A new Bill that allows govt to overrule decisions by institutions

Govt’s fare ceiling doesn’t apply to them, say cab aggregators like Uber and Ola. Blame the newness of a business model that has flourished in a legal vacuum.

Operations will allow the projection of military power in the countryside, creating an axis of patronage that, the generals believe, will slowly undermine the PML-N.

Isa was supposed to visit Dharamsala, the seat of the Dalai Lama. Who are the Uighur people, and why is there tension between them and Beijing?

The Delhi government has been impounding Uber and Ola cabs for ‘overcharging’, and has told the High Court that the operators are ‘unlicensed’ and ‘operating illegally’. SARAH HAFEEZ explains the licensing system for the capital’s app-based cabs.

At the UNHQ in New York on Friday, 174 countries and the EU put signatures on the Paris Agreement on climate change that was negotiated in December 2015. AMITABH SINHA explains the significance of the event, and the road ahead.

With increasing longevity and the rise in the number of the elderly, it was clear that the pension scheme would leave a huge hole in the government’s coffers in the medium and long term.

While the Syrian conflict has been the major driver of the migration, people have been fleeing war, abuses and poverty in other countries as well.

Key observations made by the High Court while quashing President’s Rule in Uttarakhand

The government’s initial submission to the Supreme Court was out of sync with the Culture Ministry’s frequent stress on Indian asmita or pride.

The Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System (GIDMaPS) map shows large patches of dry areas in every continent, indicating droughts of varying severity.

To say there is no legal framework under which India can ask for the Kohinoor may not be correct.

The learned Solicitor General needs to read up on the 19th century history of the Sikhs and the British.

NIA, which probed the serial bombings that killed at least 37 people on September 8, 2006, had disagreed with the conclusions of the investigations carried out by the Maharashtra ATS and the CBI before it.

Cumulative storage in India’s 91 biggest reservoirs is currently about half of their January levels. Maharashtra has drawn the most water the fastest, going from 30% of full capacity to 14% today.

In Maharashtra, India’s most rapidly urbanising state, Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns report abysmal water supply data and poor water infrastructure.

No, the tiger is not out of the woods. If numbers presented ahead of last week’s global tiger meet in New Delhi showed minor gains due to better counting methods, they also revealed massive losses.

Many believe the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor can change Pakistan’s destiny — a rosy future that its Army and government have accused India of trying to wreck. What is the economic dream about?

The temple fireworks display in Kerala that killed over 100 went ahead without permission, and with the blessings of politicians.

Facebook announced bots for its Messenger app at the F8 conference. Here's how these chatbots work and everything that they can do.

Babasaheb Ambedkar rejected Hinduism, but the Sangh still wants to embrace him. Indeed, no party can ignore the ideals he fought for.

It is a convenient whipping boy, even though it consumes less water on a per-day basis than other crops, and even less for every unit weight of biomass produced.

Canadian Sikhs have for long been demanding a formal apology in the Canadian Parliament for Komagata Maru incident.

Indian Express explains the key issues around the IMD’s monsoon forecast.