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India’s resources in Yemen are depleted as it does not have an embassy there any longer.

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.

The acknowledgement of global concerns which are impacting India calmed the BSE Sensex, which had closed below the 25,000-mark for the first time in 15 months, losing 308 points on Monday.

There is considerable surprise in the party over the young Rahul Gandhi’s reluctance to take over the top job.

Those close to Rahul Gandhi say his ascension is not too far away. According to one leader, it is a "matter of months."

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.

The FTII student body, on its part, had planned a hunger strike as the last measure when all other tactics failed.

The census put the total leopard population of the country at 12,000-14,-000. It did not, however, account for 12,000-14,000 leopards in the country. Neither did it survey the entire country.

On May 26, 2014 when the Narendra Modi government took the oath of office, the Sensex closed at 24,716 and the markets are now just marginally above those levels.

What India’s policy makers need is guidance and information on how more successful countries have managed to do so.

The iron first approach of the government to deal with any kind of protest in the valley is symptomatic of a dictatorial approach by an elected 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

The tradition belongs to all of India. Do not communalise it

Sources in the Janata Parivar said it was a known fact that Mulayam did not have any mass base in Bihar. Therefore, they said, they were not worried about any prospect of a loss of

The power of one image has once again proved that there is still hope.

Prices of goods in the wholesale market including those imported from abroad principally crude, were also rising in goose step.

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

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.