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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.

The scarcity, and the agrarian crisis emerging from consecutive drought years actually has its epicentre in three districts of the Marathwada region -- Latur, Osmanabad and Beed.

The truth behind Basit’s comments is depressing: Pakistan’s army has staged what can only be described as a foreign policy coup, rejecting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s efforts to seek normalisation with India.

Indian Express explains Bihar’s tough new prohibition law that makes all drinking illegal — Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s wager on losing Rs 4,000 crore in revenues to win a much bigger prize.

What is the feud that is tearing the first family of the Namdharis apart? Is the killing linked to the vast properties the sect owns, an attempt by a “third party” to ensure the family

To escape criminal culpability, the firm must explain how the flyover came down on its own — without any forces of nature coming into play.

PM Modi has backed simultaneous national, state and local body elections. Indian Express summarises the advantages and challenges of the proposal.

With Sharad Yadav completing three terms - the maximum permitted by JD (U)'s constitution - there was no name other than Nitish Kumar.

“Police personnel who should have been completing inquest and postmortem of bodies will be guarding the PM and other VIPs today.”

That the shackles came off on Gudi Padwa day, the Maharashtrian New Year, speaks eloquently of the rich Maharashtrian tradition of embracing the new and shedding the old on their path to peace and progress.

American officials say that this visit is at the personal invitation of Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar during his visit to the United States last December.

Prime Minister Modi, though, needs to realise that the solution to India’s Pakistan conundrum isn’t just doing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh better than Manmohan Singh did.

A large number of para-military forces, close to 40 companies, were deployed in addition to the state police battalions and local police station personnel for the first phase.

BJP's soft stance towards Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has cost the party its allies in Tamil Nadu.

The framework finalised by the Indian government identified nearly 22 parameters under five major heads, several of which are similar to those employed globally such as excellence in teaching, learning and research.

According to sources in the university, if the university looses its minority character, it will have to implement the national reservation policy in admissions. i.e. it will have have to reserve 50 per cent seats

The Cheraman mosque is a symbol of thriving commerce between India and the Arab world and an emblem of religious harmony.

No one had a clue that Nitish Kumar would announce a ban on IMFL within just five days of announcing the ban on country-made liquor.