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‘We Spent Entire Nights on the Road’: A Shimla Hill is Sinking, and Families Are Watching Their Homes Crack
‘We Spent Entire Nights on the Road’: A Shimla Hill is Sinking, and Families Are Watching Their Homes Crack
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For years, the ground beneath Shakrala has been shifting. Now cracks are widening, basements are sinking and families are spending their savings repairing homes that keep breaking apart. With the mons ...
Maharashtra Puts AI to Work: 2,500 Officials to Use Sarvam’s Indus Across Departments
2 min read
From drafting government notes and translating documents to analysing data and digging through old records, Maharashtra is taking sovereign AI into everyday administration, with data staying within In ...
Air India Orders Mandatory Pilot Drug Screening After Phuket-Delhi Flight’s 300-Foot Plunge
2 min read
The airline has begun screening all group pilots for prohibited substances and unauthorised medications as investigators probe the August 4 incident that injured 24 people. A preliminary AAIB report i ...
Beaten by Gen Z, Deuba Returns to a Nepal That Has Moved On
3 min read
Nearly a year after protesters stormed his home and left him seriously injured, Nepal’s five-time prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is back. At 80, he says he has returned not for power but for unity, ...
‘Absolutely Unacceptable’: Japan Slams Putin’s First Visit to Disputed Kuril Island
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Vladimir Putin has made his first visit to Iturup, an island controlled by Russia and claimed by Japan, triggering a furious protest from Tokyo and reopening a territorial dispute that has prevented t ...
Why is a 107-Year-Old Delhi Club Facing Eviction? Explained
3 min read
The Central Secretariat Club has survived more than a century, and even earlier rounds of derecognition. Now its recognition has been withdrawn again and its government-allotted premises are at stake. ...
‘Fail Loudly, Fix It, Try Again’: Anand Mahindra Backs India’s Second Student-Built Chip Lab
2 min read
Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra has thrown his support behind hands-on innovation, backing Mahindra University's new HackerFab — India's second student-led semiconductor fabrication lab — as th ...
Hasan Mahmud’s Six-Wicket Storm Sends Australia Crashing to Historic Low
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Bangladesh arrived in Darwin after being bowled out for 54 in a warm-up game. Then Hasan Mahmud ripped through the world’s top-ranked Test side with 6/55, dismissing Australia for 198, their lowest-ev ...
Trump Would ‘Love’ a Third Term. There’s Just One Problem: The Constitution
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Supporters are chanting “2028” and Donald Trump says he’d love to run again. But after winning the White House twice, even Trump acknowledges that the law standing between him and a third term is “ver ...