100 per cent literacy still remains a mirage

The new health minister should also focus on regulating medicine and medical equipment prices.

Farm loans, MSP top priorities

Non-waiver of outstanding loans is also bothering farmers.

India is expecting to fill the gap with the acquisition of 36 Rafale jets which will be armed with deadly beyond-visual-range Meteor missiles.

The result higher upfront cost but speedy implementation with avoided project delay costs.

The use of C4 explosive in the blasts is a clear indication that the bomb making expertise came from sources well outside Sri Lanka.

Digging deeper, NIA found out that Hashim was in his early 40s, was a loner from a middle class family in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka.

The EC is like a football umpire, whose primary obligation is to steer the electoral process to its logical conclusion.

The Code has been issued by the ECI under executive powers under Article 324 of the Constitution of India.

The EC is the guardian of electoral democracy and needs urgent institutional safeguards to remain fiercely autonomous.

Most of the women activists in social movements shun electoral politics as they find it too murky and under the control of misogynistic patriarchs.