The eighth Conference of the Registrars of Co-operative Societies opened this morning in the committee room of the Imperial Secretariat [in Simla, on Aug. 12] and was attended by about 20 officials and 7 non-officials. Sir Claude Hill in opening the Conference welcomed the delegates and said Mr. Mant would …

The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Morarji Desai, told the Lok Sabha to-day [August 12, New Delhi] that his son, Mr. Kantilal Desai, had not been appointed as his Private Secretary but he had, however, been assisting him in his non-official work since June, 1964. Mr. Desai made this statement in …

The contested legacy of the former U.S. President Barack Obama’s election as the 44th President of the U.S. in 2008 was an “end-of-history moment,” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy . “As Obama’s election became imaginable, it seemed possible that our country had …

The plight of inter-State migrants is not very different from that of refugees who lack citizenship rights In India, you do not have to be excluded from the National Register of Citizens to experience a sense of loss of territory, identity, belongingness and livelihood. You could just as easily feel …

The Supreme Court has been pragmatic in tweaking the Lodha norms on running cricket Two years after accepting the Justice R.M. Lodha Committee’s recommendations, the Supreme Court has now extended some concessions to those aggrieved by the rigorous rules, which aimed to revamp cricket administration in the country. The reasoning …

V.S. Naipaul was among the greatestand most provocative writers of our times Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, who passed away at his London home on August 11 just six days short of his 86th birthday, will continue to challenge his readers and critics after death as he did in a writing career …

As a lot of information provided in a small box can be difficult to read, data stories should be given more space Sridhar Venkatraman, a subscriber of the e-paper from Milton Keynes in the U.K., wrote to us with a few interesting questions about data visualisation in news stories and …

The recent hearings in the Supreme Court relating to the Sabarimala case have turned the spotlight on the status of religious faith in a system governed by the rule of law and the Constitution. Any attention bestowed on such discussions by a person of faith and belief appears to leave …

It is not his travel writing that makes him one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, it is his fiction The joke, considered by some to be factual, runs like this. An Englishman, an admirer of the descriptive writing of the blind Ved Mehta, goes to a literary …

The Delhi High Court order striking down the Begging Act heeds the Constitution’s transformative nature In 1871, the colonial regime passed the notorious Criminal Tribes Act. This law was based upon the racist British belief that in India there were entire groups and communities that were criminal by birth, nature, …

Centre notifies due date for filing GST returns The government has modified the due date for filing of final GST sales returns by businesses with turnover exceeding Rs. 1.5 crore to the eleventh day of the succeeding month. In a notification, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has …

Northeast China has high stakes in North Korea. A durable peace on the Korean Peninsula could mean much needed jobs for China’s industrial rust belt. China’s northeast, historically known as Manchuria, was among the first to industrialise. The region’s plentiful reserves of iron ore and coal premised the rise of …

We could look for new allies: Erdogan President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s partnership with the U.S. may be in jeopardy as ties strain, warning Ankara could start looking for new allies, in an op-ed published in the New York Times on Saturday. Relations between the two NATO allies have …

Another demonstration will celebrate Independence Day A rally to mark India’s Independence Day and a pro-Khalistani demonstration dubbed the “London declaration” are both set to go ahead on Sunday, in Trafalgar Square, central London, despite New Delhi’s strong and publicly stated reservations about the latter, which it views as an …

Following a meeting with 18 staff members, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey said he is contemplating systemic solutions to regulate content Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey on Friday gathered with 18 colleagues, including the safety team, to debate ways to make the social media service safer for its users. The discussion …

America’s addiction to sanctions does not allow negotiation to take place: Zarif Iran gave its most explicit rejection yet of talks with the U.S. on Saturday, and accused Washington of an “addiction to sanctions” over its latest spat with Turkey. The U.S. reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran on Tuesday, following …

UN human rights experts have expressed alarm over what they said were many credible reports that China had detained one million or more ethnic Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang and forced as many as two million to submit to re-education and indoctrination. In the name of combating religious …

Aadhaar of over 30,000 children linked to portal The Aadhaar details of over 30,000 children living in child care institutions have been linked to the TrackChild portal, a central database, following reports of many going missing from shelters, an official said. TrackChild, which has details of missing children, coordinates with …

Policemen in Una barred from carrying over Rs. 200 In a bid to curb corruption, the police chief of Himachal Pradesh’s Una district has issued a unique diktat barring police personnel manning checkpoints from keeping more than Rs. 200 with them. Una Superintendent of Police Diwakar Sharma said the decision …

The Railways will stop free travel insurance for passengers from September 1, an official said on Saturday. Travellers, while booking tickets through the IRCTC website or mobile app, can opt for travel insurance or opt out. The order to charge for travel insurance will be generated in a few days.IANS …