Teacher bags US$1mil prize
AN Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centres and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won the US$1mil (RM3.95mil) Global Teacher Prize.
Cops probe death of three sisters
POLICE said an investigation has been launched into the death of three young sisters over concerns that they were heavily "influenced" by games and movies online that they were later denied access to.
Airline to explain faulty switch issue
Britain's aviation authority has asked Air India to explain how a Boeing Dreamliner passenger jet which was grounded on arrival in India for safety checks took off from London on Sunday with a possibly faulty fuel switch.
Debate over teen social media use grows in key tech market India
Officials in India are publicly debating age restrictions for accessing social media, a potential fresh challenge to Big Tech in a massive market for users as global debate grows over online harms to children.
New Delhi to instead buy more US oil, arms, aircraft for 32% tariff cut
The nation has agreed to buy petroleum, defence goods, and aircraft from the United States, while partly opening up its highly-guarded agriculture sector under a trade deal, according to a government official, as the two sides reconcile after months of tensions.
India faces hotter, drier February, threatening winter crops
IT will be warmer and drier this month after an unusually warm January, the weather office in Mumbai said, raising risks for key winter-sown crops such as wheat, rapeseed and chickpeas.
Two new wetlands added to Ramsar sites list
The country has added two more wetlands to the Ramsar sites list, taking the number of such sites in the country to 98, officials said.
Bill on social media ban
An ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed a Bill to ban social media for children, as the world's biggest market for Meta and YouTube joins a global debate on the impact of social media on young people's health and safety.
Two Nipah virus cases reported, says WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that two laboratory-confirmed cases of Nipah virus (NiV) infection have been reported in India.
State mulls social media ban for children
Authorities in Andhra Pradesh are preparing the ground for a ban on children using social media, as concerns mount globally over online addiction and abuse.
