Various initiatives under NRHM show results, but India still behind target

It has emerged that Facebook struck deals to allow over 60 smartphone makers ‘deep access’ to data on users and their friends, sometimes without their consent. How does it affect you, and what happens now?

Complications during pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries.

The recasting of the old, more China-centric term Asia-Pacific into the Indo-Pacific (with the blessings of the United States) is by itself an indication of how India may now see the upcoming contest between Maldives and Indonesia for a seat at the old horseshoe.

What is the background of Nagaraj, and what did the court say in its verdict?

Through the first increase in repo rate since the NDA came to power four years ago, the Reserve Bank has underlined the upside risk to inflation projections, and reiterated its mandate to check rising prices.

Of those who qualified, 54,653 (17% of the 3,27,575) scored between 118 and 96 marks, which puts them in the 40th percentile range.

While India’s ranking by the Global Burden of Disease team in IHME may appear counter-intuitive, the truth is that incidence alone does not tell India’s full cancer story.

The United States Constitution does not specifically forbid a President pardoning himself, and there has been no clear ruling from the US Supreme Court on this question.

Citizenship is a complicated idea with exclusion at its core. In Assam, which shares a border with Bangladesh and has faced illegal migration for decades, it is a particularly sensitive issue

Between 2000 and 2012, Indian courts passed 1,677 death sentences, according to NCRB data.

Through the literature review, the scientists tried to ascertain whether the motivation for mixed-species socialising was always to benefit from such complementary skills.

What is this dispute that has pitched two state units of the BJP against each other? This comes ahead of the Odisha elections next year, with the ruling BJD having taken up the issue as a major plank.

On March 31, as the deadline for submitting Expressions of Interest ran out, there were no bidders for India’s flag carrier. The government’s terms — including retention of 24% stake — are likely to have been a deterrent.

The report has found that the closer the encounter sites and the homes of the militants killed, the higher the number of subsequent recruitments.

The tunnel will be a game changer, as it will now allow the defence forces to send supplies to Ladakh throughout the year.

In April 2017, the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad directed the Telangana government to not regularise services of contract employees appointed after a certain cut-off date.

CBSE results 2018: In a year when CBSE had decided to do away with spiking of marks, an analyst looks at scoring patterns in three Class XII papers and asks why an exact 95% is once again more frequent than other scores.

From August 2016 to April 2018, 209 militants have been recruited, over 80% more than the 115 killed in encounters.