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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.

The temperature in the last three days has been significantly higher than normal in most parts of the country but especially so in north, west and central India.

Jayalalithaa will contest from R K Nagar constituency, north of Chennai city. She won the by-poll from here last June with a margin of 1.5 lakh votes.

The ideological differences between the two parts of the state means that both PDP and BJP will try to please their vote banks which could create some differences in governance.

Social perceptions towards women are rooted in the established economic and cultural structures of the time in which they were formed.

In 2012, the union government had imposed a one per cent excise duty which it was forced to rollback after jewelers protested.

The take-away from the DefExpo was limited.

The disaster comes as a boon for the BJP in terms of raw politics.

The crisis couldn’t have come at a worse time, given the state of the economy, the Zika outbreak, and the looming Olympics. But Rousseff has been firm on not resigning.

Because this time, it’s only rural producers, not urban consumers, who are feeling the heat

The biggest challenge comes from policing, with amended law laying stringent provisions making most offences non-bailable. This means that one wouldn't get bail from police stations from drinking offences.

The fourth Nuclear Security Summit being held in Washington DC from today will be attended by the leaders of more than 50 countries, including PM Modi.

The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission or FSLRC has suggested a prudent way out for any government to support any sector — setting aside funds in the Budget, and paying banks for subsidising these.

The idea is to bring about qualitative improvement in the standards of education — currently India has virtually no representation in international rankings of educational institutions.

What are the implications of the govt’s move on a level playing field on prices? Are you likely to start going back to physical stores?

Today is the last time some 19,000 permit-holders in Rajasthan will be able to obtain their daily fix — legally, at least. Indian Express answers key questions about the drug and its habit.

Banning women from entering a temple or any religious place citing a reason that they menstruate, is wrong.

The NSS focus is on enforcing nuclear security in the non-military domain by elevating concerns about fissile material falling into the wrong hands at a head-of-state level.

Creation of a new state would require a two-thirds majority in both the Legislative Assembly and the Council.

The CAG estimated the loss to the nation at Rs 1.86 lakh crore, and the Supreme Court declared all coal block allocations since 1993 illegal.

A waxwork of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be unveiled at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in London next month.

According to sources, Sudheeran cleverly included names of local heavyweights belonging to the same faction as probables in some of the seats of sitting MLAs, surprising Chandy and Chennithala.

When people start sharing memes blaming an actress for something she has no role in, or start abusing a female police officer for just doing her job, it deserves to be condemned.