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.

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.

A lab worker in Siberia died after developing severe pneumonia, prompting medical observation of nearly 200 people. Here’s what to know about pneumonic plague, how it spreads, its symptoms and how it is treated.

Nobel Prize 2026 in physiology or medicine winners: What are light-gated ion channels and optogenetics? What exactly have the Medicine Nobel winners done, and what is the real-world impact of their work? We explain.

A series of revelations show how there was sufficient opportunity for authorities in three countries to prevent Flight FZ1073 co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami from even getting anywhere near the cockpit, let alone almost causing a crash.

The voter enrolment form was changed to include questions linked to the special intensive revision, prompting objections over the legal process followed.

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that laid the foundation of optogenetics — a technique that lets scientists switch specific cells on and off using light.

The court’s observation comes after the ECI issued a statement on September 26 that the Form 6 would revert to the original version as per Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.

Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence for an attempted 2023 coup in Brazil. How did his son become the frontrunner to lead the country? And what has been Trump’s role in the elections for South America’s biggest country and economy?

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For the first time, two captive-bred great Indian bustards have been released into the wild. While this experiment is indeed important, the recovery of their population still remains a long-term challenge.