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An old question — how, and from whom, to recover losses caused by violent protesters — is back. Indian Express lays down key issues and the backstory.

Information such as which specific social groups are most likely to go where on their bikes is relevant to some arguments in current Indian privacy debates.

Mumbai’s trains and their commuters have long been romanticised which gloss over the defeated, dejected faces of the millions on board who face everyday dangers that range from suffocation to ripped kurtas, sexual assault to

Former Foreign Secretary and strategic affairs expert Shyam Saran explained to readers of The Indian Express the ways in which China thinks, its motivations, and the changing contours of its ties with Pakistan.

It’s been a month since Indian and Chinese soldiers disengaged at Doklam, ending a long and tense border standoff between the Asian giants. What led to the Doklam crisis? What were the Chinese thinking —

Magnitude is derived from a formula involving a logarithm, which makes the scale exponential rather than linear.

With the probe in the case going nowhere, police say they want to pursue a new line of investigation. The Indian Express explains what it is.

Express Economic History Series: 40 months into the government’s term, a new PMEAC has been announced, headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, to advise the Prime Minister at a time of increasing concern over

Between May 1 and May 12, 14 states were reviewed, including India, on May 4. Then Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi led the Indian delegation, which comprised officials from the Ministries of External Affairs, Home, Women

Unlike Father Tom Uzhunnalil, all that some priests are looking for is money, and perhaps escape from the law in India. The Indian Express explains.

VS Krishnan answered questions on GST from readers of The Indian Express. A selection of questions and answers were published in these columns. This is the concluding set.

The Indian Express summarises the contradictory findings of multiple surveys, and how they are impeding the fight against drugs in the state

According to the study, “local military factors” at the LoC/IB are the most frequent cause of ceasefire violations.

In the early part of the last decade, private banks that were licensed in 1994 started to expand their networks, giving a big push to ATMs.

Two measurements done by India a century apart, then a later one by China with conflicting findings; Nepal prepares for solo mission of ‘national pride’

As Karnataka police investigate if Gauri Lankesh murder has any connection to three previous murders, The Indian Express explains the science behind the study of bullets fired, cartridges left behind, and wounds

In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that instant triple talaq illegal, the question has been so frequently discussed, in fact, that it would appear as if Muslim law is the only such personal

Roy had abdicated his title as Raja of the Chakma circle in the Chittagong Hill Tracts after the 1971 Bangladesh war, and left the new country for Pakistan, which he made his home for the

Following Centre’s decision to grant citizenship to Chakma and Hajong refugees settled in Northeast, Samudra Gupta Kashyap looks at both sides of the debate, when and how the refugees arrived from Bangladesh, what has happened

In the GST regime, no exemption is specified for rental income chargeable from an educational institute, including those affiliated to NSDC and providing vocational courses under the Skill India Mission.

BJP president Amit Shah on Monday appeared as a defence witness in the Naroda Gam case, one of two in which former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani is accused. What is this case, and what is

‘We now know that it was mathematicians in India in 200-400 CE who planted the seed of the idea that’d become so fundamental to modern world’

In Pakistan, Sharif has survived political setbacks through his mastery and manipulation of pervasive kinship and patronage networks that define the country’s politics.

Some remarkable similarities exist between the current economic situation and the one that prevailed in the years when the first NDA government under Vajpayee was in power. What stand out more today, however, are the

Global oil prices are half 2014 levels, the rupee has been largely neutral against the dollar, but the prices of petrol and diesel — which change ‘dynamically’ on a daily basis — continue to be