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?

It isn’t as if PML-N and PPP would come together for the first time to form a coalition government in the Centre. The two parties have done so back in 2008 and 2022. Here is a look at the circumstances that brought PML-N and PPP together previously.

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In 2019, the Supreme Court effectively closed the window, especially for trial courts, to look at the prosecution’s case critically while granting bail in UAPA cases. Courts have, however, given bail in some cases. Here is a look at them.

ASEAN has published its long-awaited artificial intelligence (AI) governance and ethics guidelines that map out a voluntary and light-touch vision of how national governments can constrain the worst aspects of this new technology yet profit economically from…

Nazool land is primarily owned by the state. But it can be allotted to any entity on lease for a fixed period.

Why does Israel want to invade Rafah, which currently has more than one million Palestinians, and what is its significance? How have countries in the region reacted to the plan?

A new government in Delhi in May will have to take a long and hard look if it should continue with the doctrine of indifference or reopen channels of communication with the GHQ in Rawalpindi.

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Pakistan elections: No bloc is in the position to form the government and the high number of independents has created an unprecedented situation. What options do the independents have? Why is the provision of reserved seats significant here?

His land reform laws created a new socially and politically empowered middle peasantry in northern India that also saw its economic fortunes rise with the Green Revolution.