🔍How Centre’s Clean Plant Programme plans to boost production of fruits
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How Centre’s Clean Plant Programme plans to boost India’s production of fruits
First announced in Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim Budget speech in February 2023, the CPP is also targeted at enhancing the quality of fruit crops across the nation.
🔍How SEBI board is supposed to address conflicts of interest
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Hindenburg’s new allegations: How SEBI board is supposed to address conflicts of interest
SEBI’s ‘Code on Conflict of Interest’ seeks to ensure that the board ‘conducts in a manner that does not compromise its ability to accomplish its mandate or undermine the public confidence’ in the body
🔍Hindenburg alleges impropriety by Sebi chief: what conflict-of-interest rules apply to market regulators in US and UK?
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Hindenburg alleges impropriety by Sebi chief: what conflict-of-interest rules apply to market regulators in US and UK?
US-based short seller has alleged that Madhabi Puri Buch invested in an offshore fund linked to the Adani Group a few years ago. The Sebi chief has said that she followed disclosure norms when appointed to the agency.
🔍Why Ukraine has carried out incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
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Why Ukraine has carried out incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
Some reports suggest that Ukraine has already captured more land since the beginning of the attack than it did over the entire course of last summer’s counter-offensive.
🔍Facing criticism, Govt withdraws new draft of broadcast Bill
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Facing criticism, Govt withdraws new draft of broadcast Bill
There was pushback from independent content creators publicly, and big tech companies privately, over fears of government overreach.
🔍BJP, RSS top brass go into a huddle, brainstorm party-Sangh ties, state polls, Bangladesh unrest
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BJP, RSS top brass go into a huddle, brainstorm party-Sangh ties, state polls, Bangladesh unrest
Besides changes in BJP, the meeting held at Rajnath Singh's residence also discussed Bangladeshi Hindus' safety and RSS' upcoming coordination meet.
🔍All you need to know about the Hindenburg-Adani-Buch rigmarole
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All you need to know about the Hindenburg-Adani-Buch saga
Hindenburg alleged on Saturday that Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband, Dhaval Buch, had stakes in offshore funds used in the alleged Adani money siphoning scandal.
🔍Once thriving, now all but gone: a history of Kerala’s Jewish communities
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Once thriving, now all but gone: a history of Kerala’s Jewish communities
From boasting a population of 20,000-50,000 in the mid-1940s, India’s Jewish population today is estimated to comprise 4,000-5,000 members.
🔍How Tungabhadra dam gate was swept away, why farmers are fearful
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How Tungabhadra dam gate was swept away, why farmers are fearful
Cultivators with fields upstream are afraid that draining of the reservoir to carry out repairs will impact irrigation; those downstream have the same fear, apart from apprehensions of flooding due to increased outflows from the dam.
🔍Why the withdrawal of the draft Broadcast Bill raises more questions than it answers
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Why the withdrawal of the draft Broadcast Bill raises more questions than it answers
The new draft proposed to regulate independent news content creators on social media platforms as OTT broadcasters, raising concerns about widespread government control on online content
🔍What is Bangladesh’s St Martin’s Island, under spotlight after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation?
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What is Bangladesh’s St Martin’s Island, under spotlight after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation?
The island is located in the northeastern region of the Bay of Bengal, close to the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. It is nine kilometres away from the southern tip of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf peninsula.
🔍Trump-Musk interview on X reportedly hit by DDoS attack: What it means
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Trump-Musk interview on X reportedly hit by DDoS attack: What it means
Elon Musk cited a “massive DDoS attack” for the technical glitches during his recent audio interview with Donald Trump on X. We explain how such attacks work.
🔍Ex-ISI chief who went to Kabul after Taliban takeover, arrested: reasons and context
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Ex-ISI chief who went to Kabul after Taliban takeover, arrested: reasons and context
Faiz Hameed is accused of corruption while in service, and of engaging in questionable activities after retirement. This makes him the third senior officer to face arrest under the current leadership in Pakistan.
🔍Amid Hindenburg probe calls, look at JPCs on financial allegations
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Amid Hindenburg probe calls, look at JPCs on financial allegations
Joint committees are set up by a motion passed in one House and agreed to by the other. The details of membership and subjects relating to a particular JPC are decided by Parliament.
🔍How broiler chicken industry has become India’s most organised and vertically integrated agri-business
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How broiler chicken industry has become India’s most organised and vertically integrated agri-business
The broiler integration companies have turned poultry farming – traditionally based on rearing 10-20 free-range/backyard breed birds fed on agricultural byproducts and kitchen waste – into a commercial enterprise even for smallholders.
🔍Amid Hindenburg probe calls, look at JPCs on financial allegations
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Amid Hindenburg probe calls, look at JPCs on financial allegations
Joint committees are set up by a motion passed in one House and agreed to by the other. The details of membership and subjects relating to a particular JPC are decided by Parliament.
🔍Why is the Delhi HC hearing a plea against the exclusion of Section 377 from the new criminal laws?
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Why is the Delhi HC hearing a plea against the exclusion of Section 377 from the new criminal laws?
Although the Supreme Court reinterpreted the provision in 2018, Section 377 remained in the text of the IPC until the BNS came into force — where it was deleted entirely.
🔍What is the drug Captagon, and how is it linked to Germany?
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What is the drug Captagon, and how is it linked to Germany?
The trial of four men accused of being behind a record-breaking drug bust worth €58 million has begun in Germany. But what is Captagon, where does it come from and what does Germany have to do with it?
🔍What were the first postage stamps of Independent India?
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What were the first postage stamps of Independent India?
Three postage stamps were issued to commemorate India’s independence — all of them featured the date August 15, 1947, and the words ‘Jai Hind’ in the Devanagari script.
🔍Why Pakistan celebrates Independence Day on August 14, and India on August 15
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Why Pakistan celebrates Independence Day on August 14, and India on August 15
While Pakistan and India both attained Independence on the same day, Pakistan has celebrated its Independence Day a day before India.
🔍What is the status of Hindus in Bangladesh?
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What is the status of Hindus in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh’s minority Hindus have faced more than 200 attacks in 50-odd districts since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5. As policing collapsed, at least five people were reported killed in attacks on Hindu families, institutions…