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BharatQR code, an interoperable payment acceptance solution, was launched on Monday to quicken the move towards a less-cash economy at an ‘insignificant’ cost. The Indian Express explains what it is, and how it will work.

Graduate of Karachi’s jihad seminary, an aide of Osama bin Laden and confidant of Mullah Omar, Akhtar was accused in a coup bid and attempt on Benazir’s life, but escaped repeatedly — until this weekend.

The last of the conspirators, bombmaker Inderjit Singh Reyat, walked free on February 16, with no criminal responsibility fixed for what a Canadian judge called ‘the largest mass murder’ in the country’s history.

The possible motive, Verma said, was to nip Mulayam’s political career in the bud. “Balram Singh established thhe us waqt, jabki yeh [Mulayam] ubhar rahey thhe.

This is how Jansatta, Hindi daily of The Indian Express Group, reported the incident in its edition of March 8, 1984.

Pakistan’s new Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa is reported to have asked his officers to read a book on civil-military relations in India.

An editor has been arrested for violating a 2010 election law on publishing exit poll results while elections are still on. The Indian Express explains the background and reasons for the curbs.

In terms of deaths per lakh population, India is now choking at a rate faster than China’s. At the turn of the millennium, they levelled at 87-88 deaths per lakh. In 2015, the number is

A ‘flock’ of 88 will get to work to map every inch of the planet in super high resolution, creating images of limitless potential.

ISRO's PSLV-C37 will inject into orbit 104 satellites from 7 countries, nearly 3 times the highest number flown by a single mission currently.

The Indian Express unpacks 2016 data on IED attacks, casualties and targets compiled by the National Bomb Data Centre.

Tamil Nadu crisis: A conviction by the SC will not only disqualify Sasikala from being CM, it will also debar her from contesting polls for 6 years from the date of release from prison.

Sharp words in the J&K House by CM Mehbooba Mufti underscore tensions between the PDP, BJP over special status for state. Article 370 and other aspects of special status have been challenged in 6 important

The Indian Express explains organisational elections in Cong — process, history and how current situation was reached.

What it could have done was to actively change the regulatory environment to one that allowed for more PoS machines, computation, etc.

Ila Patnaik described several aspects of demonetisation to readers of The Indian Express at the second edition of Express Explained in Mumbai recently.

An interesting finding was that one of the major causes of the failure of mergers was the handling of people working in many of these firms.

Dara Shukoh is said to have been a philosopher, a tolerant and pluralist prince, who found common threads in Islam and Hinduism.

Till the mid-1980s, defence pensions were counted as part of the defence budget.

This time, Kashmir has received more than162.2 mm or 16.2 cm of snowfall in January alone.

The Indian Express reported last week that 16 of the independent directors appointed to central public sector enterprises by the government were BJP members.

Over the past 26 days, students at the Kerala Law Academy have been demanding the ouster of Principal Lakshmi Nair, also a celebrity chef, accusing her of discrimination.

Leaked memos suggest that the Trump administration may now clamp down on work visa programmes, sparking fears that the move could adversely affect the Indian technology sector.

But it does tell us something significant about the pressures the country is facing.

The BJP, on its part, has deployed its second-rung ministers and leaders to “expose” alleged corruption in BMC, the cash-rich civic body that the Sena has ruled for 19 years.