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What are APIs and how they threaten India’s status of a ‘pharmacy to the world’

Despite being a leading supplier of medicines to several countries, India is highly dependent on China for raw materials even to produce medicines as basic as Crocin.

What was Modi’s security staff carrying in black briefcases? Not nuclear code

Social media was abuzz over a picture of PM Narendra Modi's security officers carrying black briefcases that raised a lot of curiosity.

This is how the telecom sector was rescued from bankruptcy in 1999

India’s brush with mobile telephony started in the mid-1990s, but the beginning was far from smooth.

Who are Baloch Liberation Army? Insurgents who killed 30 in Pakistan in last one week

The province of Balochistan in Pakistan has been witness to a violent, separatist movement for the past seven decades.

The e-visa behind British MP’s deportation & what leads to its revocation

British MP Debbie Abrahams who was Monday denied entry into India, Tuesday tweeted a picture of her e-visa that the Modi govt claims was cancelled last week.   

‘Women aren’t adjuncts’ — what SC said while granting permanent commission to women in Army

SC says arguments based on physical strengths and weaknesses of men and women do not constitute a valid basis for denying equal opportunity to women officers.

Assam to shut aided madrasas, Sanskrit schools: What Constitution says on minority institutes

The Assam government has decided to shut down all government madrasas and Sanskrit tols to reinvent themselves as high and higher secondary schools.

SC quota ruling is nothing new — reservation in jobs was never a fundamental right

SC ruling that reservations in jobs, promotions are not a fundamental right reiterates a long-held reading of constitutional provisions on quota. 

How Kerala’s experience in tackling Nipah in 2018 will help it contain coronavirus

Kerala govt’s initiatives & swift action successfully contained the Nipah outbreak. It now says coronavirus will be dealt with the same way.

Four airlines ban comedian Kunal Kamra — here’s a look at the legality of the move

IndiGo has banned Kunal Kamra for heckling Arnab Goswami after which 3 more airlines — Air India, SpiceJet and GoAir — followed suit.

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Phase 5 is crunch time for BJP—UP will boost INDIA, Maharashtra will clear up real vs fake

Just like Phase 3, in this round too, the NDA stands to lose ground due to the sheer number of seats it had won the last time — 39 of the 49 seats, of which the BJP alone had won 32.

What’s geopolitical recession? World seems to be heading for one

The long-term rise of China and the 'Global South', combined with a decline of European and Japanese economic power is driving a fundamental shift.

With defence push, India looks to capture markets in Africa beyond western Indian Ocean

India’s defence sector is trying to penetrate the African market. But with China already extending significant influence, India must now play catch-up.      

Abki baar 90 paar for Congress? Why even 30 more seats will ruffle BJP

Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?