What Election Commission can learn from US

India needs to examine some way in which, assuming that there is either no vaccine or a delay in administering it to everyone, voting can be made safer, notes Aakar Patel.   IMAGE: A voter......

COVID-19: 'Good behaviour will reduce deaths'

'We cannot be naughty and expect the government to do good!''We have to behave ourselves and then we can expect the government to support us.''If we are able to protect ourselves well, then we......

Countries where Islamic State is still a major threat

Driven from its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State is down but not out. Where once they confronted armies, the extremist Islamist group's adherents have now staged hit-and-run......

'The Kohinoor was not gifted to the British'

'Duleep Singh was not in a position to give it away because he was only a minor of about 3, 4 years old.' 'The Indian claim of the British having taken the Kohinoor from the Sikhs does not stand......

Cyber crime: 1,600 arrested, only 7 convicted

The government has recently said in Rajya Sabha that 1,600 arrests have been made related to cyber crimes under the Information Technology Act of 2000.Interestingly, while the number of arrests has......

Mittal pulls out of Kazakh oil field

Signalling end of his oil and gas odyssey, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has pulled out of a project to develop an oil field in Kazakhstan in partnership with Oil and Natural Gas Corp and is looking......

N-deal looms over India's gas plan

Fears of a war between Iran and Israel and re-emergence of the civilian nuclear deal with the US has put in danger various oil and gas projects India was eyeing in Iran as it searches for energy to......

Ispat buys coal blocks in Africa

Global Steel Holdings, the holding company which controls the steel and associated businesses of the Ispat Group, has acquired two coal blocks in Mozambique. According to sources, the investment in......

How Bayer Leverkusen won maiden Bundesliga crown unbeaten

IMAGE: Bayer Leverkusen won their first trophy in 31 years with five matches left in the season, snapping Bayern Munich's 11-year stranglehold on the Bundesliga. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach......