Opinion: 'Bangladesh seems to be asking more questions of its own army now and less of India regarding Hasina’s extradition date.'

Deep Halder writes

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'Suppression of dissent emanates from intolerance. An intolerant regime does not brook dissent. An authoritarian regime cannot tolerate the expression of ideas which challenges its doctrine and ideology in the form of writings, or plays, or drama or music or painting. Why do people in power want to suppress dissent? One reason is, again, the unshakeable conviction of the regime about the rightness of its ideologies and the policies it is following. And that makes it necessary to suppress unconventional and heterodox thoughts and theories, which will endanger its cherished beliefs.'

Read the full piece excerpted from the booklet Freedom First, titled “Increasing Intolerance and Suppression of Dissent”, published in October 2005.

‘RBI was a mere bystander’: Why Supreme Court set aside Yes Bank’s ₹8,415-crore AT-1 bond write-off

Aditya Edara, a TPSJ alum currently interning with ThePrint, explains:

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“The Census 2027 will be the first decennial census since the enactment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, which recognises 21 types of disabilities. The census has been delayed by six years, making it imperative for persons with disabilities to be accurately counted,” NCPEDP said in a statement.

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Opinion: 'The Viral Spiral is every garba reel at once: a man spinning like a Beyblade right on the beat, the nth fit check featuring beautiful oxidised jewellery I would go to war for, a woman wielding a dandiya like a weapon, and one Punjabi Delhiite, clearly lost at the edge of the circle but still having fun.'

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On 13 October, DU’s Executive Council—its highest decision making body—cleared a Rs 5,889-crore proposal to build new hostels and reconstruct two existing ones, with a combined capacity of 21,895 students. Given the scale of the expenditure, the university has decided to seek additional grants from the Union Ministry of Education as it says it  “cannot afford” to take loans. 

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Opinion: 'A quick recap. In 2020, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) orchestrated a consortium-led recapitalisation of Yes Bank, which had been weakened by mismanagement and excessive exposures. As part of the restructuring, AT1 bonds worth roughly Rs 8,415 crore were written down in full, while equity capital was left untouched. These AT1 bonds were held largely by mutual funds, high-net-worth individuals, and other investors. As we argued earlier, this inverted the conventional hierarchy of loss absorption in corporate finance, under which equity shareholders bear losses before bondholders.'

Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah, co-founder & CEO of The Professeer and  Harsh Vardhan, management consultant & researcher based in Mumbai, write

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'Indian firms are also entering international supply chains. MIDHANI became the first Indian company to secure GE Aerospace’s S400 approval for materials testing. Sigma Advanced Systems secured a $104.9 million order from a North American customer for 147,000 extended-range 155mm ammunition shell bodies.'

Kriti Upadhyay, manager and founder of IndUS Tech JGJ Ventures LLC, writes

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Pakistan’s militant groups are growing more organised as the state struggles on multiple fronts. Watch this video by ThePrint's Samah Qundeel based on a column written by Sonam Mahajan

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A new study in Canada has found that high intake of processed foods like chips, sugary drinks and cereals is linked with early signs of brain damage in adults. Watch ThePrint #Scientifix with Akanksha Mishra to know more.

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Opinion: 'Did climatic changes make the ancient people of Punjab and Haryana adopt millets, like their Gujarati counterparts and ditch wheat and rice? What does this scientific study on botanical remains of excavated layers tell us about the subsistence pattern of the people of northern India all those millennia ago?'

Disha Ahluwalia, archaeologist and junior research fellow at the Indian Council Of Historical Research, writes

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Opinion: 'In essence, while future open-source releases should get a fast track for automatic licensing, Beijing wants to retain the ability to limit the overseas transfer of its most advanced AI technologies and exercise greater control over how those technologies are shared and deployed.'

Alicia García Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific and the Middle East at Natixis, writes

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India’s $250-billion IT sector, which employs six million people—or half the country’s white-collar workforce—faces an existential threat: AI agents are fundamentally undercutting the value of a billable human hour.

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“Despite repeated incidents, the government and the police have failed to stop these attacks and to protect the people of Bollywood. Gangsters have openly claimed responsibility in earlier cases, yet the network continues to operate. Statements are not enough. Bollywood needs real protection,” the statement read.

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“Exploring Martian moons could help uncover new findings to clarify the evolution process of the Solar System, including how the planets were born and shaped,” says Sawada Hirotaka, a JAXA scientist involved with developing the sampling equipment.

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Opinion: 'In India, rivers are not merely water bodies. Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Godavari, Kaveri and countless others have been worshipped for centuries, sustaining civilisations, nourishing our lands and flowing through our sacred stories. The mighty Mother Yamuna is the personification of the River Yamuna and also is the second most sacred river in India after the Ganga. In Hinduism, Yamuna is the daughter of Surya, the Sun deity, and also the twin sister of Yamraj, the God of Death. She is also one of the Ashtabharyas, or eight principal consorts of Krishna.'

Meenakshi Lekhi, BJP leader and lawyer, writes

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Rocky the orangutan, believed to be of Sumatran origin, was repatriated from Gujarat, and arrived at Kualanamu International Airport in Medan earlier Monday. Officials from the Consulate General of India in Medan attended a reception ceremony organised by Indonesia’s forestry ministry, according to an official statement by the Indian embassy in Jakarta. 

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'India can temporarily become a police state, but it cannot be a military state, especially if the protests are peaceful. Only a wantonly Constitution-defying state can break this long-standing rule.'

Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University, writes

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'Modi acolytes and BJP supporters have latched onto the phrase “regime change” as if it were a threat to the country. It is not. In a democracy, every Opposition party seeks to replace the government through elections and install its own policies and programmes. That is what opposition means. To turn “regime change” into a sinister phrase is a semantic trick, a troll’s outrage, not an argument.'

Sagarika Ghose, Rajya Sabha MP, All India Trinamool Congress, writes

'The flexible exchange rate that has drawn remittances into formal channels should be protected, as the IMF itself has recommended.'

Bidisha Bhattacharya, Consulting Editor (Economics), writes