2024 has been marked by landslides around the world. Their frequency is increasing as the impacts of climate change intensify. Plantation farming and extremely heavy rain in Kerala contributed to the Wayanad tragedy. Here’s how.

The Vietnamese Communist Party has lost its long-ruling chief earlier this month, and his death could spell trouble for the EU's cordial relationship with Hanoi.

Nearly 40 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the state government will move to incinerate 337 MT of toxic waste from the Union Carbide facility. We explain.

The SUV driver was booked under Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in the case.

On March 29, 2023, while dining in a steakhouse in the city of Yekaterinburg that is located about 1,400 km east of Moscow, Gershkovich was arrested by the Russian authorities.

The ruling states that states cannot micro-classify in a way that it would “denude”, “rather than promote” the guarantee of equality or in a way that replaces the doctrine of equality with the “doctrine of classification.”

Are all Scheduled Castes to be treated similarly? Can states tinker with SC list? What is the yardstick for sub-classification? Here is what the Supreme Court ruled.

Compared to OBCs, the SC creamy layer issue is fraught. Despite the benefits of affirmative action, can the historic injustices of caste be wiped out? For OBCs the economic and social criteria perhaps allows upward mobility from backwardness but the same…

Lightning strikes have claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 people in Odisha in the last 11 years. The state now has a plan for mitigation. We explain.

Developmental and security concerns have been cited for the Great Nicobar Island (GNI) infrastructure project. What legal arguments have been made against it?

The Supreme Court said, 'The State in exercise of its power under Articles 15 and 16 is free to identify the different degrees of social backwardness and provide special provisions (such as reservation) to achieve the specific degree of harm identified.'

Why do IBA and IOC regulations differ on female eligibility and what does the rulebook say in other major sports?

The targeted killings of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders have increased the possibility of all-out war in West Asia to perhaps its highest level since the October 7 attacks on Israel. What could Iran do now?

Algeria’s Imane Khelif defeated Angela Carini in 46 seconds. Her gender attracted speculation and abuse, even as the Olympics’ committee supported her admission as a woman athlete. What is the larger issue?

Criticising the Budget in Parliament, Rahul had said that a “lotus shaped chakravyuh” controlled by six men had trapped India’s people in the same way that Abhimanyu, Arjuna’s young son, had been trapped and killed by the Kauravas in a chakravyuh or padmavyuh…

Throughout Olympic history, the cauldron has been a giant fixture on the ground, usually located in or near the main stadium. Paris is the first to have a moving, floating, air-borne cauldron.

The largest post Cold War prisoner swap between Russia and the West was concluded this week. Here is how prisoners often act as pawns in international power politics, and why securing their release is not ‘easy’.

Over the years, there have been many sports and events that have disappeared from the Olympic schedule. Here is a look at five such events.

A push for direct-seeded rice and zero-tillage wheat, using a new non-GM herbicide-tolerance technology, has the potential to reduce the environmental footprint of India’s two major cereal crops.

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race in July dramatically shook up the US presidential race. What happens now and what does this mean for India?