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Cyberattackers grew faster and harder to detect in 2025, increasingly slipping through trusted systems rather than breaking in with obvious malware, claims U.S.-based  cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report . The report says adversaries "grew more evasive than ever before," exploiting trust in supply chain partners, legitimate software, internal systems and employees. CrowdStrike now tracks 281 adversaries after naming 24 new ones in 2025, plus 150 activity clusters and emerging threat groups.

  A new study by the Indian School of Business (ISB) warns that the proposed Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework for UPI transactions could inadvertently reverse digital payment adoption among India’s street vendors, pushing them back toward cash-based transactions and threatening recent gains in financial inclusion.

A groundbreaking new ethnographic study published by Cambridge University Press is challenging optimistic narratives about rural democratic empowerment in India. In "Democracy against Equality: Caste, Institutions and Power in Postcolonial Punjab", Nicolas Martin, Associate Professor of Modern Indology/South Asian Studies at the University of Zurich, argues that formal democratic mechanisms are frequently co-opted by rural elites to perpetuate, rather than dismantle, deep-seated systemic inequality.

  Asbestos , a substance known to cause cancer, has been detected in 60 per cent of rangoli powder samples tested in a laboratory in South Korea, raising concerns about the safety of products used during Diwali and other festivals. Indian samples recorded particularly high contamination rates, according to an investigation released by environmental and public health organisations.

  A new study published in the "Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres" reveals that global potential productivity loss from humid heat stress has increased abruptly since the mid-1980s, with India contributing to over half of this total global increase. 

  A progressive and potentially fatal lung disease is tearing through the global workforce involved in stone cutting and polishing, sparking international bans and mounting lawsuits in the United States. Yet, while American politicians debate corporate liability, the crisis remains a deadly, underreported reality for millions in India, particularly among agate and ceramic workers.