The public's perception that government facilities and services are poor has led them to abandon these in favour of private providers. But those are not necessarily better, writes R Balasubramaniam.

At least sixteen committees and panels – from the National Farmers Commission led by Professor M S Swaminathan to the Planning Commission's fact-finding-mission led by bureaucrat Adarsh Misra – came this year to Vidarbha, apparently peeved by and concerned over the suicide crisis. Nothing has come of all this yet, notes Jaideep Hardikar.

हम आपको बता रहे हैं कोरोना वायरस (Coronavirus) से जुड़ी 5 चीजें जिन्हें गूगल (Google) पर भूलकर भी ना सर्च करें...

इंस्टाग्राम पर इस फीचर के ज़रिए अब यूजर्स को अपनी फोटोज़ डीलीट करने के बजाए आरकाइव(Archive) कर सकते हैं.

प्रियंका और निक सबसे पहले अमेरिका के मशहूर डॉजर्स स्टेडियम में स्पॉट किए गए. ऐसे में जहां कुछ लोगों के लिए यह एक गॉसिप थी वहीं कई लोगों को यह जानने में दिलचस्पी रही कि 'देसी गर्ल' का दिल चुराने वाले निक जोनास आखिर हैं कौन?

Core industries' growth contracts 6.5% in March

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According to reports, the lion had been attempting to prey on cattle, which were held fast to a shed right next to the school.

The research, which was published in Current Biology, is aimed at studying about how the reproduction process evolved in the plants over the years.

The most searched recipes on Google were cake, samosa, jalebi, momos, dhokla, panipuri, dosa, paneer and chocolate cake.

The infrastructure output growth for February was upwardly revised to 7.1% from an earlier estimate of 5.5%, the data showed.

Government officials said that collection numbers present a worrying trend, given that normal business activities were underway till March 24 when a nationwide lockdown was announced.

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Imports also fell, but only by 6.2 percent, as transportation and shipping began to close down worldwide.

She further said that state-owned banks implemented the moratorium announced by the RBI on repayment of loans.

World Archery executive board had suspended all its events till August 31, resulting in a huge losses to the federation.

The three fermale celebrities were respectively searched an average 39 lakh, 31 lakh, and 19 lakh times between January and April 2020, according to an SEMrush study after analysing global data.

Archana Puran Singh's has posted yet another video of her house help, who said that all the family members take part in chores.

The project aims to gather information about the spread of coronavirus, assessing the emergency response and tackling the misinformation during the crisis.

According to a Twitter blog post, the grant will help understand the "misinformation ecosystem" on the Indian social media space.

The government has allowed the sale of only essential products in the red zone through e-commerce platforms, non-essential products are allowed in green and orange zones, starting May 4.

The Long March 5B will, one day, transport astronauts to a space station that China plans to complete by 2022 - and eventually to the Moon.

The data is based on overall traffic data measured from February-April 2020 from 19 cities across the country.

England fast bowler Jofra Archer said Saturday he'd "gone mad" looking for his World Cup winner's medal after losing the prized piece of silverware while moving house.

Director Todd Phillips has borrowed from many neo-noir Hollywood films for Joker. Joaquin Phoenix's performance has made it an excellent film.

Taapsee Pannu and Anubhav Sinha's Thappad is a rousing soul search, raising the question again and again, till it forces an answer.

The Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway, an integral part of the FIH Academy, will be conducted in February-March next year.

The research suggests due to strenuous exercise, elite athletes are more likely to inhale Covid-19 particles and direct them to the lower areas of the lung.

Andy Cole had suffered kidney failure in 2015 after picking up a virus and had a life-saving transplant three years ago.

The Congress on Wednesday attacked the government over the issue of bad loans, accusing it of weakening the entire banking architecture fiscally and imprudently in the name of cleaning the system.

Senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad rejected Gandhi's charge that the app has been outsourced to a private operator and asserted that it has a robust data security architecture.

They found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - that show how it may be evolving as it spreads in people.

It was not clear whether live animals or infected vendors or shoppers may have brought the virus into the market, a WHO expert said.

The US-based rights group, citing a source with ties to the royal family, said Prince Faisal bin Abdullah, a son of late monarch King Abdullah, was detained by security forces on March 27 while self-isolating due to the coronavirus pandemic at a family compound northeast of the capital Riyadh.

New studies have said noise exposure can lead to high blood pressure and cancer-related DNA damage.

Washington, May 07: A Chinese medical researcher on the "verge of making very significant" coronavirus findings has been found shot dead in the US state of Pennsylvania, media reports said on Wednesday. University of Pittsburgh professor Bing Liu, 37, was found

AMD's Zen2 desktop CPU lineup has got two new additions -- the AMD Ryzen 3100 and AMD Ryzen 3300x. Both CPUs offer a four-core, eight-thread design with support for PCIe Gen 4.0 with lower TDP compared to the competition.

Last month, it was reported that a Chennai-based researcher named Laxman Muthiyah received a reward of $30,000 (Rs. 21.6 lakhs) from Facebook for spotting a bug in Instagram. Now, on Monday he revealed that he has discovered a new vulnerability which

Mumbai, Sep 26: The Yes Bank board on Tuesday decided to seek at least a three-month extension for Rana Kapoor, managing director and chief executive, from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) beyond 31 January, 2019. The RBI had last week

With this new kind of blood test, it will now be possible for doctors to accurately detect multiple types of cancers.

The study published in 'PLOS Biology' was found by researchers at Linkoping University who fed healthy young men a high sugar diet.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown, all film and TV shoots have come to a halt. As a result, most celebs are using this time to virtually connect with their fans on social media. In the same vein, Archana

The Festival de Cannes will launch the Marché du Film Online on Monday 22 June to support film industry professionals. In these trying times for the whole world, and in view of the fragile prospects for the world of cinema, the

Marriage is not only the union of two people but also about uniting two families. In India, most of us prefer big fat weddings and therefore it is essential to know the auspicious timings to fix the marriage dates. Even though

It is in nature that man finds peace. While spending time with nature do we find ourselves happy. We do not worry about what is bothering us and we take time to become one with nature. Now, it is a well-accepted

All credit goes to three back-to-back deals that took place in Jio Platforms, the 100 percent subsidiary of Reliance Industries

About a third of the school year has been sacrificed to the pandemic. Consider that a year of U.S. public education costs about $400 billion. That implies that about $133 billion may be needed to make up for lost instructional time

Singer Justin Bieber along with his entourage were detained at the Brisbane airport during a drug search conducted by customs agents. A member of his entourage was reportedly carrying weed, reports tmz.com. While customs agents searched for drugs, they asked Bieber

he noted that these borrowers hail from a variety of sectors like micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), retail, agriculture and corporate, waiting for disbursal soon after the lockdown is lifted.

The 2nd PUC annual exams will be held from March 09 to 27. The Department of Pre-University Education, Government of Karnataka (PUE) has released time table for the same with tentative dates. Objections regarding the dates can be submitted at the