The World Bank wants to change the way it manages complaints: Fixes that could make it better

India, May 18 -- The World Bank is rethinking how it handles complaints as it pursues a unified "One WBG" model. Experts warn integration of its three mechanisms could weaken independence. They prop... Read More

DRC is sending in the military to guard mines and critical minerals. Will it be enough?

India, May 18 -- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is taking an unusual step to secure its critical minerals. It plans to create a new paramilitary unit to protect mining sites and transport rout... Read More

Obesity among children is rising fastest in low- and middle-income countries, study finds

India, May 17 -- Childhood and adolescent obesity is slowing, stabilising or slightly declining in many high-income countries, according to a new study published in Nature. The study analysed obesity... Read More

Beyond the barrel: Why ICE vehicles are an economic and energy liability for India

India, May 16 -- Amidst West Asian tensions, Strait of Hormuz supply disruptions, and oil price volatility, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has framed this moment as a catalyst for India's energy indepen... Read More

Underground river channel beneath Prayagraj-Kanpur stretch may be separate from Ganga and Yamuna, scientists say

India, May 16 -- The discovery of a 200 kilometre-long underground palaeo-channel stretching from Prayagraj to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh has reignited debate around one of India's oldest and most enduri... Read More

The question is not whether technology will expand, but whether the frameworks around labour, dignity, and protection will evolve alongside it: Aranya Sahay

India, May 16 -- Aranya Sahay belongs to a new generation of filmmakers interrogating the invisible systems that structure contemporary life. His film Humans in the Loop turns to the hidden human labo... Read More

Mizoram is where honesty and hospitality define culture

India, May 16 -- I recently watched a video of a woman in New Zealand stopping at an unmanned vegetable stall along a quiet national highway. She picked what she needed, placed her money in a box, and... Read More

Gen Z enters the booth

India, May 16 -- The 2026 Assembly verdict across West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Assam reveals something remarkable: young India is no longer behaving like a patient inheritor of old ... Read More

Institutional neglect pushed Odisha man to carry sister's remains to bank, says fact-finding team

India, May 15 -- Jitu Munda, 65, carried his sister's skeletal remains to a bank in Odisha's Keonjhar district after repeated attempts to access her savings failed. A fact-finding report by the Right... Read More

Gujarat village resident on hunger strike says decade-long pollution complaints against Tata Chemicals still ignored

India, May 15 -- A resident of Devpara village in Okhamandal taluka has sent a follow-up statutory notice to the Gujarat Pollution Control Board, accusing Tata Chemicals' Mithapur plant of ongoing env... Read More

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