Plans for four agile Army battle groups in the east gather pace

THE INDIAN Army's plans to establish Integrated Battle Groups (IBGs), which will be self-contained, agile, brigade-sized fighting units, have gathered pace and may be implemented soon, 

starting with the Panagarh-based XVII Corps, the country's first mountain strike corps (MSC) that faces the frontier with China.

Govt proposes phone makers to give source code, firms push back

INDIA PROPOSES requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures, prompting behind-the-scenes opposition from giants like Apple and Samsung.

Govt to merge agri schemes, link funds to state reforms

IN A significant restructuring exercise that could push reforms at the state level, the Union Ministry of Agriculture has proposed to merge three separate ongoing schemes with its flagship Pradhan Mantri-Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY), with an outlay of Rs 1.75 lakh crore

over the next five years, The Indian Express has learnt.

After Venezuela, strategic autonomy can't be just words

The US's intervention is in many ways a replay of what happened in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

The response to such attacks cannot be cosmetic. At the global level, institutions must be restructured to reflect contemporary realities.

Chhattisgarh, Puducherry cut TB deaths with cash, early nutrition support

TO IMPROVE treatment out-comes for patients with tuberculosis, Chhattisgarh and the

UT of Puducherry have prioritised early nutritional support for the under-nourished through direct cash transfers of Rs 1,000 and a food basket.

US to push for quicker action on rare earths

US TREASURY Secretary Scott Bessent will urge Group of Seven nations and others to step up

their efforts to reduce reliance on critical minerals from China when he hosts a dozen top finance officials on Monday, a senior US official said.

China dominates the critical minerals chain, refining between 47% and 87% of copper, lithium,

cobalt, graphite and rare earths.

'Live selfies, geo-tagging mandatory for crypto users'

New Delhi: In an effort to eliminate illegal activity in the digital asset market, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has unveiled stringent new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know

Your Customer (KYC) protocols for cryptocurrency exchanges, including mandatory liveness

detection and geographical tracking during the onboarding process.

The weed threat to mustard, and need for new solutions

IT IS India's largest indigenous edible oil source farmed in nearly nine million hectares - mainly Rajasthan, UP, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and West Bengal. But mustard is also a crop increasingly

susceptible to infestation by Orobanche aegyptiaca. This is a parasitic weed that attaches to the roots of mustard plants and extracts nutrients, carbon and water from them. By depriving the host crop of these, it causes wilting, yellowing and stunted growth of the plants and, thereby, lower

mustard seed yields.

What Zehanpora stupas shed light on: Kashmir's rich Buddhist past

FOR MANY years, locals in Zehanpora assumed the mounds of earth they saw running for acres were part of the landscape. Spread over 10 acres in a small village in Baramulla, North Kashmir, the mounds have recently been discovered to be man-made, and estimated to be over 2,000 years old.