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May 23, 2016 06:08 IST

Lokniti’s pre-poll survey very clearly suggests that the electorate in Kerala does not subscribe to dominant pro- or anti-liberalisation rhetoric.

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May 23, 2016 05:04 IST

In Kerala’s familiar trend of alternating govts, what stands out is BJP’s emergence and scale of Left victory; Lokniti CSDS pre-poll survey examines why.

May 22, 2016 04:21 IST

A possible explanation for why corruption did not become an issue lies in the fact that only those voters who were highly exposed to the media considered the TMC corrupt.

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May 22, 2016 04:14 IST

Some unhappiness, but no real anti-incumbency; TMC scores high on delivery of social goods

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May 22, 2016 15:35 IST

Trinamool Congress chief most popular among CM aspirants, more popular than her government; women her stronger supporters than men

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May 19, 2016 01:41 IST

Four days after international sanctions on Iran were lifted on January 16, Tehran’s envoy in New Delhi spoke his mind at Delhi’s India International Centre. “In my three years as the Ambassador of Iran, I have often been advised to be patient on big India-Iran projects. Does India want to wait for centuries before capturing […]

May 19, 2016 01:30 IST

The white dust is free crystalline silica, the “powder of death” — lethal byproduct of quartz crushing that causes the incurable and irreversible respiratory disease, silicosis.

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May 19, 2016 01:34 IST

Union Minister V K Singh wants New Delhi’s Akbar Road renamed. But there are at least 704 towns and villages named after the famous Mughals all over India. The share of Akbar is the largest — 251.

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May 19, 2016 01:20 IST

NCAP stands for New Car Assessment Programme, a series of safety tests instituted by Global NCAP that has editions in several car markets, and assesses safety and build quality parameters in new vehicles.

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May 18, 2016 01:00 IST

Wheat blast from South America has showed up in Bangladesh, but Indian firewalls are more robust. The fungus attacks the leaf of the crop and eats its chlorophyll, thereby affecting the plant’s growth.

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April 5, 2017 18:07 IST

The Mauritius tax treaty came into sharper focus in 2001 when the stock market scam linked to Ketan Parekh blew up, leading to a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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May 19, 2016 14:09 IST

The rapid decline in India’s poverty levels over the last decade augurs well for the country’s efforts to eradicate poverty.

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June 8, 2016 14:59 IST

There’s no correlation between when it hits Kerala and how much it rains, where.

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May 18, 2016 00:46 IST

India completes 25 years of the beginning of economic reforms this July. Starting today, The Indian Express will publish findings from an e-symposium that brings together recent research by The World Bank on poverty in India.

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May 16, 2016 00:59 IST

In a report tabled in Gujarat Assembly in 2012, the CAG severely criticised GSPC’s operations in KG block, and said “numerous faulty investment and destructive administrative decisions” had led to a loss of Rs 7,000 crore to the company.

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May 16, 2016 09:14 IST

The new books by the Rajasthan government mention PM Modi's Mann ki Baat and Swachh Bharat Mission along with tales from Ramayana and Mahabharata. Syllabus to inculcate ‘traditional indian’ values.

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May 16, 2016 00:13 IST

Rocky Yadav, accused of killing Gaya youth Aditya Sachdeva on May 7, got the alleged murder weapon on the ‘sports quota’.

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May 16, 2016 00:13 IST

The legal basis for extradition with states with whom India does not have an extradition treaty -- described as “non-Treaty States” -- is provided by Section 3(4) of the Indian Extradition Act, 1962.

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May 13, 2016 00:01 IST

Phase I of the Ken-Betwa linking could roll soon. The background to what is probably India’s most ambitious infra plan — and the status of its first project.

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May 17, 2016 13:32 IST

Wrestler Sushil Kumar, the greatest ever Indian athlete, may not, in fact, make it to the Olympics later this year. Indian Express explains how, and why.

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May 12, 2016 12:52 IST

The full tax impact of the protocol will fall on investments beginning April 1, 2019, when capital gains will attract tax at the full domestic rates of 15% and 40%.

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May 12, 2016 09:37 IST

The picture showed four children in a garbage yard at Peravoor in Kannur, seemingly foraging for food.

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May 12, 2016 18:28 IST

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is conducting the NEET in the current year only in English and Hindi.

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May 11, 2016 04:21 IST

A draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill put in the public domain last week has triggered panic and outrage for its allegedly draconian provisions.

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May 10, 2016 07:39 IST

The decades of the 70s and 80s were especially notorious for its misuse — and almost all dispensations have used the provision during their time in power at the Centre.

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