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New Delhi, Feb 10 (PTI) India climbed five places to the 91st position out of 182 countries and territories on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025 released on Tuesday.

India's score has gone up by one point since previous year while its rank has improved from the 96th position, according to the global NGO Transparency International's latest CPI.

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New Delhi, Feb 10 (PTI) The rate of unemployment among persons aged 15 years and above in cities declined marginally to 6.7 per cent in October-December 2025 from 6.9 per cent in the pervious quarter, showed a government survey released on Tuesday.

In rural areas, the unemployment rate (UR) or joblessness among those aged 15 years and above declined to 4 per cent in ...


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Pakistan’s decision to pull out of the India fixture in the ICC T20 World Cup and its abrupt U-turn has exposed how political symbolism and economic imperatives now outweigh sporting logic in South Asian cricket. The Federal spoke to senior sports journalists Pradeep Magazine and Sharda Ugra on how the nine-day drama unfolded, why Pakistan eventually agreed to play, an...


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A political and institutional storm has erupted over former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane’s memoir Four Stars of Destiny. The Federal spoke to senior journalist and political commentator Saba Naqvi, author and policy expert Pushpraj Deshpande, and independent security expert Lt Gen Ashok K. Mehta (Retd) on Capital Beat to unpack the escalating row ove...


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Babar Ali, 28, is counting the days to his upcoming field posting in Jammu and Kashmir, his second stint in the troubled region.

“The order has come. [His movement order is for March 20.] I am itching to get back to the field. Every soldier looks forward to a posting in a high-stakes security environment. After all, we sign up for the army because we want to b...


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