‘Digital open universities’ launched in Punjab for private players: How will they operate — and will the govt fund them? 🔍
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📆January 17, 2026 at 07:20PM
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‘Digital open universities’ launched in Punjab for private players: How will they operate — and will the govt fund them?
The digital university will 'offer programmes of study at the undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels through online classes, digital assessments, virtual laboratories and other technology-enabled tools’ by overcoming separation of teacher and…
Why a blockbuster cancer drug could now get dramatically cheaper in India 🔍
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📆January 18, 2026 at 07:30AM
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📆January 18, 2026 at 07:30AM
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Why a blockbuster cancer drug could now get dramatically cheaper in India
The Delhi High Court allowed Indian pharma company Zydus Lifesciences to manufacture and sell a 'biosimilar' version of a global drug giant's cancer drug. This could pave the way for cheaper immunotherapy treatments for cancer patients in India.
Explained: Telangana’s Supreme Court challenge to Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram irrigation project 🔍
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📆January 18, 2026 at 02:17PM
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Explained: Telangana’s Supreme Court challenge to Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram irrigation project
Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram Irrigation Project aims to transform its drought-prone Rayalaseema region into fertile land by transferring water from the Godavari River and creating a reservoir. Telangana has objected to it for multiple reasons.
What America’s Greenland claim could mean for NATO, Russia, and Canada 🔍
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📆January 18, 2026 at 02:38PM
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What America’s Greenland claim could mean for NATO, Russia, and Canada
An American excursion in Greenland would kill NATO in one swoop, with Russia and China the gainers. It could also potentially trigger a nuclear arms race. Here's the big picture.
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A lottery will decide Mumbai mayor, and it’ll take a week: Here’s the rule why 🔍
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📆January 18, 2026 at 04:35PM
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📆January 18, 2026 at 04:35PM
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A lottery will decide Mumbai mayor, and it’ll take a week: Here’s the rule why
Beyond political negotiations between the BJP and the Shinde-led Sena, legal procedures will determine when Mumbai gets a new mayor. We explain the reservation system involved.
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As Trump raises the Russia-China spectre over Greenland, what exactly are their interests in the Arctic? 🔍
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📆January 18, 2026 at 08:40PM
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📆January 18, 2026 at 08:40PM
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As Trump raises the Russia-China spectre over Greenland, what exactly are their interests in the Arctic?
Trump’s claims of Chinese and Russian military submarines and destroyers near Greenland may be incorrect, but both countries have increasingly turned to the Arctic for commercial and strategic reasons.
An expert explains: ‘India’s role in remaking the UN, into something that helped prevent world war… is profound’ 🔍
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📆January 18, 2026 at 09:33PM
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An expert explains: ‘India’s role in remaking the UN, into something that helped prevent world war… is profound’
Historian and writer Thant Myint-U, author of 'Peacemaker' and grandson of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, on the UN’s credibility crisis, lessons from the non-aligned era, and India’s role in global peace.
India gets invite to Trump’s Board of Peace — and to deal with many tricky questions 🔍
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📆January 19, 2026 at 05:31AM
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📆January 19, 2026 at 05:31AM
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India gets invite to Trump’s Board of Peace — and to deal with many tricky questions
Gaza board of peace Explained: Accepting the invite will mean that a sovereign nation joins an organisation of which Trump will remain chairman even when he is not US President. And that is not the only problem with 'Trump's new UN'. We explain.
Pune Grand Tour: How a lapsed ‘cycle city’ clinched India’s biggest international cycling race 🔍
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📆January 19, 2026 at 07:11AM
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📆January 19, 2026 at 07:11AM
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Pune Grand Tour: How a lapsed ‘cycle city’ clinched India’s biggest international cycling race
Pune Grand Challenge Tour Explained: Pune's upgrade journey for the cycle race offers a template — and raises questions — about whether sport-led deadlines can fix long-neglected urban infrastructure.
How a ‘Goldilocks combination’ in agriculture has kept food inflation at bay 🔍
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📆January 19, 2026 at 08:15AM
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How a ‘Goldilocks combination’ in agriculture has kept food inflation at bay
The year 2025-26 has been a bumper crop year thanks to moderate temperatures acting in tandem with surplus monsoon rainfall. The two together have also enabled the current low food inflation.
