In what appears to be a damning indictment of the Five Year Plans, launched in 1951, as well as the economic reforms process that began in 1991, the first ever socio-economic survey has painted a dismal picture of rural India, says Devinder Sharma.

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.

Abhijit Das expresses concerns on the United Progressive Alliance's misplaced stress on population control targeting, taking the case of Uttar Pradesh.

The government’s clarification on the Indo-US joint statement on Intellectual Property Rights issued during Modi’s visit to the United States highlights the imperative of maintaining India’s original stance on patent laws and refusal to yield to US demands made in its Special 301 Report. Shambhu Ghatak has more.

Handing out non-biodegradable sanitary pads to rural school girls who have reached menarche will not address their menstrual hygiene issue. Clean and functional toilets with water supply, awareness about menstruation, economical and biodegradable pads and more is needed, finds Puja Awasthi.

In Barwani, Madhya Pradesh, people lost their sight after botched up cataract surgeries. Was it because the organizers, the medical and paramedical staff of the district hospital did not take necessary steps? Or was the quality of medication used questionable? Or, because the victims are too marginalised and too poor to protest? Asks Shoma Chatterji.

Kanchi Kohli raises questions on the Voluntary National Review report which shows India’s efforts to achieve seven of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.

An update from the Bangalore's Public Records of Operations and Finance (PROOF) campaign.

Illegal felling, mining, and conversion of forest land into non-forest uses, have all been unchecked here. Repeated hearings in the Supreme Court were ignored by forest officials. Kanchi Kohli reports that the case presents both new opportunities for holistic conservation as well as risk of the Court's orders being flouted brazenly.

The proposal to create two industrial corridors around Bangalore has generated heady excitement, but this needs to be tempered with rationalism and transparency around water and land acquisition, says B S Nagaraj.

A self-styled Remaking of Mumbai Federation (ROMF) has spun out a Rs.60,000 crore plan for redeveloping the city, which includes housing the urban poor in skyscrapers. Experiences show that this does not work for the poor, notwithstanding redevelopment's own merits. Darryl D'Monte scrunitises ROMF's proposal.

Contrary to its own knowledge, the Salt Departmnt has been contending that the lands that belong to salt manufacturers along the Konkan coast are government lands, and that the claimants are mere lessees with a license to manufacture salt. P Venu reports.

The Mumbai Port Trust land, three times the size of the mills, could provide vital space for housing and much-needed lung space. But the absence of proper planning and prioritisation does not portend well, writes Darryl D'Monte.

A dam that was sanctioned upon its claims of being able to irrigate 30,000 hectares in a semi-arid area of Maharashtra does not even have canals 18 years after initiation, but spawns industrial development! Findings by Parineeta Dandekar typify the issues of many large dams in the state.

Displaced by the flawed implementation of Slum Rehabilitation Authority's policy and an unholy nexus of real-estate mafia, thousands of slum-dwellers continue to fight for their basic right to shelter. Swati Priya reports from Mumbai.

Sachin Tendulkar’s letter to the Maharashtra CM Fadnavis, urging him to reduce toll posts in the state, may just encourage the state further to execute its plan of exempting private cars and SUVs from such charges. Darryl D’Monte argues why that is entirely unjustifiable.

नई डस्टर में मिलने वाला 1.3-लीटर पेट्रोल इंजन 160 हॉर्स पावर की शानदार ताकत और 250Nm का टॉर्क जनरेट करेगी. ये इंजन डस्टर के पुराने 1.5-लीटर डीजल इंजन की जगह लेगा

कार इस वक्त तीन वैरिएंट्स में उपलब्ध है. ये तीन वैरिएंट्स बेस आरएक्सई, मिड स्पेक आरएक्सएस और टॉप स्पेक आरएक्सजेड ट्रिम है.

Renault Duster BS-VI -रेनो इंडिया ने भारतीय बाजार में अपनी बेस्ट सेलिंग कॉम्पैक्ट एसयूवी डस्टर का BSVI कंप्लेट वैरिएंट लॉन्च कर दिया है. नई डस्टर तीन वैरिएंट में उपलब्ध है. इसकी शुरुआती कीमत 8.49 लाख रुपए है.

रेनॉ (Renault) की कार जैसे Duster, Triber और Kwid और चल रहा है खास ऑफर. आप बिना पैसे दिए इन गाड़ियों की बुकिंग करा सकते हैं. इसके लिए कंपनी खास पेशकश ‘बुक ऑनलाइन पे लेटर’ लेकर आई है. यह ऑफर 30 अप्रैल 2020 तक है.

