What Nehru wrote to Bose about Vande Mataram, which PM and Priyanka debated in House 🔍
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📆December 09, 2025 at 04:03PM
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What Nehru wrote to Bose about Vande Mataram, which PM and Priyanka debated in House
Nehru in his letter to Bose said the Vande Mataram controversy was a 'manufactured one by the communalists'. Here is what the rest of the letter said, and in what context it was written.
79 years ago today, the Constituent Assembly held its first meeting. Here’s what happened 🔍
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📆December 09, 2025 at 05:44PM
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79 years ago today, the Constituent Assembly held its first meeting. Here’s what happened
The drafting of the Indian Constitution was a mammoth task that the Constituent Assembly completed in nearly three years. Their first meeting was held on December 9, 1946, with greetings from other nations and the chairman’s address.
What is the ‘Yellow Line’ that may define new Gaza border? 🔍
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📆December 09, 2025 at 06:53PM
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What is the ‘Yellow Line’ that may define new Gaza border?
In adhering to the Yellow Line, Israel will continue to control more than half of Gaza, including most agricultural land and the border crossing with Egypt. It would jeopardise the already-challenging second phase of US President Donald Trump's 20-point ceasefire…
What Nehru wrote on choice for National Anthem: Vande Mataram ‘difficult’ to understand, Jana Gana Mana ‘full of life’ 🔍
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📆December 09, 2025 at 07:19PM
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What Nehru wrote on choice for National Anthem: Vande Mataram ‘difficult’ to understand, Jana Gana Mana ‘full of life’
Nehru was of the view that the tune of the National Anthem, as well as how foreign nations would perceive it, needed to be considered to make a choice.
IndiGo flight cancellations: Your rights when a flight is cancelled, what consumer courts have ruled 🔍
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📆December 09, 2025 at 07:24PM
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IndiGo flight cancellations: Your rights when a flight is cancelled, what consumer courts have ruled
Despite the DGCA guidelines, disputes often arise when airlines cite 'technical issues' or 'operational reasons' to deny compensation. In such instances, passengers have successfully approached consumer courts under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, alleging…
Why India is not ‘dumping’ rice in the US as Trump says 🔍
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📆December 10, 2025 at 07:36AM
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Why India is not ‘dumping’ rice in the US as Trump says
US is not a very large rice producer, yet exports more than what it imports. What India sends there are premium, expensive varieties. Neither fact points to India 'dumping' rice in the US, as Trump said.
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Australia social media ban on users aged under-16 kicks in: Why it could trigger a global crackdown 🔍
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📆December 10, 2025 at 09:33AM
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Australia social media ban on users aged under-16 kicks in: Why it could trigger a global crackdown
Australia had initially granted YouTube an exemption from the ban, citing educational value, but reversed this in July 2025 after a key regulator found it was the most cited platform for harmful content exposure among kids.
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SC allows issuance Scheduled Caste certificate for girl based on mother’s caste: What does the law say? 🔍
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SC allows issuance Scheduled Caste certificate for girl based on mother’s caste: What does the law say?
During the hearing, the CJI asked a brief but pointed question: 'With changing times, why should caste not follow the mother?' This is the first time a CJI has framed the issue in such direct terms
How cities with geography like Delhi dealt with air pollution: Researchers answer 🔍
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📆December 10, 2025 at 04:15PM
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How cities with geography like Delhi dealt with air pollution: Researchers answer
A new report has provided detailed pathways to improve air quality in India, including Delhi, by examining how other countries addressed their diverse pollution challenges
Who is Nnena Kalu, the first artist with learning disability to win Turner Prize? 🔍
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📆December 10, 2025 at 05:26PM
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📆December 10, 2025 at 05:26PM
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Who is Nnena Kalu, the first artist with learning disability to win Turner Prize?
Kalu's Turner Prize win not just makes a case for art as a solid medium of expression but also is a step towards blurring the distinctions between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist
Rahul Gandhi warns election commission of “retrospective” action: controversial 2023 law he was referring to 🔍
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📆December 10, 2025 at 05:54PM
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Rahul Gandhi warns election commission of “retrospective” action: controversial 2023 law he was referring to
“We will change the law retrospectively, and we will come looking for you,” Rahul Gandhi said while spelling out the need for electoral reform and accusing the Election Commission of India of not responding to any concern raised by the Opposition
A glowing recognition: How Diwali made it to UNESCO heritage list 🔍
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📆December 10, 2025 at 06:28PM
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A glowing recognition: How Diwali made it to UNESCO heritage list
Diwali UNESCO heritage, Intangible heritage list 2025: Diwali is the 16th Indian element to be inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The list now features around 700 elements, including 16 from India.
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Did US ‘second tap’ a Venezuelan boat? The legal questions at play 🔍
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📆December 11, 2025 at 07:30AM
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Why Hegseth’s travel funds could be cut over Venezuela boat strike row: Was the US attack illegal?
Did the US military go for an illegal 'second tap' on the boat? Are the strikes on the Venezuelan boats legal at all? Here are the legal questions at play, explained.
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China’s $1-trillion trade surplus: What’s behind it, what it means for India, world 🔍
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📆December 11, 2025 at 11:55AM
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China’s $1-trillion trade surplus: What’s behind it, what it means for India, world
The trillion-dollar landmark is clearly a reaffirmation of China’s stranglehold over global merchandise trade.
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Explained Interview | What China’s record $1 trillion trade surplus says about its economy, and the world 🔍
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China’s $1 trillion trade surplus as much ‘sign of imbalance as it is of strength’: an expert explains
China trade imbalance 2025: What does the milestone mean for global trade, and is the data all good news for China? Lizzi C. Lee, a Fellow at the Center for China Analysis, Asia Society Policy Institute, Washington DC, explains.
With Google’s Project Suncatcher, a look at efforts to put data centres in space 🔍
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📆December 11, 2025 at 12:31PM
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Data centres in space? Here’s what Google’s Project Suncatcher attempts to do, and why
With the rapid expansion of terrestrial data centres to fuel the ongoing AI boom, tech CEOs have begun to look to space as a viable alternative.
How Nehru, not Patel, became India’s first PM: The politics behind the 1946 Congress vote 🔍
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📆December 11, 2025 at 02:24PM
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How Nehru, not Patel, became India’s first PM: The politics behind the 1946 Congress vote
Amit Shah described Jawaharlal Nehru's elevation over Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1946 as ‘vote chori’. Here’s what happened in those tumultuous days in the run up to the 1946 Congress election.
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Explained: Importance of the recently inaugurated Shyok tunnel in Ladakh 🔍
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📆December 11, 2025 at 04:29PM
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Explained: Importance of the recently inaugurated Shyok tunnel in Ladakh
With thousands of additional troops getting deployed in the Ladakh region following the Galwan Valley clashes in 2020, the infrastructure development of the region has increased in the last five years.
What the new ‘Trump Gold Card’ visa programme entails 🔍
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📆December 11, 2025 at 04:30PM
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What the new ‘Trump Gold Card’ visa programme entails
Trump first announced the scheme in February, and in April, he showed a sample gold-coloured card bearing his visage to reporters on board Air Force One. Here is what to know.
Numbers hide domestic weaknesses: Imports, consumption, currency 🔍
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📆December 12, 2025 at 07:05AM
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Numbers hide domestic weaknesses: Imports, consumption, currency
Export dominance one of many drivers of surplus