The Missionaries of Charity (MoC), headquartered in Kolkata and known famously as the home of Mother Teresa, was in the news recently because US Secretary of State Marco Rubio chose to make it his ...

Dr. Chandra Shekhar Kumar Additional Secretary, MoPR with April issue of Tatsat Chronicle Ravi Shankar Srivastava, IAS, Rajasthan, 1985, presently Commissioner, Departmental Enquiries, Rajasthan, ...

The End of NGO Autonomy? Clearly, the government intends to substantially tighten the foreign funding of NGOs operating in India, obviously the MoC background indicates a focus on religious ...

As the largest electoral exercise draws to a close, large parts of India have been reeling under intense heatwave for the better part of May, which have led many to question the wisdom of the Election ...

At the heart of the dispute lies a 1963 agreement in which Pakistan ceded roughly 5,180 square kilometres of Indian territory to China—an arrangement New Delhi has never recognized. By now claiming ...

Sariska, Rajasthan — Seventeen years ago, the silence of Sariska’s forests carried an unsettling message: every tiger in the reserve had vanished. Poaching had wiped out the population, turning one of ...

A picture on the wall of a small room in a house in Islamabad was, perhaps, the best returns for Dr Surinder Pal Singh Oberoi who has spent more than ₹200 crore of his personal wealth in blood money ...

An estimated 2.6 million people in Asia and the Pacific region are still don't have access to digital connectivity, said Atsuko Okuda, regional director, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), ...

In what could be another significant step towards bringing about an e-governance revolution in rural India, Common Services Centres (CSCs) across the country are set to be given more freedom and the ...

In Bonn, Germany, the mercury has risen to 39°C and it is the same in capital Berlin as in cities and towns across Western Europe where people are cooling themselves in public fountains and water mist ...

After driving out of Imphal southeastwards for about an hour, the sense of approaching Thongjao village takes hold as earthenware and pots adorning the entrances of houses along the road catches the ...

Border security, illegal immigration and the future of India’s relationship with Bangladesh have emerged as central themes in the aftermath of the elections in West Bengal. The primary focus of this ...