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Cow loving former IAS officer is new head of Animal Welfare Board of India

After completely revamping the Animal Welfare Board of India the government has appointed a retired IAS officer who runs his own cow shelter as chairperson

NGT’s Amarnath ruling isn’t its first controversial order this year

The NGT’s Amarnath order has raised questions about its jurisdictional limitations. However, this is not the only NGT order that has caused a stir...

Manmohan Singh didn’t speak much, but did as much to fight terror: former NSA Narayanan

All governments are concerned about fighting terror. But international collaboration on countering terrorism has improved tremendously in the last 10 years.

PMO seeks status report on Panama Papers cases by 15 December

The Enforcement Directorate will issue show cause notices to 426 Indians or persons of Indian origin, seeking explanations for overseas investments made since 2004.

Exclusive: Smriti Irani, Javadekar tried cornering 35,000 Kendriya Vidyalaya seats in 3 years, 25 times their quota

HRD minister can recommend 450 students per year for admission to KV schools. The two BJP ministers sent 35,685 in the last 3 years.

Can Supreme Court judges be criticised? That’s the key issue in lawyers’ association poll

Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, who demanded a judicial probe into judge bribery allegations, is a top contender for SCBA president’s post.

For first time since 2002, riot police deployed in Gujarat elections

Personnel of the Rapid Action Force will be deployed in about six sensitive constituencies that will be voting in the second phase of Gujarat elections.

Delhi cancels licence of Max Hospital branch that wrongly declared a baby dead

The probe by the state government revealed the hospital was guilty of negligence, the Delhi health minister said.

Revealed: What created confusion about whom Kapil Sibal appeared for in Babri Masjid case

Senior lawyer and Congress leader was representing the legal heir of the oldest litigant in the Ayodhya case, not the Sunni Waqf Board.

The failure that is India’s first monorail

At 17,000 a day, ridership is a far cry from glossy estimates of 1.5 lakhs; government not keen on expanding monorail network after failure of the first line.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?