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The apex court was hearing three separate petitions challenging governments notification making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of various social welfare schemes. (Representational Image)

Aadhaar overdrive may set off huge chaos

In 2013, it was reported that UIDAI had to cancel 3.84 lakh fake Aadhaar cards because of a specific procedural...

28 Jun 2017 3:51 AM IST

Demonstrators protest President Donald Trumps decision to exit the Paris climate change accord in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo: AFP)

Can India stay true to the Paris climate pact?

India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.

23 Jun 2017 1:16 AM IST

Earlier, Nomura had said in a report last November, that demonetisation could slow Indias GDP growth to 6.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016 against its estimate of 7.3 per cent.

As growth takes a hit, a lot needs to be fixed

Stressed assets at India's two-dozen state-backed banks have risen sharply.

9 Jun 2017 12:39 AM IST

Over time, energized particles in the solar wind stripped off Mars atmosphere, leaving a thin and still-shrinking envelope of gases around the planet (Photo: NASA)

Colonising other planets isn't feasible

Stephen Hawking has pointed out in a BBC programme that human beings need to colonise a planet soon.

17 May 2017 3:42 AM IST

Goods and Services Tax (GST) is the biggest tax reform in the nation after Independence and this will increase the GDP, said assistant director of Federation of Indian Exports Organisation (FIEO) Selvanayagi.

Fixing GST slabs: Will the rich or poor be hit?

Most goods are currently taxed at much lower than the highest GST slab.

14 April 2017 12:24 AM IST

What's really driving big push for Aadhaar?

The government is thinking of linking the Aadhaar number to mobile phone numbers.

29 March 2017 12:27 AM IST

The much hyped Universal Basic Income (UBI) touted as the mother of all welfare schemes to be introduced in the country fails to find any mention in the budget speech of Finance Minister Arun Jaitely on Wednesday.

Dressed-up Budget figures can't hide reality

As a result, banking is reeling under bad debts and several large infrastructural projects are facing a crisis.

10 Feb 2017 12:40 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the launch of a new mobile app BHIM to encourage e-transactions during the Digital Mela at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

As Digital India grows, your data at huge risk

Internet becomes an opportunity for fraudsters and cyber criminals who can penetrate out accounts.

9 Jan 2017 12:54 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi present in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Modi has misread the response to note ban

Mr Modi's desperate gamble is to deny the two main rivals in the heartland state, Mayawati's BSP and the Samajwadi...

8 Dec 2016 12:41 AM IST

Narendra Modi anticipated the chaos he would unleash by withdrawing currency notes worth over four-fifths in value from circulation last week.

Note ban: What's the real reason?

Narendra Modi anticipated the chaos he would unleash by withdrawing currency notes.

17 Nov 2016 1:32 AM IST

Inked outside the French capital in December by 195 nations, the worlds first universal climate treaty vows to cap global warming at well under two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). (Photo: AP)

Tinkering climate deals won't work

Global warming is already upon us and is visibly felt in the storms that rip through the planet

24 Oct 2016 12:45 AM IST

Top defence experts on Thursday termed the surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC in PoK as an operational necessity. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Cross-LoC strikes: Why BJP raised the ante...

War is specially dangerous given the nuclear arsenals of both sides.

14 Oct 2016 12:40 AM IST