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Three hydraulic systems lost at 36,000ft: The knowns and unknowns of the Air India Phuket-Delhi flight

India, Sept. 5 -- At 9.32 am on August 4, the passengers on Air India flight AI2379 were two hours into a routine journey from Phuket to Delhi. The aircraft was cruising at 36,000 feet and the seat be... Read More


The machine that hides how your booth voted: Why India's 'totaliser' election reform has been stuck for 18 years

India, Sept. 2 -- On counting day, the control unit of each electronic voting machine (EVM) is opened one at a time and its numbers are entered against the polling station it came from. By the time th... Read More


The machine that hides how your booth voted: Why India's EVM 'totaliser' has been stuck for 18 years

India, Sept. 2 -- On counting day, the control unit of each electronic voting machine (EVM) is opened one at a time and its numbers are entered against the polling station it came from. By the time th... Read More


Paper boarding passes go unstamped at immigration from today: What changes for flyers

India, Sept. 1 -- International passengers flying out of India will no longer need their boarding passes stamped at immigration counters from Tuesday, with the Bureau of Immigration clearing the use o... Read More


Delhi SIR: How to check your name in draft electoral roll & what to do if it's not on the list

India, Sept. 1 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday published the draft electoral roll for Delhi, dropping nearly 4.76 million names and marking the highest deletion rate at this stage,... Read More


Hubble looked. Webb zoomed. Roman will sweep - meet Nasa's newest telescope that'll map secrets of the universe

India, Aug. 31 -- Nasa on Sunday launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a $4.3 billion observatory built around a repurposed spy satellite that will scan the universe in wide, panoramic sweep... Read More


'Everything, everyone is gone': Mapping the glacier collapse that has killed hundreds, devastated Nepal and Tibet

India, Aug. 29 -- "I have no one left waiting for me. Everything and everyone is gone. The end," Dibga Tamang said, a day after a glacial collapse high up in the Himalayas unleashed a tsunami-like flo... Read More


Meta's $18 billion settlement to close US lawsuit: What changes for the company, teens, rivals and the world

India, Aug. 28 -- Meta Platforms has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from nearly every US state that Facebook and Instagram had contributed to a youth mental-health crisis by hooking ... Read More


Nepal floods, in visuals: A collapse 5,200m high, 170km of devastation, bodies swept up to India & a lake overflowing

India, Aug. 28 -- A flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday has killed close to 500 people and left more than 1,400 missing, making it the deadliest disaster in Nepal since the 2015 earthqu... Read More


Chunk of glacier fell 1.2km & sent a wall of mud, ice, water 170km downstream: What we know about Nepal-Tibet floods

India, Aug. 27 -- At water monitoring stations along Nepal's Trishuli river on Wednesday morning, levels rose by as much as nine metres in half-an-hour. It might have been a wall of mud, ice and rock ... Read More