This year, AI began changing the way people access knowledge on the internet, challenging Google’s stranglehold. While its promised efficiencies are yet to materialise, expect AI to further integrate itself into your everyday life in 2026.

Trade talks, neighbourhood polls, great-power ties: India’s choices will shape its global standing and regional stability.

Aravalli Hills Controversy Explained: Environment Minister said no relaxation for mining in Aravallis, but portions of the hills near NCR may now be opened to construction.

With existing capacities far from exhausted, Indian companies have chosen to reduce debt, sit on cash and make financial investments.

VB-G RAM G Bill provides for a 60-day pause during the 'peak agriculture seasons' of sowing and harvesting. But there isn’t enough evidence that NREGS reduced availability of farm labour

Till the 1990s, gun control remained unpopular among most Australians, who considered the right to own guns an essential extension to their freedom. Things fundamentally changed after the Port Arthur massacre.

Beijing drastically reduced air pollution levels in around a decade. Behind its success is a comprehensive policy framework that can be replicated

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s ‘Ananda Math’ was the first work of literature to frame the Indian nation as the motherland.

It’s the drying up of foreign capital inflows into India, and not trade or current account deficits, that is behind the free fall in the currency.

Sanchar Saathi privacy concerns, Sanchar Saathi user consent: The forced installation of a state-owned app onto personal devices is being viewed by legal experts as a potential violation of the fundamental right to privacy.

A better idea of the rupee's weakening in the last one year can be obtained from the movements in its so-called nominal effective exchange rate and real effective exchange rate. Here's what they are, how the rupee has moved, and why.

Last week, the Supreme Court closed all civil and criminal cases against them after promoters Nitin and Chetan Sandesara offered to deposit Rs 5,100 crore. Here’s a breakdown of the case and what the court said.  

On Friday, students, faculty members, and staff at the Kolkata campus of the Indian Statistical Institute held protests against the draft Bill’s changes to the institute’s governance structure. Here’s a breakdown of the row.

This week, the Assam government released two key reports of the Nellie Massacre, considered one of the worst of mass violence in post-Independence India. Here’s what the report by the ‘Commission of Enquiry on Assam Disturbances’ led by IAS officer Tribhuvan Prasad Tewary said.

Power employee associations and farmer trade unions have been pushing back against the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, arguing that it would pave the way for privatisation and ultimately lead to higher tariffs.

As much as $250 billion was wiped off Nvidia’s market cap on November 25. The jitters reportedly stemmed from Gemini 3, Google’s latest AI reasoning model, that has quickly become a favourite among tech CEOs, developers, and researchers. Here's why.

This week, the Indian Navy commissioned INS Mahe, an indigenously designed Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft. Here’s all about the vessel that’s expected to augment India’s combat capability.

UK plans to scrap jury trials for ‘mid-range’ offences – crimes such as theft, burglary, fraud and assault. Here’s why there’s opposition to it.

Stock markets rallied 1.2 percent Wednesday, and are all set to hit record high in the coming days. Here’s what has changed in the last few days.

Located two hours from the state’s capital Raipur city, Sirpur in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district has 34 Hindu, Jain and Buddhist monuments on the banks of the river Mahanadi.

Last week, the Supreme Court asked Delhi authorities to check the equipment used in air-quality monitoring stations. As the city’s deteriorating AQI makes air monitoring more and more crucial, here’s a breakdown of how AQI is monitored in the national capital.    

Effective November 21, the four labour codes seek to ease regulations and compliance norms for employers, and ensure uniformity in wage structure and social security protection for workers.

India could not take full advantage of cultivating GM crops. But the story is more encouraging in GE crops, where there is both indigenous research and breeding happening and also policy support from the government

The central government is all set to table a draft law for a single regulatory authority for higher education in India, five years after the NEP 2020 recommended it. Here’s a breakdown of what this draft law is and why the central government is tabling it.