Centralisation of power & excessive policing: The perils of integrating AI in police operations 🔍
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📆January 19, 2026 at 03:06PM
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Centralisation of power & excessive policing: The perils of integrating AI in police operations
While the police have said the use of AI would help them increase their efficiency and better handle manpower, experts have raised several concerns about the new technology
36 years after his death, a look at how Osho’s legacy of mystery and controversy endures 🔍
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📆January 19, 2026 at 06:46PM
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📆January 19, 2026 at 06:46PM
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36 years after his death, a look at how Osho’s legacy of mystery and controversy endures
What remains undoubtedly constant is interest in Osho — especially his dynamic meditations, audio/video discourses, and books, now viral on social media and all the activities that continue at the resort’s Multiversity
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Why is a municipality in Denmark changing the colour of its streetlights to save bats? 🔍
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📆January 19, 2026 at 08:40PM
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Why is a municipality in Denmark changing the colour of its streetlights to save bats?
Over the years, several studies have indicated that white streetlights can pose problems for some species of bats
Amidst immigration crackdown in Minnesota, Trump targets ‘sanctuary cities’ in the US 🔍
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📆January 19, 2026 at 09:13PM
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Amidst immigration crackdown in Minnesota, Trump targets ‘sanctuary cities’ in the US
The latest announcement accompanies the administration’s targeted immigration crackdown in the state, where Minneapolis resident Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by an ICE officer on January 7
After ‘Board of Peace’: The 2 bodies Trump has created for Gaza, how Hamas and Israel have reacted 🔍
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📆January 20, 2026 at 07:00AM
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After ‘Board of Peace’: The 2 bodies Trump has created for Gaza, how Hamas and Israel have reacted
The plan has been viewed with scepticism in various quarters — for reasons ranging from how the board would actually work given the reality of devastation in the Gaza Strip, to how its charter reportedly does not even mention Gaza.
India explores setting up data embassy in UAE: What is it, role it could play 🔍
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📆January 20, 2026 at 07:05AM
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📆January 20, 2026 at 07:05AM
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India explores setting up data embassy in UAE: What is it, role it could play
In simple terms, a data embassy comprises a set of servers that store a country's data under its jurisdiction while being located in another country. Here's why India is interested in setting up such an embassy in UAE.
Why SC held that ‘substantial completion’ of real estate project is no defence against insolvency proceedings 🔍
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📆January 20, 2026 at 12:21PM
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📆January 20, 2026 at 12:21PM
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Why SC held that ‘substantial completion’ of real estate project is no defence against insolvency proceedings
The verdict settles two significant questions: Can a builder avoid insolvency by claiming the project is 'substantially complete'? And can a housing society intervene at the outset to stop the insolvency process?
Tiger Global case: How Supreme Court drew a line between treaty benefits and tax dues 🔍
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📆January 20, 2026 at 01:13PM
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Tiger Global case: How Supreme Court drew a line between treaty benefits and tax dues
The bench held that the investment structure lacked commercial substance and could not claim protection under the India-Mauritius treaty or its grandfathering clause.
Ahead of Mumbai mayoral polls, why Eknath Shinde rushed Sena corporators to a Bandra hotel 🔍
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📆January 20, 2026 at 01:57PM
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📆January 20, 2026 at 01:57PM
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Mumbai mayor polls: As Sena corporators check out, the legal reason why Eknath Shinde rushed them to a Bandra hotel
The political maneuvering comes at a time when power-sharing talks within the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance are still inconclusive, particularly over the mayor’s post and the powerful Standing Committee.
How Trump is making China great again, and forcing a reset of trade relationships 🔍
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📆January 20, 2026 at 02:17PM
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📆January 20, 2026 at 02:17PM
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How Trump is making China great again, and forcing a reset of trade relationships
Despite his success in tapping the Make America Great Again (MAGA) wave that he rode to power, Trump’s actions since taking office are ostensibly having an unintended side effect: 'Making China Great Again'.