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Three decades and ₹8,000 crore have failed to clean the Yamuna in Delhi — untreated sewage, the Najafgarh drain, and under-capacity STPs keep BOD levels in the danger zone.

India now has 12 million obese children under 19, according to ICMR data. School canteens sell junk food while ultra-processed food advertising targets children.

India collects only 11 million units of blood annually against a need of 15 million. The O-negative shortage is acute, urban blood banks run on single-day reserves, and the rural gap is catastrophic.

Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra is pursuing the 90-metre barrier in the 2026 World Athletics Diamond League season while building his programme toward the LA 2028 Olympics.

PV Sindhu is rewriting her post-Olympic chapter with a new coach, reshaped technique and one eye firmly on the 2026 Badminton World Championships and the road to LA 2028.

With three weeks left in IPL 2026, five teams are fighting for four playoff spots — and the NRR column is about to become the tournament's most important number.

Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma and a new generation of stars are building India's most complete women's cricket squad ahead of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026.

50,000 farmers have gathered at the Shambhu border near Delhi demanding a legal guarantee of MSP. National highways are blocked; government talks have stalled; the wheat procurement season may.

With D. Gukesh as world champion and Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi and Koneru Humpy all in the world's top ranks, India has become the undisputed centre of global chess.

Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, Glory tells the story of a Haryana boxer from a marginalised community who fights his way to the Commonwealth Games — and the film has already won more than its.

The Centre for Science and Environment's annual report finds India is breaching global ecological limits on air, water, land, and climate simultaneously — even as the economy grows at 6.5%.

India has fewer sports medicine doctors than many US college programs. Cricket and marathons grew fast; specialist care did not, so preventable injuries end careers early.

Indian meme culture in 2023-24 adopted a melancholic Serbian folk song as the ultimate expression of second-hand embarrassment and witnessing someone's downfall. How does this happen — and what.

When actor Vijay Thalapathy and Rashmika Mandanna confirmed their relationship and got married in December 2025, India's internet did not just celebrate — it produced a cultural event with its.

A video of Arijit Singh at a pharmaceutical company's annual function, singing 'Tum Hi Ho' while the entire audience held up phone torches, went viral for all the right reasons — and rekindled.

Depression in an urban professional gets a therapist and an app. The same condition in a Bihar farmer means a faith healer, a family conspiracy of silence, or a suicide. India's mental health.

Three chip-fab approvals, foreign anchor investors, and 28,000 new jobs promised — India's semiconductor mission is past the announcement stage, but the clock is ticking against China and Taiwan.

India is the world's fastest-growing major economy for the third year running. But services dominate, manufacturing stalls, and 45% of workers still depend on agriculture — a prosperity gap that.

The Himalayas feed rivers used by 1.9 billion people, but glaciers are now melting about twice as fast as in 2000. The water-security timeline is shorter than most policy plans assume.

He debuted at 16 against Pakistan's fastest attack and retired 24 years later with 100 international centuries. His career shows how individual brilliance can shape a nation's self-image.

Curiosity has detected high concentrations of thiophene and other aromatic organic compounds in a Martian mudstone — the most complex organics ever found on Mars. Scientists are cautiously.

Biosimilars — cheaper copies of complex biological drugs — are worth 50 billion globally. Indian companies are racing to capture that market, threatening to cut the price of cancer and.

Eight Google Brain engineers published 'Attention Is All You Need.' In five years it reorganized the tech industry around one architecture and gave OpenAI the building blocks for ChatGPT.

France is providing life-support technology, astronaut training, and CNES expertise for India's first crewed space mission. The partnership signals a deliberate Indian strategy to hedge against.

Global multinationals now run almost every critical function — AI research, legal ops, finance, product design — from India. The GCC industry hit $64 billion in revenue in FY25 and is on track.

Placeholder notation in Babylon, missing years later, matured in Sanskrit texts into a full number with rules for arithmetic. Brahmagupta gave laws of signs; Arabic scholars carried the idea west.

A coronal mass ejection hit Earth within seventeen hours in September 1859, auroras reached the tropics, and operators felt shocks through their keys. Modern grids face a similar but larger risk.