The number of international migrants in 2013 was over 3 per cent of the world population.

The Assembly elections will provide crucial insights into voter preferences in a political environment made uncertain by the Aam Aadmi Party’s entry

Anti-caste campaigners in the United Kingdom score a major victory with the E.U. passing a resolution to put caste within a global rights framework.

The dissent notes on the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s final report on the 2G scam call it a bundle of contradictions, criticise it for its selectiv

The Geneva talks on Iran’s nuclear programme get derailed because of last-minute changes made in the U.S.-proposed draft at the instance of France.

The proposed 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Sadhu Bet island near the Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat brings to the fore many environme

The political crisis in Maldives over the presidential run-off ends with the surprise victory of a close relative of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and the shoc

Jawaharlal Nehru’s visit to this war-torn city and Gaza in 1960 and his impromptu speech at the American University of Beirut left a lasting impressio

The Congress hopes to come back to power on the strength of its new land policy.

Interview with K. L. Meena, co-founder of the RJP.

When forests fragment, elephant populations fragment too. Just as fragmented forests become unviable, fragmented elephant populations are doomed to dw

The subtext of Narendra Modi’s counterfactual about a putative Vallabhbhai Patel prime ministerial stint is the Sangh Parivar’s assumption that the de

This term with its quasi-religious connotation best describes the sphere of influence of Pele, Maradona and Tendulkar in the nations they have represe

Swiss forensic tests prove that the death ofPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 was caused by the ingestion of the radioactive poison polonium-21

The newly discovered Comet ISON has excited the scientific community in India, which is going all out to ensure that as many people as possible are ab

Tamil Nadu political parties, including sections of the Congress, force the Prime Minister to skip the CHOGM in Colombo.

The Commonwealth summit in Colombo is overshadowed by the issue of the Sri Lankan government’s alleged violation of human rights towards the end of th

For 24 years, Sachin Tendulkar was the most dominant player of the game and an artist and a genius throughout. He represented the hopes and dreams of

A controversial circular from the government and the demand by some Muslim organisations in Kerala to let Muslims follow their personal law with regar

The Congress hopes for a miracle to bring to an end the 10-year rule of the BJP government under Raman Singh.

A book that critically evaluates the many alternatives to privatisation practised across the world, which are enough to disprove the there-is-no-alter

Two books portraying in disturbing detail the harm impunity can cause to persons in custody and to those belonging to vulnerable sections.

With no wave in favour of or against the Congress or the BJP, the influence of new political fronts is expected to be the dominant factor in governmen

The Congress hopes to cash in on the general anger against the BJP’s governance, but Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan still remains as popular as

In the process of focussing on “the caste that produced Babasaheb Ambedkar”, the book dilutes the larger role of Ambedkar as a political reformer, nat

A cabal of self-confessed Hindu nationalists, as distinct from Indian nationalists, consistently lauds Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel because it finds in hi

Interview with David Sanders, one of the founders of the global public health movement.