India and Pakistan have long been in dispute over the region of Kashmir, but tensions finally turned into military action after India’s “pre-emptive strike” over the disputed border earlier this week. India said it was targeting a terrorist training camp following a suicide bomb attack that killed more than 40 Indian troops earlier this month. Now Pakistan claims to have shot down two Indian fighter jets. Sita Bali explains this rapidly escalating situation and the crisis could help Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagging nationalist agenda ahead of elections.

We’ve heard about the Atkins, Paleo and even the Keto diets. But what about the Universal Healthy Reference Diet? Some of the world’s leading scientists have come up with the first ever scientific eating plan with the aim of easing the strain on the world’s food systems. But Silvia Alonso Alvarez, Isabelle Baltenweck, Lora Iannotti and Paula Dominguez-Salas argue that it focuses on the world’s rich.