Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code Bill: The law makes registration of live-in relationships mandatory — what succession rights to their children get? What about queer and transgender people?

Kerala alleges that the fiscal policies of the BJP-led government at the Centre are financially stifling the state. Here are the issues it has raised.

There are some positive aspects in the Bill, but also several missed opportunities. On guardianship, the mother continues to be discriminated against, and inter-faith and inter-caste couples could become more vulnerable in some ways.

The Hamas ceasefire plan came on a day US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel, and Saudi Arabia said it would not normalise ties with the Jewish nation unless an independent Palestinian state was recognised. Here are the details.

The speech in Rajya Sabha, his last in Parliament before the Lok Sabha polls, was on the motion of thanks to the President’s address, but was made with the coming elections in mind.

Opposition calls Interim Budget anti-poor intended to 'finish' non-NDA-ruled states

The separate announcements on the fund and defence deep tech are intricately linked, and must be seen together with the government’s other plans for the R&D sector.

This is the first time a consultative process to appoint an Election Commissioner is being used. It was put in place after a Supreme Court verdict and a new law. Here is what the change is, and what prompted it.

The political history of Pakistan is laden with turmoil — it has had three constitutions, three military coups, and out of its 30 prime ministers, none have completed a full five-year term.

RBI Monetary Policy: What is the thinking behind the MPC's decisions? Why has it projected 7% growth in FY25, down from the 7.3% projected by the NSO for FY24?

Modh-Ghanchi caste, one of many Teli sub-castes in Gujarat, who have been historically engaged in activities related to the extraction and trade of edible oils. Here is everything you need to know.

Pop culture icon Taylor Swift has recently threatened to sue a 21-year-old student who tracks her private jets, in an attempt to stifle criticism of her massive carbon footprint.

States have argued that despite reservation, some castes are grossly underrepresented in comparison with the so-called dominant Scheduled Castes. They want to create a separate quota for such castes within the SC quota.

The White Paper cherry picks data to tell the truth about UPA’s failures and the NDA government’s successes without touching upon UPA’s successes or its own failures. Here are the details.

Pakistanis have voted for a new Parliament. But who becomes Prime Minister will be determined ultimately by the Army. That is how it has always been in Pakistan. This is why.

From bad loans to high inflation, a slew of corruption cases to policy paralysis, the paper’s political imperative is clear: to draw the battle-lines in the run-up to the campaign for 2024. Its tone echoes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sharp attack on the…

Over the years, the three gencos signed SPPAs, amending several clauses of the original PPAs. EPGL is currently in the process of negotiating the terms for its fifth SPPA, said a GERC official.

The govt has come out with a white paper on the Indian economy, comparing its performance over 10 years with the UPA decade. It has attacked its predecessor for 'abandoning reforms' and 'policy paralysis'

Monkomb Sambasivan Swaminathan, 98, passed away last year on September 28. Called the ‘Father of the Green Revolution’, he played a major role in the set of changes introduced in farming in the 1960s and ‘70s. Here is all you need to know.

On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that former PM PV Narasimha Rao be conferred with the Bharat Ratna. Notably, just a year before he became the PM in 1991, Rao had thought his political career was almost over. So what happened?

Charan Singh was Uttar Pradesh’s first non-Congress chief minister, and went on to become Prime Minister of India in 1979. Regarded as a ‘champion of peasants’, he is credited with creating a new political class encompassing farming communities in North India.