There is enough historical evidence to nail the RSS’ lie that Nathuram Godse was not a member of that organisation when he assassinated Mahatma Gandhi

NSSO data reveal marked disparities in what people spend on education and also point to a steady erosion of the state's role in higher education.

The academic Meera Nanda is under attack for her article on the Hindu right wing’s positions on the history of science.

India’s growing political and strategic alliance with the U.S. came into sharp focus when Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to skip the NAM summit

ISRO announces its arrival in the global satellite launch market with the successful flight of the GSLV-Mk II rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engi

The fight for supremacy between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav in Uttar Pradesh and the struggle for predominance between t

Two books attempt to explain the apparent contradiction between Islam’s precept and its practice in the context of the wanton destruction and violence

North Korea conducts another nuclear test, which helps it gain the capability to produce “standardised and minimised” nuclear warheads, and the U.S. p

The tables are turned on the Congress in Arunachal Pradesh as Chief Minister Pema Khandu, who was preferred over previous Chief Minister Nabam Tuki i

No significant issues drive the campaign. No one is seriously entertaining the questions that bother ordinary Americans. The haste to drop ballots int

Through academically relevant and well-illustrated arguments, this volume does an admirable job of examining the issues relating to sovereignty in the

The surrogacy Bill sends out a conservative political message about what kind of families are culturally acceptable. A complete ban on surrogacy, on t

Russia and the U.S. were able to come up with a ceasefire agreement for war-ravaged Syria, but the many violations of the agreement and two serious at

Interview with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

Many of the writer’s remarks are strikingly relevant to the Indian judicial system.

The Supreme Court’s directive to release water to Tamil Nadu arouses strong feelings in Karnataka which is yet to recover from two consecutive drought

The terrorist attack in Uri which killed 18 Indian soldiers has generated fears about a resumption of hostilities across the border and added new dime

The alleged suicide of Ramkumar, the accused in the Swathi murder case, at the Central Prison in Chennai, fuels doubts about the investigating authori

The Cauvery water dispute has put the focus on inter-State river water disputes in India and the experience so far.

The National Book Trust has decided to stop printing the historian Bipan Chandra’s book Communalism: A Primer.

The Supreme Court finds it difficult to extricate itself from the Cauvery conundrum even as the disputing States continue to test its ability to adjud

Murder, gang rape, and vandalism in the name of cow protection are changing the face of the Mewat region in Haryana and the future of its predominant

Interview with Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research.

The reappearance of the crisis shows that only equitable sharing of the river’s waters combined with scientific water conservation and management meas