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Explained: Argument for deregulating non-subsidised fertilisers
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Business - Agriculture
Why has OpenAI blocked API traffic from China?
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Technology - Artificial Intelligence
Why UP’s fee waiver on strong hybrids may push green mobility
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Business - Electric Vehicles
Why are Barcelona residents firing water pistols at tourists and asking them to ‘go home’?
explained
Politics - Protest
With PM Modi’s Austria visit, a look back at Indira Gandhi’s trip 41 years ago
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Politics - International Relations
Why locals are protesting against the Upper Siang hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh
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Politics - Environmental Policy
What is a divorced Muslim woman’s right to maintenance under the CrPC?
explained
Politics - Law and Justice
Can wild animals handle the heat?
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Education - Wildlife Conservation
Death before capture: What is the Israeli military’s Hannibal Directive?
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Politics - Military Policies
Record-high temperatures in western US due to ‘heat domes’: What is the phenomenon?
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Technology - Environmental Science
How Jawaharlal Nehru facilitated the emergence of a ‘neutral’ Austria
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Politics - International Relations
What is Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, conferred upon PM Modi?
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Politics - Awards and Honors
Why has ANI slapped a defamation case against Wikipedia?
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Technology - Social Media
In dark secret about Alice Munro, the moral fallibility of our literary idols
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Entertainment - Literature
The Drake-Lamar rap battle: What happened — and who was the real winner?
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Entertainment - Music
Progressive signals in Iran: Five things on President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian’s reformist agenda
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Politics - Middle East
India to ratify High Seas Treaty: What is the agreement — and its significance?
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Politics - International Agreements
Why does the latest RBI jobs data show a bump in employment?
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Business - Employment Trends
How climate change fuelled Hurricane Beryl’s record early intensification
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Technology - Environmental Science
France elections: How a last-minute left-centre deal thwarted the French far right
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Politics - Elections
Behind Russia’s ‘high income’ rating from World Bank: Why Western sanctions haven’t worked
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Politics - International Relations
Boeing pleads guilty in US fraud conspiracy case: what this means, what comes next
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Business - Corporate Law
With SC hearing NEET-UG exam pleas, recalling what it said earlier on recruitment irregularities
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Education - Entrance Exams
What is a cognitive test, which many want US President Joe Biden to take?
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Politics - US Presidential News
Why Japan’s Supreme Court ordered compensation for victims of forced sterilisation
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Politics - Human Rights
Why Karnataka is cracking down on vendors of pani puri and gobi manchurian
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Politics - Food Regulations
Joe Biden drops out of presidential race: story of another US president who stepped aside
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Politics - US Presidential Elections
PM Modi’s first bilateral visit this term: Russia’s importance for India
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Politics - International Relations
Explained: New Covid-19 variants FLiRT and LB.1, driving surge in US, UK
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Education - Health
French elections: The rise of France’s far-right National Rally Party
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Politics - Elections
Why Bombay HC found that Patanjali Foods is entitled to Rs 62 lakh in customs duty refund
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Business - Taxation
Coconuts for Kamala Harris: Why the Internet is memeing the US VP amid speculations of her candidacy
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Politics - US Elections
What is Digital Bharat Nidhi, govt’s fresh attempt at improving rural telecom connectivity?
explained
Technology - Telecommunications
How to read India’s Balance of Payments
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Business - Economics
How India sees UK election results: ‘Cautiously optimistic’ over Labour realism, hope for FTA push
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Politics - International Relations
Who is Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister of the UK?
explained
Politics - UK Leadership
How did High Courts interpret the new criminal laws for the first time?
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Politics - Judiciary
UK elections: Historic result for Labour, but no voteshare gains
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Politics - Elections
The world’s oldest cave art is 51,200 years old: What a new study says
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Education - Archaeology
How compensation for Agniveers differs from that for regular soldiers
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Politics - Indian Military
Challenges ahead for UK’s next prime minister Keir Starmer
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Politics - Leadership
How surplus milk powder is dairy industry’s new problem
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Business - Dairy Industry
Why rising Arctic wildfires are a bad news for the world
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Education - Environmental Studies
Why are Southeast Asian countries looking to join BRICS?
