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Italy hosts G7 Summit: Why was the grouping created and what’s on the agenda this year?
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Politics - International Relations
What is the case against Hunter Biden and could he go to jail?
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Politics - Crime and Investigations
Canada’s post-study work permit scheme could change. Here’s what Indian students should do
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Education - Study Abroad
Who are the Satnamis, the Dalit religious community with a history of protests
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Politics - Social Movements
Scientists back new Alzheimer’s drug: its benefits vs risks
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Technology - Medical Research
Why UGC has allowed admissions twice a year, what could happen now
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Education - University Admissions
Expert Explains: What European Parliament election results signify, with the rise of right-wing parties
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Politics - Elections
New Council of Ministers sworn-in: What are the functions of Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State?
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Politics - Government Administration
Why heatwaves have not been included as a notified disaster in the Disaster Management Act
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Politics - Disaster Management
Explained: Apple Intelligence, the new AI coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs
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Technology - Artificial Intelligence
How SpaceX’s Starship can revolutionise space travel and exploration
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Technology - Space Exploration
Significance of Maldives’ pro-China President Muizzu’s New Delhi visit
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Politics - International Relations
Why Tamil Nadu govt opposes the NEET exam, what the Rajan Committee said on its impact
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Education - Entrance Exams
What are the powers of the Speaker and why is the post crucial for BJP and its allies?
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Politics - Indian Parliament
In Shivraj Chouhan’s appointment as minister, how agriculture gets wealth of his Madhya Pradesh work experience
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Politics - Government Appointments
Israeli Minister Benny Gantz quits Netanyahu govt: Why this matters
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Politics - Government Reshuffles
Why Kesarapalli IT Park — not Amaravati — will host Chandrababu Naidu’s swearing-in ceremony
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Politics - Indian Politics/State Politics
Highway to ‘climate hell’: What breaching the 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold could mean
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Education - Environmental Studies
How horses galloped into human history: What a new study says
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Education - History
Birsa Munda’s 124th death anniversary: Significance of the tribal leader’s contributions
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Education - History
What is the car-testing scandal to have hit Japan, and is it the new ‘Dieselgate’?
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Business - Automotive Industry
All about the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt, the venue for PM Modi’s swearing-in ceremony
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Politics - Government Buildings
What happens at a swearing-in ceremony and what oaths have to be taken?
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Politics - Government Ceremonies
What are Cabinet committees, and why is the CCS the most important of them all?
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Politics - Governance
Polo: The elite sport that India gave to its imperial rulers
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Sports - Polo
The forgotten legacy of Kadambini Ganguly, India’s first woman doctor
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Education - Medical History
The colonial history of the Indian Penal Code and how its influence extends to the BNS
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Education - Legal Studies
Chiranjeevis: How ancient Hindus, Chinese, and Egyptians shared the idea of being immortal
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Education - History
Why Bengal owes much of its food and language to the Portuguese
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Education - History
The untold story of Karsandas Mulji, the journalist who won the fight against the Maharaj
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Entertainment - Bollywood
The story of rebellious fakir Shah Hussain and his beloved Madho Lal, buried together in Lahore
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Entertainment - Folklore
Amaravathi: The rise and fall of one of the greatest Buddhist sites in India
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Education - Archaeology
From Nelson Mandela to Donald Trump, what incarceration of world leaders means to democracies
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Politics - World Leaders
How the Dutch made New York a melting pot of diverse cultures
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Education - History
Samajwadi Party and the caste-based social justice it promised
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Politics - Social Justice
Before Seshan, there was V S Ramadevi: Only woman CEC who held office for shortest tenure
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Politics - Election Commission
1977 general election: When the Janata govt came to power
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Politics - Indian Elections
53 parties contested first general election, more than half won no seats
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Politics - Elections
Six out of 30 CMs in India from minority communities, no Muslim
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Politics - Minority Representation
The Great Butter Rebellion to Israel-Gaza war unrest: The history of student protests in US
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Education - Student Protests
How Ruskin Bond made being Anglo-Indian a way of life
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Entertainment - Authors
With just 14% women Lok Sabha members, India still behind its neighbours
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Politics - Women in Politics
Why Uttar Pradesh has given the highest number of PMs
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Politics - Indian Prime Ministers
How the Islamic revolution isolated Iran from the Muslim world
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Politics - International Relations
The real story of Lahore’s Hira Mandi: Of glamour, power, and survival
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Entertainment - Performing Arts
From 1951-2019: How women voters outnumbered men in Lok Sabha polls
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Politics - Elections
How Mir Jafar became India’s ultimate ‘traitor’, and Siraj-ud-Daulah a patriot
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Politics - Indian History
From 1951-2019: How India voted in Lok Sabha elections
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Politics - Elections
Illiterate voters, spread of communism and a staggering success: How the world saw the first Indian elections
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Politics - Elections
