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In 2004, boarding an Indian train came with a worry that was hard to ignore. Derailments, collisions, fires and accidents at level crossings regularly made the news, turning an ordinary journey into a reminder of how vul...

There is a certain irony in watching the price of something meant to sweeten our tea turn sour. Over a few weeks this monsoon season, sugar stopped being the boring commodity nobody argued about, and became the topic eve...

The golden fibre: a success story from the delta The story starts in mud. Along the Ganges-Hooghly delta, where the soil remains wet for months, farmers plant jute much as their fathers and grandfathers did. It grow...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, September 8, dedicated three sections of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) to the nation in Vadodara.  The stretches,  Sanand (North) to Makarpura, New Umberg...

This year, Britain’s most popular name for a newborn boy was not Oliver or George. It was Muhammad. George had comfortably topped British baby-name lists for a decade, making the change difficult to imagine in 1990. In 2...

Every 25 years or so, the Election Commission of India undertakes a more intensive exercise than its routine annual voter list updates. Instead of simply adding new voters or making minor corrections, it asks every elect...