The Labour Ministry’s four-year-old report acknowledged that for women, decent maternity leave alone “results in mounting a very huge pressure of family, childcare responsibilities as well as demands of workplace”.

Field reports suggest that the mustard crop — currently about 70-90 days old and at the reproductive (flowering and pod development) stage in most areas — is in good condition.

Among the biggest El Niños in history — the same phenomenon that hit the 2015 monsoon — is now producing unusually warm temperatures across India.

Netflix is the world’s top video streaming service that allows users to watch content on screens ranging from a smartphones to a smart television.

In 2002, as interest rates started sliding and there were early signs of a rebound in growth at a time when the global economy was yet to recover, the Budget division of the Finance Ministry started analysing the government’s expenditure trends for potential cuts and savings. They noticed that, unsurprisingly, close to half the government’s […]

Four years from now, the government wants to leap directly to BS-VI auto emission norms from the existing BS-IV, skipping BS-V. But the challenges, before both oil companies and automakers, are enormous.

The 16 Nepalese districts bordering China have received special concessions on grazing land and the supply of medicines, and special humanitarian and developmental aid from Beijing.

As Delhi experiments with the ‘odd-even’ formula, Indian Express summarises the findings of a range of source apportionment studies on air pollution in the Capital over the last several years.

Indian Express explains why and how a man-eater kills, and why the Rajasthan Forest Department did the right thing the wrong way in moving Ranthambhore’s famous T-24 tiger to Udaipur last year.

We profile the Defence Security Corps, who lost five personnel in the terrorist attack on the Pathankot airbase.

The Jaish struggled for years to get a foothold in Kashmir after that, and the J&K Police and other security agencies were able to consistently foil its plans.

The superfine polluting particles that India has begun to measure for the first time during odd-even policy.

What is the context of the execution by Saudi Arabia of the Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr, Tehran’s subsequent rage and Riyadh’s severing of diplomatic relations with it? What is the nature of Shia-Sunni divide, and why Kashmir and India have remained largely insulated from it.

At a press conference in Delhi on August 24, 1949, M S Golwalkar, the organisation’s second sarsanghchalak, termed Pakistan an “uncertain state”.

The weekend’s attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot has placed General Raheel Sharif’s intentions at centre stage.

By 1994-95 and in the years that followed, the newly licenced private banks in India leveraged technology in a big way, differentiating themselves from state-run banks.

The health ministry is keen on introducing the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine in the universal immunisation programme, hoping to check the incidence of cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among Indian women.

Shalini Nair explains a proposed change in law that will help new mothers get 26 weeks of maternity leave but will touch only a fraction of working women.

At one point, Chetia was the man who ensured a steady flow of funds into the outfit’s coffers.

What is a standing committee? How is it different from a select committee? And why do Bills get sent to them?

US: Storms hit southern and central US states over the weekend, unleashing floods and tornadoes that killed at least 43 people, flattened buildings and forced several to be stuck in traffic. Powerful tornadoes usually hit central states in the US in spring and summer but occur less frequently in winter, according to US weather data. The […]

The crash of a Superking B-200 aircraft last Tuesday has brought the focus back on the BSF’s Air Wing. We explain the role played by aircraft in a largely ground force and how, stretched for resources and manpower, the BSF has had to often turn to the IAF

Last week, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley slapped two defamation cases on Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, one a criminal case in a city court and the other a civil suit before the HC seeking Rs 10 crore as damages.

Adolf Hitler’s manifesto has been a reliable bestseller in several countries. In India, Jaico Books has kept it in print since 1988, and is believed to have sold lakhs of copies.