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Bengaluru 'peptide party' called off: The Silicon Valley trend and what science says about it

India, Sept. 2 -- Advertised as India's first, the Bengaluru 'Peptide Party' was called off last week after the Karnataka Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) served a notice to the organisers. ... Read More


India puts its clocks under one law: What the new Standard Time rules mean for banks, exchanges, telcos and the grid

India, Aug. 31 -- A failed UPI payment between two banks can be reconciled only if both banks' servers agree on when it was attempted. An investigator trying to reconstruct the order of trades in a ma... Read More


They hunt, wait, then dive: The 'loitering munitions' former CDS Chauhan referred to in his Op Sindoor remarks

India, Aug. 26 -- Speaking at an event in New Delhi on Tuesday, former chief of defence staff General Anil Chauhan (retired) said India had sent "a lot of loitering munitions" to Sargodha in Pakistan ... Read More


1,777 cases, zero deaths: The science of H1N1, the surge in Delhi and how it differs from Covid-19

India, Aug. 22 -- Union health minister JP Nadda reviewed Delhi's swine flu surge with state officials on Friday, as the city's tally for the year touched 1,777 confirmed H1N1 cases and Delhi health m... Read More


Trump wants US to vote like India: What the SAVE Act would actually do, and why the analogy may not hold up

India, Aug. 18 -- When US President Donald Trump called on Congress on Monday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act, he leaned on India as a data point. India had 646 million... Read More


Delhi hires men to mimic langurs to scare monkeys from BWF World Championships. The science is more complicated

India, Aug. 11 -- Three men, among them Jabbar, will be paid to make guttural, short and sharp calls - resembling the angry sound of grey langurs - around the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi... Read More


Before the vote, another vote: How US primaries decide who gets to run for midterms & why the Michigan election mattered

India, Aug. 7 -- Abdul El-Sayed, a 41-year-old physician and former Detroit public health official, on Wednesday narrowly defeated four-term Congresswoman Haley Stevens to win the Democratic party's n... Read More


Inside Google's AI reset: How Pichai is redrawing the map & shifting its centre of gravity back to California

India, Aug. 6 -- Alphabet's Google on Wednesday announced the largest overhaul of its artificial intelligence leadership since 2023, with Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day ch... Read More


Between placards and Parliament: What a 'pressure group' is, and where Abhijeet Dipke's CJP fits

India, Aug. 5 -- Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke told reporters in his hometown, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, on Wednesday that the outfit will function as a "pressure group" to seek ... Read More


How to remove a Fifa president: The rules, the Congress, and the men - and a woman - who may go up against Infantino

India, Aug. 5 -- Two weeks after presiding over the men's world cup, Fifa president Gianni Infantino is facing the biggest challenge yet to his job that until recently looked untouchable. A cluster o... Read More