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B Sai Sudharsan’s injury has opened the door for an out‑of‑favour India batter to re‑enter the Test setup after Reports confirmed that Sudharsan failed to regain full fitness and is expected to be ruled out.

The long-standing partnership between India and Russia is expanding beyond its traditional areas of defence and energy, with trade, investment, skilled manpower and Arctic connectivity emerging as important new areas of cooperation

Scientists say humans could theoretically live beyond 200 years, but accumulated biological damage remains the biggest hurdle to extreme longevity

Kosovo's parliament on Saturday was forced to be suspended after an opposition lawmaker threw an egg at the country's caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

In his new book, ‘Money Beyond Borders’, Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and political science at the University of California, shows that ‘international currency status is not forever’. However, he concludes that ‘no other currency… is positioned to fill the dollar’s shoes’

A senior commander of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has died under suspicious circumstances, days after another senior operative claimed that more than 30 members of the organisation had been killed by "unknown men"

Asia is witnessing a surge in extreme weather, from record-breaking heatwaves in South Korea and Japan to deadly cloudbursts in Jammu and Kashmir. But how can scorching temperatures and devastating floods happen at the same time? In this episode of Firstpost Explains, we unpack the science behind these seemingly opposite disasters. We explain how a warming planet traps more heat, holds more moisture and fuels both intense heatwaves and extreme rainfall. We also explore the growing phenomenon of climate whiplash—the rapid shift between weather extremes—and why scientists warn that such events could become more frequent, more intense and harder to predict. Gursshheen Gahllen brings you all the details on Planet Pulse.

Watch this video as Firstpost explains why mountains are getting riskier for climbers due to climate change. A devastating July avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak has claimed the lives of ten veteran mountaineers, including legendary British-Nepali climber Nirmal ‘Nims Dai’ Purja. The 8,047-meter peak, historically stable during mid-summer, experienced an unseasonable snow collapse that swept the elite expedition team down a sheer 1,000-foot slope at 6,600 metres. Purja, famous for scaling all fourteen 8,000-metre peaks in just six months and six days, succumbed to extreme alpine conditions altered by rising global temperatures. Experts warn that climate change is destabilising Western Himalayan and Karakoram snowpacks, triggering unpredictable disasters outside traditional winter months. Compounded by severe overcrowding in high-altitude death zones, extreme mountaineering faces a perilous shift where elite human skill and willpower can no longer outmanoeuvre a rapidly chaotic climate. Gursshheen Gahllen brings you all the details on Planet Pulse.

Pakistan's Shia clerics and scholars have warned the government against taking any position against Iran under a proposed "Mecca Agreement"

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