Tuesday was a historic day for the United Kingdom, which got its first-ever non-white Prime Minister in Rishi Sunak, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Britain’s youngest Prime Minister in recent times. Sunak, 42, is of Indian descent and was born to parents who migrated to Britain from East …

The CCI, the country’s competition watchdog is empowered under the Competition Act, 2002, to check whether companies especially large tech companies are not eliminating healthy competition in the market and creating a monopoly. The CCI said that due to Google’s various agreements with manufacturers, one of its major revenue-earning apps, …

There is good reason for the Supreme Court to ask the police to be proactive in dealing with hate speech by taking immediate legal action without waiting for a formal complaint. The Court has also warned of contempt action if the police showed any hesitation in compliance. Directed at the …

Background: On Friday, the Financial Action Task Force, the global watchdog on anti-money laundering and combating financing terrorism (AML/CFT) efforts, announced it would take Pakistan off its “grey list” of countries under “enhanced monitoring”, and welcomed what it called Pakistan’s “significant progress” in improving legal and government mechanisms. Pakistan, which …

Genetic mutations are the drivers of evolution of organisms. Not all mutations are functional. However, the ones with a functional advantage tend to emerge over time than those without. However, viruses rarely could evolve by exchanging large fragments of the genome called recombination. Recombination events are rare and occur when …

Astronomers have spotted what they think might be the most powerful explosion ever observed. The explosion is a gamma-ray burst which is known as GRB221009A, which might have been caused by a supernova that left behind a black hole. “Informally, we’ve been calling it the BOAT — the brightest of …

No tourist has ever trekked to Mugafi at 4,050 metres above mean sea level. But that has not stopped villagers in the most “disconnected” administrative circle in Arunachal Pradesh from readying the peak for visitors. The enthusiasm stems from their belief that the 157-km road to Vijaynagar, the circle headquarters, …

Damage control: The NGT wants the report to include the steps required for restoration of the habitat. Getty Images/iStockphotoJagdeep Rajput The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Uttarakhand government not to proceed with the Pakhro tiger safari project inside the Corbett Tiger Reserve until a committee submits its final …

ISRO’s heaviest rocket lifting off from the second launchpad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. B. Jothi Ramalingam The heaviest rocket of the Indian Space Research Organisation, the LVM3-M2/OneWeb India-1, with 36 satellites on board took off from the second launch pad (SLP) of the Satish Dhawan Space …

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have studied microbial interactions in the international space station (ISS). This study would not only help understand the risks associated with short-and long-term space travel on astronauts’ health but also devise strategies to disinfect the ISS and …