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India’s lesson from CWG: Diversify sports. The eight medals in athletics is a landmark moment

August 13, 2022 11:04 am

India end CWG campaign with 61 medals but there have been some critical gains.

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India makes world record for making the longest stretch of road laid continuously

August 13, 2022 11:03 am

The 75-kilometre road was made in one go between Amravati and Akola in Maharashtra.

India ranks 85 in Transparency International’s corruption index

August 13, 2022 11:02 am

“The case of India is particularly worrying. While the country’s score has remained stagnant over the past decade, some of the mechanisms that could help reign in corruption are weakening. There are concerns over the country’s democratic status, as fundamental freedoms and institutional checks and balances decay,” the report said.

Global Hunger Index 2021: India slips to 101st spot, behind Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal

August 13, 2022 11:02 am

With this, only 15 countries, like Papua New Guinea (102), Afghanistan (103), Nigeria (103), Congo (105), fared worse than India this year.

India ranks among top 10 in ITU's Global Cybersecurity Index

August 13, 2022 11:02 am

As per the ranking, India has moved up by 37 places to rank as the tenth best country in the world in the Global Cybersecurity Index 2020 launched by the International Telecommunication Union on June 29, 2021.

World Press Freedom index: India retains 142 of 180 spot, remains “one of the world’s most dangerous countries” for journalists

August 13, 2022 11:02 am

For India, the latest report has blamed an environment of intimidation created by BJP supporters for any critical journalist, who, the report said, is marked as “anti-state” or “anti-national”.

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Launching vicious campaign against judges in the event of an adverse verdict threatens judiciary’s independence

August 13, 2022 11:03 am

Ravi Shankar Prasad writes: Those who have been defeated repeatedly by the people of India through a popular mandate cannot and should not control the polity and governance through collusive cases from the corridors of the Supreme Court and other courts. This is unacceptable.

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Explained: 47 years of a judgment that upheld basic structure of India’s constitution

April 18, 2023 2:50 pm

Kesavananda Bharati case: Since the Indian Constitution was first adopted, debates have raged as to the extent of power that Parliament should have to amend key provisions.

Pak-sponsored terrorists target migrants, minorities to show that normalcy in Kashmir is far away

India does not love its Nobel laureates. Nor does the rest of South Asia

August 13, 2022 11:03 am

South Asian laureates are treated in a shabby manner at home, as if they are undesirables, best got rid of. This year, the response was somewhat mixed.

Independence Day: 73 events that define India’s journey from 1947 to 2019

August 14, 2022 6:29 am

In its 72 years of independence, India has several achievements to its credit. It has built a modern economy (second fastest growing economy), remained a democracy, lifted millions out of poverty, has become a space and nuclear power and developed a robust foreign policy.