🔍Explained Ideas: What the progressives of the US don’t understand about their country
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Explained Ideas: What the progressives of the US don’t understand about their country
Democrats have abandoned the white working class, and are too focused on centralised solutions. Both bode ill for progressive politics in a divided nation, writes Anush Kapadia.
🔍Explained: Could state legislatures pick their own electors to vote for Trump?
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Explained: Could state legislatures pick their own electors to vote for Trump?
The idea of legislatures intervening for Trump gained currency in the days after Election Day, following months of Trump’s raging that the election would be “rigged,” a baseless accusation, although one embraced by many of his supporters.
🔍Explained: The US election prediction models, and what may have gone wrong in 2016 and 2020
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Explained: The US election prediction models, and what may have gone wrong in 2016 & 2020
Even though votes are still being counted and the data is still being sifted, American analysts have begun reflecting on the entire election forecasting industry, which predicted a much larger win for President-elect Joe Biden than what we saw last week.
🔍Explained: What is the Atlantic Ocean’s largest protected marine reserve?
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Explained: What is the Atlantic Ocean’s largest protected marine reserve?
Tristan da Cunha, which is inhabited by less than 300 humans is a small chain of islands over 6,000 miles from London in the South Atlantic and the water around the islands are considered to be the richest in the world.
🔍Explained: Why activists and residents are up in arms against a plan to expand Dehradun airport
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Explained: Why activists and residents are up in arms against a plan to expand Dehradun airport
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has asked the state government to explore the possibility of acquiring a different patch of land for the expansion, so that the trees could be spared.
🔍Explained: New study throws light on long-distance airborne dispersal of SARS-CoV-2
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Explained: New study throws light on long-distance airborne dispersal of SARS-CoV-2
As per the WHO, airborne transmission is defined as the spread of an infectious agent caused by the dissemination of aerosols that remain infectious when suspended in the air over long distances and time.
🔍Explained: Why Americans disagree over granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
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Explained: Why Americans disagree over granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
What is the history behind the statehood movements in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., and why are the country’s top politicians bitterly divided over the issue?
🔍Explained: New quarantine rules for international passengers in Karnataka
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Explained: New quarantine rules for international passengers in Karnataka
As per the latest quarantine protocol, international passengers entering the state can be exempted from home quarantine on furnishing a negative Covid-19 RT-PCR test report.
🔍Explained: Moderna vaccine interim trial results likely next week, what is the status of other shots?
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Explained: Moderna vaccine interim trial results likely next week, what is the status of other shots?
Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine: Experts have said that Moderna's candidate, which uses a similar mRNA technology like Pfizer's, will also likely prove to be highly effective.
🔍Reliance Retail Ventures’ stake in Urban Ladder: What does it mean online furniture retail
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Explained: What Reliance Retail’s purchase of UrbanLadder means for both companies
Reliance Industries Ltd’s subsidiary Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd has purchased 96% stake in online home decor company UrbanLadder for Rs 182.12 crore. What are the details of the deal? What does the deal mean for Reliance Retail? How is the online furniture…
🔍Explained: What is the Leonid meteor shower, when can Indians best watch it?
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Explained: The Leonid meteor shower, and when best Indians can watch it
The Leonids emerge from the comet Tempel-Tuttle, which requires 33 years to revolve once around the Sun. These meteors are bright and among the fastest moving– travelling at speeds of 71 km per second.
🔍Want a preview of President Biden? Look at the campaign trail
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Explained: Want a preview of President Biden? Look at the campaign trail
Like President George HW Bush, Biden respects American political traditions, and with President Barack Obama, he shares eight years of history, experiences and some Washington battle scars.
🔍Explained: Making facial recognition technology work for bears
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Explained: Making facial recognition technology work for bears
The system identified bears at an accuracy rate of 84%, correctly distinguishing between known bears such as Lucky, Toffee, Flora and Steve.
🔍Explained: Who was Muhammad al-Masri, what was his role in al-Qaeda, and who is next in line now
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Explained: Who was Muhammad al-Masri, what was his role in al-Qaeda, and who is next in line now
The New York Times, quoting anonymous intelligence officials, said he was living in Tehran in the “protective custody” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, an elite unit of the Iranian Army, and later of the Iranian intelligence service.
