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Who Pays If a Nuclear Accident Happens? India’s New SHANTI Rules Explain the Stakes
Who Pays If a Nuclear Accident Happens? India’s New SHANTI Rules Explain the Stakes
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The Centre’s draft SHANTI Rules, 2026, put operator liability, insurance and financial safeguards at the centre of India’s plan to expand nuclear power and allow greater private participation. Here’s ...
Copy, Colour & Colorbar: Can Samir Modi's Beauty Brand Take on the World?
8 min read
Colorbar built a ₹300-crore-plus cosmetics business by borrowing from the global beauty playbook and manufacturing alongside luxury brands. Twenty-one years later, it is cutting clutter, betting on re ...
India’s Bank NPAs at Record Low: What Will the New Banking Reforms Committee Do?
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With bad loans below 2%, the government says Indian banks have emerged from crisis stronger than ever. A proposed high-powered committee will now examine how that strength can fund investment, serve y ...
‘Ultimately, It’s Just 31’: Australia Turn Up Heat on Marnus Labuschagne
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The Australian No. 3 looked fluent during his 31 against Bangladesh. Coach Andrew McDonald was not buying the consolation: “Ultimately, it is 31.” With the series on the line, Labuschagne is running o ...
Ashok Dham Stampede Explained: What Triggered the Crush That Killed 7 Devotees in Bihar?
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Two trains reportedly delivered a sudden wave of pilgrims, a barricade buckled and rumours of a fallen electrical pole ignited panic. Within minutes, seven devotees were dead. The precise trigger rema ...
Fresh 5.9 earthquake hits Flores as Indonesia’s deadly tremor toll rises to 54
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A fresh magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Flores region on Monday as rescuers continued searching areas devastated by Saturday’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake. The earlier quake killed at least 5 ...
This Day That Year: 79 years ago, the Radcliffe Line was made public
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Two days after India and Pakistan became independent, the boundary dividing the two new nations was officially published, setting in motion one of the largest and most traumatic migrations in modern h ...
Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez got married in their living room, but the big wedding is still to come
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Professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez have quietly married in an intimate ceremony at their home in Cascais, Portugal. But the private vows were only the beginning: the coup ...
How Ireland’s football chiefs sold their principles to play Israel
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The Irish football association once demanded Israel’s exclusion from UEFA competitions. Now, saddled with debt and under pressure, it has agreed to play them, raising questions about money, morality a ...
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14 Aug 2026 - Vol 05 | Issue 33

Freedom Issue 2026

Shashi Tharoor on being radical liberal | Ram Madhav on how Gandhi used his Hinduism | TCA Raghavan on a diplomat's travels in history | Sumana Roy on the novel beyond the Booker | Carlo Pizzati on the dissolution of Borders
Behold Gandhi the Hindu: How Sanatana Dharma Shaped India’s Independence Movement and Nationalism
Testament of a Radical Liberal
Freedom Issue 2026: Editor's Note
The Capital of Mobilisation: Delhi and the unfinished argument of the Republic