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A new government in Delhi in May will have to take a long and hard look if it should continue with the doctrine of indifference or reopen channels of communication with the GHQ in Rawalpindi.

Why does Israel want to invade Rafah, which currently has more than one million Palestinians, and what is its significance? How have countries in the region reacted to the plan?

It isn’t as if PML-N and PPP would come together for the first time to form a coalition government in the Centre. The two parties have done so back in 2008 and 2022. Here is a look at the circumstances that brought PML-N and PPP together previously.

As results continue to trickle in, independent candidates loyal to the jailed Imran Khan still lead against all odds. But who will form the government?

Why did Goan authorities specifically target gobi manchurian? What is gobi manchurian, and how did it come about? Is it ‘Chinese’?

In 2019, the Supreme Court effectively closed the window, especially for trial courts, to look at the prosecution’s case critically while granting bail in UAPA cases. Courts have, however, given bail in some cases. Here is a look at them.

Monkomb Sambasivan Swaminathan, 98, passed away last year on September 28. Called the ‘Father of the Green Revolution’, he played a major role in the set of changes introduced in farming in the 1960s and ‘70s. Here is all you need to know.

Charan Singh was Uttar Pradesh’s first non-Congress chief minister, and went on to become Prime Minister of India in 1979. Regarded as a ‘champion of peasants’, he is credited with creating a new political class encompassing farming communities in North India.

On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that former PM PV Narasimha Rao be conferred with the Bharat Ratna. Notably, just a year before he became the PM in 1991, Rao had thought his political career was almost over. So what happened?

Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao shared a frosty relationship with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. After he passed away, his body wasn’t allowed inside the Congress headquarters for ordinary workers to pay their respects.