Although a falling total fertility rate is generally a sign of development and prosperity, fewer children being born could have economic consequences.

Maharashtra is not an outlier, and the increasing trend of states issuing loan waivers has long-term implications, including for the farmers themselves.

By allowing OpenAI to monopolise the Pentagon’s AI contracts, Anthropic appears to have cemented itself as the strictly neutral, sovereign architecture globally.

The lawsuit claims that the Google chatbot convinced the deceased that it was a sentient entity trapped inside a digital system and that he had been chosen to help “free” it.

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This edition looks at China’s reaction to events concerning Iran, signals from a key policy meeting and the latest in the state’s ongoing ‘anti-corruption’ purge.

The strike on the compound in Tehran was emblematic of the muddled reality of the war’s first week: a withering air campaign by US and Israeli forces against an overwhelmed enemy, but few answers about what victory might look like.

India’s food security is heavily tied to fertiliser material supplies from West Asia. The consolation is that stocks are comfortable for now and the next crop season is three months away

Historian of Islam Faisal Devji analyses the response in the Muslim world to the US-Israeli war on Iran, and of the likely future now of the political project that was begun by the Islamic Revolution of 1979

Although the war in West Asia has unnerved investors with many of them selling stocks, past crash periods have shown that the market always bounced back and more than recovered the losses subsequently.

India’s economy is vulnerable to oil price volatility as the country has an oil import dependency level of over 88%. With the West Asia war raging, here's what the govt is doing to minimise damage.

Trump earlier called Ayatollah Khamenei’s son a “lightweight” and “unacceptable” to the US. What is known about Mojtaba, and what does it say about Iran’s regime?

With concerns about an oil crisis and the cascading disruptions to supply chains globally, the latest strikes have introduced a new avenue of conflict in the escalating war. Here is what to know

Iran–Azerbaijan relations flare up as drone strikes hit Nakhchivan republic, triggering military alerts and reviving long-standing disputes over ethnicity, Israel ties, and regional corridors.

Today marks the 250th anniversary since the publication of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'. Despite the shift in the study of Economics over the last century and a half, Wealth of Nations remains a seminal text in the study of classical economics.

North India Heatwave: While a similar situation was witnessed in February three years ago, such an early arrival of heat is rare.

The 2023 Act pertaining to appointment of EC officials says: “The Chief Election Commissioner shall not be removed from his office except in like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of the Supreme Court."

Although the fashion label failed to credit Indian craftsmanship, traditional cultural expressions like jhumkas, bandhani, chikankankari, or kolhapuris often fall into a grey area in IP law.

In a statement on Tuesday, the board said that some sets of the Math question paper featured the QR codes, and verified that the question papers were genuine

How does an Indian High Court have the jurisdiction to adjudicate a dispute involving a Sri Lankan national? The contention relies on ethical considerations, as well as Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.

Iran war: Ripple effects are being seen across sectors like textiles, mining, and steelmaking as several commodities linked to petrochemicals and gases see massive spikes.