explanation of why the Supreme Court judgment upholding the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code lacks sound reasoning and could have been much better crafted.

India currently does not count the costs of defence pensions, para military forces and the defence ministry itself as part of budgeted defence expenditure. Correcting for this and converting to purchasing power terms, we are the third largest spender on defence in the world next only to the US and China, writes Pavan Nair.

Families in Majuli island are used to the vagaries of the Brahmaputra. But the floods this year have been particularly harsh on them. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports.

Can we look at ending poverty without looking at the structural reasons and dimensions of poverty and inequality? Pradeep Baisakh looks at this and at other objectives within the UN SDG framework and analyses how realistic their achievement would be.

Recently, the Central Empowered Committee once again heard the strange case of a hotel coming up on land sanctioned for a parking lot and bus stand in Himachal Pradesh. Kanchi Kohli reports on the many ways in which officials are trying to get this illegal use regularised.

Bangalore Municipality's fourth quarter results round up and other updates from the city' Public Records of Operations and Finance (PROOF) campaign.

India Together

Geeta Seshu reports on a recent study that recently looked at decreasing funding for women specific schemes.

In a state dreaded for its work culture environment and record of poor public entrepreneurship, the Bihar Rajya Pul Nirman Nigam, which was on the verge of being liquidated, has now turned the corner and built over 330 bridges in three years. Ramesh Menon chronicles the inspiring journey.

करवा चौथ शॉपिंग (Karva Chauth Shopping): आइए आज आपको बताते हैं कुछ ऐसे बाजार जहां से आप अपने बजट में मनपसंद शॉपिंग कर पाएंगे.

Avengers Endgame के ट्रेलर में टोनी स्टार्क उर्फ आयरन मैन (रोबर्ट डाउनी जूनियर), कैप्टन अमेरिका (क्रिस इवान्स), ब्लैक विडो (स्कारलेट जोहान्सन), हॉकआई (जर्मी रेनर), ऐंटमैन (पाल रूड) और थॉर (क्रिस हेम्सवर्थ) को दिखाया गया है.

Avengers Endgame Leaked Online by Tamilrockers : एवेंजर्स एंडगेम लीक, 26 अप्रैल को रिलीज होने वाली इस फिल्म को टोरेंट की कई वेबसाईट पर रिलीज से पहले ही लीक कर दिया गया.

जहां एक तरफ लोगों को Avengers Endgame की टिकट नहीं मिल रही है वहीं दूसरी तरफ कुछ खुशनसीब ऐसे भी हैं जिन्होंने इस फिल्म को देख लिया है.

भारत में एवेंजर्स एंडगेम (Avengers Endgame) आज रिलीज हो गई है. पहले ही दिन थिएटर्स के बाहर चौंकाने वाला नजारा दिखा.

रूसो ब्रदर्स की एवेंजर्स सीरीज की आखिरी फिल्म का भारत भर में जबरदस्त क्रेज देखने को मिल रहा है. इस फिल्म ने दूसरे दिन भी कमाई के सारे रिकॉर्ड तोड़ डाले हैं.

फिल्म के टिकट को लेकर मुश्किल नहीं थी असली मुश्किल तो तब सामने आई जब लोगों ने रात के शोज की टिकट बुक की और तय समय पर पहुंचने पर भी उन्हें सिनेमा हॉल में एंट्री नहीं मिली.

एवेंजर्स एंडगेम (Avengers Endgame) ने भारत के बॉक्स ऑफिस पर 3 दिनों में ताबड़तोड़ कमाई कर ली है.

भारत में 26 अप्रैल को रिलीज़ हुई इस फिल्म ने हॉलीवुड की सबसे ज्यादा कमाई करने वाली फिल्म का टैग हासिल कर लिया है. दो दिनों में 100 करोड़ रुपए बटोरने वाली इस फिल्म की कमाई ऐतिहासिक है.

एवेंजर एंडगेम बॉक्स ऑफिस पर सबसे ज्यादा कमाई करने वाली विदेशी फिल्म बन गई है.

'एवेंजर्स एंडगेम' (Avengers Endgame) ने कमाई के सारे रिकॉर्ड्स तोड़ डाले हैं. इस फिल्म ने 10 दिनों में 'टाइटैनिक' (Titanic) जैसी फिल्म को पछाड़ दिया है.

The presidential address to Parliament on June 9, 2014 had focussed nearly exclusively on projects and schemes, eschewing policy. Therefore, many had eagerly awaited the budget speech for a policy vision of the new government. Unfortunately, it too left observers guessing on whether the government would tackle tough reforms or rely principally on better implementation.

चली आ रही परंपरा के अनुसार उत्तर प्रदेश के डीजीपी (UP DGP) अपने रिटायरमेंट के दिन लखनऊ पुलिस लाइन (Lucknow Police Line) में आखिरी सलामी लेते हैं. इसके बाद वो एक खास कार में बैठकर अपने घर जाते हैं

Amit Shah holds review meeting with DGs, expresses concern over rising Covid-19 cases in CAPF

US President Donald Trump on Monday nominated an Indian-American attorney to a federal court in New York.

Equities edge higher on global cues, IT and banking stocks surge

"Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want to work alongside others, both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change,' said Bezos who is worth $130 billion.

In an interview on social networking app Helo, Akhtar said that he has never stepped back from sharing his knowledge and he would be more than happy to do the same with Indian bowlers.

Chief Economic Adviser K Subramanian said policy making in India happens throughout the year, coming up with a separate budget may only be a legal way to go about it.

Form GST PMT-09 provides flexibility to taxpayers to make multiple transfers from more than one head (major or minor) to another head (major or minor) and helps with the intra-head or inter-head transfer of amount available in electronic cash ledger.

Despite crude prices trading at a two decades low, the government had earlier this week hiked excise duty on petrol by Rs 10 a litre and on diesel by Rs 13 a litre to mop up nearly Rs 1.6 lakh crore in additional revenue this fiscal.

Here are some of the best budget laptops, some running Windows 10 and some Google Chromebook options, which you must add to your arsenal of work from home tools.

The automatic switching for profiles will arrive with Microsoft Edge 83, which is expected by mid-May

Slim laptops pretty much define themselves, whereas convertibles are those that have hinge mechanism that allows you to push the display all the way back into a tent, presentation mode or a tablet mode.

Saqlain was expected to play a lot more than the 49 Tests and 169 ODIs he eventually did.

England Test captain Joe Root has revealed that he has faced a variety of sledges in his cricketing career, including comparison with American comedian and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres for his looks.