During the course of a legislative session, what do India’s elected leaders actually do? Hindustan Times has created a Parliament calendar to monitor activities on every day of the Winter Session in 2017.

Gujarati voters were more likely to choose wealthy candidate over less wealthy ones, an analysis of candidate disclosure documents and Monday’s poll returns from the state’s assembly election shows.

http hg81808.comOver the past seven years, the Delhi public school system has created space in its budget to hire thousands of new teachers. But an intractable tangle of court cases, politics, and bureaucratic inefficiency has made it impossible to hire them.

Gujarat assembly election 2017: Fewer candidates now win by a margin greater than 40%, and more are winning with a margin less than 20%.

Each of Agatha Christie’s 33 Poirot books has been adapted at least once into a TV series or film. Murder on the Orient Express has been adapted the most — five times, including a new release starring Kenneth Branagh.

http hg81808.com Guess where you fit on the country’s wealth spectrum.

Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Gujarat assembly election in 1995, the state has remained in saffron hands. But before the BJP’s dominance, Gujarat was a Congress bastion.

http hg81808.comAmitabh Bachchan celebrates his 75th birthday on Wednesday. If you consider yourself a Big B fan, this is your chance to prove it.

http hg81808.comFor over a hundred years, men have dominated the Nobel Prizes. And even as women have entered public life, men continue to win most of the prizes. Why?

http hg81808.comSatellites have photographed scores of burning villages near Myanmar’s western border.

The state’s annual tragedy is striking new areas and growing more intense.