Sinwar had been de facto chief of Hamas since 2017, and its man on the ground in Gaza. He was also in-charge of Hamas’s military operations, and the alleged mastermind of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks on Israel.

The new, six-foot-tall statue in the judges’ library is of a saree-clad woman with no blindfold, holding scales and, instead of the sword, a copy of the Constitution of India.

The last Indian team to cross the border for cricket was M S Dhoni’s side that played the Asia Cup in 2008. If things ultimately work out in time for the Champions Trophy next year, it would have taken 16 long years to untangle cricket from the complexities of India-Pakistan politics.

Israel’s justification for its military offensive on Gaza, since the very beginning, has been to “wipe Hamas off the Earth”. To this rather vague end, Sinwar’s death is a major milestone.

Nijjar murder in Canada: The case has been adjourned five times since May this year, when the accused were arrested. It is now scheduled to be taken up on November 21. Here is what has happened so far.

Khalistani separatism on Canadian soil has long been Trudeau’s blind spot. More than a year after he first alleged Indian government links to the Nijjar murder, what explains this week's escalation?

In an interview to YouTube channel Everyday Astronaut, Musk said that his vision is that Mechazilla will one day be able to turn around and set a rocket back on the launchpad, perhaps as little as 30 minutes after touchdown.

The Nobel laureates in the economic sciences have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and exploitative institutions do not generate growth or change for the better. Where does India fit into this understanding?

While Jaishankar is not expected to have very meaningful bilateral meetings in Islamabad, in an India-Pakistan context, a multilateral visit too carries possibilities.

If The Vegetarian marked Han’s ascendancy in the Anglophone sphere, then the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded on October 10, conferred global recognition. Here is what makes her works stand out.

The 57-year-old Saibaba had a 90% disability due to a polio infection contracted during his childhood, leaving him paralysed from the waist down. Upon his release from Nagpur jail on March 7, he spoke about the health complications he faced while incarcerated.

Many drugs and therapies for rare diseases are patented, which makes them expensive. The market for these drugs is small and development costs high, so pharmaceutical firms don’t find it profitable to produce them. Manufacturing these drugs in India could help bring down prices, but the government will have to step in.

The hurricane has now weakened and moved off over to the North Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center, a US government agency, said on Thursday.

UNIFIL is supposed to prevent violations in the border zone and report breaches to the UN Security Council. Two members of a UN peacekeeping mission, operating along Lebanon’s border with Israel, were recently injured.

During the 20th century, life expectancy soared dramatically primarily due to innovations in public health and medicine — between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. But there are limitations in going beyond these advancements.

In a new analysis, researchers used satellite imagery and data to conclude that the extent of vegetation in the Antarctic Peninsula has increased 14 times in just 35 years.

The three recipients of this year’s Chemistry Nobel have been awarded the prize for developing tools that make it easier and quicker to decipher proteins’ structures, and develop entirely new proteins.

In a briefing on the Cabinet decision, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the aim of this was to “address anaemia and micro-nutrients deficiency”.

The work of John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton helped enable pattern recognition in computers, a key component of tools like face recognition or image improvement.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP improved its tally, winning all 10 seats. It won a whopping 58.2% of the vote; the Congress got only 28.5%.

Customers around the country are paying at least Rs 80-90/ kg for tomato. Consumer price data compiled by the ministry show average prices on October 7 had increased significantly from a month ago. Here's why

One of the deadliest pathogens known to infect humans; causes deadly haemorrhagic fever.

“Gene regulation by microRNA, first revealed by Ambros and Ruvkun, has been at work for hundreds of millions of years. This mechanism has enabled the evolution of increasingly complex organisms,” the Nobel press release for the announcement stated.

It has been 12 months since Hamas attacked Israel and sparked an increasingly more destructive war in West Asia. Here is a timeline of the key moments of the violence.