Nilekani to lead high-powered task force on exam reforms: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced the constitution of a high-powered task force, to be headed by former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani, to recommend steps to make the country's examination system leak-proof and technology-driven.

Centre warns Indian seafarers about jobs in 'volatile' Black Sea

The External Affairs Minis-try on Sunday issued an ad-visory urging Indian sea-farers to "carefully assess security risks" before accepting jobs on commer cial ships that operate "in and around the Black Sea and adjoining maritime areas", citing increasing drone and missile attacks on ships in the region that remains highly volatile due to the ongoing conflict bet-ween Russia and Ukraine.

Mirabai makes it a golden day for India: Rishikanta clinches a silver

Weightlifting has always been one of the disciplines that has contributed signifi-cantly to India's tally at the Commonwealth Games. The fact that the country has won as many as 33 me-dals in the last three editions underlines the vital role of the weightlifters. 

Dialogue with Pakistan will only be on PoK: Rajnath

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the success of Operation Sin-door demonstrated India's capability to respond to every "misadventure" by Pakistan with overwhelming force, while reiterating that there would be no dialogue with Islamabad except on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Do not surrender to China, do not depend on the U.S.

A volatile political climate in Washington has triggered a wave of strategic anxiet anxiety in New Delhi. Buffeted by the transactional, often erratic policy shifts of the Donald Trump administration - which hit India last year with punitive tariffs on steel and aluminium, stripped its preferential trade status, and aggressively renewed ties with Islamabad while imposing irritants such as tightening H-1B visa rules - a growing chorus of domestic voices is calling for a fundamental reset of India's China policy.

Indian Monsoon: a democratic tipping point

Our future depends upon combining technological excellence with constitutional values, scientific temper, ethical leadership, and respect for humanity

Why is China's Al push gaining ground?

China's open-source Al push has rapidly narrowed the capability gap with U.S. frontier models, backed by State support, efficient use of computing resources, and a growing ecosystem of developers and firms. While open models could reshape the global Al market through lower-cost deployment, questions over long-term business models, geopolitical trust, and India's push for domestic Al champions will influence their adoption.

Why has India moved to take down BitChat repositories?

The story so far:

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (14C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, directed GitHub on July 23 to remove repositories hosting BitChat, the Bluetooth mesh messaging application developed by X co-founder Jack Dorsey, stating that the app could be exploited to coordinate unlawful assemblies and circumvent lawful restrictions imposed by competent authorities during situations involving public order. 

What is BitChat?

BitChat is a decentralised peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth mesh networks. It requires no internet connection, no servers and no phone numbers.

Why India must modernise the way govt. publishes laws and regulations

Today a variety of laws govern us: Acts and their amendments, rules, regulations, BIS standards, road standards, circulars, municipal bylaws, and more. Yet there is no single place to find out what the law actually is it lies scattered across multiple websites. The rule of law requires that Bills presented before Parliament or a State Assembly be made known to the people in advance, that citizens are aware of the laws and amendments in force, and that the judiciary knows the state of the law it adjudicates. In reality, Bills are often not placed in the public domain before they are introduced. Citizens struggle to find the law in force, and even when they locate a copy, determining what the law was on a given date is a battle of its own.

India scaling new heights in defence production: PM

India is continuously scaling new heights in defence production, defence exports, and political cooperation with friendly nations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in the latest episode of Mann Ki Baat, his monthly radio address.Mr. Modi also paid tri-butes to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives during the Kargil War in 1999.

Youth have decisive role in shaping the future of India: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged young Indians to play a constructive role in nation-building by connecting with border villages through the Viksit Vibrant Village Programme 2026.

3 Great Indian Bustard chicks placed in rewilding tunnel

In a first, three chicks of the endangered Great Indian Bustard have been moved into a custom-built rewilding tunnel at the Godawan Conservation Centre in Ramdevra, Jaisalmer. The 29.25-crore facility prepares captive-bred birds for life in the wild by minimising human contact and copying their natural habitat. The Great Indian Bustard is the State bird of Rajasthan. The chicks will remain in the tunnel for about four months under CCTV surveillance. The food will be provided without direct human contact. Following the rewilding phase, the chicks will be released into Desert National Park.

Inflation control remains RBI'S foremost priority, says Governor

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s recent measures to attract foreign capital have garnered strong investor response, with banks mo-bilising nearly $32 billion, largely through Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank), or FCNR(B), deposits, while government securities have attracted more than $7 billion in foreign inflows since the June policy measures, RBI Go-vernor Sanjay Malhotra has said.

France, Spain battle 'unpredictable' wildfires as tens of thousands flee

France fought an "unpred-ictable" wildfire close to Bordeaux on Sunday while Spain warned of "difficult hours" in its own fiery bat-tle, with evacuations from danger zones in both coun-tries mounting to well over 300,000 people. Scientists say that such weather emergencies are being made more extreme and frequent by climate change. The disasters came at the peak of the summer vacation period when tourists flock to both countries.

India's first dengue vaccine arrives with a crucial safety caveat

Qdenga is designed and claimed to protect against the four serotypes of the dengue-causing virus, called DENV-1 to DENV-4

Data from clinical trials that Takeda published in 2019, 2020, and 2024 on the vaccine's efficacy raise a specific concern about its abilities

In a paper in Nature Medicine on July 25, researchers modelled the health impact of Qdenga in a population and concluded that it would be safer for seronegative recipients - especially children - to be screened for prior dengue exposure before receiving the shot

PRAXIS: grazing planet rings

PRAXIS is an acronym of 'Planetary Rings Autonomous Exploration with In-situ Sampling'. NASA has just selected a mission concept called 'PRAXIS' for its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) 2026 phase I funding.

The mission will consist of a bio-inspired robotic explorer driven by an artificial intelligence (AI) model. It will be capable of directly sampling particles from planetary ring systems - something no mission has ever attempted before. The mission's selection for NIAC was guided by open questions in the science of planets' rings that NASA's Planetary Science Decadal Survey has flagged as important.