Climate change is making lightning strikes around the world more common and deadlier. Every year, around 24,000 people around the world are killed by such strikes; in India, lightning strikes killed 2,887 people in 2022. There have been petitions to declare this phenomenon a natural disaster in India so that its survivors can access institutional...
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May 27, 2026May 27, 2026Global Market, Economics, Global Politics, Indian Market, National Politics, Politics, Science & Tech
India-Nordic Summit Highlights India’s Growing Global Role
India’s growing influence on the global stage was strongly highlighted during the India-Nordic Summit, where Denmark’s Prime Minister described India as “one of the biggest powers in the world” during discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The summit brought together leaders from Nordic countries including Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland to strengthen cooperation with...
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May 27, 2026May 27, 2026Entertainment, Science & Tech
India home to 191 species of cockroaches, 60% of them are endemic, says ZSI study
India is home to 191 species of cockroaches and 119 of these species (more than 60% of the species) are endemic to India, a recent publication by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) highlighted. Endemism is the ecological state where a species or taxonomic group is native to a single, highly defined geographic location. The publication...
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May 26, 2026May 26, 2026Business, Economics, Global Market, Global Politics, Indian Market, National Politics, Politics, Science & Tech
PM Modi Concludes Italy Visit, Focuses on Strengthening India-Italy Relations
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has concluded his official visit to Italy after holding key discussions in Rome aimed at boosting trade, investment, and strategic cooperation between India and Italy. During the visit, PM Modi met Italian leaders and senior officials to discuss strengthening bilateral ties in areas including defense, clean energy, technology, manufacturing, infrastructure, and...
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May 26, 2026May 26, 2026Science & Tech
Indian researcher names newly discovered galaxy structure after Manipur’s Loktak Lake
An Indian researcher based in Japan has named a newly discovered large structure of galaxies after Manipur’s Loktak Lake, seeking to “immortalise” the northeastern state’s identity in the cosmos. Dr. Ronaldo Laishram, who led an international research team as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), said the structure was studied...
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May 26, 2026May 26, 2026Science & Tech, Global Market, Indian Market
Power Cuts Rise Across India as Electricity Demand Hits Record High
India is facing increasing power cuts as extreme summer heat pushes electricity demand to record-breaking levels across the country. Several major cities, including Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru, and parts of northern India, have reported frequent outages due to the massive rise in air conditioner and cooling appliance usage. According to power authorities, India’s electricity demand has...
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May 25, 2026May 25, 2026Science & Tech
The physics of thermometers, temperatures and cold atoms
People from Bengaluru should not be allowed to complain about their weather turning hot. The other day, as a namma friend called to express disappointment over their daytime temperatures reaching as high as 33 degrees, I wondered in what Awadhi words should I inform her about the pleasant 42 degrees here in Kanpur. The baked earth, the...
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May 25, 2026May 25, 2026Science & Tech
The evolutionary history of flowering plants are threatened with extinction
Climate change is not only pushing species to the brink of extinction, it is erasing a vast proportion of the ‘evolutionary history’ of the world’s flowering plants’ — or how these organisms relate to one another on the tree of life, which changes over time. No less than a fifth (21 %) of the world’s...
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May 25, 2026May 25, 2026Science & Tech
Webb telescope captures weather on exoplanet 700 lightyears away
“Cloudy with a chance of rain” — imagine astronomers turning into meteorologists and issuing weather reports like this, but for alien planets. According to a new study published in Science on May 21, scientists were able to use the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer closely at an exoplanet nearly 700 lightyears away,...
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May 24, 2026May 24, 2026Health, Science & Tech
New Ebola outbreak shows how market failure delays vaccine research
The World Health Organization declared the Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda to be a public health emergency of international concern on May 17. The outbreak exposes a critical gap in international vaccine preparedness. There is no licensed vaccine yet for the Bundibugyo species of the ebolavirus because...
