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Lalu brought about a decisive shift of political power in Bihar. But the high rate of crimes and lagging growth under him shadow his legacy.

It’s now been more than 30 years that countries have been getting together to deliberate on a coordinated global response to climate change.

Sinha's legacy is kept alive by his family, which is well-knitted in politics and public life.

Panjab University Protest News: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann earlier said that the state would approach the High Court over the education ministry’s notification, saying it was “unconstitutional”.

Why did the hilly region of Uttar Pradesh want a state of its own? How was this demand finally achieved? In 25 years, how has Uttarakhand performed on various parameters? We explain.

Among nations, New Delhi seems to be paying the steepest price for purchasing Russian oil, in terms of the high US tariffs imposed on it. A trade deal with the US, involving higher purchases of

On the tariffs issue in the US Supreme Court, while all three liberal judges expressed clear signs of scepticism, the big concern for Trump is that three conservatives too have openly expressed some doubts. Here's

US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that no US government official would attend the upcoming G20 Summit in Africa later this month over purported 'human rights abuses.' Here is what to know

Fujian, China’s most advanced aircraft carrier yet, will significantly bolster Beijing’s blue water capabilities

With the Assembly elections underway in the state, this is the eighteenth part of a new series on the chief ministers of Bihar, from Shri Krishna Sinha to Nitish Kumar

Ayni was India’s only full-fledged overseas base, and its location offered India a military foothold in central Asia and leverage over Pakistan. Its presence to project influence in the region dominated by major powers like

While the producers of 'Kaantha' have denied any connection to Bhagavathar, the speculation sheds light on the culture of stardom in Tamil cinema.

Indoor air can actually be even more polluted and hazardous than outdoor air. A research team from BITS Pilani Hyderabad’s MMNE Lab has created India’s first customised Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) scale to measure indoor

The major problem remains that the current nature of academia is resistant to change and blocks visionaries. Until this system is dismantled and replaced with transparent hiring, merit-based funding, and visionary leadership, India will remain

Both the High Court and family court did not deliberate on whether the Lambada community as a whole had become “Hinduised”, and limited the scope of their verdicts to whether the particular marriage had been

While foreign policy analysts have come to expect the unexpected from Trump, this was unusual even within that context. It was, after all, a US President acknowledging China’s great power status, treating it as somewhat

Environmental historian Sunil Amrith spoke to Kaushik Das Gupta about his book The Burning Earth, climate change, and why technological fixes are inadequate in the face of the crisis

The ruling has come after the SC modified its own order in August on stray dogs in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). Here is a look at the previous orders by the apex

In Explained’s weekly column, titled ‘GDP: Graphs, Data, Perspectives’, Udit Misra contextualises recent GST data. Despite large collections for October, 20 states have collected less revenue than in the era of pre-GST taxes.

The therapeutic value of music has long been recognised. Recent studies have shown its efficacy in all kinds of medical settings, including in reducing the amount of anaesthetic needed during surgery

As Nvidia has become perhaps the most important company at the heart of the AI gold rush, the company fears that geopolitical tensions between the US and China could hurt its access to a vast

With the Assembly elections underway in the state, this is the seventeenth part of a new series on the chief ministers of Bihar, from Shri Krishna Sinha to Nitish Kumar

The move comes after a record number of bear sightings and attacks on humans in the country in recent years.

Two years into the conflict in Sudan, over 150,000 people are reportedly dead. Only a few years earlier, the country was at the threshold of democratic change. What derailed its path towards peace?

The statistics ministry has proposed some drastic changes to how it calculates housing inflation for the new CPI series, which will be released starting February.