🔍Explained: What’s behind the crisis at Belarus-Poland border
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Explained: What’s behind the crisis at Belarus-Poland border
Thousands of migrants who came to Belarus from the Middle East and Africa are trying to enter the European Union through Poland.
🔍Explained: Who is Puneet Dikshit, the McKinsey partner charged with insider trading in the US?
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Explained: Who is Puneet Dikshit, the McKinsey partner charged with insider trading in US?
A partner at the consulting firm McKinsey has been charged with insider trading. Who is Puneet Dikshit, and what is the charge against him? What was his modus operandi?
🔍Explained: Why North Chennai is worst-hit in this year’s heavy rains
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Explained: Why North Chennai is the worst-hit in this year’s heavy rains
Chennai rains: What has made things worse for the northern part of Tamil Nadu capital is the absence of storm water drain networks and poor desilting of canals.
🔍Explained: Why has Mumbai-Karnataka region been rechristened as Kittur Karnataka
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Explained: Why has Mumbai-Karnataka region been rechristened as Kittur Karnataka?
Besides appeasing pro-Kannada bodies, the state government’s move is also meant to prevent any association of the region with the erstwhile Bombay Presidency while humouring the Lingayat community.
🔍Explained: Who is Devasahayam Pillai, the first Indian layman to be conferred sainthood?
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Explained: Who is Devasahayam, the first Indian layman to be conferred sainthood?
Devashyam is said to have faced harsh persecution and imprisonment after he decided to convert to Christianity, ultimately resulting in his killing in 1752.
🔍Explained: Personal loans are growing, but is this the right time to take one?
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Explained: Personal loans are growing, but is this the right time to take one?
According to RBI data, the credit outstanding for the personal loan category increased by 12.1% from Rs 26 lakh crore in September 2020 to Rs 29.18 lakh crore in September 2021.
🔍Explained: The Char Dham road debate
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Explained: The Char Dham road debate
Why deciding the width for mountain highways does not warrant a defence-vs-environment debate, and how destabilisation of the hills undermines concerns and the very idea of a reliable all-weather road
🔍Explained: Personal loans are growing, but is this the right time to take one?
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Explained: Personal loans are growing, but is this the right time to take one?
According to RBI data, the credit outstanding for the personal loan category increased by 12.1% from Rs 26 lakh crore in September 2020 to Rs 29.18 lakh crore in September 2021.
🔍Explained: The Char Dham road debate
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Explained: The Char Dham road debate
Why deciding the width for mountain highways does not warrant a defence-vs-environment debate, and how destabilisation of the hills undermines concerns and the very idea of a reliable all-weather road
🔍Covaxin is 77.8% effective against symptomatic Covid: reading interim trial data
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Covaxin is 77.8% effective against symptomatic Covid: reading interim trial data
Covaxin, or BBV152, is an inactivated whole virion vaccine formulated with a novel adjuvant and administered in a two-dose regimen, 28 days apart.
🔍Earth’s first landmass emerged in Singhbhum: study
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Earth’s first landmass emerged in Singhbhum: study
Scientists have found sandstones in Singhbhum with geological signatures of ancient river channels, tidal plains and beaches over 3.2 billion years old, representing the earliest crust exposed to air.
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According to the CBI chargesheet, around 740,128 Euros (Rs 4.15 crore) were received in the accounts of Interstellar Technologies from Dassault Aviation between 2003 and 2006 through IDS Infotech.
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SVA group of developing countries that includes India and China has rejected the first draft of the expected agreement from the Glasgow climate conference and asked for changing the entire section on enhancing mitigation actions. This group, which calls itself Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs), accused the developed countries of “new carbon colonialism” — attempting to transfer their responsibilities on the rest of the world, and trying to impose new rules.
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⌛ *And Finally…*
Sometime in 2017, New Zealand’s World T20 semi-final hero Jimmy Neesham was gripped by a growing sense of depression. He would wake up in the mornings of games, open the shades of his room, and would hope for rain. It got to a point where Neesham even considered quitting cricket. But, Heath Mills, the head of player association in New Zealand cricket encouraged him to seek help and then to take it a game at a time.
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Delhi Confidential: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s meeting with party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K C Venugopal and Ajay Maken on Wednesday was held at Rahul Gandhi’s Tughlaq Lane residence. Rahul was not present at the meeting as he is believed to be out of the country.
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SVA group of developing countries that includes India and China has rejected the first draft of the expected agreement from the Glasgow climate conference and asked for changing the entire section on enhancing mitigation actions. This group, which calls itself Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs), accused the developed countries of “new carbon colonialism” — attempting to transfer their responsibilities on the rest of the world, and trying to impose new rules.
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⌛ *And Finally…*
Sometime in 2017, New Zealand’s World T20 semi-final hero Jimmy Neesham was gripped by a growing sense of depression. He would wake up in the mornings of games, open the shades of his room, and would hope for rain. It got to a point where Neesham even considered quitting cricket. But, Heath Mills, the head of player association in New Zealand cricket encouraged him to seek help and then to take it a game at a time.
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Delhi Confidential: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s meeting with party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K C Venugopal and Ajay Maken on Wednesday was held at Rahul Gandhi’s Tughlaq Lane residence. Rahul was not present at the meeting as he is believed to be out of the country.
