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While the Syrian conflict has been the major driver of the migration, people have been fleeing war, abuses and poverty in other countries as well.

Key observations made by the High Court while quashing President’s Rule in Uttarakhand

The lesson for smaller parties has been clear: either surrender or be sabotaged by the two Dravidian majors. This is not a new phenomenon.

The government’s initial submission to the Supreme Court was out of sync with the Culture Ministry’s frequent stress on Indian asmita or pride.

The Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System (GIDMaPS) map shows large patches of dry areas in every continent, indicating droughts of varying severity.

To say there is no legal framework under which India can ask for the Kohinoor may not be correct.

The learned Solicitor General needs to read up on the 19th century history of the Sikhs and the British.

Ministry officials state that Haryana, from where the scheme was launched last year, has shown visible improvements in Sex Ratio at Birth.

There is no dearth of expert opinion supporting Maneka Gandhi on criminalising marital rape, but successive governments have chosen the path of least resistance by simply ignoring them.

Last week, both women deserted their long-held affiliations and joined another camp —- the Samajwadi Party.

NIA, which probed the serial bombings that killed at least 37 people on September 8, 2006, had disagreed with the conclusions of the investigations carried out by the Maharashtra ATS and the CBI before it.

Cumulative storage in India’s 91 biggest reservoirs is currently about half of their January levels. Maharashtra has drawn the most water the fastest, going from 30% of full capacity to 14% today.

New Delhi needs to be clear-eyed about just how little the international sanctions regime is actually worth before deciding how to respond.

Pandey is not the only accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case to be rehabilitated. Over the past two years, since the investigation hit a dead end, all the accused in the case

Soon after the June 2009 elections, the Congress and TMC alliance got 30 seats in the municipal polls in Siliguri, the Left only 17.

In Maharashtra, India’s most rapidly urbanising state, Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns report abysmal water supply data and poor water infrastructure.

No, the tiger is not out of the woods. If numbers presented ahead of last week’s global tiger meet in New Delhi showed minor gains due to better counting methods, they also revealed massive losses.

The impetus seems to have come from the BJP government in Haryana, led by Manohar Lal Khattar, giving into the Jats’ agitation and passed a draft bill granting them reservation.

Manoj Singh, general secretary of the VHP’s state unit says the name 'Shimla’ is derived from the Hindu Goddess Shyamala Devi who is an incarnation of Kali.

The 91 large reservoirs currently hold only about 35.8 billion cubic metres (bcm) of water, that is, about 23 per cent of their total live capacity of 157.799 bcm.

Many believe the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor can change Pakistan’s destiny — a rosy future that its Army and government have accused India of trying to wreck. What is the economic dream about?

The temple fireworks display in Kerala that killed over 100 went ahead without permission, and with the blessings of politicians.

Seven years and six elections later, this became the seed the 'Siliguri Model', the foundation on which the unlikely alliance between the Left and Congress has been forged.

Rajya Sabha MP Anil Sahni's LTC episode has put spokes in Nitish Kumar's national wheels

Babasaheb Ambedkar rejected Hinduism, but the Sangh still wants to embrace him. Indeed, no party can ignore the ideals he fought for.