Economist Prabhat Patnaik has criticised the “abandoning” of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) by the BJP-led government at the Centre. Delivering a special lecture ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica—The argument of scrapping jury trials and using the plea bargaining system a lot more as possible ways to slash backlog in the courts has come to the fore, with Chief Justice Bryan ...

The Department of Expenditure has launched its sweeping rationalisation drive to trim the number and financial outlay of Central Sector Schemes (CSs) and Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS), sources ...

Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy. The Trump administration is proposing to remove requirements that ...

Zohran Mamdani, the newly sworn-in mayor of New York City, suggested Friday that the widely adopted definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) does not ...

Foreign ministry says mayor has poured ‘antisemitic gasoline on an open fire’ by scrapping IHRA definition Israel’s foreign ministry has accused the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of pouring ...

The federal government has taken the next steps to scrap its looming ban on single-use plastic exports, though the Alberta government maintains that Ottawa should get rid of the domestic prohibition, ...

Nigel Farage has said he is giving “serious thought” to scrapping the UK’s budget watchdog if Reform UK wins the next general election. The Reform leader said the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his executive powers to revoke a handful of orders put into place by his predecessor after the former mayor was federally indicted, including a directive that ...

Despite the vehicle scrapping policy introduced by the Central government to reduce pollution, many vehicle owners have failed to take the rules seriously. As a result, a large number of old cars and ...