The competition between parties has invoked a senseless contest for visibility – a game where hardly any rules apply.

The question of censorship vs certification, in a vibrant democracy, and in an age where everything is a download away, needs to be addressed with a great deal more thought than it has been till now.

On Wednesday, after flowing 124 km, water from the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh reached the Krishna delta region, marking a milestone in the river-interlinking project.

As the Saudi Arabian embassy invokes the immunity clause for its diplomat accused of rape, Indian Express explains the guidelines that govern such privileges and looks at how India reacted when its envoys got into trouble abroad.

As history shows, schemes without an amnesty on offer have hardly succeeded. The timing also won’t help given that gold prices have been on a southward course since it peaked a couple of years ago.

As Delhi University votes on Friday, a look at some of the Lyngdoh election guidelines that are routinely flouted.

The ex-servicemen are satisfied with OROP being implemented from July 1, 2014, and with 2013 as the base year for calculating the new pensions.

The temporary meat ban, which has been in place since 1964 as a mark of respect to a Jain festival, has now pitted Marathi parties against the ruling BJP.

For the RSS, the stakes are high with a BJP-majority government at the Centre for the first time. Indian Express traces the history of RSS’s relations with governments down the years.

A year after the September 2014 J&K floods, people in Kashmir Valley, which bore the brunt of the devastation, are still counting their losses.

The concern that the BJP is winning over its cadres may have influenced the CPM to look at new forms of gestural politics that nearly mimic the Sangh Parivar’s religion-centric mobilisations.

In March this year, the High Court rejected the sedition charges against Trivedi, saying that people cannot be charged for sedition for simply criticising the government.

It was BJP’s rise that made Mulayam the biggest leader of Muslims in UP. And it is essential that BJP stays strong so that the Muslims remain with him.

Supporters of the decision point to the popular perception of Aurangzeb as “a cruel, dictatorial and despotic ruler”, and to “the need for correcting mistakes of our past”.

A religious zealot, an able administrator, a narrow-minded ruler are some labels that the sixth Mughal emperor bears. Was he India’s cruellest despot or just a religious conservative who lacked the flair and imagination of his ancestors?

Climate change will see powerful “grey swan” cyclones hitting cities along the Persian Gulf, parts of Florida, and Australia more frequently over the next century, according to the study. Unlike “black swan” events, which are entirely unexpected, grey swans may be anticipated by combining physical knowledge with historical data. “Grey swan” tropical cyclones can whip […]

The government’s Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has warned that the economy may be entering “deflation territory”.

In most societies, the past is never really past. It is continually put to political use by governments in pursuit of a current political objective. China is no exception.

Even though Manmohan Singh had announced, in his famous Budget speech of 1991, to suggest reforms in the financial sector, it was only two years later that the government and RBI decided to implement the report in two stages.

A claimed 16 cr members of 10 central trade unions shut down parts of the country to protest changes in labour laws and privatisation of PSUs.

The deadly protests in Churachandpur — and the ongoing ILP agitation — are rooted in tensions between the tribes and Meiteis, and a rising pressure on land in the Imphal valley.

Indian Express explains why India is bringing in the Injectable Polio Vaccine.

The process of identifying cities that will become ‘Smart’ is under way, but the Centre has given no clear definition of a Smart City in the Indian context. ‘Efficiency’ and ‘better management’ are key concepts.

Indian Express explains the issues in the legal battle around the practice of starving to death.