What Delhi’s Artificial Rain Trial Means For Health: The Silver Iodide Question

Last Updated:October 30, 2025, 08:22 IST When cloud seeding is repeated over the same area, silver can gradually build up in the environment. This is expected to impact aquatic life, soil microorganisms, and plant growth. Cloud seeding is a...

Mumbai ITAT Quashes ₹445 Crore Transfer Pricing Adjustment Against Netflix India

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Mumbai has recently set aside a Rs 445 crore transfer pricing adjustment on Netflix India for financial year 2021-22, rejecting the Revenue's claim that the company, as a licensee of its streamed content,...

Delhi High Court Orders Retrospective Payment Of Enhanced Remuneration To Law Researchers With Effect From October 01, 2022

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered retrospective payment of enhanced remuneration of Rs. 80,000 per month to its law researchers with effect from October 01, 2022. A division bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Rajneesh...

India Inspires Bill Gates: From Meeting Dolly Chaiwala to Smriti Irani on ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2’, Microsoft Co-Founder’s Strategy To Become Household Name Among 1.46 Billion People

Before Bill Gates returned to India in March 2025 for the third time in three years, he wrote an insightful blog about his successful healthcare initiatives in the country with the government over two decades. The Microsoft Co-founder also wrote...

Turning pain into progress: Teen’s water sensor brings clean drinking water to rural India

For most high school students, summer means leisure, friends, and college preparation. For Harshit Sanghi, then in Grade 10, it meant long hours surrounded by circuit boards, wires, and water samples. His motivation began with something deeply...

News channels dialled up the science on artificial rain all day — then asked us to pray

The sky was full of clouds as the aircraft soared, dispersing rain seeds. The air was cool with moisture. With folded hands, you pleaded with the cloud-seeding gods: Rain, rain. The rain didn’t oblige. The next day, Wednesday, another aircraft...

Express view on cloud seeding in Delhi: A damp squib

October 30, 2025 06:58 AM IST First published on: Oct 30, 2025 at 06:58 AM IST A week after the Diwali festivities, a thick haze continues to hang over the national capital, and the city’s residents have had little respite from unhealthy air. The...

Rishikesh’s Lakshman Jhula To Be Replaced By...: Iconic Glass Bridge Nears Completion — Similar Projects Across India

Last Updated:October 30, 2025, 09:05 IST The new Bajrang Setu in Rishikesh is a striking glass suspension bridge that will replace the legendary Lakshman Jhula. The bridge is expected to be ready by December 2025. (Photo Credits: X)Rishikesh in...

Smart, multiple alliances can be India’s new path

The international system is undergoing a profound transformation. The certainties of the post-World War II order — anchored in the UN, Bretton Woods institutions, and a rules-based multilateral framework — are buckling under pressure. What appears...

India’s office space absorption up 34% to 42 mn sq ft; Bengaluru leads with 9.95 mn sq ft

Despite global headwinds such as tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and layoffs in the IT/ITeS sectors, office space demand in India’s major cities remains robust. According to a report by ANAROCK, office space absorption across the top seven cities...

Nikhil Kamath asks if India’s payment tech marvel will be the country’s next export story

Zerodha’s co-founder and CFO, Nikhil Kamath, shared a post on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) on Unified Payments Interface’s (UPI) growth story, raising a question that drew attention from many users. “If oil shaped...

AI Content regulation in India: When labelling norms are ineffective

The Union finance minister’s images are manipulated through Artificial Intelligence (AI) deepfakes and misused to perpetuate financial fraud — this is, unfortunately, not a hypothetical case. Indeed, many such cases have surfaced lately....

Jurassic World Rebirth India OTT Release Date: When & Where To Stream The Scarlett Johansson Starrer?

When Can Indian Viewers Watch Jurassic World Rebirth Online? ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) After creating a tremendous splash in Indian cinemas, Jurassic World Rebirth is now set to roar again, but this time on a major online platform. Those...

From ambition to results: India’s model for fast, systemic gains in foundational learning

This blog post was originally published October 28th, 2025 on the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 'Education for All' blog here. In a classroom in Uttar Pradesh, a Grade 3 student reads a storybook aloud, demonstrating progress that seemed...

Maruti Fronx flex fuel India launch expected in 2026

At the ongoing Japan Mobility Show 2025, Maruti Suzuki's parent company has a Fronx FFV concept on display, which is powered by an engine that can run E85 petrol; fuel that has up to 85 percent ethanol content. The final production Maruti Fronx...

INS Sahyadri hosts schoolchildren in Japan, showcasing India’s maritime heritage

On Tuesday, INS Sahyadri, an indigenously built Shivalik-class Guided Missile Stealth Frigate, reached Japan’s Sasebo. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) welcomed INS Sahyadri upon arrival, the Indian Embassy in Japan said in a statement....

Delhi govt digs in, Opposition cries ‘rain theft’ as cloud-seeding trial is suspended

A day after two cloud-seeding operations over Delhi short of delivering rain, another round of seeding, planned for Wednesday, had to be called off due to “insufficient moisture” in the clouds, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur said...

ASEAN and India reaffirm terms of joint partnership on sustainable tourism

The partnership will involve support for cultural heritage conservation, resource efficiency, biodiversity protection, and share best practices for inclusive, resilient tourism aligned with ASEAN standards. The 47thASEAN Summit 2025, which took...

India to overtake Germany to become third-largest economy in 2 years: Piyush Goyal

NEW DELHI: Union minister pf Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal Wednesday said that India is poised to become the third-largest economy overtaking Germany in next two years, driven by the Centre's transformative initiatives. "I think at the core...

Collaborations Vital to Nissan’s Turnaround, India a Core Pillar: CEO Espinosa

Nissan Motor Corporation’s global chief executive, Ivan Espinosa, said the automaker will rely on partnerships and modular collaborations to stay competitive in a rapidly changing industry, adding that India will play an increasingly important...