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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.

Now Banerjee is planning a massive rally at Singur, where once again she'll share the dais with not just politicians but also artists and members of civil society, who had played an essential role in

A report that found transgenic mustard safe for humans, animals and the environment is currently up for public comment. The Indian Express explains the implications of the development, and what to expect now

AP complains that the bifurcation of the state in June 2014 left the successor Andhra at a major disadvantage as its revenue-generating capital, Hyderabad, went to Telangana.

In the context of the Supreme Court order this week and the protests that have followed, Johnson TA explains the decades old disagreement between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the sharing of Cauvery waters.

Gawker.com, which frequently flew dangerously close to the Sun, was shuttered last month — the denouement to a tale of breached privacy and a billionnaire’s wrath.

At a time of extraordinary churn on campuses from Hyderabad to Pune, Kolkata to Delhi, a look at the student elections’ map through some top universities.