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The Indus Treaty, MFN status are up for review. But despite often tense relations, India, Pak have built up a portfolio of confidence building measures and pacts that have survived the relationship’s many downs

The demand for a seperate Gorkha state is an issue that since its first origins in the 1970s has dictated politics in the hills.

India is flexible; things have moved fast since Paris; consensus on climate change is stronger than ever

India's announcement that it will ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change on October 2 now makes it evident that the position it had taken during the G-20 meeting earlier this month was a mere

Decentralised industrialisation, entrepreneurship from below have been absent in states that have seen recent unrest among agrarian communities.

Intifada is an Arabic word that means to shake off. It came into popular usage in December 1987 when the Palestinians used it to describe their uprising against the Israeli presence in West Bank and

Two draft laws and the report of an expert committee have recently framed the core principles of India’s future water management policy.

The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to respond. And this time too, the macroeconomic indicators are good.

It is an idea that keeps returning to the table — but India probably can’t consider it without risks, including those of flooding its own cities and provoking even bigger waves of terror.

The story of the Cauvery today is the story of an over-exploited river and its overdeveloped basin.

A day after SC ordered Karnataka to release 6,000 cusecs to TN daily until Sept 27, all parties met in Bengaluru, and the state Cabinet was mulling options on the way ahead.

For centuries, the Cauvery has fostered civilisations, kingdoms have risen on her banks, and her bounty has allowed rulers to build great temples and empires stretching beyond the seas.

At the turn of the present century, irrigation in the Cauvery basin in what is now Karnataka was carried out mainly through diversions of rivers, and tanks.

Edited excerpts from speech to Lok Sabha by Atal Bihari Vajpayee & Manmohan Singh; translated from the Hindi

Baloch leader Brahumdagh Bugti is the latest in a long line of peoples — Tibetans, Sri Lankan Tamils, Pakistanis, Afghans, Bangladeshis, etc. — seeking to make India their home.

As the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi works on an answer to the terror at Uri, a look at how the governments of Manmohan Singh and A B Vajpayee — also faced with surging

Renault is likely to stop offering diesel engines in most of its cars sold in Europe. The move by the French major, according to a September 6 Reuters report, is a result of the increase

This amendment disenfranchised Sehajdhari Sikhs, who had been given the vote by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in December 2011.

In 2015, for every crime registered under the Indian Penal Code, UP Police registered 10 cases under special and local laws.

Hackers have released confidential medical records of top American athletes, alleging they play ‘well, but not fair’ — that is, they misuse an exemption meant for therapeutic use of drugs.

In the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who last month lamented the gradual fading away of humour and wit from parliamentary proceedings under the intimidating glare of the media — this trend, however,

So is Talgo about to revolutionise the Indian railway experience? Not so fast, explains The Indian Express.

The Indian Express explains the issues in the case, and what happens now.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked Rule 12 of the business and transactions rules to seek re-promulgation of the ordinance by the President prior to the clearance by the Cabinet.

In 1977, Sri Lanka switched to malathion, considered less harmful to humans than DDT.