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While the Union government has been celebrating 75 years of independence all year, Modi claimed that it was only today that India was leaving behind a "colonial mindset".

It seems all is not well in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in Madhya Pradesh which goes to polls for general Assembly elections at the end of this year.

Sensing discontent in rural areas, Manohar Lal Khattar has been holding an outreach programme across the state since April. Worryingly for the Haryana CM, some in his party and even ally JJP have backed the wrestlers’ protest.

Pramod Sawant's bloated budget has helped sugar-coat media coverage around his person and leadership. Recently, the Goa edition of Lokmat ran over 14 pages of his birthday ads

While the Union government has justified the hike in the tax collected at source on overseas credit cards claiming it mainly affects the rich, it is being criticised for burdening the middle class.

The labourers who work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme are bearing the brunt of the Union government's push for technology coupled with a lack of digital infrastructure.

A number of procurement centres have started registering farmers on the spot while some are likely to extend this facility once they cover the farmers who registered between Feb 1 and 28

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court said on May 9 that the decriminalisation of penal provisions pertaining to same-sex relationships is not inconsistent with the Constitution, essentially greenlighting a private Bill to this effect.

Where a Department of Labor Relations hearing officer found that a union violated G.L.c. 150A, §4A(4), there is insufficient evidence to establish that the union breached its duty of fair representation to a bargaining unit member, so the hearing officer’s decision must be reversed. “A duly-designated Department of Labor Relations hearing officer issued a decision

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