Most of the 27 cricket units that make up the BCCI have powerful politicians in position of power, with almost all of them effortlessly switching roles.

FIIs can invest as much as $ 30 billion in government securities and $ 51 billion in corporate debt instruments such as commercial paper and bonds.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is expected to identify those who illegally entered Assam after 1971.

Kozhikode tragedy was a ‘one-off’, but ego clashes and communication gaps between CISF and AAI ensure the seat belt sign is mostly on at India’s airports

Pranav Kulkarni describes where the hunt for the missing Dornier lies.

Former IPL chief Lalit Modi, now at the centre of a row also involving EAM Sushma Swaraj, faces an ‘Interpol Blue Corner Notice’. Vijaita Singh explains what this means.

Is the proposed freeway based on land reclamation really a ‘dream come true’ or a nightmare in waiting?

India's top film institute has too many students, too few teachers and, allegedly, too little freedom.

Researchers who have studied chimps for well over a decade and a half have now established that they also share with human beings a taste for alcohol.

The Indian Express reported the alleged detention and torture of a PG student for 27 hours by a group of teachers allegedly acting under the instructions of VC Chandra Krishnamurthy.

The process of repatriation of displaced Bru tribals from Tripura to Mizoram that began in 2010 is set to be wound up. But like earlier attempts, this phase too has seen little success.

Census 2011 shows the disabled have a better chance of getting married than other Indians.

Late last year, an intervention by Meghalaya High Court over Constitutional freedoms re-ignited an old cultural disagreement over what is supreme in the state: tradition or law. Traditional tribal institutions that have “governed” communities for centuries, have repeatedly locked horns with the state over this contested turf. At the end of May, the government moved […]

An Indian is at the heart of a raging XDR TB scare in the US. ABANTIKA GHOSH describes the battle against the disease in India, its details and contours.

From NSSO data comes a key feature of vegetarianism: states that consume more milk go slow on egg, fish, meat.

For years now, Pakistan has claimed the massacre at Lanjote was carried out by Indian special forces.

Here are the profiles the 21 SF, the Indian Army unit that raided Naga militant camps deep inside Myanmar to inflict ‘significant casualties’ on those who killed 18 soldiers of the 6 Dogra on June 4.

The Centre has ‘postponed’ the bid to be a UNESCO World Heritage City. Why? And what happens now?

Shalini Narayan tells the story of the controversy that this week exploded into a fresh confrontation between the AAP government and LG Najeeb Jung .

The RBI’s perceived lack of enthusiasm this time around may have been because of the overhang of a series of scams during the UPA regime.

Bombay High Court tells state govt to frame rehabilitation scheme for horses and 700 families operating the business.

Erdogan has been a reluctant ally in the campaign against the Islamic State; has been accused of playing a double game in Syria.

Sreenivas Janyala tells the story of the dramatic cash-for-vote allegation in Telangana that has had Chief Ministers N Chandrababu Naidu and K Chandrasekhara Rao at each other’s throats.

Though Pakistan, like India, has linked G-B’s fate to that of the Kashmir issue, it treats the region differently from “Azad” Kashmir.