India File

 The ₹45,000-crore BharatNet project has gone through multiple delays and changes in its rollout strategy. The project assumes national importance, ...

 Ever since Mukesh Ambani rolled out his telecom juggernaut – Reliance Jio – in September 2016, consumers of mobile internet in India have had a great ...

BusinessLine visited villages in Rajasthan, Tripura and Maharashtra to see how BharatNet, the national optic fibre network, was faring – for the third time since the roll-out began eight years back. We saw that cables had reached remote corners, but the Net was not being used. Varun Aggarwal and Pratim Ranjan Bose explain why

RS SarmaUjjwala did not create much interest in AP because most rural and urban households have already been covered under the Telugu Desam’s Deepam ...

Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, is satisfied with the success of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Scheme (PMUY). With the Cabinet ...

 Modest villages lining the road from the Varanasi airport to the city tell a tale of how after the initial success, Ujjwala is now facing hiccups in ...

 Barely 20 kilometres from Ahmedabad, at a Thakor vaas in Manipur village of Sanand Taluka, Kaliben Thakor expresses joy as her kids – a 7-year-old ...

The Ujjwala scheme is enabling rural women to escape the drudgery and negative health effects of using firewood. The implementation story has been good so far, but details need to be addressed, writes Richa Mishra

Innovation is not a function of the funds one has. It is dependent on the passionate enterprise as shown by Dhirubhai Ambani or Steve Jobs. Funds are ...

There can be no discounting the growing presence of Indian scientists on the world stage. But are our education and research bodies stuck with the wrong attitudes and priorities, ask TV Jayan and A Srinivas

M SomasekharVK Saraswat, Member (S&T), NITI Aayog, was earlier Director General, Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), and Scientific ...

 Kris Gopalakrishnan, one of Infosys’ co-founders, has donated ₹225 crore to set up a new Centre for Brain Research at the Indian Institute of ...

When the Prime Minister appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as Defence Minister, among the first things she did was to approach Home Minister Rajnath Singh ...

CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat tells BusinessLine how individual assertions against curbs in the name of religion and culture are “wonderful” ...

The sheer absence of women leaders across parties and in Parliament reflects a deep patriarchal mindset. But things are changing, even if slowly, says Poornima Joshi

Falling farm prices, drying up of industrial jobs and lesser MGNREGA work have sharpened rural discontent. The Budget cannot ignore these factors in a year of 8 State polls, say TV Jayan and Rutam Vora

Who would know better than Shaktikanta Das, the former secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs, the ‘Good, Bad, and Ugly’ side of ...

Of late, skilling, re-skilling and upskilling have become buzzwords. Vindhya E-Infomedia, a Bengaluru-based Business Process Outsourcing solutions ...

Patna is attracting the young from the hinterland to its skilling centres, teaching them English and computer skills

Training partners don’t get government funds as it’s hard to establish that jobs have been created. They would rather tap donations or go the CSR way, writes Tanya Thomas

As the experience in rural Andhra Pradesh shows, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana has made a positive impact beyond the inexplicable surge in accounts and deposits after demonetisation. G Naga Sridhar reports

Cattle travel hundreds of kilometres before they are sneaked across the border

Cattle smuggling has seen a drastic drop along the India-Bangladesh border. Abhishek Law reports

K Vinod, an RSS member for 35 years, talks about CPI(M), beef and Aadhaar