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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are likely to suffer more than the Royals by opting out

Royal officials have been tasked to find a compromise, but it is hard to see how Harry and Meghan can be half in, and half out of the royal family.

Birkin bags and Swiss ski resorts: How super-rich Delhi wives want to be part of global elite

For Indian super-rich families, a summer vacation abroad is a necessary signal of being part of the global elite. But it can't be somewhere 'touristy'.

Pet adoption ads need to be better written than ‘adopt, don’t shop’

I studied and quantified the language patterns of nearly 680,000 adopted and unadopted pet ads. This is what I found.

How Google images helped us pin down the diet of Africa’s largest eagle

Martial eagles are in rapid decline in Africa. So we trawled through 4,872 photos to find out the problem.

Your body clock affects your immune system. Removing the clock gene helps fight bacteria

We now live with cheap, bright, artificial light, shift-work, sleep-deprivation – all major challenges to the ancient control mechanisms in our bodies.

Trump isn’t the first to test limits of US presidential powers. Obama did it too

Without informing Congress, as US Constitution and the War Powers Resolution require, Obama launched airstrikes against Libyan armed forces in March 2011.

Australian bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction

We estimate most of the range and population of between 20 and 100 threatened species will have been burnt. But we won't know till the fire stops burning.

Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before, and could do it again

Humans have seldom, if ever, seen fires like these, but we know they've happened before – when the asteroid strike that killed dinosaurs sparked deadly global firestorms.

Australia’s bushfire crisis raises hard, inevitable questions

Once the immediate threat of these bushfires pass, bigger issues will have to be addressed, such as how to cope with the deep anxiety provoked by the fires.

India to Africa: Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century

As the 2020s begin, it’s clear we’re living in an unprecedented moment: climate emergency, brewing global financial crisis and militarisation.

On Camera

Moon madness has taken over modern dating. A waning crescent is the best time to ghost

Alongside buying into the grift that is dating apps, the girlies are also installing astrology apps like Astrotalk to investigate the same tired mystery—will he ever text back?

In NCLAT’s WhatsApp ruling, reminder of India’s cautious view of competition disputes involving Big Tech

WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.