What are dhussi bandhs? How do they prevent flooding? What challenges do they face today?

While a military parade cannot indicate efficacy in the field of battle, it still shows what a country seeks to project to the world and offers a window into its capabilities. Analysts of the Chinese military explain what to know from the latest showcase…

Why Sobhraj killed so many remains a mystery. What can be said with certainty though is that he had little remorse for his actions

A team of researchers based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the United States) has tried to shed light on the inner workings of the language models that predict the structure and function of proteins by using an innovative technique

Anutin has thus became the third Prime Minister in two years, a week after Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed from the post by the Constitutional Court.

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of US copyright cases. Anthropic, which is behind the Claude family of large language models (LLMs), will pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors

The BLS report indicates that jobs growth in America has hit a slowdown, with employers creating only 22,000 positions in August. The unemployment rate in August reached 4.3%, the highest since 2021.

The Union Home Ministry has announced the renewal with renegotiated terms of an old ceasefire agreement, and the ‘opening’ of NH-02 for the free movement of commuters and essential goods

When is the line expected to be completed? What would the environmental impact be during construction, and what is its significance within Mumbai’s larger transport network?

Total Lunar Eclipse September 2025 Time: How is a Blood Moon related to the colour of the sky and of sunrises and sunsets? What is a lunar eclipse in the first place? We explain, in 5 points.

This is the 20th edition of China This Week, where we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, two major events concluded with the SCO summit and a massive military parade.

What has been the view in China about the recent warming-up with India? An analysis of academic and journalistic articles, and social media chatter, throws up three clear camps.

Canonisations often respond to a need in the “larger culture” of the time, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on saints.

The dates for the India-EU leaders’ summit are yet to be decided, and can take place in January or February, 2026, depending on the negotiations for the trade deal.

India may be the world’s fastest-growing economy. Yet, it is not attracting commensurate foreign capital inflows, which are actually at a decade-and-a-half low.

Ishiba's resignation, while sudden, is the culmination of a much longer crisis in Japan. We explain the full picture.

Nepal Gen Z protests, Nepal social media ban: This was the first time the youth of Nepal, the 'GenZ', mobilised on the streets like this. While the social media ban is the immediate trigger, unrest has been simmering in Nepal for a while now. We explain the…

The inclusion of Aadhaar as one of the supporting documents by the SC is also crucial in a nationwide SIR. The EC is likely to roll out a SIR of electoral rolls across the country with January 1, 2026, as the qualifying date.

India's Vice President Election Process: The Electoral College consists of 233 elected members of the Rajya Sabha, 12 nominated members of the Rajya Sabha, and 543 elected members of the Lok Sabha.

Semiconductor chips are the building blocks of modern computation. From smartphones to the vast datacentres powering the Internet, from electric cars to cruise missiles, from high-end luxury products to weather-predicting supercomputers — all of them run…