The Indian government has directed Meta to immediately disable advertisements and content on that promote or facilitate child sexual abuse material. An investigation by the BBC found that the platform had been running paid adverts promoting such material in India, some of which linked users to Telegram channels where it was being offered for sale.

One of the largest fertility studies of its kind has found that men exposed to common air pollutants while were developing showed subtle DNA changes affecting whether genes were switched on or off. The study identified ozone and nitrogen dioxide as the pollutants most strongly linked to these epigenetic changes.

Barely nine weeks after Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the Rs 6,695-crore Mumbai-Pune Expressway Link, a monsoon-triggered landslide has partially shut the corridor, forcing traffic back onto the old Mumbai-Pune Highway. The link had been projected as a safer, faster, and more reliable alternative to the accident-prone Khandala ghat section.

New research has revealed that despite being banned since 1961, and thousands of women losing their lives every year, deaths no longer provoke the public anger they once did. A startling finding in the report suggests such deaths have been rising in India: there were 6,516 in 2022 compared with 1,841 in 1988. The researchers suggest the decline in outrage is structural, linked to how the practice has been reframed over time.

China has test-fired a missile from a nuclear submarine, with the projectile landing in "designated waters" in the Ocean. The test has drawn strong reactions from Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand, as well as the US and Japan.