Loans to such borrowers played a key role in 2008 collapse. What is this market?

India had been using Russian-made cryogenic engines to power its earlier GSLVs. It is only now that it has been able to master the technology and started using indigenous cryogenic engines in its rockets.

As of July 2017, the foreign-born population (both legal and illegal) living in the US was 4.45 crore, up from just under 4 crore in 2010.

A new USFDA-cleared feature can generate the wearer’s ECG data within 30 seconds. However, both the FDA and Apple have clarified that the watch cannot replace professional medical advice.

The report also compares the three countries on gender inequality index (GII) which, the report says, can be interpreted as the loss in human development due to inequality between female and male achievements

India bounced back from 2008 crisis thanks to stimulus packages, but faltered by letting these continue. And it still has a long way to go in ensuring greater coordination between govt and financial regulators.

Legislation approved by European Parliament puts more responsibility on tech platforms. What are its provisions, and views for and against it?

In 2014, United Bank of India announced that Mallya is a “wilful defaulter”. SBI and Punjab National Bank followed suit.

In the years just before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the global crisis, India saw a boom. The strong growth of 2006-08 triggered an ‘irrational exuberance’, in which lay the seeds of many of today’s NPAs.

Demands for and against eliminating a tigress in Maharashtra have divided public opinion. But conservation does not guarantee happy endings.

Only 2.5 million holidaymakers visited India from abroad in 2016. This is far less than in far smaller countries like Thailand, which received 31 million leisure tourists in 2017.

The genesis of the Shahpur Kandi project can be traced to a 1979 agreement between Chief Ministers Parkash Singh Badal and Sheikh Abdullah of Punjab and J&K respectively, for the Ranjit Sagar (Thein) Dam.

Conducted between July 30 and August 12, the survey asked 4,581 American adults for their feelings towards 10 other countries on a “feeling thermometer” ranging from 0 to 100. A rating of 51 or higher is “warm”; a rating below 50 is “cold”; a rating of 50 is neutral.

In a move arising out of case involving the newspaper, Income Tax department reopens Sonia and Rahul tax assessments for 2011-12. What is the National Herald case, how did it lead to the I-T move?

The EC imposes limits on campaign expenditure incurred by a candidate (Rs 50-70 lakh for Lok Sabha and Rs 20-28 lakh for Assembly, both varying state by state) but there is no cap on expenses incurred by political parties.

PNB fraud case: Diffusion Notice is issued for locating a fugitive; Red Notice covers arrest but is not binding on any country.

Raghuram Rajan: Bankers, promoters, or their backers in government sometimes turn around and accuse regulators of creating the bad loan problem. The truth is bankers, promoters, and circumstances create the bad loan problem.

Kerala floods: 1.16 bn cubic m space available in dams, 2.19 bn cubic m inflow in 3 days

How does this programme evaluate students, and why was India out of it for 10 years?

Why is it so difficult for governments to cut taxes on auto fuels and could the inclusion of petrol and diesel under GST change this situation? All your questions answered.

Reservation rules provide for 15% posts for SCs and 7.5% for STs at the level of professors, assistant professors and associate professors, and for 27% for OBC candidates at the level of assistant professors only.

What were these killings, and why was the appointment of this panel quashed?

What is Amendment XXV to the United States Constitution, and what is the “complex” process it prescribes?

It is not just rising prices and imports of crude that have put pressure on the rupee. From coal & coke to electronics and minerals, a look at how Indian imports have risen sharply from one fiscal to the next.