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The Army is now reverting to the practice that was followed almost 40 years ago, when the changes towards wearing regimental affiliations took hold in the service. Here is why

In today’s edition: Can grant divorce on irretrievable breakdown, says SC; K’taka BJP manifesto chief interview; Bihar’s caste census; and more.

The population estimates in the UNFPA report are higher than India’s own. An accurate picture can emerge only after the Census exercise, the delay in conducting which can have other adverse consequences.

You have heard of baby boomers and hippies. Do you know who they were and how they got these names?

ALBAWABA - Iran recently revealed the discovery of huge deposits of lithium, dubbed the oil of the 21st century. International media outlets quoted an o

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday commissioned India’s first indigenously constructed aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday commissioned India’s first indigenously constructed aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant.

Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton’s book in 1983? In 1983, Dahl had reviewed Tony Clifton’s ‘God Cried’, a picture book that described the pain and suffering caused by the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army incursion and occupation of Lebanon during the 1982 Lebanon War. Published in the  Literary Review, Dahl said that “a race of people”, meaning the Jews, had never “switched so rapidly from victims to barbarous murderers”, and that empathy for the Jewish people after the Hol...

why the poor in India remain poor.According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Social Mobility report, in India, it would take 7 generations for a member of a poor family to achieve average income; in Denmark, it would take just 2 generations to do so. A key concern leading up to the Budget for 2020-21 was the falling credibility of Budget numbers. With Covid-19 playing havoc with the economy even before the start of the new financial year, this problem is likely to sustain. Another key co...

How have the courts ruled? A number of rulings by the Supreme Court has settled the position that the Governor cannot refuse the request of a Cabinet that enjoys majority in the House unless it is patently unconstitutional. The latest in the line of rulings is the landmark 2016 Constitution Bench ruling in which the Supreme Court looked into the constitutional crisis in Arunachal Pradesh after the Governor had imposed President’s Rule in the state. “In ordinary circumstances during the peri...