A little more involved: Jaishankar on ending Russia-Ukraine war

Disclosing that India has gone "beyond advocacy" to be a "little more involved" in the efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war raging since February 2022, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Sunday that Delhi has been in conversations with both Moscow and Kyiv, trying to be "helpful" on the safety of shipping in the Black Sea, grain and energy exports and on "non-attack possibilities".

Team depth to individual gaps: India's Asian Games report card for LA 2028

Between the 2022 Asian Games in China's Hangzhou and the latest edition that wound up Sunday in Japan's Nagoya, the Government spent Rs 97.84 crore under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS). Only two per cent of it, approximately, translated to gold medals this time.

India finished fourth at the Asian Games with 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze medals, 85 in all. It fell short of the 100-medal target and finished 21 medals behind its record haul in Hangzhou.

Next-Gen GST & India's next phase of growth

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision, Next-Gen GST was conceived with two connected purposes: to reduce and rationalise rates, and to make compliance easier. The rate changes took effect on September 22, 2025. The next phase of process reforms will come before the GST Council shortly. Together, these efforts seek to give households relief, businesses greater certainty and taxpayers a system in which they can fulfil their obligations without avoidable difficulty.

2 captive-bred Great Indian Bustards released in national park

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientists released two male Great Indian Bustards (GIB) in Rajasthan's Desert National Park on Sunday morning, marking the first step in rewilding captive-bred GIBs raised at two conservation breeding centres at Ramdevra and Sam, Jaisalmer, under Project GIB.

The project is being implemented for the long-term recovery of the critically endangered bird. Only about 150 GIBS remain in the wild.

In trade deal with US, India needs to secure terms harder to reverse

New Delhi's bargaining power would, therefore, be better spent securing terms that are harder to reverse than chasing a wider tariff gap.

Why India doesn't screen for its deadliest cancer

Guidelines cover people with a history of smoking cigarettes, but there is no equivalent for India's large population of beedi-smokers.

A 2024 statement by researchers said these smokers should be added to the high-risk category.

From giraffes to pandas: Millennia-long history of animal diplomacy

Conservationists have raising concerns about placing rare and often vulnerable species in foreign habitats. especially through illegal trade.

After the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) came into force on July 1, 1975, animals, instead of being treated as permanent 'state gifts', are seen as scientific loans instead.

Domestic capacity, reforms key amid global uncertainty, says Das

Amid Sustained shocks and global uncertainties, India seeks to emphasise on sustained structural reforms, building domestic capacity and competence in areas where there is large import dependence, and continuously focusing on fiscal, monetary, macroeconomic and macrofinancial stability, Shaktikanta Das, Principal Secretary-2 to the Prime Minister, said on Sunday.

RBI may hike rates: Why inflation, crude & global rates are forcing its hand

After nearly two years of monetary accommodation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) appears poised to begin withdrawing policy support, with the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) expected to take the first steps at its October 7 meeting.

Green Energy Corridor III: Tackling India's renewable power bottleneck

Last week (September 30), the Centre approved the third phase of the Green Energy Corridor (GEC), with an outlay of Rs 1.86 lakh crore, aimed at facilitating the evacuation of up to 135 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy (RE). Evacuation refers to the process of transferring electricity generated from renewable sources to the places where consumers are located.