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November 6, 2015 08:55 IST

There are three certainties in the Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi cannot become President; with 25 per cent of seats reserved for it in the bicameral Parliament, the Army will remain a powerful force even if the Union Solidarity and Development Party, whose members are mostly all former military officials, loses; and Myanmar’s Rohingya […]

November 5, 2015 08:37 IST

Haryana has dropped disciplinary proceedings against Khemka.

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November 5, 2015 00:34 IST

Notices for breaching the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) have been issued to several leaders including BJP chief Amit Shah, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, and Lalu.

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November 5, 2015 00:30 IST

What the results of Turkey’s second general elections in five months mean — for the country, the Middle-East region, and the ongoing war against the ISIS in its Syrian and Iraqi strongholds.

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November 5, 2015 09:12 IST

A draft law on bankruptcy is ready for public comments. It could be an important piece of reform. SHAJI VIKRAMAN explains

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November 4, 2015 10:04 IST

A legal battle over four-laning the Seoni-Nagpur stretch of NH7 through the Kanha-Pench tiger corridor has pitted the NGT against the Bombay HC over jurisdiction.

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April 5, 2017 18:08 IST

In 2008, India had to drop a proposal to borrow after China objected to a Rs 11,000 crore loan to strengthen electricity distribution and transmission in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.

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November 4, 2015 06:08 IST

India’s score represents an “extremely high” level of gender inequality, which compares poorly with 0.71 for Western Europe and 0.74 for North America and Oceania.

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November 3, 2015 00:50 IST

What Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar said on quota for minorities.

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November 3, 2015 00:45 IST

New Delhi has tried, time and again, to force its will on Kathmandu, and come away with precious little to show for it.

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November 3, 2015 09:23 IST

The A321-200 jet was built in 1997, and Kogalymavia had been operating it since 2012, Airbus has said. The aircraft had clocked about 56,000 flying hours over the course of nearly 21,000 flight.

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November 3, 2015 13:43 IST

Rudy alleged that a GoogleAd was published in a Karachi-based newspaper between October 20 and October 31 to influence voters in Bihar in favour of Kumar.

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November 2, 2015 00:19 IST

Three weeks after he killed top counter-insurgency police officer Altaf Dar, Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Abdul Rahman alias Abu Qasim was gunned down in south Kashmir.

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November 2, 2015 00:15 IST

The BJP has been taking stock of its situation almost every month in each of the 126 Assembly constituencies of Assam. PM Modi, on his part has ensured that there is at least one central minister in the state every week.

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November 2, 2015 00:10 IST

The govt has told SC that it does not support ‘commercial surrogacy’, and only Indian married infertile couples would be allowed to have a child by surrogacy.

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December 25, 2015 22:54 IST

The decision to allow women fighter pilots in the IAF has been welcomed for being progressive — even if the larger question on the role of women in combat remains unanswered.

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December 25, 2015 22:55 IST

At its 510th meeting held on October 7, the UGC decided to discontinue the non-NET fellowship programme.

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December 25, 2015 22:55 IST

Gulf migration and emergence of the remittance economy played a role, as did the absence in Kerala of movements like Arya Samaj

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December 25, 2015 23:26 IST

If 1983 was Indira’s signal as the leader of the Non-Aligned block, 2015 will be about Modi’s positioning of India as the preferred partner of Africa.

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December 25, 2015 23:26 IST

In a little over 2 months, nearly 50 farmers have committed suicide in the state. What lies behind their despair?

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December 25, 2015 23:26 IST

Who are the Panj Pyare, and why are they upset with the five high priests? What is the larger political context of the crisis in the Sikh clergy?

April 5, 2017 18:08 IST

Most appear to have forgotten the existence of IFCI, the last of the original developmental institutions, which was run to the ground by successive managements decades ago.

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January 5, 2021 09:38 IST

The Right to Information Act was implemented on October 12, 2005. Over the last decade, it has transformed the functioning of the government machinery in several ways.

October 27, 2015 13:01 IST

As JP’s invisible presence looms large over the Bihar election, there is an attempt by all parties to claim his legacy.

October 27, 2015 01:29 IST

In gunship mode, the medium machine gun fitted in the helicopter’s nose pod fires. A helicopter in gunship mode is at a much lower spectrum of airpower usage than airstrikes by fighter or bomber aircraft.

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