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Women’s rights extend beyond protection from sexual violence and are closely connected with economic opportunity, public participation, digital safety, climate justice, institutional protection and equal citizenship.
India’s high dependence on imported oil and gas, combined with concentration on western maritime routes, creates major chokepoint risks. The Chennai-Vladivostok Eastern Maritime Corridor offers a potential route-diversification strategy.
The WWF Living Planet Report 2026 highlights a 73% decline in the average size of monitored vertebrate populations between 1970 and 2022. Freshwater ecosystems witnessed the sharpest decline, while the report also highlighted successful conservation efforts and the possibility of nature’s recovery.
NITI Aayog’s report highlights the continuing gap between education, skills and employment in India and calls for stronger vocational education, apprenticeships, industry-linked training and reskilling for emerging sectors.
The rapid expansion of AI data centres could generate large volumes of discarded servers, GPUs, networking, power and cooling equipment, creating environmental, health and data-security challenges.
The Swedish Academy has announced Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was honoured for a playful, inventive body of work that engages the classical tradition and creates new literary forms.
The Supreme Court closed the seven-judge reference arising from the 2003 Tamil Nadu Assembly privilege dispute as infructuous, while leaving the larger constitutional questions on legislative privilege and fundamental rights open.
India’s water-governance experience shows that sustainable water security requires not only physical infrastructure but also institutions, community participation, financing, resource management and service sustainability.
A global Wellcome survey highlights the growing impact of extreme heat on maternal and newborn health.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory enables scientists to study high-energy neutrinos originating from cosmic sources.
Animal diplomacy refers to the use of animals as gifts, loans, goodwill gestures and cultural symbols in international relations. Its history ranges from ancient Egypt to modern panda diplomacy and India’s Project Cheetah. CITES has played an important role in regulating international wildlife trade and promoting conservation.
The Southern right whale is a marine mammal found across the Southern Hemisphere. It has attracted attention following reports of unusually high calf mortality along Argentina’s coast.
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