What Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong trial reveals about Beijing’s changing approach 🔍
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What Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong trial reveals about Beijing’s changing approach
Jimmy Lai’s prosecution exemplifies the wide scope of the National Security Law that Beijing imposed in 2020. What has changed in Hong Kong since then, and what is Lai’s case about?
Trump nominates Sergio Gor as US ambassador to India: Signals this sends, in 4 points 🔍
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📆August 24, 2025 at 06:42PM
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Trump nominates Sergio Gor as US ambassador to India: Signals this sends, in 4 points
Trump nominates Sergio Gor: Who is Sergio Gor, and what signal does his nomination as ambassador to India send? When is he likely to arrive in India? We explain, in four points.
Why are so many musicians removing their music from Spotify? 🔍
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📆August 24, 2025 at 07:35PM
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Why are so many musicians removing their music from Spotify?
Besides issues of compensation and streaming monopoly, some musicians don’t want their music to ‘kill people.’
India’s unique dairying model, and the challenges it faces 🔍
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📆August 25, 2025 at 07:00AM
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India’s unique dairying model, and the challenges it faces
India remains a relatively low-cost milk producer. But that global price competitiveness, based mainly on cheap labour, may not be sustainable in the long run.
Delhi SSC protest: How glitches, exam cancellations triggered aspirants’ anger 🔍
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📆August 25, 2025 at 02:41PM
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Delhi SSC protest: How glitches, exam cancellations triggered aspirants’ anger
SSC aspirants protest 2025: On Sunday night, more than 1,000 aspirants and teachers gathered at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi. What is the Staff Selection Commission exam, and why is it at the centre of a row?
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‘Videshi’ in one’s own country: Understanding India’s internal diasporas 🔍
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📆August 25, 2025 at 03:00PM
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‘Videshi’ in one’s own country: Understanding India’s internal diasporas
Ask any Odia migrant worker in Surat where they have come to work and they will say ‘videsh’. So what really makes a diaspora?
Fiji PM Sitveni Rabuka’s complicated relationship with country’s Indian diaspora 🔍
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📆August 25, 2025 at 05:24PM
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Fiji PM Sitiveni Rabuka’s complicated relationship with country’s Indian diaspora
Rabuka met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Monday
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How two underwater vehicles bought by Gujarat can help solve crime, recover evidence 🔍
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📆August 25, 2025 at 05:40PM
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How two underwater vehicles bought by Gujarat can help solve crime, recover evidence
An ROV of the kind that is now with the Vadodara and Rajkot Police was used to fish out objects from the bottom of the Mahi river after the Gambhira bridge collapse. Such robots have been used by several agencies in the past, and the Ahmedabad Fire Service…
Amit Shah honours Vithalbhai Patel: Role Vallabhbhai’s brother played in shaping India’s Parliament 🔍
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📆August 25, 2025 at 07:09PM
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Amit Shah honours Vithalbhai Patel: Role Vallabhbhai’s brother played in shaping India’s Parliament
When Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly, Vithalbhai Patel was presiding over it. What happened after this still has relevance today. We explain.
Why Yunus’ call for ‘safe return’ of Rohingya to Myanmar is unrealistic 🔍
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📆August 25, 2025 at 07:18PM
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Why Yunus’ call for ‘safe return’ of Rohingya to Myanmar is unrealistic
The more than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh put a massive strain in the developing country’s resources. But sending them back to Myanmar will not be easy
What is the Smart Intelligent Village Project in Maharashtra? 🔍
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What is the Smart Intelligent Village Project in Maharashtra?
A pilot initiative inaugurated at Satnavari in Nagpur district by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis carries the promise to transform the lives of villagers. What are its various components and implementation pathways? What will it cost, and what challenges…
Amit Shah accuses Opposition VP candidate of aiding Naxalism: What was the Salwa Judum Case? 🔍
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📆August 26, 2025 at 07:08AM
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Amit Shah accuses Opposition VP candidate of aiding Naxalism: What was the Salwa Judum Case?
Home Minister Amit Shah has accused the Opposition’s vice presidential election candidate Justice B Sudershan Reddy (retd) of supporting Naxalism by passing a judgment that ended the practice of appointing Special Police Officers to fight the Maoists in Chhattisgarh.…
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Explained: Why 1971 still casts a shadow over Bangladesh-Pakistan ties 🔍
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📆August 26, 2025 at 08:00AM
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Explained: Why 1971 still casts a shadow over Bangladesh-Pakistan ties
During the first bilateral between the countries in 13 years, Pak Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said that all issues pertaining to 1971 had been settled. Dhaka bluntly rejected the claim
Could we soon have space-based solar panels? Not really 🔍
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📆August 26, 2025 at 09:05AM
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Could we soon have space-based solar panels? Not really
A latest study by researchers from King’s College, London has estimated that SBSP could supply up to 80% of Europe’s renewable energy needs by 2050.
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Two warships from 2 shipbuilders: Features and legacy of INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, to be commissioned into the Indian Navy today 🔍
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📆August 26, 2025 at 10:28AM
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Two warships from 2 shipbuilders: Features and legacy of INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, now commissioned into the Indian Navy
With their range of versatile weapons and capabilities, these ships can play a crucial role in anti-surface warfare, anti-air warfare, and anti-submarine warfare.
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What ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s detention reveals about Sri Lanka’s political fault lines 🔍
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What ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s detention reveals about Sri Lanka’s political fault lines
Wickremesinghe is the first former Sri Lankan President to be arrested under corruption charges. Several Opposition parties have come out against the move.
US confirms its first human case of flesh-eating New World screwworm: What is this parasite? 🔍
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US confirms its first human case of flesh-eating New World screwworm: What is this parasite?
The United States eradicated New World screwworms, a blue-grey blowfly, in the 1960s. These parasites can cause infestations in warm-blooded animals, and, rarely, humans, which can be extremely painful.
Takeaways from South Korean President Lee’s meeting with Trump: $150 billion in investments, power of flattery 🔍
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📆August 26, 2025 at 05:51PM
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Takeaways from South Korean President Lee’s meeting with Trump: $150 billion in investments, power of flattery
Trump recently wrote a critical social media post about South Korea. However, the meeting went better than expected, thanks to several promises and some strategising on Lee’s part.
CDS talks about Mission Sudarshan Chakra: How it will help defend India 🔍
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📆August 26, 2025 at 06:37PM
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CDS General Chauhan talks about Mission Sudarshan Chakra: How it will help defend India
Mission Sudarshan Chakra: CDS Chauhan said it will involve 'neutralisation of the enemy’s air vectors, including soft kills and hard kills, both kinetic and direct energy weapons.' Let's unpack his comments to understand what Sudarshan Chakra will require.
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Scientists discover a rare quadruple star system in the Milky Way: Why is this significant? 🔍
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📆August 26, 2025 at 06:48PM
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Scientists discover a rare quadruple star system in the Milky Way: Why is this significant?
The system — known as UPM J1040−3551 AabBab — consists of a pair of cold brown dwarfs orbiting a pair of young red dwarf stars, a configuration never seen before