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Sudarshan Chakra to act as shield and sword: CDS

Mhow, Aug. 27 -- India's proposed national defence shield under Mission Sudarshan Chakra will involve a colossal amount of integration of capabilities and the development of robust infrastructure and ... Read More


Demographic debates need sanity, not crude rhetoric

India, Aug. 27 -- The public discourse around demographics in India is usually divisive. Sometimes it is about the population as a whole, at other times, its religious composition, and still other tim... Read More


Dangerous curb on free speech

India, Aug. 27 -- The Supreme Court's attempt at distinguishing between good and bad humour, and free speech for commercial purposes and non-commercial purposes is a fraught project. Hearing petitions... Read More


Message from Himalayas: All's not well with the hills

India, Aug. 27 -- Extreme precipitation in the Himalayan district of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand on August 5 triggered a series of flash floods in Dharali (near Harsil) and at an army camp in Harsil. Pr... Read More


Bidding goodbye to the last of the MiG-21s

India, Aug. 27 -- Six decades ago, a sleek supersonic jet plane from the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau of the Soviet Union was inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF). Since then, MiG-21s have been ... Read More


How the US is ceding Asian geopolitical space to China

India, Aug. 27 -- As they have in the past, India-China relations are once again improving. There is a pattern here. Conflict, tension and freeze are followed by thaw, engagement and a degree of warmt... Read More


The reform road map that the GST needs

India, Aug. 27 -- The Goods and Services Tax (GST), launched in 2017, was meant to be a "good and simple tax". Finance minister Arun Jaitley had rightly said during its launch, "There will be problems... Read More


UP, Bihar, MP get most in reform plan SASCI

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh were the largest beneficiaries of funds disbursed under a special capital investment scheme launched as a post-pandemic stimulus measure c... Read More


5,000 lewd texts, 1,000 calls: U.P. Patient arrested for harassing woman doctor

LUCKNOW, Aug. 27 -- A 41-year-old man from UP's Basti, who had received treatment at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow a few months back, harassed a woman doctor whom he co... Read More


Two narcotics inspectors among three held for bribery

LUCKNOW, Aug. 27 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Lucknow on Tuesday arrested three individuals, including two inspectors of the Central Bureau of Narcoti... Read More