A media ecosystem built around one obsession stops doing other things. It stops watching China, which had been the benchmark ambitious Indians would measure themselves against. It stops holding power accountable.
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#Nepal | Shiva Kumar Shrestha, a spokesperson for the countryâs Central Investigation Bureau said that the Department of Money Laundering Investigation will oversee the investigation.
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#BookReview | "More profoundly, Ananya Vajpeyi suggests that a city can also be lost when one loses the personal compass through which it was once navigated," Fuzaila Khan reviews.
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Actor-politician #Vijay, the chief of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, will be making his electoral debut in the polls that will be held on April 23. The counting of votes will take place on May 4.
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Art is the antidote, or so we have been told and here is a survivor, declaring in her own book, that it is not possible to be saved. Surviving involves walking an eternal path on a tightrope.
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#BookRecommendation by Sayari Debnath
#WestBengal | The poll panel did not specify how many cases had been resolved in the third list, or the number of voters were added to or removed from the electoral rolls.
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#SIR
Shielding students from the âunpleasantâ parts of history, produces graduates who are ill-equipped to defend the democratic and secular values of India against uninformed critique, Faisal CK writes.
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In his suit, #AnilAmbani claimed that he is aggrieved by articles authored and published by the defendants, and circulated through their news channels and social media platforms.
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#ArnabGoswami #RepublicTV
Since the appointment of Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu to the Election Commission, it has struggled to explain its actions to journalists. scroll.in/article/1091...
Its strategy to contain the resulting awkwardness had been to keep mum and move on, Ayush Tiwari writes
#SlowLane
The university suspended the professor on Friday pending an inquiry. University Chancellor Jawahar Doreswamy said that the institute is verifying the authenticity of the video and examining the circumstances surrounding the incident.
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Lebanese Information Minister Paul Morcos said the killing of the #journalists âconstitutes a deliberate and blatant war crime against the media and the mission of journalismâ.
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On Friday, The New York Times described #ElonMuskâs alleged participation as an âunusual appearance by a private citizen on a call between two heads of state during a wartime crisisâ.
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If digital media has made the shortage visible, it has also made it weightless â circulating inconvenience as comedy.
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Beneath that lies the harsher truth that our reliance on fossil fuels will ensure that disruption keeps returning to Indian homes.
By Joya John
The comment about Cuba was his latest threat against the Caribbean island nation, whose communist government has faced increasing pressure from the US. The Trump administration has imposed an oil blockade on Cuba since January.
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State Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal had earlier said that persons whose names are excluded can challenge the decision before appellate tribunals to be set up by the Calcutta High Court.
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"Unlike many business memoirs, this is notably restrained in tone. Chaudhary avoids the language of conquest. Success, in this telling, is not a straight ascent but a series of adjustments, some strategic, others instinctive," writes Ashutosh Kumar Thakur.
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Nitish Kumar was elected to the Rajya Sabha on March 16 for the first time. His current Legislative Council term, the fourth consecutive, was to end in 2030.
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The court directed that neither the woman nor her partner should be harmed or arrested. It also restrained her family from contacting them or entering their home, either directly or indirectly.
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The Houthis said on Saturday that it had targeted military infrastructure in southern Israel and claimed the attack was in response to strikes on infrastructure and civilian deaths in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Palestine, Al Jazeera reported.
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An overwhelming majority of Indians in the Gulf are blue collar workers, whose fate found little mention in public discourse of the war.
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These low-income workers have decided to stay despite risks.
Usman Jawed discusses if a proposed bill can protect their rights.
Investigators allege that the group had entered India on valid visas, but later travelled to #Mizoram without the mandatory restricted area permit. They are further accused of entering #Myanmar and meeting ethnic groups hostile to India.
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The authorities in Abu Dhabi had earlier said that they were working to put out two fires caused by falling missile debris in the cityâs Khalifa Economic Zones, Al Jazeera reported.
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Oli & former home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested in a case related to the alleged suppression of youth-led protests in #Nepal in 2025. The panel alleged the crackdown on the protests was the result of criminal negligence and recklessness.
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In the past months, the CM has made a series of remarks targeting Miyas, including claiming that it was his job to âmake them sufferâ and saying that he had directed BJP workers to file applications seeking to strike off their names from the electoral rolls.
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Speaking at an urgent debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council, #Iranâs Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi described the February 28 strike on an elementary school in Tehranâs #Minab as a âdeliberate, intentionalâ.
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By removing self-identification & introducing mandatory medical certification, it narrows who counts as a #transgender.
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A law ostensibly designed to prevent fraud has ended up institutionalising an insidious form of misrepresentation.
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In a now-deleted video, #BGopalakrishnan, the BJPâs candidate from Guruvayur, could be heard purportedly asking why the constituency, which is an âinternational pilgrimage centreâ does not have a Hindu MLA.
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