India

Glaciers are shrinking rapidly, pushing the Himalayas toward "peak water," after which river flows will decline. This threatens downstream farms, cities, and communities with water stress, making India particularly vulnerable, says the study.

Medha Roopam, the 2014-batch IAS officer who is the district magistrate Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida), had passed the NSA order against a female student and was criticised by Allahabad High Court.

The former JD(S) MP from Hassan in Karnataka, Prajwal Revanna, is serving out a life sentence in a jail in Bengaluru after being convicted in a rape case last year. The 36-year-old ex-MP is former PM HD Deve Gowda’s grandson and Union minister HD Kumaraswamy’s nephew.

With the India-China border dispute remaining a long-running thorn in bilateral relations between the two countries, the latest one-to-one meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping could take make the relations better.

Even as US President Donald Trump says he has no regrets about starting the Iran war, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian makes his nation’s resolve clear that it will foil Trump’s plans to claim a convincing victory in the ongoing conflict.