How Ambedkar’s return to Baroda changed the course of life and led him to fight for the oppressed
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Politics - Indian History
Jallianwala Bagh: New research reveals how colonial govt was racist in paying compensation to Indians affected
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Politics - Colonial History
The Rajbanshis and the history of their statehood demand
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Politics - Regional Movements
Fasting, a sacred tradition spanning centuries and faiths
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Education - Spirituality
Delhi’s Urdu Bazar and the decline of a language
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Education - Language
How citizenship was decided by makers of Indian Constitution
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Politics - Indian Constitution
Margaret Cousins: The Irish suffragette who fought for voting rights of Indian women
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Politics - Women's Rights
Over the centuries, the many scares over health of US Presidents
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Politics - US Presidential Health
The women who wrote the Constitution of India
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Politics - Indian Constitution
How big is the threat of artificial intelligence over elections
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Politics - Election Interference
How a viral infection led to the Dutch obsession with tulips
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Entertainment - History
How Rani Chennamma’s revolt against the British inspired a national campaign for women’s rights
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Politics - Women's Rights
From Shivaji to Shinde, how Marathas came to dominate Maharashtra politics
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Politics - Indian Politics History
What the 2024 Pakistan election means for the country’s shaky political history
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Politics - Elections
How the 1857 revolt lit the spark for setting up Aligarh Muslim University
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Education - University History
From Jogendra Nath Mandal to Saveera Parkash: The Hindus in Pakistan’s electoral politics
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Politics - Electoral Politics
The debate over the ‘caste question’: How minorities’ reservations were decided by the Constituent Assembly
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Politics - Indian Constitution
‘Many Ayodhyas, but name of Ram’s birthplace same in all versions of Ramayana’
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Education - Mythology
Ramayana ‘lives in the mind of every Indian’, but across the world the epic has many narrations
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Entertainment - Mythology
The mystery of the Indus script: Dravidian, Sanskrit or not a language at all?
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Education - Ancient Civilizations
From Nav Nirman Andolan to anti-CAA protests: How student movements shaped Indian politics
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Politics - Student Movements
India and the two wars that dominated 2023
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Politics - War and Conflict
How the idea of Indian Union Territories was conceived and executed
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Politics - Indian Governance
How over millenia the Indus flowed into its present contested position between India and Pakistan
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Politics - International Relations
Why India and South Korea were unable to establish diplomatic ties for two decades after gaining Independence
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Politics - International Relations
Zanzibar: For centuries, a home to Indians; now an IIT
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Education - International Institutes
When Pakistan’s Zia-ul-Haq helped Jordan King kill thousands of Palestinians
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Politics - History
From Hashomer to NILI, the history of Israeli intelligence, its successes and failures
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Politics - Intelligence Agencies
Once upon a time, one could catch a train from Madras to Colombo
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Business - Transportation
Why the West supports Israel
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Politics - International Relations
Zionism: How a movement opposed by most Jews spawned the idea of Israel
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Politics - Zionism
The fabric that connected East to West and wove the myth of the Silk Road
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Business - Trade History
The bloody history behind how Israel, and Palestine, came into existence
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Politics - Middle East Conflict
The first Indian Jews in Israel and the racism they faced
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Politics - Minorities
Battle of Colachel: How an accidental shot ended Dutch plans for India
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Politics - Indian History
Through many Mahatma statues, a study of India’s experiments with truth
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Politics - Indian History
How Russia’s imagination of its history shapes its present
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Politics - History and National Identity
The 4 percenters: India’s first set of women MPs punched way above their weight
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Politics - Women in Politics
Katchatheevu: Why an Indian Island went to Sri Lanka and many hope for its symbolic return
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Politics - International Relations
Opium: The drug that gave colonialism a real high
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Politics - Colonialism
The dark story of oil, the lubricant of the global economy
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Business - Energy
From the myth of Mahabali to connections with Kerala’s Buddhist past, tracing Onam’s origin and evolution
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Education - Cultural Studies
How the Bhakti movement flourished under Mughals
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Education - History
Forgotten Independence revolt: Why Congress and League did not back the Royal Indian Navy’s 1946 mutiny but Communists did
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Politics - Indian History
How Manipur merged with India: From a constitutional monarchy to Part C state
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Politics - Indian History
The forgotten story of the Japanese ruling over (a part of) India
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Politics - History
Pepper: The magic spice from Kerala that triggered global trade, drained the Romans and spawned new empires
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Business - Trade History
‘Little girls could be anything they wanted to be’: How Ruth Handler invented Barbie
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Entertainment - Toys
The many names in the journey to India: Hindustan, Bharat, Bharata
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Education - Geography
How Gold caused the migration rush to America and brought the global financial system together
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Business - Economic History
The age of ‘builder floors’: Why Delhi’s modern housing is the architecture of every city and yet no city
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Business - Real Estate