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On Sunday, members of Andhra’s Kapu community resorted to violence while seeking quota benefits, only to call off the protest the very next day.

Political parties in Uttar Pradesh are angry over a new set of guidelines for receiving the governor during the annual joint sitting of the state legislature. What are these new rules and will the President

This time, in Australia, it was the Australians at the receiving end

After the overwhelming success in Bihar for the grand alliance, leaders like Sharad Yadav and Nitish Kumar are eyeing a national role by extending it to other states.

The Kapus aligned with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ahead of the 2014 general elections after N Chandrababu Naidu promised to restore their status as BCs which had existed till 1960.

Twenty-something Neha Kirpal, a postgraduate in marketing creative industries, had famously written its business blueprint on an air sickness bag in an airplane.

The party’s decision to ally with BJP was an unpopular move in the valley – an acknowledgement for the first time came from the party president Mehbooba Mufti as well.

The Iowa caucuses kickstart the US presidential nomination process today. Here’s why voters in a small rural state matters in the race to the White House

On January 28, the President returned the Gujarat Control of Terrorism & Organised Crime Bill, 2015, while seeking clarifications on some provisions.

Supreme Court rulings and guidelines issued by the Army HQ on what is permissible under AFSPA, 1958, remain largely on paper.

This is the first sign of Centre-state confrontation, which in turn, would be taken as another political opportunity by JD (U) to showcase as a Nitish-Modi clash.

In coming days, the region will find itself amidst many saviours - opposition parties trying to project failure of the state government while ruling party claiming to have offered many sops eliminating the hardships of

But what people in Assam have not forgotten are the tall promises that the present prime minister had made for the state during the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

India is home to 60 per cent of the world’s leprosy-affected and with Anti-Leprosy Day coming up on January 30, the Centre has vowed to redouble its efforts to find out the “hidden cases”. Hidden

SC, ST, Minority, Safai Karmchari, OBC, Women and Human Rights Commissions’ data tell the story of discrimination.

An explanation of how a highly-valued horticultural species does not need anti-felling laws but protection from sweeping changes in land use.

The saga of the appointment in the Lokayukta is a lesson in how not to appoint a Lokayukta. The appointment process had been controversial since 2012 and eventually reached the Supreme Court in 2014.

Opposition leaders issued their usual Facebook statements and accusations against each other with an eye on the Assembly elections.

The CBI today sought permission from the Maharashtra governor to prosecute former Congress chief minister, Ashok Chavan, in the Adarsh housing society scam.

However, Pakistan needs no evidence from India — on Pathankot or any other terror attack — to arrest the JeM chief and lock him away for a minimum of six months and a maximum of

New SC/ST Act now in effect, RITIKA CHOPRA examines how it is stricter than the earlier law

What’s tumbling out of the Kerala Cabinet — a con couple, salacious phone calls and a scam that’s got CM Chandy and many of his ministers in trouble.

Singh himself says that a diary containing the details of numerous encounters is now in the possession of the CBI. "If they ask me about these cases I can give them precise details of each

Bhattarai began his politics parallel to his student life, first in Chandigarh and then at JNU in the decade between the early 70s and the early 80s, as a human rights activist.

Several women activists, a large number of them housewives and students led by the Bhumata Ranragini Brigade were detained at Supa, 70 km from the Shani Shingnapur temple.