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Displaced Gazans struggle with winter chill as heavy rains lash shelters, camps

Damaged tents at a beach camp shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS

Published on Dec 29, 2025, 12:20 PM IST

From 21 members to five in a year: Top Maoist command decimated

In the past year, security forces across Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Odisha neutralised at least 270 Maoists.

Published on Dec 28, 2025, 4:01 AM IST

‘Junta with nukes’: NSA files show Bush, Putin were worried about Pak’s arsenal

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Published on Dec 27, 2025, 5:20 AM IST

Vanity in a vial: The perils of a raging, and untested, peptide health trend

The US Anti-Doping Agency has banned several popular injectable peptides, warning of cardiac risks. (Shutterstock)

Published on Dec 26, 2025, 4:06 AM IST

Unnao verdict: When MLA isn’t ‘public servant’

The court ordered Sengar’s release pending his appeal, noting that he has already undergone about 7 years and 5 months of imprisonment following his conviction by a trial court. (Representational image)

Updated on Dec 25, 2025, 11:04 PM IST

Red corridor to white flag: The lives of former Naxalites

Surrendered Maoists (from L to R), Dhannu, Rajman, Chaitu and Rupesh. (HT PHOTO)

Published on Dec 24, 2025, 4:28 AM IST

China likely loaded over 100 ICBMs in silo fields: Pentagon

China is expanding and modernizing its weapons stockpile faster than any other nuclear-armed power. (Reuters photo)

Updated on Dec 23, 2025, 10:10 AM IST

Stan Swamy: A continuing legal struggle to safeguard his legacy

To his supporters, Stan Swamy was an activist dedicated to the rights of tribals. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025, 11:17 AM IST

Hallucination in machines: Why AI makes things up

It was to fix ChatGPT’s reliability amongst other things, that a slightly panicked Sam Altman declared a Code Red in a memo to his employees, in December. (AP)

Published on Dec 19, 2025, 4:54 AM IST

Men’s tennis body buckles: Games to be paused, stopped if heat hits break point

Novak Djokovic cools off during the Paris Olympics. (Getty Images)

Published on Dec 17, 2025, 3:40 AM IST

4.3mn SIR cuts likely in Rajasthan, urban hubs like Jaipur may be most hit

Booth Level Officers and their teams check and collect enumeration forms as voters fill them out and queue to submit them during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, in Prayagraj. (ANI)

Published on Dec 16, 2025, 5:04 AM IST

The megacity dream that isn’t

The merger of 27 urban local bodies has expanded Hyderabad to a whopping 2,000 sqkm, making it India’s largest municipal corporation by area. (Shutterstock)

Published on Dec 15, 2025, 6:04 AM IST

A mother-daughter duo’s different strokes keep up the Chemould legacy

iMumbai, India - December 05, 2025: Shireen gandhy and her daughter Atyaan Jungalwala pose for the photos at Bandra in Mumbai, India, on Friday, December 05, 2025. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Published on Dec 14, 2025, 6:04 AM IST

How a scientist couple reinvented jaggery

Dr Vishal Sardeshpande and his wife, Madhavi Sardeshpande. (HT)

Updated on Dec 13, 2025, 9:42 AM IST

Why Mumbai is choking

Mumbai, India. Dec 10, 2025 - View of Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project site at Bandra-Kurla complex (BKC) in Bandra, Mumbai, India. Dec 10, 2025. (Photo by Raju Shinde/HT Photo) (Raju Shinde)

Updated on Dec 11, 2025, 5:22 AM IST

Making journalism ‘great and humane’: An editor reflects on New Yorker's century

David Remnick and his team plan the countdown to Trump’s re-election in October 2024. (NETFLIX)

Updated on Dec 10, 2025, 6:48 PM IST

IndiGo crisis exposes a broken regulatory system

Luggage piled up at Delhi’s IGI Airport amid the IndiGo flight cancellations and delays. (ANI)

Published on Dec 9, 2025, 3:48 AM IST

India pushes trade talks, looks to seal key pacts by year-end

India signed the FTA with Europe's four nation trade bloc in 2024. (AFP file photo)

Published on Dec 8, 2025, 4:58 AM IST

Regulatory retreat poses flying safety hazard, say experts

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Friday granted IndiGo sweeping exemptions from crew fatigue standards

Updated on Dec 7, 2025, 11:41 AM IST

Wardrobe takeover: The rise of leatherjackets among mavericks of deep tech

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Dec 6, 2025, 7:58 AM IST

Quantum computing: Qubits are the new space race

The IBM Quantum System Two quantum computer. (AFP)

Published on Dec 4, 2025, 5:37 AM IST

The internet and its fallible middlemen

Cloudflare is an infrastructure-as-a-service company, one of the handful that has a large, distributed secure network (the backbone of the internet) to connect users like us to each other’s devices, and computers. (Shutterstock)

Published on Dec 3, 2025, 3:56 AM IST

Indonesia eyes coastal, sea-launched BrahMos

File photo of BrahMos missiles.

Published on Dec 2, 2025, 4:18 AM IST

US ‘immensely benefited’ from Indian talent: Musk in Nikhil Kamath's podcast

Elon Musk explained that Starlink’s technology is designed to complement existing telecom infrastructure, especially in countries with large rural populations

Updated on Dec 1, 2025, 6:40 AM IST

Tobacco chewers with high risk genes get oral cancer a decade earlier: Study

A major genetic study by the Centre for Cancer Epidemiology at the Tata Memorial Centre, has found that some tobacco chewers in India are born with genes that make them develop oral cancer 10 to 19 years earlier than others who chew similar amounts of tobacco. (stock.adobe.com)

Published on Nov 30, 2025, 5:46 AM IST

Incompatible models, infra shortage: Why IMD struggles with the weather

A working paper on weather forecast shows poorer countries are worse off than their richer peers in short-term predictions of temperature and rain. (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)

Updated on Nov 29, 2025, 8:13 AM IST

‘No time to rest’: Bengal village poll staffer juggles life, SIR as clock ticks

Sabeera Khatun, 42, a teacher and Booth Level Officer, works on SIR forms with her daughter Sahieena in Usthi, West Bengal. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Nov 28, 2025, 8:05 AM IST

Prince’s gambit: Sindarov, 19, is crowned youngest chess WC winner

Uzbekistan’s Javokhir Sindarov during a game against China’s Wei Yi at the Fide Chess World Cup 2025 in Goa. (PTI)

Published on Nov 27, 2025, 3:52 AM IST

Sweeping SC scrutiny over pvt, deemed universities

Ordering disclosures on a wide range of structural and regulatory issues, the bench sought details from governments on “the background/circumstances and under which provisions of law all private/non-government/deemed-to-be Universities came into being”. (HT File)

Published on Nov 26, 2025, 5:00 AM IST

Slowing courts, balls entrench tennis duopoly as Alcaraz, Sinner make hay

The ball sitting up gives more time — especially to excellent movers like Alcaraz and Sinner — to reach even the most tightly angled shots. (Getty Images)

Published on Nov 25, 2025, 4:54 AM IST

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