SC accepted govt's 100-m Aravalli rule, its own panel had opposed it

FSI's 3-degree definition covers lower hills of Aravallis that are excluded by the ministry's 100-metre yardstick. 

India pledges $450-mn relief package as Jaishankar meets top Lanka leaders

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Tuesday held meetings with Sri Lankan leaders, including President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, and assured them of India's commitment to the island nation's reconstruction in the wake of destruction caused by cyclone Ditwah. 

Jnanpith Award winner Vinod Kumar Shukla dies at 88: 'He took reality as it is and made magic'

Vinod Kumar Shukla's most celebrated work, Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999, exemplifies his ability to make the abstract intimate. 

SHANTI Bill is India's second shot at nuclear energy leadership

Liability remains politically contentious. India's 2010 law carried a strong moral impulse, shaped by the experience of the Bhopal gas tragedy, that victims should not be left helpless and suppliers should not escape accountability. 

SIR is wrong on two counts. It's neither sound nor complete

Establishing a trustworthy network of de-duplicated identities and citizenship requires careful protocol design, clarity about system guarantees, and rigorous analysis of failure modes.

Macaulay is only a punching bag. His ghost is resurrected to bury inconvenient ideas

Nearly two centuries since his Minute, if Macaulay were to revisit India, he would be mostly disappointed to find that major sections of elites and masses from India have responded to his plea for colonising the mind in more complex ways than those who resurrect him imagine. 

Beyond chips, data centres lies India's Al opportunity

The world is competing over AI. But this will not remain merely a race towards a smaller chip, a larger data centre, or a faster model. The winner will be determined by those who turn innovation into impact and convert technological advances into product value, institutional capacity and community trust. Power in this era will flow not only to those who own algorithms or command fields of silicon, but also to those who find ways to weave Al into daily life at the national or continental scale. 

ISRO's heaviest-ever launch today is test of capability, cost

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch the LVM-3 rocket carrying its heaviest-ever satellite -BlueBird Block-2, weighing nearly 6,100 kg - on Wednesday morning.

The LVM-3 rocket will also be used in the Gaganyaan mission, India's first crewed space mission, next year. 

100 years of Radio Ceylon: How it found a shared frequency for a fractured region

Radio Ceylon, one of the world's oldest radio broadcasters, turned 100 last week. At a time when radio was a novelty and decades before TV would transform South Asia's media landscape, Radio Ceylon officially began broadcasting from December 16, 1925.

This was the first radio broadcaster in Asia. In India, while private radio broad-casting started in 1927, All India Radio began operations only in 1936. The Netherlands was the first country to begin public broadcasts in 1919, followed by the US in 1920. The BBC followed in 1922 and Radio Ceylon entered the airwaves soon after.