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Health Index 2019: Kerala's dilemma and Bihar's tragedy

Linking funding under National Health Mission (NHM) to incremental performance of states puts good performing states in a fix

Google, Facebook made Rs 10,000 crore; paid Rs 200 crore as tax in India

Modi government plans to bring companies that derive revenues from Indian users but pay taxes elsewhere into the corporate tax net

Lok Sabha polls 2019: How Modi's PM-KISAN may translate into votes for BJP

The cash dole to farmers without they doing any work will have major economic, political and psychological repercussions

Birju Salla, business-class traveller who landed in jail for hijack letter

Salla is the first person to be booked and convicted under the Anti Hijacking Act 2016

Two aircraft incidents a day in Indian airspace as traffic becomes denser

Information obtained by Business Standard through RTI shows there were over 3,000 incidents involving Boeing and Airbus planes from January 2014 to April 2019

Ranjit Singh's eccentric empire

Minor irritants don't detract from Singh's research and penchant for weaving a narrative of Sikh militarism while chronicling the times of Ranjit Singh

Domino effect of auto crisis: Livelihoods, India's GDP growth may take hit

35 million jobs at stake with India's automobile sector in trouble, components business could be impacted as well

PM-KISAN vs farm loan waiver scheme: The jury is still out in Punjab

The farmers were protesting against non-procurement of wheat from local markets. They said their produce was rotting and authorities were doing little

Udta Punjab 2.0: Migrated Sikhs, empty villages a poll dampener

Punjab's declining Sikh population, Khalistani resurgence are issues the parties aren't talking about

Lok Sabha polls 2019: Sunny Deol's 2.5-kg hand hangs off a '56-inch' chest

Campaigning in Gurdaspur, Punjab, Deol's fame pulls cheering crowds even as his speeches are just disjointed snatches of film dialogue

Shadow of Jat agitation looms large on Lok Sabha polls in Haryana

The 2016 pro-reservation mayhem has pushed Haryana to extreme levels of social polarisation and inter-community distrust

BJP, Congress have spent Rs 500 crore on hiring aircraft since 2014

Money spent by political parties on hiring aircraft constitute a significant chunk of revenues of aircraft charter companies

How Priyanka Chaturvedi's atypical rise in Congress came to an end

In November 2017, Rahul Gandhi appointed Chaturvedi convener of the Congress' communications department. By 2018, she was scouting for people to induct them as spokespersons in the party

A story in manifestos: How Congress is shedding its 'Muslim party' tag

An analysis of Congress' election manifestos since 1937 shows how the party evolved from being a secular to a 'Muslim' party and how it is now trying to shed that tag

Hindu population in Pakistan has grown at a faster pace than in India

Despite a new Bill giving sanctity to Hindu marriages being passed in 2017, Pakistan continues to be rattled by Hindus' conversion to Islam

How Etihad and Abu Dhabi too are bleeding in the Jet crisis

Etihad is down to its lowest market share in India With Abu Dhabi losing Indian passengers and Indigo becoming more powerful

Chowkidar effect: BJP mops up bulk of private security donations

While real estate firms donated both to BJP and Congress, private security sector donations were unique to the BJP; at least seven shelled out Rs 61 lakh in 2017-18

Boeing 737 Max grounding: Airfares could rise 30% for last-minute travel

With Indigo, Jet Airways and Spicejet planes now grounded for various reasons, airfares could skyrocket in days to come

Power generation remains the only pain point for the mammoth Adani group

The conglomerate dominates practically every other sector it is engaged in, from shipping ports to coal trading, from edible oil to solar cells

Modi's two-day South Korea visit: Of Ayodhya, peace and investments

Few nations other than South Korea have helped Modi shape a domestic political narrative alongside deepening bilateral ties