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A new coalition led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has been formed in Pakistan. Despite the media's typical leniency towards new governments, Sharif will unlikely enjoy a honeymoon period. We explain why the country is in crisis and political instability is rife.

On 2nd March, the BJP released a list of 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections 2024. We explain why many prominent names are not being repeated while many others are.

The Supreme Court has ruled that lawmakers can't claim immunity for taking bribes to make a speech or cast a vote in the legislature. We explain the implications of this verdict and why it overrules the 1998 PV Narasimha Rao case verdict.

India's Prime Minister announced the names of four astronaut-designates for India's human spaceflight program, Gaganyaan. They are being trained in Bengaluru and will fly aboard ISRO's heaviest launcher in 2025. The intricacies of the mission are explained in this episode.

The Congress now has a seat-sharing arrangement with the AAP in Delhi, SP in Uttar Pradesh and it will certainly be with the DMK in Tamilnadu, probably NCP in Maharashtra. But will the opposition's numbers add up to face the formidable challenge of a BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Explained.

The Maharashtra government has offered 10-12% reservation to the Maratha community following their agitation. However, whether this is legally possible is unclear, as the Supreme Court has set a 49% limit on reservations. Find out the feasibility of the 'Maratha' quota in today's explainer.

The Supreme Court declared the 2017-18 law introducing electoral bonds void on Feb 15. The ruling followed allegations of corruption and undue advantage enjoyed by ruling parties. We explain how an instrument of transparency went wrong.

Two years after the issue seemed to have been resolved, with the Narendra Modi government withdrawing its three farm reform laws, farmers — mostly from Punjab — are back in the streets, protesting. The politics, economics and feasibility of their demands explained.

Eight Indian Navy veterans, who were released by a Qatar court months after being sentenced to death on the charge of espionage, heaped praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on arrival in New Delhi on Monday. Here's why their release was otherwise unthinkable.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in the recently concluded parliamentary session that the BJP alone would win more than 370 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha election and the aggregate for NDA will cross 400. We explain where the numbers will come from and why the opposition is hopeless.