Due to climate change and rising global temperatures, the glaciers had been gradually thinning. When the glacier finally gave way, it sent a colossal amount of debris tumbling into the fjord, displacing enough material to fill around 10,000 Olympic-sized pools.

Union Cabinet today approved the 'Chandrayaan-4' mission, aimed at developing and demonstrating the technologies required for landing Indian astronauts on the moon and ensuring their safe return to Earth. 

The Union Cabinet today approved the first step towards the Bharatiya Antariksh Station.

“Cansurvive: Subah Ka Pata” deals with the dreaded disease with sensitivity and imagination.

Seethalakshmi talks to Geetha Venkatramanan about pursuing a rare art form.

Rangadhara’s emotionally charged play ‘Raktbeej’ connected with the audience and won applause.

‘Yaavarum Kaelir’ stands out for its erudite host and an impressive line-up of speakers

As she is all set to make her debut in theatre as Shakuntala, Manju Warrier admits she is excited and nervous about her new role

The Hindu Theatre Fest, which opens in Hyderabad on August 19, promises a line up of unique stories

The popular ‘Sri Krishna Rayabharam’ was staged in Vijayawada.

Naguvaaga Nakku explores the mother-daughter relationship in an intimate way

Purva Naresh’s “Ladies Sangeet” unravels multiple layers of gender, sexuality and marriage.

Here’s a lowdown on the three Tamil plays that are to be staged at The Hindu Theatre Fest.

Gireesan Sopanam’s histrionic skills, discovered rather fortuitously, has made him an integral part of the late Kavalam Narayana Panicker’s plays for the last 34 years.

A play without a director and a different actor for each show, a search for identity through language and a coming-of-age tale are on offer in the latest edition of The Hindu Theatre Festival in Bengaluru

The Frisky Suspenders, a farcical play, makes fun of the human weakness of jumping to conclusions

Tamil theatre can be a powerful social tool and has so much to offer, but sadly it has been given a short shrift says Dharani Dharan

The idea of a performance like Blank Page, directed by Sunil Shanbhag, came out of Tamaasha Theatre troupe’s exercises where poetry is employed to understand multiplicity of meaning

The unique appeal of Pouranic verse drama came alive in the staging of ‘Bhaktha Prahlada’.

The rarely staged first part of ‘Subhadraharanam’ was performed in Edappally by a group of competent artistes.

Hanu Yadav’s “Karmanasha Ki Haar” is a severe indictment of superstition and feudal values, says Diwan Singh Bajeli

In a conversation that veers from nostalgia to cultural politics, Rajit Kapur reflects on his craft and concerns

An unabridged version of ‘Kuchelavritham’ was staged in Palakkad, to the delight of rasikas.

Ninasam Tirugata staged two plays -- Kalandugeya Kathe and Atta Dari Itta Puli. One reads the contemporary into classical, and the other bares the present itself

Laugh non-stop, that’s what the audience did watching ‘Crazy Thieves...’

Amaravati Poetic Prism 2016 makes its entry into Indian Book of Records as the largest poetic anthology comprising 527 poems.

Hints for rate cut and weak economic data triggers the fall

While traders expect the rupee to weaken below 84, interventions from RBI have kept the currency well-supported above the psychologically important level

Market players eye release of domestic macroeconomic data

Heavy demand for dollars weighs on rupee

Rupee lifted by weakening of dollar, and drop in crude oil prices

Rupee continues to hold steady within a well-defined range on active intervention by RBI, say forex traders

A bullish euro leaves the bias negative for the greenback

Meanwhile, the dollar index was up 0.07 per cent to 100.92 points.

The reserves perked up in the reporting week as foreign currency assets (FCA) and gold holdings were up by $2.057 billion and $726 million, respectively.

Dollar weakness overseas supports rupee

Rupee weighed down by strong dollar, outflow of foreign funds

 In the week ending September 27, 2024, the reserves reached an all-time high of $704.885 billion.

RBI changed its stance to ‘neutral’ on Wednesday, spurring bets that the country is on the path to cut interest rates 

The decline was primarily due to a decrease in foreign currency assets by $3.511 billion, now at $612.643 billion.

India has made significant strides in reducing its carbon intensity, with a 33 per cent reduction between 2005 and 2019, as per a UN report

The reserves shrunk by $10.746 billion during the reporting week to stand at $690.43 billion as on October 11, 2024

The central bank has sold dollars on almost all days in the last two weeks, not allowing the rupee to fall and dampening volatility