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Known to inspire movies such as The Conjuring, the Annabelle doll is believed to be possessed by the spirit of a young girl. The doll is under spotlight again as its handler recently died in

Jain was accused of corruption in the hiring of a 17-member creative team for the PWD for various projects. After almost 4 years of investigation, the CBI reached the conclusion that there were no irregularities

Immigration was Trump’s key campaign plank, and he started his crackdown immediately after he entered the White House in January. The practice of third-country deportations is seemingly the result of countries refusing to accept their

The J&K Reorganisation Act was passed in Parliament on August 6, 2019. It gave the Centre, through the Lieutenant Governor, a heightened legislative role in J&K, and put the bureaucratic apparatus in the UT under

His radical politics in the 1970s reconceptualised the Jharkhandi identity, giving second wind to the faltering movement for statehood.

Political activity has resumed in Jammu & Kashmir. The security situation and economy have improved. But the Pahalgam terror attack dealt a blow to booming tourism, broke narrative of returning normalcy

Why were these rather unconventional tactics employed in the decades-old discord between North Korea and South Korea?

Over the decades, the Congress party has missed several opportunities to reach out to OBCs in North India. It has also failed to claim credit for policy changes beneficial to OBCs that Congress governments initiated

The growth is now coming not from insecticides or fungicides, but herbicides. And the driver for that is shortage of labour for manual weeding.

Feeding pigeons is a contentious topic in Mumbai and a practice that has been ongoing for centuries. Here’s a look at the history of kabutarkhanas and pigeon feeding in the city and why it has

South Africa, home to the world’s largest rhino population, had lost over 10,000 rhinos to poaching over the last decade. Here is how the Rhisotope Project aims to deploy a different method for their conservation.

Trump has frequently lamented about not being awarded the prize, and world leaders hoping to develop a deeper relationship with the United States have picked up on the concern.

The firing of the commissioner of the US’ Bureau of Labor Statistics over a bad set of jobs numbers is the latest in a series of troubling issues plaguing America’s data collectors.

Kerala is experiencing one of the fastest demographic transitions in the country, marked by falling birth rates and a declining mortality rate, significantly increasing its elderly population.

Treating them as silent witnesses to history and conflict, Himmat Shah imbued his heads with a certain timelessness, reminiscent of excavated artefacts.

Global trade and tech order is changing, talks with US based on maintaining status quo will leave India more vulnerable

Last year, the amount of production capacity that came online stood at 105 mtpa — a 46% decline from 2023, when the amount was 193 mtpa. In fact, the 2024 increase was the smallest production

Johnny Depp’s sophomore film, Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, released in theatres last month, focuses on three crucial days in the life of the bohemian painter as he seeks an escape from

The Allahabad HC’s directives are the latest in a series of judicial orders that have called for a scrutiny of marriages solemnised by the Arya Samaj. Such weddings are granted legal sanction under the 88-year-old

This return was made possible by “an exemplary case of public-private partnership,” Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said on Wednesday. Here’s the story

Trump says India’s economy, the fastest growing in the world, is ‘dead’. Here’s how India stacks up against other countries on growth. But the data also show significant concerns for India on a range of

China is far from the only nation battling fertility concerns. South Korea and Japan have some of the lowest birth rates globally, while Elon Musk has frequently sounded the alarm for the US. What underlies

Every Friday, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week saw developments on the tariffs front and a new policy to boost falling birth rates.

A profound thread runs through the judgment and the separate opinion of one of the judges: that biodiversity is not merely a passive victim of climate change but a legal and ecological actor in its

After the Paris Agreement came into effect in 2016, it was understood that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol had lost its legal relevance. However, the ICJ has now said that the treaty remains valid, and countries