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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's Gaganyaan Mission Completes Critical Crew Escape System Test
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ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission Completes Critical Crew Escape System Test

The abort motor system successfully separated the crew module from the launch vehicle at 17 km altitude.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 13, 2025
National Education Policy Enrolment in Mother Tongue Medium Rises 28 Per Cent
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National Education Policy Enrolment in Mother Tongue Medium Rises 28 Per Cent

Data from 14 states shows a significant uptake in regional language primary education since NEP implementation.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 11, 2025

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Lok Sabha Passes Unified Electoral Roll Bill After Long Debate

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.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 12, 2025•4 min read
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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.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 10, 2025•3 min read
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ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission Completes Critical Crew Escape System Test

ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission Completes Critical Crew Escape System Test

The abort motor system successfully separated the crew module from the launch vehicle at 17 km altitude.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 13, 2025
National Education Policy Enrolment in Mother Tongue Medium Rises 28 Per Cent

National Education Policy Enrolment in Mother Tongue Medium Rises 28 Per Cent

Data from 14 states shows a significant uptake in regional language primary education since NEP implementation.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 11, 2025
Western Ghats Biodiversity Atlas Published After Decade-Long Field Survey

Western Ghats Biodiversity Atlas Published After Decade-Long Field Survey

The atlas documents 9,400 species and identifies 18 previously unrecorded endemic vertebrates.

By Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 9, 2025

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India-EU Trade Agreement Signed After Seven Years of Negotiations

The deal covers goods, services, investment, and a digital data flow corridor between the two blocs.

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G20 Summit Agrees on Framework for Taxing Multinational Technology Companies

The Pillar One agreement assigns a portion of profits of the largest tech firms to market jurisdictions.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 12, 2025•3 min read
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UN Climate Negotiations Reach Agreement on Loss and Damage Finance Mechanism

Developed nations commit USD 400 billion over a decade to help vulnerable countries adapt to climate shocks.

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RBI Maintains Repo Rate at 5.25% as Monetary Policy Enters a Stable Phase

Following a series of aggressive cuts in 2025, the central bank is holding rates steady to monitor inflation trajectories ahead of the August MPC meeting.

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Reliance Industries Reports 12.6% Drop in Q4 Net Profit to ₹16,971 Crore Amid Margin Pressure

Despite a challenging refining environment, the conglomerate's annual profit for FY26 remained resilient at ₹80,775 crore, buoyed by retail and telecom outperformance.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 11, 2025•3 min read
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IIT Madras Develops AI Model That Diagnoses Diabetic Retinopathy with 96% Accuracy

The model, trained on 2.4 million retinal images, is designed for deployment on low-cost smartphone scanners.

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India's Semiconductor Mission Approves Three Chip Design Centres in Bengaluru

The approved centres focus on RISC-V processor design, RF semiconductor technology, and automotive-grade chips.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 11, 2025•3 min read
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“India Must Treat Water Security as the Defining Strategic Challenge of the Coming Decade”

India's per capita freshwater availability has declined 70 per cent since independence, yet water policy remains fragmented across 30 ministries and an alphabet of regulatory bodies. A coherent national framework is no longer optional — it is existential.

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“The False Dichotomy Between Growth and Climate Action Must Be Abandoned”

The assumption that serious climate action necessarily imposes development costs on emerging economies is empirically undermined by India's own renewable energy trajectory. Policymakers who invoke this trade-off are often defending specific incumbent interests, not the broad national interest.

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“Why India's Universities Are Failing to Produce the Research Output the Economy Needs”

India has more universities than any other country, yet its higher education system produces a fraction of the globally impactful research that its scale suggests it should. The failure is structural, not circumstantial, and requires systemic reform rather than cosmetic ranking improvement.

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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's 'All We Imagine as Light' Wins India's First Palme d'Or

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia's "All We Imagine as Light" has been awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Indian film to win the festival's highest honour and marking a watershed moment for independent Indian cinema internationally.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 13, 2025

National Film Archive Digitises 450 Classic Indian Films in Three Languages

The National Film Archive of India has completed the first phase of its classic film digitisation project, salvaging 450 films in Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali from deteriorating nitrate and acetate reels, making them available for the first time on a public streaming archive.

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 11, 2025

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Handloom Weavers of Pochampally Win GI Tag Recognition After Decade-Long Effort

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

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 12, 2025

The Slow Food Movement Finds Deep Roots in India's Heritage Grain Seed Banks

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

Abhijit Chowdhury•Jul 10, 2025
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