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At some point, we do expect our political leaders to acknowledge that sexual violence has deep roots in our collective mindset and we need to attack these roots if we're to combat the problem successfully.

True to his image Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav took another U-turn by distancing himself from the Janata Parivar with decision to go it alone in the Bihar assembly polls.

That Bhat has again been elected as the Jamat-e-Islami chief by a majority vote, however, can now formalize the Jamat’s exit from Hurriyat Conference.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) does not have a presence in Bihar and Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad could not have afforded to give the party more than 10+ seats for practical reasons.

When India had 325 million Internet users, approximately 190 million were on mobile Internet, about 130 million on smartphones with just half of that figure in 3G.

The sections of the tax manual that come up for examination differ, the political provenance of the governments differ, but the final results do not differ.

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

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 two Patidar leaders also know by now that a large part of the Patidar show in Ahmedabad was spontaneous than orchestrated, and that they have to do something spectacular to deserve the Patidar crown.

During the campaign, at the very least the CYSS has made its presence felt, forcing the ABVP, NSUI, and other student organisations like the SFI and AIS to raise the pitch in their own campaigns.

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.

India had received deficient rainfall in the last monsoon season as well, overall rains in the four-month monsoon season being 12 per cent below normal.

In the end, the Madden Julian Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole failed to cancel out the warming of the Pacific — a situation the Met Office had predicted as early as in April, giving govts

It would be interesting to see what how the Supreme Court responds to the Commission's view with regard to "rarest of rare" doctrine.

While the number of patients has increased sharply, the symptoms, seemingly paradoxically, have become less virulent.

American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, has announced a ‘master plan’ to colonise Mars by 2040.

Princely states, even the Raj, had recognised the need to correct social disadvantage.

Madhya Pradesh has the second largest population of Patidars after Gujarat with which it shares a boundary.

Political violence has returned to Kerala at a time when the BJP is struggling to grow by making inroads into the CPI (M) vote bank.

Thanks to the cadres of the JD(U), RJD and Congress, the Grand Alliance did get a good crowd at its first joint show featuring all three star speakers - Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and Sonia

Kalburgi had backed Karnataka eminent litterature UR Ananthamurthy, and in a seminar last year on the anti-superstition bill in Bengaluru, he had spoken out against idolatory.

He was a top commander of the Pro-Pakistan militant outfit Hezbollah, and after his arrest and release, joined the separatist Muslim League.