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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.

It is a convenient whipping boy, even though it consumes less water on a per-day basis than other crops, and even less for every unit weight of biomass produced.

UPI is a unique payment solution as the recipient is now empowered to initiate the payment request from a smartphone without using credit or debit card and internet banking.

Several members in the political secretariat of the Aam Aadmi Party government claim to have flagged the issue and pointed out that the disgruntled car-owner could drift away from the party.

Canadian Sikhs have for long been demanding a formal apology in the Canadian Parliament for Komagata Maru incident.

Indian Express explains the key issues around the IMD’s monsoon forecast.

The LSA would help Indian armed forces, especially its navy, to operate far from subcontinental shores at a moment when New Delhi has to secure its widely dispersed interests in the Indian Ocean and beyond.

The defence action plan is an important component of the India-Maldives bilateral relationship and the shared strategic and security interests of the two countries in the Indian Ocean region.

Shayara Banu’s case has seen the government being forced to dust off a year-old report that recommended a ban on the practice.

Even as a formal notification is awaited within the next few days, the “all-inclusive” definition of a “Jharkhandi” could well lead to another round of debates and a political war of words.

Although the RBI did some work on a potential new law, the move to review FERA was not pursued for a while, as the P V Narasimha Rao-led government went out of office in 1996.

It pops up in the news every now and then, and people often think of it as a decree, instruction or order — or even something akin to a court farmaan.

The sometimes insane social premium on entering a medical college has fueled demand to such impossible extent that its yawning gap with the supply of medical seats can probably never be fulfilled.