Tropic, the UK-based biotech company which has developed these bananas, claims that their fruit remains fresh and yellow for 12 hours after being peeled. Here is why this matters.
PM Modi is visiting Mauritius for its National Day, which, like much else in the country, has an Indian connection. Its location in the Indian Ocean also makes Mauritius strategically important.
“Butterflies have been declining the last 20 years,” said study co-author Nick Haddad, an entomologist at Michigan State University. “And we don’t see any sign that that’s going to end.”
Vanuatu has a popular citizenship by investment (CBI) or “golden passport” program, which allows wealthy individuals to purchase its passport.
Rana, 64, had filed an “Emergency Application For Stay” after President Donald Trump approved his extradition following his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month.
Cricketers have traditionally used saliva to shine one side of the ball, smoothen the surface, and make it a tad heavier on that side. But does this really help its movement? We explain.
The stock price of Eutelsat, a Franco-British company, has more than quadrupled since the February 28 public showdown between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump.
The Cairo Declaration is the first collective Arab proposal for Gaza’s “day after”, contingent on the “full implementation of the ceasefire agreement...especially by Israel”.
The Sensex and Nifty jumped over one per cent to 73,730.23 and 22,337.30 respectively on Wednesday (March 5), a surprising move given the 16 per cent decline over the last five months.
Farm exports have posted above-average growth, with basmati rice, spices, coffee and tobacco shipments set to cross new highs in 2024-25. But imports, especially of pulses and edible oils, have surged too
The Centre has released latest estimates of India’s GDP, making significant revisions for past quarters and years. Why does govt make these revisions? What do these changes in estimates say about the economy?
Khusrau made lasting contributions to Indian classical music and qawwali, and is also credited for developing Hindavi, a precursor to modern Hindi and Urdu.
The Bill was introduced in August last year to amend the Waqf Act of 1995. It proposed sweeping changes which give the government a foot in the door in regulating waqf properties, and settling disputes regarding such properties.
The Lokpal is an independent statutory body that is under the aegis of the executive. Admitting its order could have opened a new avenue for complaints against judges, without abiding by the process earlier laid down for such cases.
Tamil Nadu has an almost century-old history of anti-Hindi agitations. Unlike most other states — including southern states such as Kerala and Karnataka — it follows a two-language formula in which students are taught only Tamil and English.
Led by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the delegation's visit marks a new phase in the bilateral relationship between India and Europe.
The scheme, the details of which would be known in two weeks, would replace the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program, Trump said.
The Constitution mandates delimitation after every Census. But the number of seats in Parliament, and the share of each state, have remained static since 1976. This is largely due to opposition from southern states. Here's why.
Although not as well-known as the Silk Road, which linked China and Europe, the Tea Horse Road was a crucial commercial pathway for centuries
Why is the far-right AfD popular in areas that once made up the communist country of the German Democratic Republic? The answers have to do with demography and economy, as well as the consequences of Germany's re-unification and its reckoning with its Nazi past.
The company said it had been successful in creating a new chip that would fast-track the development of a meaningful quantum computer from decades to a few years.
Three years since the war began, Russia is weakened, Ukraine is devastated, but a resolution is in sight. Donald Trump has taken it upon himself to end the war Vladimir Putin started.
The idea of creation of Zonal Councils was mooted by the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956 when during the course of debate on the report of the States Reorganisation Commission.
Amritpal, who faces charges under the stringent National Security Act, has been detained in Dibrugarh since April 2023.
US and Russia are negotiating the end of the war in Ukraine, with neither Ukrainians nor Europeans at the table. As Donald Trump upends the eight-decade-old US-Europe partnership, what is the view from Delhi?



