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Recent Budgets have been cautious, and the one Arun Jaitley presented this week probably represents the complete disappearance of risk-taking.

What is the EPF, and why does the salaried class consider it a reliable social security net? Why does the government want to take it out of the EEE category and make it EET? What

The BJP had swept the 2014 general elections on the promise of radical change, which was widely expected to include an approach to running the economy that was starkly different from the outgoing UPA’s.

There is little money available to buy new weapons, and even among that, that money is already committed to equipment under supply.

In the last 3 months, at least 7 infants have had to be taken to hospital after being subjected to homespun remedies, including branding by hot iron nails or glass bangles by traditional healers.

A brokered convention is extremely rare, and according to a post on the popular American political web site realclearpolitics.com, some 85% of Americans were not even born the last time either party had one.

A US court has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $ 72 million in damages for an ovarian cancer death linked to the use of its baby powder. It’s a product widely used in India

India’s cultural history is shot through with innumerable narratives, and they often don’t agree.

Sinha played a major role not just in preventing Goalpara district from being clubbed with East Pakistan during Partition, but also from the district being included in West Bengal.

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu put unprecedented emphasis on this term in his rail budget speech, and also in the philosophy of the budget. What does it mean?

On March 1, known as Super Tuesday, primaries or caucuses will be held in about a dozen states, and they could be turning points in both parties.

Three years after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar Jail, his execution continues to fuel powerful debates, protests, charges of ‘sedition’, and accusations of being ‘anti-national’.

Two of the five students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, have since surrendered to the police.

Indian Express explains the agitation for a ‘C’ category state in Cooch Behar that claimed three lives this week.

As debates on ‘sedition’ dominate Parliament and public spaces, a wrap of how India has viewed nationalism — and ‘anti-nationals’ — over nearly seven decades of its existence as a nation.

There is a reason behind the sudden momentum for the Greater Cooch Behar movement and the delayed response of the West Bengal state police and the railway administration in dealing with the blockade.

A payment app called Swish could ensure the currency note is completely dead in the country by 2025, and with it, many hope, a lot of crime too.

The aromatic, long-grain basmati, the so-called “scented pearl” and “queen of all rice”, is in a legal tangle.

In the current government, some of the Rs 100 crore schemes have been reported to have been introduced at the initiative of the PMO.

PM Modi's positive gesture, inviting both Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh for tea to break the stalemate in the Rajya Sabha over GST was not followed up by BJP or the government

Roma peoples live in some 30 countries across West Asia, Europe, America and Australia. The largest Roma community is in Turkey — around 2.75 million.

Troops have been patrolling Haryana towns as the Jat protest rages. Indian Express explains the circumstances in which the Army enters civilian law-and-order situations.

Agriculture doesn’t pay that much, land is no longer the source of power it once was, and the community has failed to keep up with a changing India.

Indian Express analyses the background and circumstances of the agitation for reservation that has Haryana on the boil.

The Jat power quotient in Haryana cannot be ignored by any political party.