Protesting against the new University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations, as well as the alleged manhandling of Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer Alankar Agnihotri resigned on Monday. A 2019-batch officer, Agnihotri is currently posted as Bareilly City Magistrate. The snap decision created ripples, sources said, with meetings continuing late into Monday evening to…

(As West Bengal gears up for the Assembly polls, every Tuesday, The Indian Express’s Kolkata bureau chief Ravik Bhattacharya decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) Along National Highway 12 in Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, it is hard to miss a plot of land barricaded by police guardrails….

The Revanth Reddy government has the Bharat Rashtra Samiti cornered over at least four cases, not giving the party led by K Chandrasekhar Rao, or KCR, a breather to plan, regroup, or organise itself after successive electoral losses. This has led the Opposition party on the backfoot, keeping it always on the defensive and unable…

From a tale of two speeches at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in Swiss Alps to the decks being cleared for “mother of all deals” back home – the coverage of the Urdu dailies over the week was dominated by geopolitics and international trade, which have a crucial bearing on India’s roadmap ahead….

Amid protests over the recently notified “equity regulations” for higher education institutes by the University Grants Commission (UGC), Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Tuesday that no one would be allowed to misuse the provisions and that “discrimination will not be allowed against anybody”. “… Oppression will not be allowed against anybody… there won’t be…