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Garbage dumped here is often mixed waste – with paper, plastic containers, bottles, cans and at times electronic goods.

The Fleet Review is a ceremonial and stately inspection of the naval warships by the President.

The reason the judges had to enter the cricket field was that the BCCI had failed to convincingly deal with the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal.

On Friday, the country’s biotechnology regulator deferred a decision on allowing commercial cultivation of Mustard DMH-11, a transgenic crop developed by Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants at Delhi University.

A UN panel has held that the WikiLeaks founder had been “arbitrarily detained” by the UK since 2010. A look at the ruling and the politics around it.

On Wednesday, CBI arrested suspended UP chief engineer Yadav Singh on corruption charges. Indian Express traces his career from a junior engineer to a string of promotions to CBI custody.

Most airbases have boundary walls but not every yard of these is monitored 24×7. Sentry posts are 300 to 400 metres apart. Electronic surveillance has come into in vogue but is still not employed across

The karta can take decisions about the expenditure and alienation of property even without the consent of the rest of the family, and can enter into contracts, compromises and take loans on behalf of the

When the BJP came to power in 2014, PM Modi believed that MGNREGA was the wrong way to utilise funds for the poor.

The Adarsh Commission report which was partially accepted by the government in December 2014, has indicted several top bureaucrats, politicians and defense persons.

In the speech, Modi said that “lies were being spread in the name of Dalits” and that there was an orchestrated campaign “to instigate the Dalits.

In July 1991, the RBI pledged 46.91 tonnes of gold with the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan to raise $400 million but the government was quick to repurchase it months later as

Last week, Canadian authorities released Inderjeet Singh Reyat, only convict in the Kanishka bombing case of 1985. Man Aman Singh Chhina goes back to the tragedy and the trial.

On Monday, Maneka Gandhi said sex determination during pregnancy must be made compulsory, a statement she later said was only an “alternative view”.

Gynecologists The Indian Express spoke to said that seeing how over-crowded government hospital OPDs already were, this “idea”, seemed like a Utopian concept.

The question is why should it make headlines at all? Are these not basic facilities every city should provide to its citizens?

When the BJP came to power in 2014, PM Modi believed that MGNREGA was the wrong way to utilise funds for the poor

The Seventies and Eighties saw the en-masse sackings of state governments, particularly by the troubled Indira Gandhi regime, followed by others in retaliation.

Since 2009, former Maharashtra deputy CM and PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal has faced charges in award of contracts. Now comes the first arrest, of his nephew Sameer Bhujbal.

Benoit Violier, 44, chef at Switzerland’s Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville , killed himself on Sunday, hours ahead of the release of the Michelin guide’s new star ratings.

The Gujarat government under Modi supported the NFSA just before the Lok Sabha elections, and when the government changed at the centre, it sought an extension of the deadline to implement it.

With the BSP not in picture as it does not contest bypolls, it is an opportunity for the BJP to poach its Dalit vote.

Alteration of the human genome to keep diseases and death at bay has in many ways been the Holy Grail of molecular biology.

Back of the envelope calculations by those for the alliance shows that if the Congress and CPI M unite, there would be an 80 per cent chance of winning and if they fight alone, the

Striking similarities aside, the mithun is far removed from a cow.