🔍What are India’s stakes in Iran’s Chabahar port?
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What are India’s stakes in Iran’s Chabahar port?
India and Iran signed a 10-year contract on Monday for the operation of a terminal at the strategically important Chabahar port in Iran. Signing of a long-term contract with Iran is part of India’s strategic and economic vision for Central Asia and beyond.…
🔍Why some Indians are turning to LMIA work permits to emigrate to Canada
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Why some Indians are turning to LMIA work permits to emigrate to Canada
The Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) programme allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers if recruitment efforts for hiring local employees fail
🔍Explained: GPT-4o, OpenAI’s newest AI model that makes ChatGPT smarter and free for all
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Explained: GPT-4o, OpenAI’s newest AI model that makes ChatGPT smarter and free for all
GPT-4o will be a big boost for free users, as they will now get GPT-4-level intelligence on a much faster and efficient ChatGPT.
🔍India VIX Index rallies: What does market volatility mean for investors?
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India VIX Index rallies: What does market volatility mean for investors?
India VIX is a measure of the market’s expectation of volatility. It typically rises ahead of events like the Lok Sabha elections, which could have a major impact on the market trajectory. What is the outlook on India VIX at present?
🔍Putin has replaced Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu? What does this mean?
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Putin has replaced Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu? What does this mean?
The decision was not taken on a whim, and it is not a demotion for Shoigu. The Russian President is probably tweaking his policy to align better with the current situation of the war against Ukraine
🔍What is the new FLiRT variant of the Covid virus, and should you worry?
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What is the new FLiRT variant of the Covid virus, and should you worry?
FLiRT is characterised by its ability to evade immunity from vaccines and previous infections. Its symptoms are similar to those of earlier variants, including fever and cough.
🔍Explained Climate: Heatwaves and climate change
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Explained Climate: Heatwaves and climate change
A new study has attributed heatwaves witnessed in India in April to climate change. This is not a surprise — with soaring global temperatures, heatwaves have become more frequent and intense in the country
🔍Explained: Controversy and drama at Hybe, the K-pop company behind BTS
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Explained: Controversy and drama at Hybe, the K-pop company behind BTS
The South Korean company has emerged as a major entertainment giant in the last few years, as Korean cultural exports have made their mark globally. Why does the company's public spat with a top executive of a subsidiary matter for the industry at large?
🔍Failure to follow procedure: Why SC said Newsclick founder’s arrest was illegal
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Failure to follow procedure: Why SC said Newsclick founder’s arrest was illegal
The order to release Prabir Purkayastha is significant because it emphasises that proper procedure and due process are the guardrails against arbitrary action, even in stringent terror cases. Here are the facts of the case.
🔍Why Supreme Court ruled that a lawyer cannot be sued for providing faulty ‘service’
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Why Supreme Court ruled that a lawyer cannot be sued for providing faulty ‘service’
The majority of the petitioners' arguments hinged on the idea that the legal profession must be differentiated from other businesses or trades and that even among other professions, lawyers occupy a unique space.
🔍What the draft Digital Competition Bill proposes, why Big Tech opposes it
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What the draft Digital Competition Bill proposes, why Big Tech opposes it
To curb market dominance by tech companies, India has taken a cue from the European Union. Here is what the draft Bill proposes, and why big tech companies are against it.
🔍Three Indian literary works included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Regional Register: What is their significance?
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Ramcharitmanas included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Regional Register: Its significance
Officials behind the nomination process have told the Indian Express that the three texts were picked due to their enduring worldwide appeal.
🔍Nakba Day: How Palestinian dispossession did not start, end in 1948
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Nakba Day: How Palestinian dispossession did not start, end in 1948
Nakba, literally “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the forced displacement of Palestinians to facilitate the creation of Israel. Nakba Day is observed on the day after Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948. But the dispossession and displacement…
🔍US-trained economist and a guitar player: Meet Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s new PM
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US-trained economist and a guitar player: Meet Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s new PM
Wong is the fourth PM to lead the city-state and only the second leader who is not a member of the founding Lee family.
🔍NewsClick founder released: Shield against arrest extended to stringent provisions of UAPA
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NewsClick founder released: Shield against arrest extended to stringent provisions of UAPA
Extending procedural safeguards to UAPA is crucial as the law gives the state wide powers — from relaxing timelines for the state to file chargesheets and its stringent conditions for bail — compared to the Indian Penal Code.
🔍How Punjab and Haryana remain key to national food security
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How Punjab and Haryana remain key to national food security
The two states that are still to vote in the Lok Sabha polls have played saviour this year, amid El Niño and 16-year-low wheat stocks in government godowns.
🔍What was SC’s Pankaj Bansal ruling in 2023, which paved the way for release of NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha?
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What was SC’s Pankaj Bansal ruling in 2023, which paved the way for release of NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha?
In 2023, the court underlined the safeguards against arrests made under the PMLA. In Purkayastha's case, the court said these safeguards also apply to the UAPA, another stringent special legislation
🔍What is ‘digital arrest’, and what can you do to ensure you don’t fall victim to cybercriminals?
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What is ‘digital arrest’, and what can you do to ensure you don’t fall victim to cybercriminals?
Online frauds and criminals typically call potential victims and tell them that they have sent or are the intended recipients of a parcel containing illegal goods, drugs, fake passports or any other contraband item. Here's what you should do.
🔍Riots in France-controlled New Caledonia leave 4 dead: What is happening?
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Riots in France-controlled New Caledonia leave 4 dead: What is happening?
A state of emergency has been imposed in New Caledonia, an island located near Australia and under French control. The ongoing protests have to do with a recent Bill giving its French residents voting rights.
🔍Why do people make music: What scientists theorise, from natural selection to group cohesion
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Why do humans make music: What scientists theorise, from natural selection to group cohesion
Some researchers are developing new evolutionary explanations for music. Others maintain that music is a cultural invention, like writing, that did not need natural selection to come into existence.