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

Stopping smoking, at any age, is important and rapidly reduces risk of getting lung cancer.

Two proposals are for trips to Venus, and one each is for Jupiter’s moon Io and Neptune’s moon Triton.

Indian scientists on a South African vessel are in Antarctica, midway through an expedition across the Southern Ocean. What are they studying, what are its implications for world climate and Indian monsoon?

The Home Ministry said India has granted citizenship to 15,012 individuals from Bangladesh between 2015 and 2019.

Last week, a Dutch district court ruled against an identification mechanism called SyRI (System Risk Indicator), because of data privacy and human rights concerns.

Some 24 countries apart from China have registered cases of the coronavirus, now officially named Covid-19. None of them are in Africa, despite the increasingly tight links between the two regions.

Born in the UK to a general practitioner father and pharmacist mother, Sunak made news in India upon his marriage to Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy and author Sudha Murthy.

After Manchester City's two-year-long ban from all UEFA competitions, will the club appeal the ruling and how strong is their case? What happens to Pep Guardiola? How will the Premier League react?