Maharashtra has announced a dedicated AI strategy for agriculture, and several public-private partnerships are already piloting AI-driven crop advisories, pest diagnostics, and climate-risk prediction ...

When Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu recently proposed a cash incentive of Rs 25,000 for couples having a second or third child, it revived an important question about India’s ...

The winter season is over, and the importance of air pollution in public discourse seems to be receding. Many of us seem to believe that air quality is synonymous with PM2.5 and PM10 — once their ...

In a significant modification to its guidelines for Look Out Circulars (LOCs), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has specified that statutory bodies with no criminal jurisdiction cannot issue direct ...

In the first election post the September 2025 Gen Z protests that forced out the K P Sharma Oli government, Nepal appeared to have rejected the old guard, voting overwhelmingly for the three-year-old ...

Before Iranian frigate IRIS Dena was sunk by a US submarine near Sri Lanka, India had offered it shelter at one of its ports, The Indian Express has learnt. The Dena, which left Visakhapatnam after ...

A search and rescue mission has been launched after a Sukhoi Su-30 MKI from the Indian Air Force went missing from radar contact on Thursday evening in Assam. According to the Indian Air Force, the ...

India has allowed the urgent docking of an Iranian ship in Kochi and provided accommodation to its 183 crew members, government sources said on Friday. The ship, IRIS Lavan, developed urgent technical ...

India’s ex ambassador to US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, has been appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, according to the President’s notification on the appointment of governors and lieutenant ...

Underlining that India believes in “rule of law, dialogue, and diplomacy”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that “no issue can be resolved through military conflict alone” and that New ...

(Each week, Deputy Editor Liz Mathew maps the changing political landscape from New Delhi, focusing on power equations, policy moves, and shifts in alliances.) With traditional caste equations in ...

Access to Anthropic’s Claude has been restored after the AI chatbot faced disruption in several parts of the world for the second time in less than 24 hours, according to outage tracking website ...