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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge used the phrase after Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the Bihar Chief Minister again, joining the BJP-led NDA. What does the phrase mean and where does it come from? We explain.

What is the Modified PKC-ERCP project? How will it help Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh?

The US and eight other Western countries, which together provided more than half of UNRWA’s 2022 budget, have decided to pause funding for the agency. The development could have severe implications for Palestinians in Gaza.

While the proposed formulation does not tinker with the 50 per cent limit set by the Supreme Court, it allows Marathas to claim reservation under the 27 per cent set aside for OBCs.

On Republic Day, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced that the Uniform Civil Code Bill will be passed on February 5. Why was the committee on UCC constituted and what aspects of personal laws is it considering under its ambit?

As recently as the early 1990s, about 90% of US adults identified as Christians. What are the reasons people are now less likely to hold the same beliefs as earlier generations? And who exactly make up the non-religious group?

Tractors blocking roads, farmers dumping waste at the gates of government offices and now soup being thrown at the world’s most famous painting – what exactly is happening in France?

A single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta HC on Thursday directed that a CBI investigation ordered into alleged irregularities in MBBS admissions in West Bengal will continue, despite an order of a division bench to the contrary. In the written order, he also levelled accusations against a fellow judge, Justice Soumen Sen.

The International Court of Justice gave its interim ruling on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel on January 26.

By including the term ‘sage-soyare’, the government has opened doors for handing out caste certificates based on one’s maternal line of descent.