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Busting abortion myths in India on International Safe Abortion Day

According to a study published in The Lancet, the vast majority of India’s approximately 1.6 crore abortions took place outside a health facility.

Women activists express concern over acceptance of Supreme Court’s Sabarimala verdict

Doubtful that temple authorities will take it in right spirit, said a women rights activist who welcomed the top court's decision.

Supreme Court refuses special probe into arrest of five activists in Bhima-Koregaon case

Supreme Court extends house arrest of activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira by four weeks.

Scientists fighting fake news want ‘outlandish’ engineering book pulled out

Book for budding engineers claims an Indian sage invented planes 5,000 years before Wright brothers, and gravity was a Vedic-era discovery too.

Justice Nazeer cites Ram Leela, puja in public parks to write dissent ruling in namaaz case

Justice Nazeer disagreed with majority judgment which refused to refer to larger bench the question of whether mosque is integral to practice of Islam. New...

Women have a right to pray, can now enter Sabarimala Temple, rules Supreme Court

Constitution bench rules that traditional practice of keeping out women between the ages of 10 and 50 is a violation of a fundamental right.

China’s ambitious Belt and Road initiative is yet to get on the road in Beijing

Five years after its inauguration, there’s still no ministry tasked to plan or monitor activities of the Belt and Road initiative.

In the Indian Army, troops can still be punished for adultery

Indian military can punish troops for extra-marital relations even without law that made adultery a crime.

Modi govt forms 8 member Lokpal search panel including Prasar Bharti chief A. Surya Prakash

The decision to constitute the search committee comes four years after the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act.

Explained: All things Babri, Faruqui and Ayodhya

Thursday’s SC ruling paves way for final hearing in Ayodhya land dispute case to begin. And a verdict may even be possible before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.