🔍An Expert Explains: How to read serosurveys
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An Expert Explains: How to read India’s serosurveys
Seroprevalence studies, which test for antibodies, tend to throw up higher numbers than PCR tests, and these numbers sometimes vary in different rounds in the same population. What explains such variations? From the high numbers from serosurveys in India…
🔍ExplainSpeaking: Why state of Indian economy is what you make of it
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ExplainSpeaking: Here’s why the state of Indian economy is what you make of it
Be it GDP growth, inflation, employment generation or the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan 3.0 policy response, it is possible to draw very different conclusions depending on how one views the economy
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As the surge in Covid cases in New Delhi placed an immense strain on the healthcare system, Union Home Minister Amith Shah ordered the implementation of a multi-pronged strategy that includes doubling RT-PCR testing capacity, providing 300 dedicated ICU beds and organising additional medical equipment to tackle severe cases.
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📰 *From the Front Page*
*(Express Exclusive)* With the railways suspending goods and passenger services in Punjab after farmer protests, the situation has posed a challenge for the Army in transporting winter supplies to troops stationed in J&K. The Army, for now, completed winter stocking by moving supplies via road. Any further replenishment will be flown in once the roads are blocked due to snowfall, sources said.
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The suspense over Nitish Kumar returning as Bihar Chief Minister ended with lawmakers from the JD(U)-BJP alliance electing as leader of the NDA. However, there was a surprise twist. Sushil Kumar Modi, his deputy chief minister, may not return to the post again.
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*(Express Exclusive)* The writing is on the wall for the Congress, says party leader Kapil Sibal in this exclusive conversation with The Indian Express on the Bihar verdict and its performance in the recent bypolls. "The people of the country, not just in Bihar but wherever by-elections were held, obviously don’t consider the Congress to be an effective alternative," he says.
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*(Express Exclusive)* It has been forty-one days since the arrest of Delhi-based journalist Siddique Kappan for allegedly conspiring to inflame religious enmity over the Hathras rape. With a habeas corpus plea pending in Supreme Court and his wife says: “I feel that even the judiciary has abandoned us...Justice is not for all, only for some. How did things move so fast in the case of Arnab Goswami?’’
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ISL clubs ATK Mohun Bagan and Mumbai City have new principal sponsors this season: two sports websites backed by online betting companies. Gambling and betting are prohibited under Indian law but the issue of online gambling remains a grey area and is yet to be adjudicated by the courts.
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Meet newly elected CPI(M-L) Mahboob Alam, who lives in a house with an asbestos roof, mud floor, and unplastered walls. His "humbled background" is well known in Balrampur, but his popularity was visible on Bihar election day as he defeated his nearest rival by 50,000 votes.
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*(Express Exclusive)* In this edition of the Idea Exchange, noted economist Pronab Sen talks about the impact of the government’s economic stimulus, highlights the need for traders to have access to credit, assesses why the new method to calculate GDP is better, and says lockdowns in towns to control Covid will hurt due to supply chain disruption.
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👉 Twenty-two months after he was extradited to India from Senegal, gangster Ravi Pujari is set to be finally brought to Mumbai from Bengaluru before December 10
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👉 Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, who had been undergoing treatment for Covid-related complications, has been placed in ICU, his family said.
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👉 Five-and-a-half months after it erupted, Oil India Limited’s (OIL) Baghjan well in Assam’s Tinsukia district was brought under control on Sunday, authorities confirmed.
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⌛ *And Finally...*
Our film critic Shubhra Gupta pays tribute to legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who passed on Sunday.
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🚨 *The Big Story*
As the surge in Covid cases in New Delhi placed an immense strain on the healthcare system, Union Home Minister Amith Shah ordered the implementation of a multi-pronged strategy that includes doubling RT-PCR testing capacity, providing 300 dedicated ICU beds and organising additional medical equipment to tackle severe cases.
