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India Beat England 3-1, First Test Series Win in England Since 2007

Jasprit Bumrah's nine wickets at Headingley sealed a 116-run win and India's first series triumph on English soil in 18 years.

India completed a 3-1 series victory over England at Headingley, ending an 18-year wait for a Test series win in England. Jasprit Bumrah finished with 34 wickets and the Player of the Series award as India confirmed their standing as the world's top-ranked Test side.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 14, 2025•5 min read
India Beat England 3-1, First Test Series Win in England Since 2007
ISRO Gaganyaan Clears Crew Escape System Abort Test
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ISRO Gaganyaan Clears Crew Escape System Abort Test

The TV-D2 test fired its abort motors at maximum aerodynamic pressure and recovered the crew module in the Bay of Bengal.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 13, 2025
NEP: Mother-Tongue Enrolment Rises 28% in 14 States
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NEP: Mother-Tongue Enrolment Rises 28% in 14 States

Tribal districts in Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh show the sharpest gains, with dropout rates falling.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 11, 2025

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The legislation merges central and state voter registries into a single database and adds mobile verification for migrant voters.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 14, 2025•4 min read
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Cabinet Clears ₹3.8 Lakh Crore National Water Grid Master Plan

The 15-year project would interlink 12 peninsular and Himalayan river systems to ease water scarcity and manage floods.

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Supreme Court Sets Up Bench on Governors' Powers Over Bills

A five-judge constitutional bench will examine the limits of gubernatorial discretion under Article 200.

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ISRO Gaganyaan Clears Crew Escape System Abort Test

The TV-D2 test fired its abort motors at maximum aerodynamic pressure and recovered the crew module in the Bay of Bengal.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 13, 2025
NEP: Mother-Tongue Enrolment Rises 28% in 14 States

NEP: Mother-Tongue Enrolment Rises 28% in 14 States

Tribal districts in Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh show the sharpest gains, with dropout rates falling.

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Western Ghats Biodiversity Atlas Records 9,400 Species

Western Ghats Biodiversity Atlas Records 9,400 Species

A decade-long survey by 340 researchers documents 18 vertebrates new to science and maps threats across the range.

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India and EU Sign Landmark Free Trade Agreement in New Delhi

The deal cuts tariffs across thousands of goods, opens a secure data corridor for IT services and eases professional mobility.

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G20 Backs OECD Plan to Tax Big Tech in Market Countries

The Pillar One framework reallocates a share of the largest firms' profits to the countries where their revenue is earned.

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UN Climate Talks Agree $400 Billion Loss and Damage Fund

Developed nations commit binding contributions over a decade to help climate-vulnerable countries cope with unavoidable impacts.

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After a year of aggressive cuts, the central bank is holding steady to watch inflation before the August MPC meeting.

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Reliance Q4 FY26 Profit Falls 12.6% to ₹16,971 Crore

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Trained on 2.4 million retinal images and tuned for Indian eyes, the model is built for low-cost smartphone screening.

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India Approves Three Bengaluru Chip Design Centres

The Design Linked Incentive grants target RISC-V processors, RF semiconductors and automotive-grade chips.

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“India's Water Security Is the Defining Challenge Ahead”

India's per capita freshwater availability has fallen 70% since independence, yet water policy stays fragmented across dozens of bodies. A coherent national framework — constitutional, institutional and economic — is now a strategic necessity, not a choice.

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“The Growth vs Climate Trade-Off Is a False Choice”

The claim that climate action imposes prohibitive development costs on India is undercut by the country's own renewable-energy trajectory. The real choice is not growth versus climate, but a managed transition versus a disruptive crisis.

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“Why India's Universities Underperform on Research”

India runs the world's largest higher-education system yet produces a fraction of the globally impactful research its scale implies. The causes are structural — the affiliation model and risk-averse grant funding — and need systemic reform, not cosmetic fixes.

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India Beat England 3-1, First Test Series Win in England Since 2007

India completed a 3-1 series victory over England at Headingley, ending an 18-year wait for a Test series win in England. Jasprit Bumrah finished with 34 wickets and the Player of the Series award as India confirmed their standing as the world's top-ranked Test side.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 14, 2025

Neeraj Chopra Breaks Javelin World Record With 93.72m in Stockholm

Neeraj Chopra threw 93.72m at the Stockholm Diamond League to break the javelin world record of 93.58m set by Jan Zelezny in 1996. World Athletics ratified the distance at the venue, confirming the Olympic champion as the finest thrower of his generation.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 12, 2025

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Payal Kapadia Wins India's First Palme d'Or at Cannes

Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine as Light', a quiet drama about two nurses from Kerala building lives in Mumbai, has won the Palme d'Or, becoming the first Indian film to take the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in its 77-year history.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 13, 2025

National Film Archive Digitises 450 Classic Indian Films

The National Film Archive of India has finished the first phase of its heritage digitisation programme, restoring 450 Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali films from 1940-1965 and making them free to stream, rescuing several that survived only as single deteriorating reels.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 11, 2025

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Pochampally Ikat Weavers Win GI Tag After Decade

The weavers of Pochampally, Telangana, have secured a Geographical Indication tag for their double-ikat silk after a decade-long documentation effort, protecting the craft from imitation and opening premium international markets.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 12, 2025

India's Heritage Seed Banks Root the Slow Food Movement

Community seed banks run by farmer networks in Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand now conserve over 3,000 heritage crop varieties — ancient rice cultivars, millet landraces and drought-tolerant pulses — forming the foundation of India's slow food movement.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 10, 2025
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