The Silk Road is one of the most important trade routes in world history, predicated on the trade of silk between China and Rome. Its legacy spans continents and centuries, bringing together empires, religions, technology and philosophy.

On Saturday, ISRO will test the performance of the Crew Escape System of the planned human space flight mission. What does it hope to accomplish, in preparation of the mission? We explain.

Gaganyaan TV-D1 is “In-flight Abort Demonstration of Crew Escape System (CES)” at Mach number 1.2 with the newly developed Test Vehicle followed by Crew Module separation & safe recovery. Mission Objectives are -

Flight demonstration and evaluation of…

The ‘pat er Durga’, where the Goddess Durga is created on cloth instead of the more conventional clay, traces its origins to Odisha’s Patachitra paintings.

For much of the 19th century when the Zionist movement emerged, it was opposed by majority of Jews. Critics of Zionism have concentrated upon the continued expansion and occupation of Palestine by Israel. Adrija Roychowdhury finds out why the movement received…

Eastern and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean regions experience the most severe degradation

Tropical forests face threat from fossil fuel, mining and extractive industry expansion  

If it is business-as-usual, about one-third to half of the global population will find itself trapped in ‘beyond liveable’ regions, a new study has warned

NCDs account for 66 per cent of all deaths in India, of which 22 per cent were premature deaths in 2019