In India, other states look at Kerala's record of firsts with envy. Dr Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate, has hailed it as a model. But Kerala, caught in a web of paradoxes, is not what it seems, writes Ramesh Menon.

Jemma Purdey reviews Yuva, Mani Ratnam's latest effort, and finds an unexplained mix of uplifting and sad realities.

Acute poverty linked to armed conflict and displacement is a major reason for the growing number of commercial sex workers in Manipur. Drug abuse too is common, further impacting those turning to the world's oldest profession. Thingnam Anjulika Samom reports.

An ongoing study of school textbooks in four states has found stereotypes and biases in Gujarat's textbooks. The Social Studies textbook for standard five has nine stories on mythology masquerading as history. Deepa A reports.

Following his earlier acclaimed films, Rakesh Sharma has released two new Gujarati documentaries earlier this month. The films -- Sharma has even used RTI to collect government data -- expose unsavoury truths about farmers suicides as well as lower-caste rioters now in prison. Shoma Chatterji reports.

The famed textile industry of Surat is one of the pillars of Gujarat's industrial success story. What is less known about it is the unfortunate reality of rampant child employment and exploitation that prevails there. Shirish Khare reports.

Kalpana Sharma looks at the implications of the Nisha Sharma episode for our society.

The beating of media persons at Kozhikode's airport had its fallout all over Kerala. It has pitted the media against the state government. Several issues concerning rights and privacy need to be discussed, including some of the media’s own failings says N P Chekkutty.

Suman Ghosh's documentary about the Nobel Laureate has not found its way to many screens yet. Nonetheless, it is a noteworthy effort to bring the economist a little closer to the people. Shoma Chatterji reviews the film.

Though based on strong reporting, India’s Daughter remains restricted in its scope, and even strays from its purported objective, thanks to a very pronounced colonial supremacist gaze, writes Shoma Chatterji in a dispassionate review that cuts through the noise.

At the crux of Ekbalpur's women boxers' passion lies a sense of liberation and recognition that they do not get from anything else. Sudhiti Naskar reports.

Devinder Sharma points out the deeper flaws in the thinking behind Budget 2004-5.

In the last two months – after coming back from Amman, Jordan (where he secured Olympic quota in the 69kg category) – Vikas has been cooped up at his farmhouse in Bhiwani, Haryana, due to the pandemic-forced nationwide lockdown.

Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested a former trustee of Lilavati hospital in connection with a foreign exchange violation case.

Jet had last Friday said that the incident happened when their plane was trying to take off from the runway. But the preliminary probe by Saudi authorities has found that the lane was trying to take off from a taxiway parallel to the take off-designated runway at full power.

Above-normal monsoon so far and narrowing of the country's trade deficit perked up mood, brokers said.

Unlike conventional universities in the state, students of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) will not be promoted to the next level without examinations.

Sahil Tabassum once said to me, ‘I like a book to have a beginning, a middle and an end.’ I thought to myself...mine cannot be that kind of book. The gaps in my life were too many, the threads too few.

: The Class XII students of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools in Nashik heaved a sigh of relief after the board declared the examination dates on Saturday.

5 moms share their exhausting yet thrilling journey

There are stories. And there are remarkable stories. And then there are people who write remarkable stories. Perhaps Pulitzer-prize winning writer Geeta Anand belongs to the third category.

Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Saturday announced that the evaluation for class 10, 12 board exams will be done by teachers at their homes and 3,000 schools have been identified as exam centres to deliver the answer sheets to them.

नयी दिल्ली। क्या आप जानते हैं कि आप अपने घर के राशन में बैठे-बैठे कारोबार करके पैसे कमा सकते हैं? इसके लिए आपको किसी सेल्समैन की तरह लोगों के घरों पर नहीं जाना और न ही कोई दुकान खोलनी है। बल्कि

Punjab's cabinet ministers locked horns with senior bureaucrats over imposition of Covid tax and overall dipping revenue of the state excise department at a meeting to discuss changes in the excise policy on Saturday.

The Indian mission in Saudi Arabia is arranging four flights next week to repatriate Indians - including a Riyadh to Delhi flight on Monday.

Pakistan, which has reported 26,435 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 599 deaths, has announced it will start lifting a countrywide lockdown from Saturday in a bid to restart economic activity.

Initial evidence shows the suspects, a nurse and a municipal market worker in their 20s, planned to rob the women

The US Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is delivering drug remdesivir to Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, Maryland and Iowa.

It was unclear whether his statement referred to a $19 billion relief plan announced by the US Department of Agriculture in April. The agency said it would buy $3 billion worth of agricultural commodities as part of that program.

Don't text while driving as a new study suggests that doing so increases the risk of a crash much more than talking or listening on a mobile phone.

As per experts, Nepal and China had signed a border dispute resolution agreement in 1960 according to which it was decided that Mount Everest will be divided, and southern part of it will belong to Nepal and Northern part to Tibet Autonomous Region which China claims as its own.

Tesla boss Elon Musk and his partner Claire Grimes Boucher welcomed their first baby on May 4 and baffled everyone with the choice of the name.

Highly leveraged companies may find the going tough in the next few months, as rapid rise in covid-19 infections, make business prospects highly unpredictable. Even if infections abate in the next three months or so, companies that have high levels

As the time passes so quickly, another fiscal year is turning to an end soon, and most of the tax payers must be in the state of panic about keeping the things in order. They might also be planning to approach

There is bad news everywhere amid Covid 19 crisis which has led most employed to fret about job loss or salary cuts. Various industries hit the most including aviation has announced no pay-outs for April, May month. At the same time,