India’s first Vande Bharat freight train completes 130 kmph trial; what it means for Indian Railways

India’s railway network is moving beyond passenger-focused Vande Bharat services. The Indian Railways just tested a new ...

Arunachal Pradesh flash floods: Four killed, five Army personnel missing after landslide

Five Army personnel went missing after a heavy rain-triggered flash flood washed away two shelters in Arunachal Pradesh's ...

Minnesota teen Evan Morris built a low-cost system that detected seizure-like activity in worms and triggered ultrasound; recurrence fell 70.1% in his model

Eighteen-year-old Evan Morris of Saint Paul, Minnesota, has developed a low-cost experimental system that could offer ...

Meet Vera Wang, the Hawaii high school senior who built a coconut-based ocean filter as a sophomore; two years later, she found fungi in coconut husks that can bio…

What started as a high school project to clean polluted ocean water has turned into a promising scientific discovery.

India’s tallest 418-ft flag towers over the India-Pakistan border, telling the story of 80 years of Independence; why travellers should visit Attari in Punjab

As India celebrates its 80th Independence Day today on August 15, one of the most remarkable places to experience the spirit ...

‘Sure sign of his desperation’: Congress hits back at PM Modi over ‘dimaagi Naxals’ remark

From the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "For years, individuals with a Maoist mindset had ...

30 Tests, 30 venues: Yashavi Jaiswal follows Sachin Tendulkar's footsteps with rare feat

When Yashasvi Jaiswal walked out to bat in Galle for the first Test against Sri Lanka, he was playing the 30th Test of his ...

'Transparent examination will be ensured': CM Hemant Soren to protesting Jharkhand students

Amid a three-week-long protest by students demanding the cancellation of flawed examinations, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant ...

A Connecticut cemetery leased unused land for 7,000 solar panels, but the ground beneath them could become habitat for bees and pollinators

At the back of a Catholic cemetery in Torrington, Connecticut, a wide field once sat empty for years, too far from the graves ...

"Why wouldn’t he?”: Akshay Kumar says his son Aarav is working for Rs 4,500 while learning fashion; the parenting lesson Indian parents can take from it

For parents, it can be difficult to watch their children start small. We often want them to get the best job, earn a good ...

BJP says Sonia objected to full Vande Mataram; Congress says she was seeking chair for Kharge

A political row erupted on Saturday over the rendition of the full version of Vande Mataram at the Congress's Independence Day event, with the BJP accusing grand old party's former chief Sonia Gandhi ...

In 1973, a Wisconsin teenager moved to Alaska; 12 years later, she drove into a storm her rivals avoided and became the first woman to win the Iditarod

When Libby Riddles left the Midwest for Alaska as a teenager, she was not setting out to make history. She was drawn instead ...