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External Affairs minister S Jaishankar discussed the project with the Iranians this week. The port is of strategic importance to both Iran and India. Why is it getting delayed — and how soon could it progress here onward?

Here’s all you need to know about the state-of-the-art facility that is set to open doors to Indian talent, with a special focus on providing opportunities for girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Since 2016, the Total Fertility Rate or TFR (the number of children a woman, on average, is expected to bear in her lifetime) has been falling in China. India overtook it as the most populous country in the world in 2023. Here are the implications of this.

Researchers say they have solved the mystery of why dinosaurs shrank to the size of tiny lizards. But with climate change, animals are still getting smaller.

C Raja Mohan writes: Whether they want it or not, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan will now be drawn deeper into the vortex of the turbulent Middle East. Five broad trends in security interdependence have come to the fore.

While the Sensex-Nifty fall came as a rude shock, experts say short-term volatility should not worry retail investors. Here's what you need to know.

It is well known that Nehru was against a secular government associating closely with a temple function. However, often missed out are the reasons Nehru gave for this. Also ignored is the role the British played in painting Somnath as a symbol of Hindus' victimisation by Muslims.

The group, formerly known as Jundallah, has been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the US. It operates in the Baloch areas of Iran and Pakistan, and blew up a bus full of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard personnel in 2019

The incident, a video of which went viral online, took place on a Delhi-Goa IndiGo flight on Sunday after a delay of over 10 hours due to dense fog in North India

The Sensex and the Nifty opened a gap down on Wednesday. While the 30-share Sensex opened 1,130 points down at 71,998.93, the broader Nifty 50, lost 385 points to open at 21,647.25.