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The Indian Express explains the tussle between producers and theatre owners that has kept even the likes of superstar Mohanlal waiting outside cinemas.

Maharashtra led all states in farmer suicide numbers in 2015, according to NCRB figures.

NSSO data show increasing use of debt to meet household expenses rather than to create productive assets.

PIO card (Person of Indian Origin) card and OCI cards (Overseas Citizen of India) give different benefits.

Mega funds pumped into the captive breeding of the cuddly and the charismatic is better spent in sustaining natural biodiversity — in China, India, or elsewhere in the world

Myanmar’s brutal crackdown on the Rohingya is fanning an Islamist insurgency that could become a national security nightmare for India and region.

In a year that saw several battles between the Left and the Right, history kept getting caught in the middle.

The MCC, often described as a voluntary “Moral Code of Conduct”, is a set of guidelines issued to parties, candidates and the government to ensure free and fair elections.

In his New Year’s Eve address, Narendra Modi said pregnant women across India would get Rs 6,000 each for hospital stay, vaccination and nutrition.

De-listing of 255 parties by the EC has thrown up data on distribution of India’s minor political outfits and the nature of political entrepreneurship in the country.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s arrest is a flashpoint in the already hostile relations between the Trinamool Congress and BJP. What is the case against him and his party colleague Tapas Pal?

Justice J S Verma’s daughter Shubhra Verma recalls how he regretted his 1995 judgment being twisted.

The Indian Express explains how UPI-based digital payments application, BHIM will work, and the problems it faces.

A day after he was deposed as party president by his son Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam Singh took the war in the SP to the EC of India, staking claim to the ‘cycle’ symbol.

The decision, which aims at eliminating about 90% of all HFC use by 2050, could be the single most important action against climate change

Prime Minister Modi’s demonetisation move faces scrutiny in the Supreme Court. In 1996, a Constitution Bench of the court had upheld the legality of an earlier note-scrap ordered by the government in 1978

It is possible that Trump may eventually not take the United States out of the Paris Agreement.

From a record low of just 17 in 2012, Indian security force fatalities in Kashmir have inched up steadily in Kashmir to 87 this year, the worst since 2008.

Numbers for the two communities show a remarkable similarity.

Results of past elections show that not only has Mayawati’s Dalit vote shrunk, she has found the going difficult without support from other — read upper — castes.

Amazon Echo is an Internet-connected speaker that functions just like the digital assistant on your phone.

How politics around West Pakistan refugees and Rohingya Muslims is deepening existing faultlines in state

The bad loan problem must be tackled. Sooner or later, the economy will pick up, and there will be need for ‘good banks’ with a capacity to lend

Yadavs, Jatavs, upper castes have shown fairly stable political loyalties in recent times, and Muslims have largely gone with the party most likely to defeat BJP. But successive elections have shown that the road to

Today’s demonetisation-induced crash in farm produce may be a prelude to higher prices tomorrow