The buzz around Japan's low birthrate is back as the Asian country recorded fresh record low number of babies born in 2023. Japan's number of births fell 5.1% from a year earlier to 758,631 in the previous year, which highlights the significant challenge the country confronts in addressing...

Reliance Industries Ltd and The Walt Disney Co. have joined forces to create a media behemoth with enough muscle to take on streaming giants Netflix and Amazon in one of the world’s fastest-expanding entertainment markets. The deal will create a joint venture combining the businesses...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Tuesday revealed the first four astronauts selected for India’s human spaceflight programme, Gaganyaan. The astronauts—Group Captains Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Angad Pratap, and Wing Commander Subhanshu Shukla—were...

As part of its broader plan for the country, the Czech automaker hopes to ship out as many as 100,000 cars in 2026, more than twice the number of vehicles it sold in 2023, a top company official said on Tuesday. India's compact SUV market is highly concentrated, with six large brands...

India will not grant permission to domestic rice exporters to participate in United Nations World Food Program (WFP) tenders, a senior official told Mint, a move that risks stoking global food security concerns. This is the first time New Delhi has taken such a measure, which is yet...