Amazon's India strategy is changing: under new leadership, the company is focusing on profitability over rapid growth. This shift comes as ...

US President Trump's cautious optimism regarding Iran negotiations has been shattered as Tehran suspends talks, citing Israeli actions in L...

The 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has sparked public concern. Health officials are working to communicate clearly, drawing lessons fro...

A missile strike in the Mideast killed Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun, a Bangladeshi migrant worker, highlighting the perilous situation for mi...

Thought of the Day: Isaac Asimov’s name is closely tied to I, Robot, a collection that introduced readers to a radically different vision o...

China passed the three-child policy in August last year in a major policy shift to address the deepening demographic crisis attributed to t...

This being a pandemic (from the Greek word for “all people”), that welcome development presents all the usual problems of global difference...

Political parties are being called to a higher order of responsibility beyond their cut-out tasks of fighting and winning elections. The tw...

Muslims have gradually thrown their weight behind AAP. The protests against CAA, however, have put AAP in a spot - a dilemma which is being...

Will India cow-tow to a Swiss referendum’s results on a subsidy for be-horned bovines?

There have been mixed signals on fiscal consolidation, and the government may feel a political compulsion to boost spending on rural scheme...

London, Sep 16 (IANS) Envy is the most common basic personality trait shaping human behaviour -- and is found among almost one-third of the...

Facing a sharp decline in work force, Shanghai authorities have appealed to "qualified young couples" to have second child.

The basic technology for these Lazarus projects already exists: in 2000, for instance, a falling tree killed the last surviving Iberian Ibe...

The Reserve Bank has given consent to open 3,000 bank branches in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh by March 2014, a state government spokes...

Ministry of IT is starting a similar citizen biometric data collection project for making a National Population Register.