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The Explained Desk of The Indian Express writes analyses and explanatory articles on a range of topics, including current affairs, politics, global events, sports, health and lifestyle.
Friday, December 13, will mark 18 years since the deadly attack on Parliament by terrorist groups linked to Pakistan. Recalling the attack, the investigation and trial.
There is deep anxiety among people that with the CAB paving the road to easy citizenship for illegal immigrants from Bangladesh as long as they were not Muslim, Assam will be overrun by aliens.
Air transport contributes up to 2 per cent of global manmade carbon dioxide emissions. Can the e-plane make commercial air travel low-cost and environmentally friendly?
The estimated size of the Rare Earth sector is between $10 billion and $15 billion. About 100,000-110,000 tonnes of Rare Earth elements are produced annually around the world.
Four entire states, one state in almost its entirety, and large parts of another are exempted from CAB. Assam too has exempted areas, but a larger area is under CAB ambit.
Home Minister Amit Shah has said that following the signing of the pact, while India protected its minorities, Pakistan failed to do so — and it was this wrong that the Citizenship Amendment Bill would now correct.
In order to curb inflation in the US economy, Volcker announced measures including restraining the growth of money supply, and pushing up federal funds rates.
On Monday, India and Australia moved closer to closing in on the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA), as the Foreign and Defence Secretaries from both countries met in New Delhi.
The USCIRF is mandated by US statute to "monitor the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad — not in the United States — using international standards to do so and makes policy recommendations to the President, Secretary of State, and Congress".
Rohingya crisis: Gambia, which is predominantly Muslim, went to the ICJ in November 2019, accusing Myanmar of genocide, which is the most serious of all international crimes. Gambia is backed by the 57-member Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Under the proposed law, ships will be recycled only in authorised recycling facilities. An application to authorise such a facility must be submitted to the Competent Authority notified by the central government, along with a ship recycling facility management plan and the prescribed fee.
Sanna Marin is the new Prime Minister of Finland. All five parties in Finland's ruling coalition are led by women, and four of them are in their early thirties. The ruling coalition is Centre-Left in political orientation.
A cut in income tax will naturally mean a loss of revenue for the government, which will impact the fiscal deficit. The quantum of the revenue loss will depend on how deep the tax cut is.
In many parts of the world, including along the western coast of the United States, fish have been dying en masse — a clear illustration of the ways in which deoxygenation is choking the oceans.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the Paika Memorial which will come up in a 10-acre plot at the bottom of Barunei Hill in Odisha's Khurda district.
Xiyue Wang, who was born in Beijing in 1980, went to the US in 2001, and has been a naturalised US citizen since 2009. He is married and the couple have a son.
According to NCRB's 2016 report, in Punjab, 48 were murdered by use of firearms, out of which 22 were licensed firearms and 26 were illegal. In Rajasthan, 23 victims were murdered by use of firearms and all murders were committed using illegal weapons.
The techno park is meant to create a national business environment and culture “that will enable knowledge-based and creative enterprises as well as technology clusters to successfully operate locally, regionally and globally”.
Starting Friday, owners of the suspected vehicles under this recall campaign will be contacted by Maruti Suzuki dealers for inspection and replacement of the faulty parts.
Police have said that they killed the four accused in the rape-murder case because they “attacked” the police. Under what circumstances can police shoot to kill a suspect?
Extra-judicial or “encounter” killings have been a contested and divisive police procedure for decades. This is what the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Supreme Court have said on the proper procedures to be followed during such action by police.
The Karnataka bypolls are the result of a chain of events that began with the results of the 2018 Assembly elections in Karnataka. The BJP won 104 seats, the Congress 80, and the JD-S 37 seats in the 224-member House. Three seats were won by others.
