This was the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian official delegation since Operation Sindoor last year. Why did the visit happen, and what is next?

The portrait of Gandhi visible on banknotes is a cut-out of a photograph taken in Delhi in 1946. But his image was not a fixture of Indian currency for a long period.

Ahmedabad-based space technology startup Satleo Labs has developed India’s first private thermal payload for commercial use. For the next 3 years, data captured will be analysed using AI to generate insights for a range of sectors.

One of the few outcomes from the recent Trump-Xi bilataral meeting was China's decision to loan two pandas to the US. While the country is known for having turned the gifting of animals into a diplomatic art form, the practice's history goes back many thousand…

As India commemorates the birth anniversary of two of India’s greatest freedom fighters on October 2, we look at two critical junctures of Shastri’s life where Gandhi’s ideas and ideals left a lasting impression.

Pilot Smit Machchhar has been praised for opening the cockpit door, allowing others to catch hold of his co-pilot. These doors have been deliberately made difficult to unlock over the last 25 years.

India and the US have already signed a trade deal framework in February. So why is the US trade representative now saying that a deal is not imminent?

Israel votes on October 27. The tight election race comes amid its many ongoing conflicts and questions over accountability for the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack. Is there any credible challenger to Netanyahu? An expert explains the issues that will shape…

At the heart of the dispute are promotion bottlenecks, the meaning of Organised Group A Service status, and a new law enacted by Parliament this year.

As AI agents gain more autonomy, companies are struggling to see when they cross the limits set for them. The challenge is not only detecting rogue behaviour, but stopping it in time.

The increasing burden of lung cancer makes early detection of cases crucial. But there are several challenges with introducing a screening programme in India — and cost is not the only one.

Pilots routinely travel as passengers in the cabin while being 'repositioned' for their next route ahead of their impending work assignment, in a practice called 'deadheading'. We explain.

The court held that the 2017 amendment to smoking rules turned the earlier qualified restriction into an absolute prohibition on providing hookah service, including herbal hookah, in designated smoking areas.

A Cornell university student has alleged that she was raped by seven members of a fraternity house in 2024. What are fraternities? What exactly do they do? And why are they so common in the US? Here’s a primer on their evolution, significance and darker side.

In October 1949, Mao proclaimed a new state in China. Thirty-two years earlier, Lenin seized power in Russia. The two revolutions, despite their ultimate tragedies, changed what millions believed politically possible.

French students began protesting over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and poor school infrastructure. But with elections months away, the unrest has a political undertone. We explain.

Kerala’s Home Department ordered the reopening of a probe into alleged corruption in a road-related work from 2006, when Kumar was the state’s PWD secretary. Meanwhile, protests by different groups continue across the country.

Most analysts expect the RBI to raise the policy rate, repo rate, by 25 basis points (bps) to 5.50%, potentially marking the beginning of a more aggressive rate-hiking cycle. Here is why.

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This edition looks at the nature of rumours around Chinese President Xi Jinping's health in recent weeks, a sale of jets to Taiwan, and activity in the South China Sea.

The controversy is really about whether the appointment process produces the appearance of independence. The system should be such that selection of Election Commissioners should not only be impartial but also appear to be so.

The combination of El Niño and Russia-Ukraine war, coupled with aggressive biofuel mandates by major producers such as Indonesia, is impacting this commodity the hardest.