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.

Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao shared a frosty relationship with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. After he passed away, his body wasn’t allowed inside the Congress headquarters for ordinary workers to pay their respects.

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Among other things, it extends the rule of monogamy to the Muslim community. One of the conditions for solemnising a marriage is that “neither party has a spouse living at the time of the marriage”.

Along with recognising the contribution of the recipient, the Padma and Bharat Ratna awards have always been tools for political messaging — and the Narendra Modi government has been particularly astute in making its choices.

As results continue to trickle in, independent candidates loyal to the jailed Imran Khan still lead against all odds. But who will form the government?