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Politics - International Relations
Explained: July 4 and the story of the American Declaration of Independence
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Politics - History
No religious markers, make-up or deodorants permitted: What Indian Army dress regulations say
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Politics - Indian Defence
Punishing husbands, parents and wedding guests: How Sierra Leone plans to stop child marriage
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Politics - Women's Rights
US attorney says 26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana can be extradited to India: The case against him
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Politics - International Relations
How Japan is set to make millions of vending machines obsolete
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Technology - Automation
EAM Jaishankar attends Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit: What the grouping is, why it matters
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Politics - International Relations
What Labour election win means for India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
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Business - International Trade Agreements
Explained: The continuing relevance of Franz Kafka, 100 years after his death
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Entertainment - Literature
UK Elections: Why Rishi Sunak-led Conservatives are likely to lose
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Politics - Elections
Why have over 200 candidates dropped out of the French elections?
explained
Politics - Elections
Explained: Critically endangered Great Indian Bustards’ recovery program, and what lies ahead
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Education - Wildlife Conservation
What makes mosquitoes suck blood
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Education - Biology
Why has SEBI accused Hindenburg of breaking Indian law, and why has Hindenburg said that’s ‘nonsense’?
explained
Business - Finance
From red wall to King’s Speech, UK elections have a vocabulary all their own. Here’s what to know
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Politics - Elections
Expert Explains: All you need to know about the Iran presidential elections
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Politics - Elections
Hathras stampede kills over 100: Why stampedes take place
explained
Politics - Disaster Management
What is the significance of ‘abhaya mudra’, invoked by Rahul Gandhi in Parliament
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Politics - Indian Politics
50 years of Rubik’s cube: What explains the enduring romance with the puzzle?
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Entertainment - Games
Computer-based test, close supervision: How IITs conduct JEE without any issues
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Education - Examinations
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat releases book on 1965 war hero Abdul Hamid: What was his role in the battle?
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Politics - Indian Defence
What we know about North Korea’s new ballistic missile test
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Politics - International Relations
What to know about US Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in Trump’s 2020 election interference case
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Politics - US Elections
Why TISS dismissed over 100 employees, why decision was reversed
explained
Education - University Administration
How urban expansion makes Delhi susceptible to flooding
explained
Technology - Environmental Impact
How the world’s first brain implant to control epileptic seizures works
explained
Technology - Medical Technology
What is Project Nexus that RBI has signed up for?
explained
Business - Banking
On FIRs and hearing of accused, how BNSS sections fly in face of Supreme Court rulings
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Politics - Judiciary
Team India stranded in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl: What are hurricanes, their types?
explained
Sports - Cricket
What discovery of prehistoric ostrich shells in Andhra means
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Education - Archaeology
New sections in criminal laws: Cheating is not Section 420 but 318, punishment for murder is Section 103
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Politics - Law and Legislation
What is the military concept of ‘scholar warriors’, mentioned by the Air Chief Marshal recently?
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Education - Military Education
Explained: New crimes under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, and some grey areas
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Politics - Law and Legislation
How to see the September 2024 nova explosion without a telescope
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Technology - Astronomy
Why is Pride Month celebrated in June?
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Entertainment - LGBTQ+
A brief history of how the Korean War erupted in 1950, its impact on today’s geopolitics
explained
Politics - International Relations
What is the Santhal Hul and the land tenancy Acts of tribal lands
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Politics - Tribal Rights and Laws
How government is preparing for new criminal law regime, set to come into effect today
explained
Politics - Legislation
Will France’s snap elections spark the next euro crisis?
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Politics - European Politics
What kind of car insurance can protect against flood damage?
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Business - Insurance
Trump vs Who? 6 people who could replace Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket
explained
Politics - US Elections
Explained: The story of the Emergency
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Politics - Indian History
‘The to-do list is to boost demand via an export mindset, making labour more attractive’: Sajjid Chinoy
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Business - Economic Policy
Significance of the new international airport announced in Tamil Nadu’s Hosur
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Business - Infrastructure Development
Why Denmark has taxed cattle burps and farts
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Politics - Environmental Policy
Why China plans to run trains from Kunming all the way to Singapore
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Business - Infrastructure Development
Philippine ambassador warns of Asia-wide conflict due to South China tensions: The issues, explained
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Politics - International Relations
Climate change forces Panama islanders to relocate: What happened — and how sea level rise is affecting the world
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Education - Environmental Studies
What happens if Joe Biden or Donald Trump withdraws from the 2024 presidential race?
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Politics - US Elections
How France’s snap legislative elections are shaping up
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Politics - Elections
Why tariff hikes by Airtel, Jio,Vi were inevitable
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Business - Telecom Industry
China’s ‘Five Principles’ of foreign policy: how it started, where it stands now
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Politics - International Relations
Why Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space
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Technology - Space Exploration
What is the Justice Reddy Commission, against which KCR has moved Telangana High Court?
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Politics - Governance
Why govt must create a buffer stock of all main food items
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Business - Food Security
What are Private Papers of public figures like PM Nehru, and what rules govern their declassification?
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Politics - Government Documents
Why Bombay HC held Chembur college hijab ban was in ‘larger academic interest’
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Education - College Policies