No-confidence motion against Speaker: What happens now?

The Opposition on Tuesday moved a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Lok Sabha sources said that it would now be examined and processed as per rules.

The Congress and other parties have attacked Birla for not allowing Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi to quote from or speak about former Indian Army Chief General M M Naravane's unpublished memoir, and for Birla's claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi could have been attacked inside the House.

Move to procure six more P-8I submarine hunters before DAC this week

India is set to procure six additional Boeing P-8I aircraft, a multirole Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance Anti-Submarine Warfare (LRMR ASW) aircraft, as part of an inter-governmental agreement with the United States.

Misri meets China's vice-minister; talks focus on border peace, trade

Trade relations and maintaining peace along the Line of Actual Control remained the focus of the talks between India and China on Tuesday, as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and his Chinese counterpart Ma Zhaoxu met in New Delhi to take stock of overall progress in ties post the border agreement of October 2024.

In the new world order, economic policy is also foreign policy

Delhi's recent focus on FTAS with Western partners marks an important pivot. After years of looking east, Delhi has come to terms with a reality staring it in the face-the significant complementarity with the Western economies.

In the new world order, economic policy is also foreign policy

Delhi's recent focus on FTAS with Western partners marks an important pivot. After years of looking east, Delhi has come to terms with a reality staring it in the face-the significant complementarity with the Western economies.

To build data centres, tax breaks aren't enough

Large data centres also need reliable, high-quality power at competitive tariffs, with clear rules on outages. They need strong network connectivity, including multiple fibre routes and peering arrangements.

India-US trade deal seals farmers' slide-provider to poor relative

Barring short-lived attention in the first Five Year Plan or a lone voice like Chaudhary Charan Singh, the farmer has been an afterthought in India's developmental planning.

For first time, Indians invest more in gold ETFs than equity MFs

In a first for India, investments in gold Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in January were greater than inflows into equity-oriented mutual funds, showed data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) released Tuesday.

'Al was trained to imitate humans. It learnt survival'

"The supposed opposition between safety and innovation is a fallacy. It is just not the case that by getting rid of safety, you get rid of innovation. If you get rid of safety in air travel, what happens? You don't have air travel.

People will not get on an unsafe aeroplane. They will, in the future, not use AI that convinces children to commit suicide, or that threatens human existence.'

Smithsonian's return of Indian bronzes is a step forward for restitution efforts

Earlier this month, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA), US, announced its decision to return three bronze sculptures - Shiva Nataraja (Chola period, ca. 990), Somaskanda (Chola period, 12th century), and Saint Sundarar with Paravai (Vijayanagar period, 16th century) - to the Government of India. The artefacts, according to the museum, had been "removed illegally from temple settings".

Two of the bronzes will make the journey back home, while the Shiva Nataraja will remain on a long-term loan to the museum.

The step comes against the backdrop of repatriation efforts globally to return looted or illicitly trafficked cultural artefacts to Asian nations. In 2024, 297 antiques in terracotta, stone, and metal were returned to India by the US.