Rakesh Batabyal’s Idea of Order: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe (1989-2022) is a path-breaking book. Despite the close contacts between India and countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and the considerable number of international studies and European studies programmes in Indian universities, no academic book has been written by an Indian about this part
Designers Zaid Khatri, Amruta Vankar, Mubbasirah Khatri, Muskan Khatri, and Shakil Ahmed during the Design Craft Presents Artisan Designers of Somaiya Kala Vidya show in the 25th year of Lakmé Fashion Week 2025 at Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai | Photo Credit: Perfect Shadows / FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week / RISE Worldwide Indian
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Story so far: Firmly opposed to the ‘three language’ clause in the Centre’s National Education Policy, Tamil Nadu ranks the lowest among India’s large states in implementing in schools. Only 1905 (3.2%) schools in Tamil Nadu offered three languages, while 35,092 (59.8%) schools offered two languages and 21,725 (37%) schools offered a single language, revealed
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A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck central Myanmar, with an epicenter 15 km northwest of the city of Sagaing. A 6.4-magnitude aftershock followed closely behind. Early reports suggest damage to buildings and buckled roads in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw. Strong tremors were felt in neighbouring countries of Thailand and south-west China. Earthquakes do not commonly affect
A drug used to treat a rare inherited disease has been found to make human blood toxic to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. It could provide another tool to reduce deadly insect populations. Mosquitoes are considered the deadliest animal on the planet—carrying diseases that kill more than one million people a year. Scientists have found that a drug
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Ashok Amritraj, from the famed tennis family that accounted for the A in the ABC (Amritraj, Borg, Connors) of the 1970s tennis world, is today a synonym for success as a powerful Hollywood mogul. The youngest of three brothers that included Vijay and doubles specialist Anand, Ashok’s transition from the tennis court to Tinseltown is
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Chinese electric car maker BYD is likely to drive into Telangana with its first plant in India if the Centre gives the go ahead to the project. All available indications suggest BYD (Build Your Dreams) whose imported cars have been turning heads in the Indian market for some years now could well be settling for
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On March 3, sleuths from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) waited at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), Bengaluru, for a “passenger of interest”, Z8195849. They reportedly had intelligence that the passenger, travelling on Emirates flight EK566 from Dubai, which was scheduled to arrive at 6:20 p.m., may be carrying gold — “either in crude form
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(Bloomberg) — ING Groep NV is being sued in the Netherlands for allegedly failing to take adequate steps to rein in its emissions. The Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth, Milieudefensie, contends that ING “has a huge impact on the climate and must take responsibility for it,” according to the text of the suit
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The Kremlin has a deliberate strategy to test how far US President Donald Trump is willing to go in pressing Europe to ease sanctions, according to people familiar with the situation. Russia is demanding the reconnection of one of its largest state banks to the SWIFT international messaging system as a condition for accepting a
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