As a controversy rages around recommendations for the third education policy, RITIKA CHOPRA tracks the history of governments’ instrument to leave an imprint on the country’s education system.

In June 2013, massive flash floods killed at least 6,000 people in Uttarakhand. Three years after that catastrophe, governments of the state and at the Centre appear bent on unlearning the lessons.

The rising tide of real wage increases raised all boats between 2004-05 and 2011-12, none more than that of unskilled rural workers. Why did this happen?

Focusing solely on CPI inflation — and ignoring negative WPI inflation — has resulted in producers paying double-digit real interest rates even in a slowdown

“If the UK decides to leave the single market, these Indian companies will have to set up additional operational structures in Europe, raising business costs substantially.”

Some UK-based factories, IT firms may be hit but the overall impact will be largely muted,

The Leave camp has raised the highly sensitive issue of immigration, arguing that Cameron has failed to control EU migrants.

Express Economic history series: Pranab Mukherjee, who was Finance Minister then, was opposed to the proposal, prompting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a former RBI Governor himself in the mid-80s.

Between 2005 and 2012, structural changes drove poverty reduction — non-agricultural incomes rose the fastest, and the largest shifts from farm to salaried non-farm employment were seen among the poorest.

Through responses to information sought under the RTI Act, Indian Express traces the history of Indian governments’ approach to the Sangh.

Arvind Kejriwal says that despite several states having Parliamentary Secretaries — some of which also give them salaries and perks — Delhi’s 21 MLAs are being specifically targeted. How does the situation in Delhi differ from that in other states?

MPs and MLAs hold the government accountable for its work, and if they held an “Office of Profit” under the government, they might be susceptible to government influence and might not discharge their constitutional mandate fully.

This round of confrontation has the potential to become the most bitter of all. 21 AAP MLAs may be disqualified, leading to elections. Indian Express explains how things came to this pass, and the legal and constitutional issues in the conflict.

With food inflation rising again, the possibility of further rate cuts – since January 2015, the RBI’s key short-term lending or repo rate has been reduced from 8 per cent to 6.5 per cent – is effectively ruled out.

Study shows largely consistent impact on traffic congestion over two rounds of Odd-Even in Delhi — suggesting it can be a short-term or emergency measure in the future too.

The final merger of FMC and SEBI came when Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced it in his 2015 Budget.

Union Ministers Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar faced off last week over the culling of wild animals. JAY MAZOOMDAAR explains the key issues.

Since 1991, 80% of the total reduction in poverty has been due to urban growth — rural poor have gained more from urban growth than from rural growth. Also, post-1991, secondary and tertiary sectors have helped more to reduce poverty than primary sector.

It is time now to ask that question, and to keep asking it till some clarity emerges: Is there any need for censorship in an age when everything is available on the Internet?

It is possible China may now seek some kind of bargain, whereby it is given entry to the MTCR in return for letting India get into the NSG, where it wields a veto.

Climate change has been dear to both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama who, along with some other global leaders, played a crucial role in ensuring that a new post-2020 climate agreement was successfully negotiated in Paris last December.

LEMOA or Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement is another name for Logistics Support Agreement (LSA), an agreement the US has with many of its allies.

Curation of a 50-paragraph Joint Statement issued by India and the United States, its key points, and how they compare with what the two countries said on the same issues when President Barack Obama visited India in January 2015.

The United States has just handed over 200 stolen artefacts, but India has been losing antique items far more frequently than it has got them back, reports Indian Express.