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Hidma, the elusive CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member, was said to have been behind 26 of the deadliest Naxal attacks, including the Dantewada...


The ill-fated Shravan Gupta, 23, died in May 2013 when he was headed to Maihar but boarded a wrong train and attempted to alight it while it was in...

What should have been a time of fulfilment and spiritual serenity turned, in a matter of minutes, into a scene of unimaginable devastation. Saudi...


The verdict, delivered by the International Crimes Tribunal after its provisions were controversially amended by the current dispensation, has...


The major elements of the code include the use of electric vehicles in place of conventional ones, prioritising digital campaigning, the use of...


While the policy leaves out, inexplicably and controversially, millions of women working in the informal sector—often with fewer facilities, such as...


When the state recorded a high voter turnout, many analysts rushed to conclude that the figure reflected a deep anti-incumbency mood. However, the...


The horrific images of mangled vehicles and terrified bystanders have rekindled painful memories of an era when serial blasts were grimly routine.


The government’s explanation is that the law will come into force only after the next census and the subsequent delimitation of constituencies.


Recent Parliament sittings have been stormy, marked by disruptions and adjournments, with the Opposition benches charging the government with failing...


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, facing growing domestic discontent and criticism over his own human rights record, is adept at using...


The Left’s convincing victory can be attributed to the fact that it fought on a united platform, unlike in the previous election. The victory of the...


The first pertains to about 40 acres of prime land in Mundhwa, off the posh Koregaon Park, earmarked for the use of the Scheduled Caste Mahar...


A Bench comprising Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan has issued notices to the Centre and the states, opening a much-needed debate on how to...


The term “emergency level” is no exaggeration because inequality, in essence, has a severe negative impact socially, economically, politically and...


This is not to say other women’s sports in India have lagged behind. In fact, since the glory days of PT Usha in athletics in the 1980s, our...


Even IIT-Kanpur, with whom the Delhi government collaborated on the experiment, stated that cloud seeding cannot be a long-term answer to Delhi’s...


A small town in Andhra Pradesh, Kasibugga, is the latest to witness one, in which at least nine pilgrims, eight women and a teen, died tragically.


As is known by now, Arya took 17 children and two adult hostages in a studio in Powai, a posh suburb of Mumbai, this Thursday and threatened them harm...


Videos of vehicles tipping the mixed trash back in front of houses may send out the message effectively, but the next act in this play is bound to put...


The court is not rewriting the law; it is exposing a glaring void in it. Under the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS), the police must file a chargesheet...

The other states and Union Territories have been found wanting, forcing the apex court to summon their chief secretaries on November 3 to explain...

The process, which involves verification and revalidation of voters’ credentials, has already begun in these states.

India plans to mandate labelling of AI-generated content to curb misinformation and protect public trust. The proposal, part of IT Rules amendments,...

In what was likely their final match in Australia, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli turned a dead rubber into a memorable spectacle at the SCG. Chasing...

Last month, after an inexplicable delay of seven years, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) released the draft zonal master plan for the ESZ,...

On a previous occasion, while addressing a rally in Odisha, he famously told the crowd that he preferred to spend time with the people of Odisha...

Understandably, the ACB have decided to boycott next month’s tri-nation T20 tournament in Pakistan, which also includes Sri Lanka. In a desperate...

Far from presenting a united front against the ruling National Democratic Alliance of the BJP and JD(U), the Opposition has splintered into warring...

Stating that the law cannot be ‘allowed to be made a tool of harassment of innocent persons’, a bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra...

Rajoelina’s long record has, if anything, been reckless and self-serving, starting with his dismissal as mayor of the national capital, Antananarivo.

What the scientists at Western Sydney University have found is that trees in the exhausted forests are dying at a higher rate due to heat, releasing...

There is little doubt that Maduro, whose regime has presided over political repression and economic collapse, lacks both the moral and, perhaps, even...

An indication of the low ebb was seen in the second and final Test at New Delhi in which their batsmen, in the follow-on, managed to drag the match...

Jose Jeri, head of Peru’s unicameral legislature, who was sworn in as the nation’s interim President, has become the country’s seventh head of...

During Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s Delhi visit, women journalists were excluded from his press conference, reflecting the...

France faces deepening political paralysis as PM Sebastien Lecornu resigns after his cabinet collapses just 27 days post-formation. Macron’s...

The press conference took place after a bilateral meeting between Muttaqi and India’s Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar.

Underscoring the gravity of the crisis, on October 6, Sebastien Lecornu, a confidant of President Macron and former defence minister, resigned as...

At the root of the problem is the phenomenon of unearned income—a hard-working labourer in a farm or factory eking out a paltry Rs 500 a day,...

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai won the admiration of the nation not merely by the position he holds but by the calm dignity with which he responded...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded the prize for explaining the mechanism by which specialist cells help weed out...

The conservative hardliner of more than three decades standing on Saturday narrowly defeated the minister of agriculture and a political scion in the...

This ideal, however, has faced a starkly modern challenge: the rise of ‘bulldozer justice’. In states like Uttar Pradesh, governments have...

Dr GG, or GG-sahab, as he was fondly called by contemporaries and younger generations, lived an enviable life with meaningful work, unwavering faith...

The Gujarat High Court ruled that a single adverse remark or question on a judge’s integrity can justify compulsory retirement, even without a...

Whatever be the rights and wrongs of the Indian cricket establishment cold-shouldering Pakistan, there is no denying the fact that India recording...

At least 90 people have been recorded dead, with a few deaths occurring over the weekend; nearly 30 lakh acres of farmland stand damaged, with large...

It is difficult not to feel shock and sorrow at the avoidable loss of 39 lives in the ghastly stampede that swept through a rally of Tamil film...

The denial of climate change is certainly not new, given that climate deniers were hard at work 30-40 years ago when the impacts of climate change...
