How El Niño shaped path, intensity of Cyclone Arnab

The Bay of Bengal is prone to storm surges in part due to its funnel-like shape. It is landlocked on three sides and is shallow for a large distance from the coast.

Cyclones on the northern hemisphere move west: SO, India's east coast comes in line of a cyclone's path.

Hegseth meets Rajnath, reaffirms US support to India's fight against cross-border terrorism

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday reviewed the progress of a 10-year India-US defence framework pact that seeks to drive strategic convergence in critical technologies, information sharing, and co-production of military hardware.

'Digital arrest is digital dacoity': SC says offenders must be dealt with ruthlessly

While Reviewing a plea to see all FIRs registered against a company across several states for cybercrime consolidated in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said incidents of digital arrests amounted to "digital dacoity" and mooted "ruthless" treatment of offenders.

ISRO to launch navigation satellite NVS-03 on Friday

The ISRO Wednesday announced its next launch-the navigation satellite NVS-03-on October 30 from Srihari-kota. The NVS-03 is the third satellite in the next-generation navigation satellite system aimed at providing continuity of navigation services for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) series.

Jaishankar headed to Atlanta for G20 ministers' meet; CHOGM next stop

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be headed to Atlanta in the US to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting to be held on October 30-31. This comes just days after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited India, October 20-22.

Jaishankar will also attend the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting in Atlanta, along with the top diplomats from Australia and Japan. They were supposed to meet in Australia last week, but that couldn't take place due to scheduling conflicts. The Quad foreign ministers had last met in Delhi in May this year.

Price cap: Generic cancer drugs see sharp price cuts, no change for single-source medicines

Ten days after the government capped the trade margins for 137 cancer medicines, the manufacturers announced their revised MRP on Tuesday, which will be effective from November 9. Of the 543 formulations-different brands and doses of the 137 selected drugs - the prices remained unchanged for 146, with another 21 formulations seeing reductions of less than Rs 100, according to the data.

Growth holds, but don't lose sight of pain points

The Underlying momentum in the Indian economy appears to be holding up in a challenging global environment. Several agencies have recently upgraded their estimates for India's growth this year - for instance, ADB and Moody's raised their forecasts for the year to 7 per cent, and OECD to 7.1 per cent. In the latest State of the Economy report, economists at the RBI have noted that a range of high-frequency indicators across both the industry and services segments indicate that the economy continues to show strength. There are, however, pain points that must not be lost sight of.

Inter-State Council is a meeting point that has withered away. It must be rebuilt

India needs a continuous, systematic process of shared deliberation and consultation with the states. The Constitution gives us one. It's time we took it out of cold storage.

Industrial growth slowed to 4-month low of 6.7% in Sept

Growth in India's industrial output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), slowed to a four-month low of 6.7% in September, pulled down by the mining sec-tor's worst performance in three years, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Wednesday showed.