In the test, a space rocket boosted a hypersonic glide vehicle, one capable of carrying a nuclear device, which circled the globe before impacting.

'The world may be desirous of peace, but not Kim Jong-un.' 'Should we then accept the old adage that to maintain peace, we should be prepared for war?' asks Rajaram Panda.

Winners of the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.

It is a fallacy, which many of our pundits are prone to, to exaggerate the potential for confrontation and conflict between the US and China and to conceive fanciful notions of advantage for India in the downstream, says M K Bhadrakumar.

From the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the innovative (a hybrid locomotive!), half a hundred options for cleaning up your business.

The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, which retreats during summer, shrank more than one million square miles this year, below the average minimum ice area reached in recent decades.

'Deepening and widening the Sethu canal, will provide a more direct route for some of the tsunami energy to travel and impact southern Kerala,' says Prof Tad S Murthy

The size of Alaska, the steep-sided submarine hole is thought to have been isolated from the surrounding ocean for millions of years.