60% Indians listed as ‘non-workers’ in Census data, marking a marginal improvement since 2001.

On May 31, 130 tonnes of anti-tank mines blew up at the Army’s ammunition depot at Pulgaon near Wardha, killing 19 people including two Army officers.

Last week’s revelations about a kidney racket in Delhi showed that clean-ups were unlikely to work while the market for out-of-turn allotments remained alive. Indian Express looks at the rules of kidney transplant, and how and why they are repeatedly subverted.

Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh continue to lag behind the rest of the country in income and growth. Despite the success of these states on a few important fronts, where you live still determines how well you live.

The bleaching, which began in 2014 and is likely to last through 2016, will impact over a third of the world’s corals, and kill 12,000 sq km of reefs.

This weekend, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the Salma Dam, the largest of the development projects India initiated after the new Afghan republic was born, the unprecedented street celebrations in Herat will hide a grim reality.

Indian Express curates the headline points of five Indian prime ministerial speeches to US Congressmen and Congresswomen, annotating them with the context in which they were delivered.

As early as 2002, the first expert group made the point that it was important to ensure that the competition legislation does not become anti-competitive.

Is it because they don’t want to work hard? Or are UGC’s demands unrealistic? What happens to DU students whose teachers are boycotting evaluations?

At a meeting in early December last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that he thought persons with disability should be renamed as people who are “divyang”, or possessed with divinity. He repeated the divyang thought in his radio address on December 27, and the Railway Budget this year became the first official document […]

A planned dam on one of Kerala’s most beautiful rivers has made multiple trips to the court and MoEF over the last 25 years. Now, days into the new LDF govt, it has divided communist partners CPM and CPI.

Draft Rules open for public comment until today propose to pass on most powers on these crucial ecosystems to states.

Child marriage down since 2001 but still rampant, show Census data; trend of underage marriages common to Hindus and Muslims; 78 lakh girls were married even before they had turned 10.

Govt is considering a proposal to observe May 11, birthday of Adi Sankaracharya, as National Philosophers’ Day. Who was Sankara, what was his philosophy?

'Decline in consumption poverty notwithstanding, on parameters like tackling open defecation, India lags behind even Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan'.

The excitement over the success of the RLV is deserved, but ISRO has done this twice before. The cost benefits of a reusable launch vehicle remain uncertain, and the challenges before ISRO huge.

The IAF’s squadron strength has dwindled to dangerously low levels, many jets are near the end of their operational lives, and the future looks uncertain.

The Chabahar project — and the port, rail network, and road systems that it will tap into — will give India access to economic opportunities in regions from which it has been cut off for centuries.

Because of developmental or industrial requirements, forests are routinely cut, or, as it is said in official language, “diverted for non-forest purposes”.

Scheduled Tribes stand out as a group that has fallen further behind, with one-third stuck in chronic poverty.

The main opposition National Conference has described it as an “infringement” on the state’s “special status and autonomy”, and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has criticised the Supreme Court for going beyond its purview to uphold NEET in J&K.

The pre-poll surveys asked identical questions to voters in the two states and found that support for prohibition (total and phased) was high.

The PWF had a combined vote share of 6.1%, and won no seats. The vote share of all constituents was much lower than earlier elections because of the absence of any large party in the alliance.

Survey data suggest women, traditional backers of the Chief Minister, rallied behind her as never before, overwhelming all negatives.