The CNT Act, SPT Act and PESA were enacted to protect Adivasi land rights and self-governance. Yet mining projects, legal loopholes and weak enforcement continue to fuel land conflicts across Jharkhand.

Hydrogen is highly flammable and needs to be transported at very high pressure. How will the Railways do this? And how will the train work? We explain.

According to insurance experts, many families have surrendered traditional life insurance policies to meet immediate cash needs due to inflation, rising living costs and higher loan repayments in recent years.

The Odyssey is one of the most influential works of Western literature. Whether you’re coming to Homer for the first time or simply wondering how Christopher Nolan’s film fits into the ancient epic, here’s where to begin.

Before China, only Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin demonstrated the ability to launch and land rockets. Here's how China’s technology differs from other reusable rockets and the strategic implications of its breakthrough.

Form 6 is the electors’ enrolment form. The version now available for online submission has a new part that requires applicants to answer whether their parents were in the last SIR, but such changes require an amendment and gazette notification.

The UN report examined AI across seven broad themes. Here’s what it found, and the implications for India.

The Indian Navy has commissioned several warships in the last two years, including six of the seven planned under Project 17A. What explains this pace of progress?

What was the press note Khalra had prepared, which later became key to a CBI probe into alleged illegal cremations of 'disappeared' people? How did Khalra's murder case proceed in court? We explain.

Overseas funds will be welcomed not just by the start-ups but even policymakers, with the Indian economy seemingly having sleepwalked into an exodus of foreign capital over the last couple of years.

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week’s edition focuses on the latest set of elevations in the Chinese military’s top leadership and two noteworthy technical tests.

The SC has sought comments and suggestions from stakeholders and the public by July 15.

The Supreme Court has constituted four special benches to exclusively hear its oldest pending civil and criminal cases as CJI Surya Kant targets mounting judicial backlog. We explain

Beijing has increasingly displayed its improving nuclear capabilities over the last decade. For New Delhi, the test reinforces the widening strategic gap between their nuclear arsenal and delivery capabilities — qualitatively and quantitatively.

A former Lawrence Bishnoi associate who built a rival criminal empire, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria now finds himself at the centre of a sweeping US federal indictment alleging he ran a transnational crime syndicate from an Indian jail. Here’s how the alliance fractured…

While Kospi is down 27% from its peak, another AI-heavy market Taiwan has remained relatively resilient

Citing unnamed officials, The NYT reported last week that the new plane lacked several of the defence capabilities found on older Air Force One planes. That report has become the subject of the leak investigation by the Justice Department.

Improved counting of births and deaths could transform demographic and public-health planning, but the system and data still raise questions.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen sharply as renewed US-Iran tensions disrupt vessel movements, fuel oil price gains and revive concerns over global energy security.

One of the deaths and eight other positive cases were from Andhra's Kadapa district. But officials say these are sporadic cases that should not be considered a fresh outbreak.

The Supreme Court this week sent 27 cases back for adjudication before their respective foreigners’ tribunals. We recall how B R Ambedkar addressed Assam’s migration concerns during the Constituent Assembly debates in 1949.