Playing against India behind closed doors in the much-anticipated Test series at the end of the year might end up being an advantage for the home side, according to Australia batsman Usman Khawaja. Cricket Australia are desperate for the tour, scheduled for Dec-Jan, to go ahead as the lucrative Indian TV rights for the series would go a long way to easing a financial crisis.

Confined to their homes without access to courts due to the lockdown, India's young shuttlers are an "irritated" and "frustrated" lot, says chief junior national coach Sanjay Mishra, who feels more like a counsellor these days.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan spoke about the first time he interacted with batting legend Sachin Tendulkar. Kishan had joined Mumbai Indians in 2018 from Gujarat Lions. He said that he met Tendulkar -- who captained the side in its early years in the Indian Premier League and has since stayed a part of the set-up after his retirement in 2013 -- during a practice session.

A total of 26 Bangladeshis, who were in Assam on tourist visas and had been held in Dhubri for violating their visa conitions, have been sent to judicial custody.

Women's T20 World Cup Final: India eyes maiden title against Australia

A few days ago, a pregnant dog was beaten to death by two women in the Samantrarapur area.

Beginning this week with the Brics summit at Fortaleza and Brasilia in Brazil, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed foreign policy schedule over the next two months.

On being asked whether he has any friends in the film industry, actor Johny Lever mourns that in this industry, there is dosti but no dosts. He feels people make all kinds of promises when they are at work, but none of these amount to much once a film is done and dusted. Lever may be speaking the truth of his own experience, but his life is not the mirror of every life in Bollywood.

Precious time of the nation and its leadership is being wasted on a non-issue, namely Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)’s new Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT).

After having raised the issue of whether the clubby and secretive collegiums system actually preserves the independence of the judiciary former Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, has now trained his guns on India’s antiquated contempt of court law. He has made the valid point, in this newspaper, that judicial supremacy cannot be based on the law of kings in a democracy.

The cancer of corruption eating into India’s medical sector is no secret. Reports of patients being prescribed unnecessary tests by unscrupulous doctors in league with labs abound.

Politics isn’t a career choice in itself, as far as parliament’s website is concerned.

Stimulus must be in line with tax-GDP ratio: CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian

प्रजनेश (Prajnesh Gunneswaran) को शुरू में अच्छा ड्रा मिला है. उनका पहला मुकाबला जापान के तात्सुमो इटो से होगा

भारत में होने वाले ऑस्ट्रेलियन ओपन (Australian Open) के प्रसारण में महिला और पुरुष सिंगल्स के सेमीफाइनल और फाइनल के मुकाबलों में हिंदी कमेंट्री होगी.

अपने पिता के निधन के बावजूद खेलने का कठिन फैसला लेने वाली पूर्व फ्रेंच ओपन चैंपियन येलेना ओस्टापेंको (Yelena Ostopenko) भी हारीं

ऑस्ट्रेलियन ओपन (Australian Open) के पांचवें दिन कई बड़े नाम टूर्नामेंट से बाहर हो गए

नडाल (Rafael Nadal) मेलबर्न में जीत के साथ फेडरर (Roger Federer) के रिकॉर्ड 20 ग्रैंडस्लैम खिताब की बराबरी कर सकते हैं.

महिला सिंगल्स वर्ग के दूसरे सामीफाइनल मुकाबले में विश्व की नंबर एक खिलाड़ी एश्ले बार्टी (Asleigh Barty) का सामना अमेरिका की 14वीं वरीयता प्राप्त सोफिया केनिन (Sofia Kenin) से होगा.

जोकोविच (Novak Djokovic) फाइनल में पांचवीं वरीयता प्राप्त डोमिनिक थीम (Dominic Theim) या सातवीं रैंकिंग के जर्मन एलेक्सजेंडक ज्वेरेव (Alexander Zverev) से भिड़ेंगे.

Core industries' growth contracts 6.5% in March

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The coronavirus pandemic forced carmakers to close virtually every auto plant in North America, sending production plummeting to a level last seen at the end of World War II.

Seven persons were arrested in Noida’s Sector 105 for allegedly duping US citizens by informing them about non-existent violations on their social security number (SSN).

Tamil Nadu on Thursday reported 580 Covid-19 cases, taking the state’s tally past 5,000 to 5,409. As the number of cases soared in the state capital and its neighbouring districts, all linked to the Koyambedu cluster, epidemiologists and public health experts warned that the crowds at liquor shops that opened on Thursday could result in another cluster and another surge in infections.

Two pieces of plane debris found in Mozambique have been brought to Australia, where experts will determine whether they are from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared mysteriously over two years ago over the Indian Ocean.