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The last time Gandhi spoke out against the PM — on his return from a 56-day break in 2015 — the three words, “suit-boot ki sarkar”.

The creation of Bangladesh was the ultimate repudiation of the two-nation theory.

Sushant Singh writes a brief history of the birth of Bangladesh — the revolt of Bengali nationalism against Pakistani repression, midwifed by India.

Nearly 33.70 lakh Muslim women — 12.87% of 2.1 crore Muslim women aged 20-39 — were unmarried in 2011, figures show.

Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has changed a seven-decade practice, ordering madrasas to stay open on Fridays.

The last 10-15 years have seen more frequent and intense fog activity in the region, according to a recent report in the journal Current Science.

Pak Army may find it impossible to retreat from its brutal anti-terror Zarb-e-Azb operation.

Disruptive agitation is indeed a legitimate mode of protest.

A washed-out Parliament session may see one significant bit of business in its last working week.

A case of alleged corruption in the sale of helicopters to the Air Force by AgustaWestland, saw the first high-profile arrest — of former Air Chief S P Tyagi — last week.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently asked the digitally literate to help at least 10 others to initiate their digital payments.

Central to understanding the Narendra Modi government’s ‘notebandi’ is understanding how money works in the economy.

Delhi HC has ruled there’ll be no cap on how much of a book can be photocopied, so long as course demands it. What are the implications for the publishing industry?

Trains have killed 15 elephants in the last 5 months. Realignment of tracks, and other site-specific, scientific remedies can make these magnificent, long-ranging animals a lot safer in the wild.

There are strong reasons — and financial incentives — for using smartphones to pay. However, there are big challenges too.

The government has been aggressively pushing a cashless — or less-cash — economy. But for cashless technologies to work, a strong, uninterrupted Internet is essential.

While no one in New Delhi is under any illusion that Mattis will be another Ash Carter, the India-US relationship can no longer be seen only through the prism of Pakistan.

Former envoy to Pakistan TCA Raghavan explained the many nuances of the bilateral relationship to readers of The Indian Express.

A Jat from Ghakhar Mandi in Pakistan’s Punjab, Bajwa is the third successive Punjabi since 2007 to lead Pakistan Army.

Wiltshire paid for a lamp worth $ 200 “to help Padmanabhan better illuminate his calculations of the darkness of the universe”.

Census 2011 data shows a 98% increase in Tamil Nadu’s migrant population, 77% in Kerala’s; 69% of migrants are women .

Combination drugs or fixed dose combination (FDC) drugs are those with two or more active pharmaceutical ingredients combined in a fixed dose to form a single drug.

The creator of the national anthem and his views on nationalism, “freedom of mind” and opinions “forcibly made alike”.

No provisions of law obliging anyone to sing the National Anthem... our tradition teaches tolerance, our philosophy preaches tolerance, our Constitution practises tolerance, let us not dilute it: SC in 1986.

One line leads to Delhi, the other ends at Patna.