France leads the FIFA ranking as the 2026 World Cup nears. History is blunt about what that is worth: across eight World Cups, the team ranked number one at kick-off has never lifted the trophy.
A study of nearly 2,00,000 South Asian children finds that hot, humid days in pregnancy set back child growth far more than heat measured by temperature alone, and that climate models ignoring humidity hide millions of future cases of stunting.
Washington wants new duties on 60 economies for failing to curb forced-labour imports. India, China, and Japan face the steeper 12.5 per cent; the EU and Britain get 10 per cent.
An active western disturbance lifted desert dust over Rajasthan on Saturday, then turned to rain that cooled the sweltering north.
A single five-day heatwave could cause close to 30,000 estimated excess deaths in India, a new study finds, concentrated in the poorest and hottest states.
Since the Gulf crisis began, refiners have been buying smaller volumes at sharply higher cost. After months of absorbing losses, they began passing them on.
The power sector is particularly exposed. Under the government's LNG-rationing framework, electricity generation is a lower-priority sector.
The booth-wise Form 20 for Bhabanipur shows the chief minister carried just 61 of 267 polling stations, and not the one on her own street.
The signal from bond markets worldwide is unmistakable: the cost-of-living crisis, worsened by the Middle East conflict, is here to stay for some time.
Forecasters say a strong El Nino is likely to return by late 2026, and India's weather office is already warning of a below-normal monsoon for hundreds of millions of farmers.
The April deficit rose to $28.38 billion as the Middle East conflict pushed crude prices higher and added pressure on the rupee.
India hosts a BRICS bigger than the G7. The country's oil still runs on Russian crude, and a US Treasury deadline ticks past on Saturday.
Rupee at a record low. Oil near $105 a barrel. Nifty bleeding red. And a government weighing fuel hikes and import curbs to save forex.
The Election Commission's voter-roll cleanup removed more names than the winning margin in 95 of the 207 seats the BJP won, and in 44 of the 80 seats Trinamool won, an even higher share.
The BJP took two-thirds of Bengal's seats and ended Mamata Banerjee's 15-year rule. The Communists lost Kerala. M. Stalin lost Tamil Nadu.
In the months leading up to West Bengal's Assembly polls, the Election Commission of India removed roughly one in 10 voters from the state's electoral rolls.
Phase 2 pits the chief minister against the leader of the Opposition at Bhabanipur, and tests whether South Bengal can match the state's highest-ever turnout.
Heat waves have hit 11 states. Banda, in UP, touched 47.4°C. And forecasters say a possible Super El Nino could stretch the heat through 2026.
Tamil Nadu and West Bengal's Phase 1 turnouts were historic; the rolls they were measured against lost 56 lakh and 18 lakh names.
The 2026 Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Phase I Assembly slates in numbers.
