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On a positive note, the Ind-Ra report notes that the low level of 2014-15 is expected to be the bottom and the economy is expected to turn around in another two years.

Draft encryption policy would be placed in public domain again after reworking some of the “expressions” that were giving rise to “misgivings”.

Leaders have publicly said that this is a domestic dispute that Somnath Bharti must get himself out of.

The draft National Encryption Policy was almost a what-were-you-thinking moment for most Internet users who struggled to comprehend what these rules meant for them and their virtual lives.

Sources said that CM Anandiben Patel has already given a clear message even to those Patidar leaders who complained of police atrocities that if somebody takes the law into his own hands, the law will

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.

Rahul Gandhi has spoken in public three times in the last three days. And every time his focus has been the same: an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

From the anti-terrorist squads in Maharashtra and Rajasthan to the NIA to the Madhya Pradesh Police, the investigators were certain about the links of the alleged killers but not their motive.

The Chakmas and Hajongs had fled from erstwhile East Pakistan due to persecution in the early 1960s.

Since the late 1980s, as signs of political liberalisation were visible, the 'denial of citizenship' to the Madhesis and the unequal treatment meted out to them at the policy-making level and in state representation became

Caste-based reservations have been resisted bitterly by the RSS in the past, as they acknowledge social discrimination as coded into the Indian social system and it allows for more than one identity to flower.

There was not much of a hitch in the seat sharing as it was natural for the JD (U) to give tickets to most of its sitting MLAs.

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.

Rahul Gandhi was so engrossed in attacking Modi's "suit boot ki sarkar" that he seemed to have forgotten about Bihar and his allies in the Grand Allianc

While the rupee gained 50 paise against the dollar to hit 65.93, the benchmark Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange was up over 1.9 per cent or 500 points.

Inflation would climb only if some of the excess capital in the global markets can be yoked with labour to produce goods and services that people would buy.

The Sri Lankan government has not yet committed itself to the OISL recommendations, but its response, appended to the report, does not argue against them either.

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

The organisation has been hit by controversies ever since its activists were arrested in several bomb blast cases.

Constitutional experts say, Koirala will automatically cease to be a Prime Minister on September 27 if there is no last minute rescheduling or postponement of the constitution’s promulgation scheduled for Sunday.