Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison concurrently in two terror-financing cases.

The fall in IIP comes just a day after the Finance Minister quoted IIP data to argue the emergence of 'green shoots' in the Indian economy.

WHO has named the disease caused by the novel coronavirus as COVID-19.

Among elephant deaths caused in conflict with humans, electrocution is the primary cause, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the deaths (333 out of 510).

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Following changes notified by the government, medical devices will be regulated on the same lines as drugs. What devices are covered, what has changed, and why was this move felt necessary?

The World Golf Group has unveiled its plan for a new global tour which has some players curious but the PGA and European Tours miffed. Here’s the lowdown.

The protestors are demanding an increase in government and private sector job reservations for Kannadigas based on the 1984 Sarojini Mahishi report.

The Ninth Schedule of the Constitution contains a list of central and state laws which cannot be challenged in courts. Currently, 284 such laws are shielded from judicial review.

A Bill introduced by Shiv Sena MP Anil Desai in the Rajya Sabha aims to incentivise families to limit their children to two by offering tax concessions, priority in social benefit schemes and school admissions, among other things.

Early last year, the Mumbai police too added the Belgian Malinois to its existing dog squad.

Javid is the only British Asian to have held two out of Britain's four great offices of state. His departure after 204 days as finance minister comes less than a month before he was due to deliver his first budget.

The 2000 match-fixing case involved Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja and Ajay Sharma from India, and Hansie Cronje and Herschelle Gibbs from South Africa.

Globally, PM2.5 is also estimated to cause the loss of 62.7 million years of life, 2.7 million emergency room visits due to asthma, 2 million preterm births and 1.75 billion work absences.

former professor of the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, Costa focused on the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language processing.  

The Assam government has proposed a census of four Muslim groups. Who are these groups, seen as indigenous, and who are the other Muslims left out of the census? The history and the emerging debate

State news agency Xinhua reported that “clinically diagnosed cases are unique to Hubei statistically”. This implies inclusion of those cases drive the surge in numbers.

Assam’s migration history gives additional context to dual identities — Assamese Hindu, Assamese Muslim, Bengali Hindu, Bengali Muslim.

Until February 10, 2020, India was on the USTR’s list of developing countries, making it eligible for preferential treatment against CVD investigations and de minimis thresholds. It will no longer get this benefit.

The order by the Supreme Court means telecom companies, including Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, will have to immediately clear the pending AGR dues, which amount to nearly Rs 1.47 lakh crore.

While Turkey and Pakistan have historically had good relations, Ankara has teamed up in recent months with Beijing and Islamabad against India at international forums and on issues such as Kashmir and terror-financing by Pakistan