Compared to the eventful last 12 months, 2025 will be a period of relative lull, with a fairly modest sporting calendar. Legends Virat and Rohit could finally walk into the sunset, leaving behind a void and battles of succession. Hockey and chess hold great…

Switzerland Burqa Ban: In Switzerland, while almost no one wears burqa, only about 30 women wear the niqab, according to research by the University of Lucerne, Germany. Around 5% of Switzerland's population of 8.6 million people are Muslim

The OPT programme allows international students in the US to secure work on a temporary basis and serves as a gateway for skilled professionals seeking the H-1B visa. We explain how, and why it is facing controversy.

Technology has reduced errors in decision-making but it is not failsafe yet. How do Snicko, Hot Spot, and HawkEye work, and why are there repeated controversies around their use?

New Year’s Resolutions 2025: While the futility of the humble New Year's Resolution has been called to question, the practice of connecting the start of the calendar with a resolve to start afresh is a tale as old as time.

New textbooks will say that Ziaur Rahman, not Bangabandhu Mujibur Rahman, proclaimed Bangladesh independence on March 26

By pushing the winter Char Dham, the Uttarakhand government hopes to increase tourist footfall in the state during the traditionally off-season months

Canada's Rural Community Immigration Class provides a pathway for foreign nationals, including students, to apply for PR if they commit to living and working in designated rural communities. Here's how.

Top players like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura said that FIDE threatened grandmasters who wanted to take part in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour

Hundreds of B.E.d-qualified teachers in Chhattisgarh have been protesting by cleaning streets, donating blood, men tonsuring their heads, and more. We explain what is happening, and why

Though a 2018 amendment to the PCA clearly made it a crime to even offer a bribe, separate High Courts have offered different perspectives.

Tata Group’s Air India has announced the rollout of free in-flight Internet services on board domestic and international flights serviced by select aircraft in its fleet. Here is how this will work.

India recently submitted its latest Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC

A Dalit woman from the Mali community, Savitribai was born on January 3, 1831, in Maharashtra's Naigaon village. Married off at the age of 10, her husband Jyotirao Phule is said to have educated her at home

The success of tranquillisation in the wild depends on 3Ds — distance, dose and drugs — and personal skill

Joe Biden Blocks Nippon Steel: The takeover of the iconic US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel was announced in 2023. There has been bipartisan political opposition to the deal – even though it contradicts the foundational American commitment to free markets…

The gas supply which was halted on Wednesday took place through the Soviet-era Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline. It carried gas from Siberia via the town of Sudzha — currently, under the control of Ukrainian military forces — in Russia's Kursk region

What is the mega Yarlung Tsangpo project planned by China? What does Beijing hope to accomplish by building the world’s largest hydropower dam, and how could India be impacted? Experts weigh in.

One researcher said, “I think the message is that we have got to start to get people to realise that it (loneliness and social isolation) is part of a health thing... that they have to remain connected with other people”.