Why is the induction of the Rafale M important in the context of the Indian Navy? Why does India need aircraft carriers, and advanced fighter jets for these great battleships?

What do the Greenhouse Gases Emissions Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025, say? Why are they needed, and how will these targets help India’s carbon credit trading market?

The efforts to make accurate forecasts of the southwest monsoon go back to 1870s. It is through a long process of trial and error that the IMD has improved its predictions. But there is scope to do better.

A sport that works perfectly well online and is highly competitive makes for a good fit to be a part of the upcoming Esports World Cup, which will feature chess as an online event for the first time.

By that yardstick, 2024-25 was a good year for Indian agriculture, in which both tractors and fertilisers notched up impressive sales growth.

As the US pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said the Black Sea peninsula will stay with Russia. Why is Crimea, annexed by Vladimir Putin in 2014, so important to Russia? And what implications does the formal US recognition of Crimea as part of Russia have for Ukraine?

Treaties between sovereign nations are governed by a complex set of public international law rules. But at the end of the day, international law is not enforceable against the will of a sovereign nation

IVF, egg-freezing, paid maternity leave and financial support may ensure that athletes need not choose between career and motherhood

The terror attack near Pahalgam comes at a time when Pakistan finds itself increasingly isolated on the international stage. It is an act of desperation, one which India must respond to with a cool head.

From stopping water flow data to new storage rights, here’s what the abeyance of the IWT enables — and what it doesn’t.

The Pahalgam attack revived ghosts of the past — and a terror playbook that, security officials said, is all too familiar.

More than 7 out of 10 Catholics are today in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Only a fifth live in Europe. This is due to trends of population growth, fall in religiosity, and recent scandals in the Catholic Church.

An agriculture production recovery, plus forecast of an “above normal” monsoon for 2025, should enable a further cooling of food inflationary pressures. Together with easing global crude prices and a stable rupee, it can also provide a boost to consumption

A well-disguised slower ball is like a conjuror’s illusion. Everything about the bowler's action remains the same, but the way the ball travels and behaves changes dramatically. The success of the slower one, no matter of what kind, lies in this masterful masquerade.

The yatra has been suspended since 2020. Its imminent resumption is a part of a larger rapprochement between New Delhi and Beijing

Adam Smith balked at restraints on free trade ‘either by high duties, or by absolute prohibitions’. The return of high tariffs in the US under Donald Trump and Joe Biden mark the end of the era of hyper-globalisation propelled by the ideas of the classical economists.

The petitioners flagged a number of issues with the 2025 law, including the omission of ‘Waqf by use’, and the inclusion of non-Muslims in Waqf boards

K2-18b Discovery, Biosignatures on exoplanet: The latest discovery is the strongest hint yet of biological activity outside our solar system. But this does not mean that we have definitively discovered life beyond Earth.

China’s GDP growth in the months of January, February and March exceeded the expectations that most analysts had. However, these data do not show the adverse impacts of Trump’s trade tariffs.

Neglected for decades in research, and frequently misdiagnosed, it has taken a long time for Type 5 diabetes, caused by malnutrition-induced lowering of insulin production, to gain official recognition.

What is the story of the plot in Panchkula at the heart of the ED’s chargesheet against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi? How did it come to the leaders of the Congress, was taken back, and returned — all by Congress Chief Ministers of Haryana? What are the allegations, and what’s the status of the investigation?

Here are five elements that stand out in Trump’s chaotic view of the world, and how they impact India and India-US ties.

Bengali New Year celebration: Pohela Boishakh is literally the first day (pohela) of Boishakh, the first month in the traditional Bengali calendar.

Since his early days as a lawyer, Nair came to be known for an uncompromising commitment to what he believed, irrespective of the strength of the opposition he faced.