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Times have changed. The diktat of militants has dissipated as militancy has begun to fade in the Valley. Though artists still find shadows of those days chasing their creative pursuits to curtail their freedom.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the global average, with 2025 the hottest year on record for the region. Shorter snow seasons, shrinking sea ice and record ocean temperatures are intensifying floods, storms and wildfires.

A new study suggests inequality alone is rarely enough to drive instability. Instead, researchers found a crucial accelerant that transforms economic grievance into political action: the internet.

Christmas is a nostalgic holiday, in more ways than one. Artists know this, feeding our nostalgia through music, lyrics and visuals which evoke the past. This is possibly why most Christmas albums consist of interpretations of past holiday classics, rather than original material.

Competence, professionalism, team work, and a certain amount of luck all matter on the battlefield. A person’s gender does not. History agrees with this sentiment.

Propaganda in movies is nothing new in the entertainment world. However, in the recent past, propaganda in films has become easy to serve, challenging to define and extremely difficult to call out.

The main trick is for pet owners not to stand by idly as their four-legged companions’ age.

A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a direct link to the seaborne raiders who used the boat over 2,000 years ago. By analysing the tar itself, Lund University researchers are closer to solving the long-standing mystery of where the attackers in the boat came from.

Despite making it to headlines for scams and sex scandals time and again, India’s godmen command enduring influence and loyal supporters. Perhaps, why they continue to survive, thrive and in most cases, connive with impunity.

In a new study, researchers quantified the energy cost of pumping blood for a typical adult giraffe and compared it to what it would be in an imaginary animal with short legs but a longer neck to reach the same treetop height.

With booming clubs and courts and even pickleball cafes across India, it truly is the sport of the moment, but will the fad sustain?

A hamlet of about 150 houses, barely 15 km from the temple town of Puri in Odisha, it is a heritage crafts village where history dates back to 5 BC. While in the rest of the world, art makes news only when a work is auctioned crossing the million-dollar mark; at Raghurajpur, it is practised as ‘sewa’ to Lord Jagannath.