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The govt’s Rs 640 cr action against Nestle comes up before NCDRC today. But the Bombay HC has already cut the ground from under its feet.

How is “indecency” defined, and what law governs behaviour in public?

There is a fair possibility that the UNP and Wickremesinghe-led United National Front for Good Governance will win more seats than the UPFA.

Known as the “father of the Taliban” – a moniker many in Pakistan lay claim to – Gul was the protégé of former Pakistani dictator, General Zia ul-Haq.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed go beyond an assurance and make a concrete announcement on OROP.

It is interesting to note that it was immediately after mandating Trai to make recommendations on the subject, that Congress had unveiled its aforementioned “launch TV channels” campaign.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had wiped out the Congress and BJP in Delhi, winning a staggering 67 of 70 seats – the largest ever margin in Delhi's electoral history.

The GST cannot be implemented without a constitutional amendment as the states do not have the power to impose service tax while the Centre can't levy tax on goods beyond factory gate.

RBI governor Raghuram Rajan left the benchmark rates unchanged at 7.25 per cent on August 4.

On August 15, 2014, the Prime Minister delivered his first speech at Red Fort. A year on, a recap of the headlines he made — and the story that followed

This will be Modi’s maiden visit to an Islamic country — and the first by an Indian PM in 34 years to the UAE, a country in which over 2 million Indians live and work,

The dilemma for the Commerce Minister was to start off his assignment by announcing the abolition of an export incentive in a Ministry whose aim was to push exports.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Anubhav Sharma described the case as a ‘spectacular escape in which prosecution has miserably failed to prove a big conspiracy’.

Nine substantive amendments had been brought through an ordinance and, subsequently, as part of a Bill. The ordinance has been repromulgated thrice.

The I&B Ministry does not, in fact, have the mandate to regulate content on TV channels. The broadcast industry has always insisted on self-regulation.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s decision to suspend 25 Congress MPs wasn’t unprecedented. Does drastic action help run a chaotic House better?

India emerged as the world’s largest beef exporter in 2014, ironically the first year of the BJP-led government.

Voting is now compulsory in Gujarat. What does it mean? What if you disobey?

Reports of victory claims by the Indian Commander at Exercise Indradhanush lack in perspective, and miss some crucial details.

Should a Constitution Bench hear ‘privacy’ challenge to Aadhaar project? SC decides today — but it has had a fairly consistent view on the right to privacy so far.

Language data based on data from 2001, when the Hindi-speaking population was 5.9 per cent of Assam, would suggest there are between 15 lakh and 18 lakh Hindi-speakers in Assam today.

Indian government have voiced concern that the law will be used by China to extend its military influence, but they have been assured by the Government of Maldives that Indian Ocean would remain “a demilitarised

Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan is merely one of the ways that will help it fulfill an existing pledge to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% by 2025 from 2005 levels.

In 2008, the Deep Impact spacecraft captured a similar view of Earth and Moon, but from 31 million miles away, and showing the Moon passing in front of Earth.

The amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, are still in the works — only to be challenged anew by a 14-year-old rape victim.