South Asia: It Is Climate Change, Stupid

India should encourage the second coming of SAARC with climate change as an urgent agenda and keeping Indian security concerns in mind as the subtext, suggest Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd)......

India serves notice to Pakistan seeking...

India has served a formal notice to Pakistan seeking a review of the Indus Water Treaty, arguing that 'fundamental and unforeseen' changes in the circumstances require a reassessment of the pact.......

Is total disengagement in eastern Ladakh on the cards?

India and China on Thursday agreed to work with "urgency" and "redouble" their efforts to achieve complete disengagement in the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh as national security......

NCERT axes caste-based discrimination in Class 6 books

India had a prime meridian of its own much ahead of the Greenwich meridian and it was called "madhya rekha", which passed through the city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, according to a new Class-6......

Sensex tanks 836 points; Nifty ends at 24,199

Benchmark Sensex and Nifty tumbled more than 1 per cent on Thursday after a two-day rally as investors remained on the sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve interest rate decision and unabated......

Investors richer by Rs 10.47 lakh cr in two days

Stock investors have become richer by Rs 10.47 lakh crore in two straight days of gains in markets as benchmark Sensex jumped 2 per cent. Photograph: ANI Photo At close on Wednesday, the market......

Markets cheer Trump's triumph; Sensex soars 901 points

Stock markets rallied more than 1 per cent on Wednesday with benchmark Sensex soaring 901 points on heavy buying in IT and pharma shares as Donald Trump is all set to win the US presidential......

Asset quality risk, a worry for IndusInd

A Rs 525-crore contingency provision during the July-September period led to a 19 per cent fall in IndusInd Bank’s share price on Friday (October 25). Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters......