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The cabinet decision came close on the heels of the Supreme Court turning down a Congress plea for an interim order to restrain the governor from swearing in a new government.

KP Oli, after series of barbed comments against India, will embark on six-day visit to India.

When it was created in 1963, it was called Special Services Bureau. The name was changed to Sashatra Seema Bal in 2001 after it was given charge of the Nepal border.

The first Chinese commercial train reached Tehran on Monday.

Nearly five months after the government recommended Sushanta Dattagupta’s removal, President Pranab Mukherjee finally accepted the proposal on Monday. Dattagupta was removed the next day.

The arrest of JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar last week for committing an offence under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, better known as ‘sedition’, has once again brought into focus this highly

After a two-week journey from Yiwu, in Beijing’s industrial heartland in the eastern Zhejiang province, the 32-container train that arrived in Tehran on Monday is the first ever to traverse the fabled silk road between

In 1978, the Establishment raised eyebrows about calling a ‘Pakistani’. However, the Students Union stuck by its guns, Faiz came and was feted by the JNUSU, defying both Indian purists and the Pakistani state.

BJP sources said that party will now have the advantage in the 'divisive politics' going into the the assembly elections.

No longer an irritating nuisance, these tiny creatures have caused millions of deaths worldwide. Closer home as many as 11,26,661 cases of malaria were identified with 287 deaths in the country in 2015.

A seemingly forgotten bunch of meaningless legislation remains alive in the capital. An incomplete list of Delhi’s obsolete laws.

All 76 drugs will now be subject to normal rates of basic duty at 7.5% and countervailing duty at 12.5%. Currently, 15 of the 76 items attract 0% duty, others 5%.

Last week’s ‘vision’ was historic, but it isn’t very clear yet. More precise instrumentation is needed, says Amitabh Sinha.

A number of TMC dissidents joined hands with members of other parties such as Pradeep Ghosh of the BJP and approached the EC last year to float their own party, Nationalist Trinamool Congress.

Many Dalit leaders, including parliamentarians in the BJP had publicly expressed their disapproval of statements by BJP ministers and leaders on Rohith.

With panchayat polls due in March-April, law and order control is a further challenge for CM Nitish Kumar.

It's perhaps time for Twitter to offer a disclaimer for what could be fake accounts on the micro blogging site.

In 1999, then, the Department of Atomic Energy sponsored a project, ‘A critical and comprehensive study of the nature and extent of State responsibility arising out of nuclear incidents/accidents within national boundaries and beyond’.

Punjab and Haryana HC has held that women can’t be debarred from joining the Army Medical Corps on grounds of pregnancy. Indian Express explains the verdict and its significance.

The gravitational wave detected on September 14, 2015, is now known to have been produced by the merger of two black holes about 1.3 billion years ago.

As DMK is still waiting for a positive reply from Captain Vijayakanth’s DMDK, any talks on seat sharing would have to wait until there is a clarity on the larger alliance and potential allies.

Far-reaching reform is underway, such as transparent taxation laws and pared-down-to-minimum clearance processes.

Senior leaders in the CPI(M) have been increasingly vocal about a need for an alliance with the Congress.

India believes that these fighter jets have limited value against terrorists and will be used to sharpen the Pakistani military prowess against India

The Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir ends at a point called NJ9842 and the boundary northwards was never demarcated after that point.