🔍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.
🔍Should medical professionals be protected from consumer court proceedings? SC to reconsider 1995 ruling
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Should medical professionals be protected from consumer court proceedings? SC to reconsider 1995 ruling
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that lawyers were not liable under the Consumer Protection Act. This judgment, however, is at odds with a 1995 verdict of the apex court which answered the same question regarding doctors
🔍What the new right-wing Dutch government plans to do
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What the new right-wing Dutch government plans to do on immigration and more
The coalition aims to expand offshore natural gas extraction and nuclear energy production as part of plans to reduce the Netherlands’ dependence on “unreliable countries”
🔍5 factors behind Russia’s economic resilience amid the Ukraine war
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5 factors behind Russia’s economic resilience amid the Ukraine war
Following a relatively mild contraction of 1.2% in 2022, the Russian economy again outperformed expectations in 2023, growing by 3.6 per cent. How did this happen despite the West’s sanctions?
🔍Mumbai billboard collapse: Why cities need to gear up for ‘multi-hazard weather events’
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Mumbai billboard collapse: Why cities need to gear up for ‘multi-hazard weather events’
With rising global temperatures, countries, including India, are witnessing more intense and frequent thunderstorms as at warmer temperatures, the atmosphere can hold more water vapour