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At a shared symbol of Jihad, Taliban defies its old ties with Pakistan
The seminary he was visiting was in India, a country that had long kept its distance from the Taliban during their decades as an insurgency that New...
New international student enrolments plummeted this fall, survey finds
18 Nov 2025 6:10 AM ISTThe data, part of a project backed by federal money, was somewhat narrow, stitching together statistics from less than a quarter of the nation’s...
UNFCCC mulls new document on fossil fuel by Oct 2026
17 Nov 2025 7:00 AM ISTThe UN Emissions Gap report published earlier in the month said that under the current policies, the world is on track for 2.8 degrees of warming by...
Future-proofing: How much should we spend to avoid AI apocalypse?
17 Nov 2025 6:30 AM ISTCan we get the good of AI without the bad? A lot of money might help.
Sparse info, lax response: Nobody really knows how many people die in...
17 Nov 2025 6:10 AM ISTNone to shed light on India’s heat wave toll
Beyond branding: Making corporate activism count
15 Nov 2025 6:40 AM ISTAs global divisions deepen and climate pressures rise, corporate activism stands at a crossroads — its credibility now rests not on slogans, but on...
Cultural control: China’s crackdown silences female danmei dreamscapes
15 Nov 2025 6:30 AM ISTDanmei—created largely by female writers and consumed mostly by straight female readers—uses male-male romance as a way to imagine relationships...
NDA’s mysterious magic potion
15 Nov 2025 6:30 AM ISTIn several state elections in the past two years (Madhya Pradesh 2023, Haryana 2024, and Maharashtra 2024), BJP-led ruling alliances bucked...