India’s cultural history is shot through with innumerable narratives, and they often don’t agree.

Sinha played a major role not just in preventing Goalpara district from being clubbed with East Pakistan during Partition, but also from the district being included in West Bengal.

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu put unprecedented emphasis on this term in his rail budget speech, and also in the philosophy of the budget. What does it mean?

On March 1, known as Super Tuesday, primaries or caucuses will be held in about a dozen states, and they could be turning points in both parties.

Three years after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar Jail, his execution continues to fuel powerful debates, protests, charges of ‘sedition’, and accusations of being ‘anti-national’.

Two of the five students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, have since surrendered to the police.

Indian Express explains the agitation for a ‘C’ category state in Cooch Behar that claimed three lives this week.

As debates on ‘sedition’ dominate Parliament and public spaces, a wrap of how India has viewed nationalism — and ‘anti-nationals’ — over nearly seven decades of its existence as a nation.

A payment app called Swish could ensure the currency note is completely dead in the country by 2025, and with it, many hope, a lot of crime too.

The aromatic, long-grain basmati, the so-called “scented pearl” and “queen of all rice”, is in a legal tangle.

In the current government, some of the Rs 100 crore schemes have been reported to have been introduced at the initiative of the PMO.

Roma peoples live in some 30 countries across West Asia, Europe, America and Australia. The largest Roma community is in Turkey — around 2.75 million.

Troops have been patrolling Haryana towns as the Jat protest rages. Indian Express explains the circumstances in which the Army enters civilian law-and-order situations.

Agriculture doesn’t pay that much, land is no longer the source of power it once was, and the community has failed to keep up with a changing India.

Indian Express analyses the background and circumstances of the agitation for reservation that has Haryana on the boil.

The CPM’s ambiguous statement on an electoral cooperation in West Bengal reflects its longstanding discomfort with the Congress.

For Apple which has prized itself on security and consumer trust, breaking encryption in one instance opens up a Pandora’s box.

Ringing Bells Freedom 251: The Indian Express explains the just-announced Rs-251 smartphone, and how phones are priced.

An internal assessment by the Revenue Department had shown thousands of crores going to investors annually — a good number of them the promoters of large companies, and high net worth individuals.

The legacy of unplanned hiring in past decades, the dizzying pace of recent technological change, and the new, unprecedented competition threaten to reduce Indian government banks to zombies five years from now, says P Vaidyanathan Iyer.

The first Chinese commercial train reached Tehran on Monday.

Nearly five months after the government recommended Sushanta Dattagupta’s removal, President Pranab Mukherjee finally accepted the proposal on Monday. Dattagupta was removed the next day.

The arrest of JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar last week for committing an offence under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, better known as ‘sedition’, has once again brought into focus this highly controversial clause in our criminal laws. The sedition law is a legacy of the Raj, which used it to stifle […]

After a two-week journey from Yiwu, in Beijing’s industrial heartland in the eastern Zhejiang province, the 32-container train that arrived in Tehran on Monday is the first ever to traverse the fabled silk road between China and Iran.