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Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has passed away on Easter Monday, aged 88.

By Ajay Patnaik

Even as we celebrate his one hundred and thirty fifth birthday, Dr. Ambedkar continues to be extremely relevant to India’s society and polity.

How does a woman in labour walk five kilometers across a hill to reach a clinic at night?

There is the view held by some that the America we see today in all its ugliness is one passing phase, a rough patch the world has landed in because the country chose…

As widely expected, the MPC of RBI, on conclusion of its first bi-monthly meeting for 2025-26, lowered the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 per cent and…

Thirty-two years ago, the 73rd amendment to the Constitution, called the Panchayati Raj bill came into force on April 24.

A blunder caused while preparing the member list for a top-secret chat assembly named the “Houthi PC Small Group” among senior American security leaders in the Donald…

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of a landmark statutory right established by Parliament. This is the right to work, or right to employment.

India is getting hot as the summer season takes hold. But the hot weather, this year arriving earlier and feeling hotter comes with a chill in the economy.

By Ajay Patnaik

The decision to allow Madhabi Puri Buch to exit SEBI as the Chairperson at the end of her three-year term is to be welcomed.

President Donald Trump has a way with words. America’s federal income tax department is called Internal Revenue Service.

On March 21, 2003, ITN network’s John Irvine reported from Baghdad the launch of “shock and awe”, the US Pentagon’s encoding for immeasurable death and destruction…