Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said that the annual rate of decline in poverty between 1993-94 and 2004-2005 was 0.74 per cent per year. Since 2004, it has been

The unexpected and sudden grounding of the HPT-32 basic trainer aircraft fleet, coupled with the ageing fleet of Kiran Mk-I, has snowballed into a crisis whereby the flying training of the Indian Air

A major reason for continuing insurgency and extremism is the tardy implementation of the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA) in the country, Union tribal welf

As part of the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF) programme that was launched here on Saturday, young professionals will work in Maoist-affected and tribal areas across the country inc

Young graduates, who will work in Maoist and tribal areas under the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF) programme, will be paid Rs 65,000 per month for the two-year stint. “It’s like a

An indefinite curfew was on Sunday imposed in the sensitive Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the walled city following incidents of stabbing and heavy stone-pelting, police said.

The incidents

Once phase-I of Godavari project is commissioned, the water will first reach Hitec City, Sainikpuri, Cantonment, Kapra, Alwal, Malkajgiri, Qutbullapur, Kukatpally, Rajendernagar and Serilingampally ar

Five Sudanese students were arrested late on Thursday night for allegedly attacking and punching policemen and calling them “bloody Indians” at Langer Houz police station, Hyderabad. It started with a

While the United States is trying to pass the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa) to oversee what citizens are doing on the internet, its two earlier attempts—the Stop Online Piracy

Iskool, kirkit, hau hau, nakko, kaiku, Ustad, these are some examples of Hyderabadi lingo that have featured on the social microblogging site, Twitter. Ever since Twitter set up special trends for Hyd