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All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled Protecting Your Information. It will have a link to information on which Facebook apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

How Facebook, Google and others pose a growing threat to people...

India is arguably Facebook's most important market, with the nation recently edging out the United States as the...

12 April 2018 5:59 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Ethical debate on euthanasia unlikely to end

Suicide is death inflicted on oneself, unlike murder, but remains outside what is permitted by law.

28 March 2018 2:22 AM IST

There would be no privatisation of the state-owned Coal India, said interim CMD Gopal Singh.

Will privatisation help the cause of coal industry?

Today, India produces 554 million tons of coal as against 79 million tons in 1973.

27 Feb 2018 12:23 AM IST

Agriculture is one of those sectors where we have seen no reforms, whether in terms of export-import policies or domestic constraints.

Economic Survey glosses over the problems that lie ahead for India

In agriculture, despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shrill rhetoric, there has been no major investment by the State...

1 Feb 2018 6:47 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed 1.25 crore Indians for fourth time. (Photo: PTI)

The RSS agenda: Replacing science with myths

Another BJP appointee has gone a step further and even postulated that ancient India had nuclear weapons.

30 Jan 2018 4:05 AM IST

This is the largest Indian investment in that country and has ample scope for generating employment and meeting the needs of the country.

How Chabahar port will benefit all neighbouring countries

The Chinese investment in Gwadar is much more, and its trade with Central Asia much higher.

4 Jan 2018 2:54 AM IST

Forbes India Rich Lists suggest an important increase in the wealth of the richest Indians after 2000.

As India got richer, inequality also rose

The picture becomes increasingly skewed the higher we move up the wealth chain.

27 Oct 2017 1:07 AM IST

First bullet train in India will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, a 516 km long route. (Photo: /Representational/AFP)

Bullet trains: Far too costly for India

The Indian Railways are the country's largest public investment, employing over a million people.

28 Sept 2017 1:49 AM IST

This file picture shows Myanmars Aung San Suu Kyi delivering her Nobel speech during the Nobel ceremony in Oslo. (Photo: AFP)

Suu Kyi must act fast on Rohingyas' rights

Modern communication and the relative ease of travel have made the refugee crisis a worldwide phenomenon.

18 Sept 2017 12:12 AM IST

Amit Shah hailed the government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for stand on triple talaq issue before the SC. (Photo: PTI)

Modi faltering on the growth promise

Now we are back to trying to configure how to reindustrialise, given India's persistent economic backwardness.

23 Aug 2017 1:01 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Jobless growth rising crisis for Modi Sarkar

The government seems to work for big business or lobbies, with its emphasis on reducing the influence of labour.

12 Aug 2017 12:25 AM IST

GST, which will replace more than a dozen central and state levies like factory-gate, excise duty, service tax and local sales tax or VAT, is Indias biggest tax reform in the 70 years of independence. (Phtoto: Representational/PTI)

GST's fallout: Chaos & new licence raj likely?

The compliance burden and GST's complex structure it has four main rates from five to 28 per cent have sparked fears...

7 July 2017 6:24 AM IST