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📰 *From the Front Page*
*(Express Exclusive)* With the railways suspending goods and passenger services in Punjab after farmer protests, the situation has posed a challenge for the Army in transporting winter supplies to troops stationed in J&K. The Army, for now, completed winter stocking by moving supplies via road. Any further replenishment will be flown in once the roads are blocked due to snowfall, sources said.
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The suspense over Nitish Kumar returning as Bihar Chief Minister ended with lawmakers from the JD(U)-BJP alliance electing as leader of the NDA. However, there was a surprise twist. Sushil Kumar Modi, his deputy chief minister, may not return to the post again.
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*(Express Exclusive)* The writing is on the wall for the Congress, says party leader Kapil Sibal in this exclusive conversation with The Indian Express on the Bihar verdict and its performance in the recent bypolls. "The people of the country, not just in Bihar but wherever by-elections were held, obviously don’t consider the Congress to be an effective alternative," he says.
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*(Express Exclusive)* It has been forty-one days since the arrest of Delhi-based journalist Siddique Kappan for allegedly conspiring to inflame religious enmity over the Hathras rape. With a habeas corpus plea pending in Supreme Court and his wife says: “I feel that even the judiciary has abandoned us...Justice is not for all, only for some. How did things move so fast in the case of Arnab Goswami?’’
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👩💻 *Must Read*
ISL clubs ATK Mohun Bagan and Mumbai City have new principal sponsors this season: two sports websites backed by online betting companies. Gambling and betting are prohibited under Indian law but the issue of online gambling remains a grey area and is yet to be adjudicated by the courts.
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Meet newly elected CPI(M-L) Mahboob Alam, who lives in a house with an asbestos roof, mud floor, and unplastered walls. His "humbled background" is well known in Balrampur, but his popularity was visible on Bihar election day as he defeated his nearest rival by 50,000 votes.
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*(Express Exclusive)* In this edition of the Idea Exchange, noted economist Pronab Sen talks about the impact of the government’s economic stimulus, highlights the need for traders to have access to credit, assesses why the new method to calculate GDP is better, and says lockdowns in towns to control Covid will hurt due to supply chain disruption.
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🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 Twenty-two months after he was extradited to India from Senegal, gangster Ravi Pujari is set to be finally brought to Mumbai from Bengaluru before December 10
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👉 Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, who had been undergoing treatment for Covid-related complications, has been placed in ICU, his family said.
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👉 Five-and-a-half months after it erupted, Oil India Limited’s (OIL) Baghjan well in Assam’s Tinsukia district was brought under control on Sunday, authorities confirmed.
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⌛ *And Finally...*
Our film critic Shubhra Gupta pays tribute to legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who passed on Sunday.
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"Right from his 1959 debut Apur Sansar, the final part of Satyajit Ray’s iconic Apu trilogy (after Pather Panchali and Aparajito), Soumitra Chatterjee’s quality of sincerity was his most abiding trait, and it held him in solid stead through his career."
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Soumitra Chatterjee: From the older Apu to sunny Feluda, Ray’s go-to actor to our everyman
Right from his 1959 debut Apur Sansar, the final part of Satyajit Ray’s iconic Apu trilogy, Soumitra Chatterjee’s quality of sincerity was his most abiding trait, and it held him in solid stead through his career.
🔍New Research: Allergens in some masks may cause skin problems; how can you avoid this?
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New Research: Allergens in some masks may cause skin problems; how can you avoid this?
Dr Dhamija and Dr Schmidlin noted that common allergens that can affect contact dermatitis are found in masks, elastic bands, and other components of face masks.
🔍New Research: Allergens in some masks may cause skin problems; how can you avoid this?
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New Research: Allergens in some masks may cause skin problems; how can you avoid this?
Dr Dhamija and Dr Schmidlin noted that common allergens that can affect contact dermatitis are found in masks, elastic bands, and other components of face masks.
🔍Explained: What makes SpaceX NASA’s Crew-1 mission launch significant?
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Explained: Why is SpaceX-NASA’s Crew-1 mission launch significant?
Crew-1 is the first of six crewed missions that NASA and SpaceX will operate as part of the Commercial Crew Program, whose objective is to make access to space easier in terms of cost.