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Why is there a shortage of baby formula? Ongoing supply disruptions have combined with a recent safety recall to leave many pharmacy and supermarket shelves bare. What should parents do now? What are retailers doing

Inflation in April is at its highest in the last 8 years, and almost twice the RBI's target. A look at the factors that have kept inflation high since October 2019, and how it impacts

Google has doubled down on artificial intelligence and machine learning development. Here are some of the new technologies, tools it announced in its developer conference I/O 2022.

With about a third of its labour force engaged in agriculture, Thailand has been trying to promote cannabis as a cash crop for some time now. In fact, in 2018, it became the first country

This is Wickremesinghe’s fifth time in the office. Each of his earlier terms was truncated, and on two of those occasions he was dismissed by the President — by Chandrika Kumaratunga in 2004, and by

A Varanasi court has ordered that the video survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple be resumed and a report submitted by May 17. A look at the mosque, the

Market sentiments have been negative for now amid apprehensions that the RBI could go for a series of rate hikes to keep inflation under check. The Fed has already hiked rates twice in the last

According to the experts, Punjab needs to curtail area under rice form 3 million hectare (30 lh) to under 2 million hectares (20 lh), which should include around 7 to 8 lh under Basmati and

As the debate over the Sedition Law rages, we take a look at the sedition cases filed against the nationalist leaders and what they said about it

West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana are the worst hit by inflation

The Army has floated a Request for Information to purchase Protected Mobility Vehicles (PMV) for high-altitude areas and for deserts and plains. What are PMVs, how are they utilised, and who manufactures them?

Despite the crisis, Pyongyang may not necessarily be willing to accept help from foreign entities, including the UN, NK News said.

The mandatory condition of obtaining PAN for deposit and withdrawals would help the government in tracing the movement of cash in the financial system.

Iran is scheduled to put to death Ahmad Reza Jalali, a Swedish doctor, by May 21. Here's a look at the forces at play in Jalali's case.

John Lee has been elected the leader of Hong Kong after winning an election held through a closed voting system. What was different about this election? Who is Lee, and what does his win mean

The necklace, worn by popular US YouTuber Emma Chamberlain, originally belonged to Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala.

Six months after initially falling ill, 68% of participants reported at least one long Covid symptom.

Since 2014, when the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) started compiling data on sedition, 399 sedition cases have been filed across the country, including a high of 93 in 2019, and 73 in 2020.

Supreme Court order on the sedition law: Although the court did not explicitly stay the provision — no criminal law in force has ever been stayed by the court — it virtually stalls the operation

Last year, doctors had protested against the delays in 2021 NEET-PG counselling. We explain why this year, some want the examination postponed.

Marcos Jr, commonly referred to as Bongbong, has come to power 36 years after the infamous dictator Ferdinand Marcos was deposed and exiled along with his family in the People Power Revolution.

A G Perarivalan was sentenced to death by a TADA court in 1998 in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case, and the sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1999.

Why are Wayne Rooney's wife Coleen Rooney and Jamie Vardy's wife Rebekah Vardy locked in a court battle, dubbed the Wagatha Christie case?

A two-judge Bench of the Delhi High Court has delivered a split verdict in a batch of petitions challenging the exception provided to marital rape in the Indian Penal Code. What is the case about?

Tomato flu — what are the causes, symptoms, treatments and precautions? We explain.