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The governing party appears worried enough to attempt damage control.

The Tamil Nadu registration department will soon set up Unified Centres in Chennai and Coimbatore on a pilot basis to ease the registration process.This will help general public to avail of the services of the registration department including ...

A weak Congress left a hole in the state with no strong Opposition, and Kejriwal’s party filled that void. In addition, the party’s Delhi model of governance has wowed young voters and intellectuals alike

Polling for Gujarat’s 182-member assembly will be held in two phases on Dec 1 and Dec 5. Votes will be counted on Dec 8. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A pan India survey of media consumption by the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, compiled on the basis of responses from 19 states elicits answer

A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.

A significant new research led by Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer has found that India’s Jal Jeevan Mission, which seeks to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual tap connections by 2024 to all rural households, can save 1.36 lakh lives of children under five if it succeeds.

Even as stargazers claim their knowledge has an empirical basis, scientists debunk it as mumbo-jumbo

For every ten prisoners in India, only two have been convicted of a crime. Among those awaiting trial, a disproportionate share come from marginalised communities.

Distrust in state institutions and right-wing voters’ reluctance to share their intentions play a role, experts say.