What is the background of EBC reservation in Rajasthan and what is likely to happen now.

The 50% cap is settled. And the Supreme Court has already ruled against reservation for new classes.

The Odisha Police were not directly involved in the investigation of the ambush, and it is not clear what evidence they have to establish Sonadhar as the “mastermind” of the attack.

hile a list of what was contained in the CD became part of subsequent legal record, its precise contents are known only to the Military Intelligence and, probably, the Intelligence Bureau.

Reports in The Hindu that the Army destroyed documents on TSD, days before V K Singh’s tenure as Chief ended, have returned focus to the controversial unit that existed from 2010-12.

India does not have a ‘national’ language; it has 22 ‘official’ languages.

According to Health Ministry figures, an average 20,000 cases were reported every year from 2006-12. But two authoritative studies suggest the actual numbers could be anywhere between 6 mn and 44 mn.

The CBI’s battle to achieve its full strength is very old. The agency admitted to the Supreme Court that there has been no comprehensive revision of its cadre since 1963.

Article 29 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations says that “the person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable”, and that “he shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention”.

The nearly 7 decade debate over the disappearance of Subhas Chandra Bose aside, the 64 declassified files show the thoroughness of the intelligence gathering system of the Raj in its final years.

The rise of the woman worker needs to be read closely with the status of women in Kerala. In development indices like literacy, maternal mortality rate, etc., the Kerala woman is ahead of women elsewhere.

What are the QS World University Rankings? What have IIT-Delhi and IISc Bengaluru done to make the cut?

For years, fumigation by civic agencies has been projected as a powerful weapon against dengue. Fogging does indeed kill adult mosquitoes — but in the absence of other, often commonsense measures, it is reduced largely to a spectacle with a limited, short-duration impact.

For decades before that, UTI Mutual Fund, started through legislation pushed by the then Minister for Economic and Defence Coordination T T Krishnamachari, had had a monopoly.

The objective of the CoP-21 negotiations is to deliver an agreement to facilitate reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the only way to mitigate climate change.

Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia plans to cut school syllabi to ‘reduce pressure’ on children so they have more time for vocational skills, arts and sport.

Wickremesinghe believes the project, which he spoke about even before becoming the Prime Minister in January this year, is the right prescription for Sri Lanka.

At the end of a two-day meeting, America’s central bank will decide if it is time to raise interest rates, the first since June 2006. Indian Express explains why economies around the world are worried.

The criticism of AIMIM helping the BJP is something the party has faced several times before. In fact, at several forums, Owaisi himself has answered questions about his entry being beneficial for the BJP.

111 people were killed and 394 injured last Friday when a construction crane fell inside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Of the 38 districts of Bihar, Patna at 43.7 lakh electors has the highest number of electors, who form 6.54% of the total electorate in the state.

Britain’s new Labour Party leader, is considered too radical even for the left-wing party that he has been elected to lead. The man, his politics, his policies.

When the Congress Working Committee last week gave one more year to the party to complete internal elections, thereby putting off Rahul Gandhi’s much-expected elevation to party chief, it tried its best to convey that it was serious about these polls. The Congress also claimed that the process was being delayed only to incorporate changes made […]

The assets case against Mulayam has seen several twists and turns, many of these coinciding with his political moves. His breakaway from the Grand Alliance in Bihar is just the latest.