Is Usman Tariq’s bowling action legal? Here’s what you need to know 🔍
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📆February 14, 2026 at 09:54PM
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Ahead of Ind vs Pak T20, revisiting debate over Usman Tariq’s bowling action
The primary talking point is the brief pause in Tariq’s delivery stride before he releases the ball. Ahead of the clash against India on Sunday, Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha questioned the scale of the controversy.
Digital feudals, state role, rewiring society: Framing India AI map 🔍
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📆February 15, 2026 at 05:17AM
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C Raja Mohan writes: From rewiring of society to jobs anxiety, the questions looming before AI Summit
Three books — by Yanis Varoufakis, Alex Karp, and the late diplomat Henry Kissinger — offer sharply different answers and, between them, pointers for India to the road ahead on AI and its development.
Centre wants Kerala to scrap paddy bonus. The rice-loving state’s shrinking output makes that tough 🔍
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📆February 15, 2026 at 07:30AM
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Centre wants Kerala to scrap paddy bonus. The rice-loving state’s shrinking output makes that tough
The Kerala government heavily incentivises paddy production, perhaps more than any other state. This is because paddy cultivation has been steadily declining despite rice being the state’s staple food.
As US reportedly weighs scaling back steel and aluminium tariffs, a look at who really foots the bill 🔍
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📆February 15, 2026 at 08:00AM
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As US reportedly weighs scaling back steel and aluminium tariffs, a look at who really foots the bill
For Trump to roll back tariffs, especially on crucial products such as steel and aluminium, would constitute a significant change in stance. A Financial Times report said higher prices for goods such as food and drinks, which depend on the metals for packaging…
Why is an Indian satellite capturing photos of the ISS being seen as a technical milestone? 🔍
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📆February 15, 2026 at 05:18PM
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Why is an Indian satellite capturing photos of the ISS being seen as a technical milestone?
There arise obvious difficulties in taking photos in Space. Overcoming them indicates sound technical capabilities, which can be transferable in monitoring and wider Space security-related tasks.
Ganga Water Sharing Treaty: Why renegotiating pact tops new Bangladesh government’s list of priorities 🔍
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📆February 15, 2026 at 06:51PM
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Ganga Water Sharing Treaty: Why renegotiating pact tops new Bangladesh government’s list of priorities
Both countries have expressed willingness to revisit the 1996 agreement’s terms, up for renewal in December 2026. A new treaty would have to account for future needs of rising populations, besides climate change-induced crises
AI Impact Summit begins in New Delhi tomorrow: How India plans to shape the AI conversation 🔍
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📆February 15, 2026 at 07:26PM
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AI Impact Summit begins in New Delhi today: How India plans to shape the AI conversation
Coming to the Global South for the first time, the summit represents the latest chapter in an evolving international conversation on AI. India will pitch for a focus on using AI to solve on-ground, local problems.
How FTAs could offer India a $1 trillion electronics export window, with caveats 🔍
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📆February 15, 2026 at 08:08PM
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How FTAs could offer India a $1 trillion electronics export window, with caveats
The US and the EU comprise about a third of the total global electronics demand. India must address some key issues to leverage access to them, including supply chains and R&D.
How the fertilisers industry has become synonymous with controls, and at what cost 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 05:54AM
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How the fertilisers industry has become synonymous with controls, and at what cost
The Uttar Pradesh government’s ban on sales of non-subsidised fertilisers by urea manufacturers and suppliers has taken control to a new level, apart from being counterproductive and negative for investor sentiment
AI shakes statecraft: Prediction markets test diplomats, spies 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 06:28AM
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AI shakes statecraft: Prediction markets test diplomats, spies
While governments discuss how to regulate the transformative technological revolution, AI-driven prediction markets are beginning to constrain state behaviour — including on decisions about war and peace.
Expert explains: ‘AI debate has moved from use to accountability… that is progress’ 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 07:12AM
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Expert explains: ‘AI debate has moved from use to accountability… that is progress’
Prof. Annie Hartley, a medical doctor and director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT) at the Lausanne-based Swiss public research university EPFL, speaks with The indian Express.
Govt to bring in AI tools in teaching: What is the plan, how it will work 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 12:11PM
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Govt to bring in AI tools in teaching: What is the plan, how it will work
Here’s how the Centre plans to involve AI tools in education through Bodhan AI.
Why Gopichand has made peace with badminton’s proposed 15×3 format: ‘The sport has gotten too physical’ 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 02:33PM
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Why Gopichand has made peace with badminton’s proposed 15×3 format: ‘The sport has gotten too physical’
In an interview with The Indian Express, the national coach talks about athlete welfare, scheduling overload, television demands, and unintended tactical consequences of the proposed change
Expert Explains | Why high-quality cameras matter for India’s Space ambitions 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 04:36PM
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Expert Explains | Why high-quality cameras matter for India’s Space ambitions
Developing advanced technical capabilities in Space matters as it becomes a more congested and strategically contested domain, explains a senior official of an Indian private Space tech company.
Can ED seize assets related to non-scheduled offences under PMLA? SC to weigh in 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 06:39PM
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Can ED seize assets related to non-scheduled offences under PMLA? SC to weigh in
The apex court this month stayed an order of the Delhi High Court in November 2025, which had upheld the Enforcement Directorate’s 2015 attachment of assets allegedly linked with an international online cricket betting operation
Expert Explains | ‘For conversational AI, India an enormous focus market; we intend to keep aggressively building here’ 🔍
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📆February 16, 2026 at 08:09PM
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Expert Explains | ‘For conversational AI, India an enormous focus market; we intend to keep aggressively building here’
Alex Haskell, Head of Global Affairs at US-based conversational AI firm ElevenLabs spoke to The Indian Express about the uniqueness of the Indian market, and the need to scale language research to better cater to a variety of clients
Bharat-VISTAAR, offering farmers crop support in their languages, goes live today 🔍
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📆February 17, 2026 at 05:55AM
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Bharat-VISTAAR, offering farmers crop support in their languages, goes live today
The new AI tool was announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget 2026-27, and allocated Rs 150 crore.
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Bhabha, Cold War, nuclear technology, 1955: Dos and don’ts for India in AI 🔍
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📆February 17, 2026 at 06:57AM
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Bhabha, Cold War, nuclear technology, 1955: Dos and don’t for India in AI
No nation can afford to treat AI as only a public good. The calls for international cooperation at the summit then coexist uneasily with pursuit of national interest.
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Why the new Digital Personal Data Protection Act faces a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court 🔍
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📆February 17, 2026 at 01:45PM
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Why the new Digital Personal Data Protection Act faces a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court
While all three petitions focus on the amendment to RTI laws, they also raise questions about the new Act’s impact on investigative journalism and the independence of the statutory body enforcing it
SC rejects gangster Abu Salem’s plea for early release: The 25-year prison term under question 🔍
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📆February 17, 2026 at 02:03PM
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SC rejects gangster Abu Salem’s plea for early release: The 25-year prison term under question
The gangster contends that his continued incarceration is an ‘arithmetical error’ by the Maharashtra prison department. India had promised Portugal at the time of the gangster’s extradition in 2005 that he would not be sentenced for longer than 25 years