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CBI chargesheet: Dassault paid €740,128 to Interstellar in ’03-’06
According to the CBI chargesheet, payments to the tune of Euro 740,128 (Rs 4.15 crore) were received in the accounts of Interstellar Technologies from Dassault Aviation between 2003 and 2006 through IDS Infotech.
🔍Explained: How will delimitation of PMC electoral panels be carried out ahead of civic polls?
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Explained: How will delimitation of PMC electoral panels be carried out ahead of civic polls?
Maharashtra recently issued an ordinance increasing the number of corporators to be elected to civic bodies, including the PMC. Accordingly, the PMC will have 173 corporators for the next five-year term as against the existing strength of 164.
🔍Explained: What are the two initiatives of the RBI that PM Modi launched today?
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Explained: What are the two initiatives of the RBI that PM Modi has launched?
The RBI Retail Direct Scheme is aimed towards enhancing access to the government securities (G-Secs) market for retail investors, while the Reserve Bank - Integrated Ombudsman Scheme aims to improve the grievance redress mechanism for resolving customer complaints…
🔍Explained: How will delimitation of PMC electoral panels be carried out ahead of civic polls?
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Explained: How will delimitation of PMC electoral panels be carried out ahead of civic polls?
Maharashtra recently issued an ordinance increasing the number of corporators to be elected to civic bodies, including the PMC. Accordingly, the PMC will have 173 corporators for the next five-year term as against the existing strength of 164.
🔍Explained: What are the two initiatives of the RBI that PM Modi launched today?
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Explained: What are the two initiatives of the RBI that PM Modi has launched?
The RBI Retail Direct Scheme is aimed towards enhancing access to the government securities (G-Secs) market for retail investors, while the Reserve Bank - Integrated Ombudsman Scheme aims to improve the grievance redress mechanism for resolving customer complaints…
🔍Explained: Why has US journalist Danny Fenster been jailed for 11 years in Myanmar?
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Explained: Who is Danny Fenster, the US journalist now freed from a Myanmar jail?
Danny Fenster was arrested while trying to leave the country in May and convicted under the Unlawful Associations Act and the Immigration Act.
🔍Explained: US inflation & impact on India
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Explained: US inflation and its impact on India
At 6.2%, retail inflation in the US has made the highest year-on-year jump in 3 decades. Why is that a concern for India, where inflation has frequently breached the RBI’s comfort zone in the last 2 years?
🔍Explained: Why Indian kids show diabetes signals early
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Explained: Why Indian kids show diabetes signals early
Why is diabetes so common in Indians? A three-decade study tracking more than 700 Pune families has found a tendency towards high glucose in early childhood in many individuals.
🔍Explained: In age of hybrid crops, the importance of preserving landraces
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Explained: In age of hybrid crops, the importance of preserving landraces
Rahibai Popere's Padma Shri is a recognition of her work that has helped save hundreds of landraces (wild varieties of commonly grown crops) at the village level.
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After an unusually productive start, with several countries, including India, promising new climate actions to strengthen the global fight against climate change, the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow was unable to deliver an agreement on time, and negotiations were set to spill over to Saturday. But now, there isn’t enough time to wrap up the discussions on all the pending issues, and it is possible that some of them may be kicked to the next year’s meeting.
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Four people from two families in Gorakhpur’s Chauri Chaura were booked for sedition after a complaint that they hoisted the Pakistan flag on the rooftop of their houses. But the families have insisted that they had put up religious flags, which were mistaken for Pakistan’s national flag. When the police searched their home, they were unable to find any Pakistan flags.
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⌛ *And Finally…*
Fast bowler Hasan Ali’s ‘offence’ was a dropped catch of Matthew Wade and three consecutive sixes that followed sealed the semifinal for Australia. What followed was a storm of criticism on social media, reaffirming that cricket can, in fact, be a lonely game. When the curtain fell, Hasan was alone despite Shoaib Malik walking up to him like an elder brother and lending a hand. He hasn’t had it easy — he was unwell, going into the game, Hasan’s Pakistan Super League franchise Islamabad United’s general manager said.
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Delhi Confidential: While Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has said that the Centre is committed to the uninterrupted flow of Ganga, his party colleague and former Union water resource minister Uma Bharti on Friday highlighted issues that she claimed were affecting the environmental flow of the river.
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Four people from two families in Gorakhpur’s Chauri Chaura were booked for sedition after a complaint that they hoisted the Pakistan flag on the rooftop of their houses. But the families have insisted that they had put up religious flags, which were mistaken for Pakistan’s national flag. When the police searched their home, they were unable to find any Pakistan flags.
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⌛ *And Finally…*
Fast bowler Hasan Ali’s ‘offence’ was a dropped catch of Matthew Wade and three consecutive sixes that followed sealed the semifinal for Australia. What followed was a storm of criticism on social media, reaffirming that cricket can, in fact, be a lonely game. When the curtain fell, Hasan was alone despite Shoaib Malik walking up to him like an elder brother and lending a hand. He hasn’t had it easy — he was unwell, going into the game, Hasan’s Pakistan Super League franchise Islamabad United’s general manager said.
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Delhi Confidential: While Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has said that the Centre is committed to the uninterrupted flow of Ganga, his party colleague and former Union water resource minister Uma Bharti on Friday highlighted issues that she claimed were affecting the environmental flow of the river.
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COP26: Time runs out, issues unresolved, no agreement yet
Several issues that were supposed to be wrapped up here, including those related to finance and rules for the establishment of a new carbon market, remain unresolved.