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Rohingya refugees hold placards while attending a Ramadan Solidarity Iftar to have an Iftar meal with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh Interim Government, at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on March 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters During his four-day visit to Bangladesh in March, … Read more

Governor’s judgment day The Supreme Court of India’s censoring of the Governor of Tamil Nadu for his unconstitutional conduct and gross dereliction of duty has left his position untenable. He should either resign on his own volition or the Union Government should recall him immediately. This is the only way to appreciate this judgment. During … Read more

Today’s China is evidently not the China of Deng Xiaoping. With the advent of Xi Jinping in 2013, China has changed even more and there is little indication that it has since retracted from this path. On the other hand, it is harking more and more to its past, wallowing in self-pity as a ‘wronged’ … Read more

‘COVID-19 laid bare inherent weaknesses in health systems globally’  | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto “The only possible answer to the question of how we can survive the plague is by living.” — José Saramago Last month, March, we marked five years of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. By now, we have had events, conferences, … Read more

Summer is upon us, and the heat is already brutal. It is crucial to protect ourselves from dehydration and heat strokes. Here’s a quiz to find out just how much you know about the impact heat can have on the human body. Science Quiz: On dehydration and heat strokes A baby being treated for dehydration … Read more

The National Thalassemia Control Programme aims to prevent thalassemia by promoting awareness and testing for carrier states during marriage or initial prenatal check-ups | Image used for representational purpose | Photo Credit: Getty Images Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Anaemia are the commonest single-gene disorders globally, and it is estimated that around 3,00,000 to 4,00,000 babies … Read more

Daily Quiz | On airlines A file image of a Fly Emirates aircraft, which is the largest airline in the Middle East, the world’s third-largest airline by scheduled revenue passenger-kilometers flown START THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | This airline operates scheduled services to 352 destinations (including cargo) in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and the … Read more

AI safety, put simply, is the practice of ensuring that AI behaves as intended, particularly in high-risk settings like medicine. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images In 1982, a chilling tragedy in Chicago claimed seven lives after Tylenol (paracetamol) capsules were mixed with cyanide—not during manufacturing, but after reaching store … Read more

Anti-Yoon protesters react after the constitutional court’s verdict on the impeachment of South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on April 4. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: On April 4, South Korea’s constitutional court upheld the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol. The Court unanimously (8-0) agreed in favour of … Read more

Nothing intimates the slow unravelling of the Roman empire quite like Jean-Paul Laurens’ portrait of Honorius Flavius — the boy emperor consumed by a world too big for him. Titled ‘The Late Empire: Honorius’ (1880), the painting captures the throne’s fragility and the boy who barely fills it. His face is young, untouched by experience, … Read more