Opposition leaders including Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi protested at Parliament’s Makar Dwar on Tuesday, demanding the withdrawal of GST on life insurance and health insurance premiums.

The NDMA does not have any administrative financial powers. Routing every small decision through the Home Ministry is an inefficient and time-consuming process.

The Punjab government faces a serious funds crunch, and some experts have raised questions over the technical viability of the proposed project.

The Supreme Court rarely entertains reviews of its rulings, except on narrow grounds to correct grave errors that have resulted in a miscarriage of justice.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in its new Draft Broadcasting Bill has proposed wide-ranging regulations on independent news creators on social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram and X, expanding its remit from OTT content and digital news…

How did things get so bad for Sheikh Hasina? Could she have done things differently? What happens next? Prof Sanjib Baruah explains.

Until External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's statement in Parliament on Tuesday (August 6), India had insisted that the crisis that had engulfed Bangladesh for months was their “internal matter.”

Weight cutting is a common practice in combat sports. But it has its detractors, primarily due to health risks associated with drastically losing weight over a short period of time.

In a nation that is yet to recover fully from the shocks of economic turmoil and political instability, Namal’s candidature is being looked upon with both hope and scepticism.

It is the 190-foot structure built by the Army to move vehicles and machinery in landslide-ravaged Wayanad.

Studies have shown that with temperatures soaring across the world, wildfires are becoming more common and intense. This could be spiking the occurrence of pyrocumulonimbus clouds.

Food component of retail inflation remains stubborn, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. RBI could deliver a rate cut in December, provided the inflation situation changes due to a good monsoon, and there are no major domestic or global shocks, economists…

Vinesh Phogat became the first Indian woman to qualify to a wrestling final in the Olympics on Tuesday. In Wednesday’s weigh-in, she came a few grams overweight, and was disqualified from the competition

While China avoided officially commenting on Trump vs Biden, that did not stop its online commentators and strategic experts, one of whom called the American leaders ‘two bowls of poison’ for Beijing. With Harris now in the fray, some in China have hoped…

Economist Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, is set to lead Bangladesh’s interim government. But he will not be the first Nobel laureate to later lead his country.

India has decided to let Sheikh Hasina stay in the country despite the lack of an official policy on refugees. What questions arise when refugees are allowed and what principles govern their return?

A Bill seeking to amend the 1995 Waqf Act, and proposing sweeping changes to how Waqfs are governed and regulated, has been referred to a Joint Committee of Parliament following protests by opposition MPs.

In parts of East Antarctica, the relatively higher-elevation swathe that makes up two-thirds of the world’s coldest continent, temperatures are currently in the range of minus 25 degrees to minus 30 degrees Celsius.

The court on Friday said it did not see any error in the order of the trial court or High Court in considering the merits of the case, but granted Manish Sisodia bail as “there is not even the remotest possibility” of the trial being concluded in the near…

If inhaled, silica dust from cut or drilled stone, can cause a fatal lung disease. Experts want better protections for workers exposed to it every day.