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Gold Silver ETF India: An employee displays gold ornaments at a jewellery showroom ahead of 'Dhanteras' festival, in Agartala, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.

Gold and silver rally continue: What’s sparking the demand, and are price corrections expected?

October 10, 2025 5:52 pm

Gold and silver rally continue, Gold Silver ETF India: Analysts expect some corrections in prices in the near term due to profit booking, but maintain a bullish outlook on gold and silver prices over the long-term.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets supporters in Guanare, Venezuela, on July 17, 2024. Barred from running for president herself, Machado helped galvanise support behind the candidate challenging President Nicolas Maduro in elections. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times)

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner: Maria Corina Machado, ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela

October 10, 2025 5:50 pm

Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Machado has long been one of the strongest advocates for democracy in the country that has long been under a repressive dictatorship.

An artist gives final touches to a voter awareness mural on the wall, in Patna, Bihar, on Wednesday. (ANI Photo)

Bihar’s economy needs jobs and investments, but can it afford pre-poll sops?

October 10, 2025 7:26 pm

The Bihar government has estimated it will spend just under Rs 42,000 crore as capital expenditure in 2025-26. This is only 14 per cent of its total expenditure. How is the rest of the amount being spent, and what do key indicators show about Bihar's economy before elections?

Why the SC said age limit under surrogacy law cannot be applied retrospectively

October 10, 2025 2:36 pm

The Bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and K V Viswanathan said that the couples had already begun the process before the Act came into effect, and that the new restrictions could not take away their right to have a child through surrogacy

Even before the Red Sea crisis began, Indian exporters remitted over $100 billion annually as transport service charges. (Wikimedia Commons)

How the Israel–Hamas ceasefire could impact global trade and India's economic interests

October 10, 2025 10:43 am

Longer routes around the Cape of Good Hope resulted in vessels spending more time at sea than usual. This impacted the profit margins of Indian companies, but the signing of the deal does not assure relief.

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Quantum breakthrough in digital security: How Indian researchers achieved this, significance

October 10, 2025 9:08 pm

For the first time, a technique to generate true random numbers is ready to be deployed in real-life situations. It potentially paves the way for the development of hack-proof digital security.

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Why are bar councils barring lawyers from promoting their work on social media?

October 09, 2025 2:35 pm

In India, lawyers are strictly forbidden from advertising their services or soliciting work. The foundation for this rule lies in the Advocates Act, 1961

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2025 Nobel Prize in Literature | 'Hungarian master of apocalypse': What makes László Krasznahorkai's writing stand out

October 10, 2025 10:54 am

László Krasznahorkai, whose fiction walks the knife-edge between despair and grace, has become the second Hungarian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar speaks during the 4th edition of Kautilya Economic Conclave, in New Delhi on Sunday.

On India’s GDP growth trajectory, compared to Pakistan, China and the US

October 09, 2025 6:58 pm

In Explained’s new weekly column, titled ‘GDP: Graphs, Data, Perspectives’, Udit Misra looks at the size of India’s GDP growth in recent decades, in relation to a few other countries.

Afghan Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, arrives in India on Thursday, October 9.

Muttaqi in India: Why New Delhi is increasing engagement with Afghanistan's Taliban

October 10, 2025 5:30 pm

Changing geopolitical situations and India's security calculus have made engagement with the Taliban necessary, but New Delhi has tricky territory to navigate.

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Quixplained: What to keep in mind as gyms, fitness centres reopen

August 08, 2020 11:44 am

The government has allowed opening of yoga institutes and gymnasiums from August 5 as part of the ‘Unlock 3’ phase.

Quixplained: What's new in the National Education Policy

August 07, 2020 8:31 am

National Education Policy or NEP is a comprehensive framework to guide the development of education in the country. A new policy usually comes along every few decades. The latest policy is India's third. It replaces the 1986 NEP, which was in place for 34 years.

Quixplained: How ‘corona’ of the virus changes into a hairpin shape — and why

August 07, 2020 8:31 am

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 — the ‘corona’ in the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 disease — has just revealed new secrets. Researchers have found that the spike protein changes its form after it attaches itself to a human cell, folding in on itself and assuming a rigid hairpin shape.

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Quixplained: India's Rafale vs Pakistan's F16 and China's J20

August 07, 2020 8:31 am

The five Rafale fighter jets that land in Ambala on Wednesday morning will resurrect the Number 17 Golden Arrows squadron of the Indian Air Force. It will take the IAF’s squadron strength to 31. When all the 36 Rafale jets are delivered by 2022, it will take it to 32 squadrons, still well below the 42 squadrons of the sanctioned strength.