October 4, 2012
New Delhi — To provide affordable healthcare, the government has proposed free supply of essential medicines in public health facilities, union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said Wednesday.
The minister said this would reduce out-of-pocket expenses on medicines.
October 3, 2012
United Nations — Stressing that Gandhian way was a real, live option for ending conflicts and inequalities around the world, Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna hoped Gandhian truth and action would be embraced by all.
United Nations - Mahatma Gandhi birthday celebrated as international day of NO-VIOLENCE
October 3, 2012
Patna: India needs another Green Revolution, President Pranab Mukherjee said Wednesday, after unveiling the much-awaited agriculture road map of Bihar.
The second wave "Green Revolution in India"
October 3, 2012
Washington — High-tech startups founded by immigrants from India have grown phenomenally in US amidst a decline in immigrant entrepreneurs considered a critical source of fuel for the US economy, according to a new study.
The proportion of immigrant-founded companies in the US has slipped from 25.3 percent to 24.3 percent since 2005, according "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Then and Now", a Kauffman Foundation survey published Tuesday.
October 3, 2012
MANILA: THE Philippine government faced a barrage of Internet protests on Wednesday as a cybercrime law went into effect that could see people given long jail terms for posting defamatory comments online.
Protest against the new Cyber Crime Law that took effect in Philippines
October 3, 2012
ISLAMABAD: Skin diseases increased by 15 percent with average 3,275 scabies cases being reported per district in July as compared with 2,842 recorded in the preceding month, says a Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) report.
Skin diseases up 15 percent in July
October 3, 2012
MUMBAI -- A Unique --great wash yatra-- will kick off on Wednesday from Wardha in Maharashtra, the centre of Mahatma Gandhi--s Quit India Movement, travelling across the heart of the country in a bid to spread awareness about hygiene and sanitation.
October 3, 2012
Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian-American academic and entrepreneur whose new book, The Immigrant Exodus: Why America is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, came out yesterday. See below an edited version of his conversation critiquing the America's immigration policy.
October 2, 2012
UNITED NATIONS — India's external affairs minister took on Pakistan at the United Nations on Monday for raising the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir.
Indo-Pakistan Proxy War Heats Up at the United Nations Summit
October 2, 2012
Activists want to highlight the plight of India's landless, who have been swept aside by rapid industrialisation
