As many as 55 leading international economists have drafted a London Consensus, which they claim offers an alternative to the 'outdated' Washington Consensus, whose policy prescriptions of trade liberalisation, deregulation, and privatisation held sway from…

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, we note how Beijing marked China’s National Day, and look at a new visa category and more data on the Chinese economy.

Unsustainable development, climate change, and lack of institutional will to remedy matters are pushing Darjeeling to a precipice. This harms the region, as well as India’s economic and national security interests

Calling AI avatars actors is an act of quiet deceit — a linguistic dodge designed to legitimise what is essentially an act of theft as innovation. These digital bodies are not born of imagination or creativity, but built on the extracted labour of real performers.

Lecornu, who was sworn in on September 9, is now the shortest-serving Prime Minister since 1958. He was also the fifth Prime Minister in two years under Macron, whose second term in office has been marred by political instability

One immediate beneficiary of exemptions to environmental clearances could be a proposed Adani-owned plant near Kalyan, in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Nobel Prize winners 2025, Nobel Prize Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded for their work on the immune system. We break down what they have done, what diseases it will help treat, and how.

A new study has found that while the twinning rate is expected to fall in India, the country will remain home to one of the world’s largest population of twins. This has profound public health and demographic significance.

Sakaguchi swam against the tide, and in a 1995 paper presented evidence for a new type of T cell “police” that essentially keeps other T cells from attacking the body’s own cells

The final verdict in the Karnataka case, along with the ongoing proceedings in Andhra Pradesh, will be keenly watched as they are likely to have significant implications for how Indians watch movies on the big screen

At a press conference on Monday, the EC announced the schedule for the Bihar Assembly elections: voting will be held in two phases, on November 6 and 11, and counting on November 14.

Since the primary market creates new securities and the secondary market is where they are traded, companies usually raise fresh capital when share prices rise, and the IPO pipeline slows when indices fall. What is happening now breaks that usual pattern

Kristy Hsu, Director of Taiwan ASEAN Studies Center at Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, argues that countries need not manufacture the most advanced chips, but should focus instead on the chips which best serve the local market.

The golf tournament was just another event that showed how globally, political establishments are attempting to latch onto sport for a range of goals – if not as a rallying cry against a warring nation, then just to further the cult of personality of a leader.

This extremely unusual incident of an uncommanded deployment of the RAT has raised concerns about the Boeing 787, and comes barely four months after the fatal Air India crash in Ahmedabad, which also involved the aircraft

Both countries will engage in the week-long maritime drill off the Western coast of India, as part of Konkan-25.

Nobel Prize Winners 2025 in Physics: John Clarke, Michel H Devoret, and John M Martinis have been honoured for their work on quantum mechanical effects. What are these effects, what have these 3 done, and why does it matter?

Nobel Prize Winners 2025 in Physics: This year’s Nobel Prize in physics has gone to three scientists who showed that it was possible even for large systems, made up of billions of these small particles, to exhibit quantum behaviour under carefully controlled…

Navi Mumbai Airport inauguration today: Flight operations will begin likely in December with initial flight windows from 8 am to 8 pm, managing 10 air traffic movements per hour, scaling up to 40 as operational readiness improves in six to nine months.

The ruling revives a doctrinal question: how far can constitutional principles of equality override tribal customs protected under the Fifth and Sixth Schedules of the Constitution?