What does Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination mean for Hamas? What does it mean for the conflict in Gaza? And what does it mean for India, and the world at large?

Udham Singh was a survivor of the Jallianala Bagh massacre. He planned revenge against former Punjab lieutenant governor O’Dwyer and assassinated him in 1940. Several of his belongings continue to be in London and elsewhere and there has been a demand to…

The star-studded opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 got embroiled in a controversy due to a tableau, which was part of the event. Here is a look at why.

SEBI has proposed a series of steps to restrain speculative trading in the index derivatives segment amid concerns about an exponential rise in the volumes of trading in futures and options particularly by individual investors

The immediate Indian concern will be the peace and stability in the region which is home to about 9 million Indians living and working in the region, apart from the region supplying almost two-thirds of crude to India.

The roots of the ‘axis of resistance’ go back to the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which paved the way for radical Shia Muslim clerics to come to power.

The Bombardier CRJ200, operated by Nepal’s Saurya Airlines, might have entered a ‘wing stall’ before it crashed near the runway at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport on July 24.

In 2004, the Supreme Court held that the sub-classification among Scheduled Castes for the purpose of reservation would violate the right to equality and said that the SC list must be treated as a single, homogenous group. Here is why the issue is being re…

The immediate Indian concern will be the peace and stability in the region which is home to about 9 million Indians living and working in the region, apart from the region supplying almost two-thirds of crude to India.

2024 has been marked by landslides around the world. Their frequency is increasing as the impacts of climate change intensify. Plantation farming and extremely heavy rain in Kerala contributed to the Wayanad tragedy. Here’s how.

The Vietnamese Communist Party has lost its long-ruling chief earlier this month, and his death could spell trouble for the EU's cordial relationship with Hanoi.

Nearly 40 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the state government will move to incinerate 337 MT of toxic waste from the Union Carbide facility. We explain.

The SUV driver was booked under Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in the case.

On March 29, 2023, while dining in a steakhouse in the city of Yekaterinburg that is located about 1,400 km east of Moscow, Gershkovich was arrested by the Russian authorities.

On March 29, 2023, while dining in a steakhouse in the city of Yekaterinburg that is located about 1,400 km east of Moscow, Gershkovich was arrested by the Russian authorities.

The ruling states that states cannot micro-classify in a way that it would “denude”, “rather than promote” the guarantee of equality or in a way that replaces the doctrine of equality with the “doctrine of classification.”

Are all Scheduled Castes to be treated similarly? Can states tinker with SC list? What is the yardstick for sub-classification? Here is what the Supreme Court ruled.

Compared to OBCs, the SC creamy layer issue is fraught. Despite the benefits of affirmative action, can the historic injustices of caste be wiped out? For OBCs the economic and social criteria perhaps allows upward mobility from backwardness but the same…

Lightning strikes have claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 people in Odisha in the last 11 years. The state now has a plan for mitigation. We explain.

Developmental and security concerns have been cited for the Great Nicobar Island (GNI) infrastructure project. What legal arguments have been made against it?

The Supreme Court said, 'The State in exercise of its power under Articles 15 and 16 is free to identify the different degrees of social backwardness and provide special provisions (such as reservation) to achieve the specific degree of harm identified.'