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What exactly are El Nino and La Nina events, and why does the Pacific Ocean witness them? And why do events over far-away Pacific influence rainfall over India?

The issue goes back to 2011, when UNESCO inducted Palestine as a member. Both US and Israel stopped paying their dues and later in 2019, they exited the UN agency.

Trump has been accused of mishandling classified documents, after he stepped down as the US President in early 2021 and continued to keep them at his private estate.

How the US paved the way for India’s Green Revolution while the Soviet Union drove its industrialisation in the 1950s and 1960s

The case brings to the forefront the battle between aspects of media freedom and an individual’s privacy. Although it’s commonplace for a public figure's privacy to be diluted because people have a right to know something which is in the public interest, Harry is making the point that some of the information about him could have only been procured unlawfully.

The world's biggest banking deal since the 2008 financial crisis has forged a wealth manager with an unrivalled global reach and $5 trillion in assets under management, handing UBS an overnight lead it would otherwise have taken years to achieve in key markets.

The National Disaster Management Authority classifies cyclones broadly into two categories: extratropical cyclones and tropical cyclones. Here is what you need to know about them.

Born on June 11, 1897, Bismil was a revolutionary freedom fighter with a poet’s heart. He was hanged by British authorities for his involvement in the Kakori Train Action. Today, he is a revered symbol of patriotism and Hindu-Muslim unity.

Theodore J. Kaczynski was a domestic terrorist who from 1978 to 1995 planted homemade bombs at or sent them to universities and other locations including people’s homes, killing three people and injuring 23 others.

In all the three major theatres — Jammu and Kashmir, the Northeast, and the Maoist zone — the Modi government has had both hits and misses.