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1923 articles
Five days before its November 5 release, Sacnilk put Nitesh Tiwari's epic at more than ₹24 crore in Indian advance sales and about $3.5 million overseas.
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A black bear let itself into an unlocked Subaru in Juneau, Alaska, on October 26, and the door apparently slammed shut. Police freed it with a rope. The car's interior did not survive.
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Four US medical societies want heart-risk assessment to start around ages 8 to 15 and to follow women through pregnancy and menopause. Pregnancy warning signs that are more common in South Asian women are part of the new framework.
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Neighbours of a Fremont temple filed more than 25 complaints in a year. The temple says it follows the rules. From Edison to Frisco to Mississauga, other suburbs have argued over temples, festivals and fireworks.
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The New York investment firm's second Indian office will handle finance, technology, legal and compliance work for its global business. It joins 2,117 such centres already operating in India.
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A Reuters clip of a couple at a café table near the Arc de Triomphe, with fires burning behind them, went around the world this week. The Paris terrasse has sat beside unrest before, in 1968, in 2015 and in the yellow-vest years.
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A month of lycée blockades over missing teachers and crumbling schools spilled into nationwide marches on October 17. What students want, what the government has said, what comes next, and what Indian students and travellers in France should check now.
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New York and Los Angeles have paused most student use of AI this school year. Naperville 203 and Indian Prairie 204 leave much of it to the classroom teacher. The 203 board meets tonight.
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Nelson Dilipkumar's Tamil sequel finished ninth on the US weekend chart from 800 theatres, and trade trackers put its four-day worldwide gross above ₹400 crore.
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South Asian gambling harm is often blamed on culture and shame. The research from India, Britain and the United States points to the product and the law.
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A proposed rule would remove the instruction that immigration officers defer to a worker's last approval when reviewing an H-1B extension. Indian-born workers held 72 percent of approved H-1B petitions in fiscal 2023.
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World Space Week, Gaganyaan-1's countdown: Mangalyaan reached Mars for $74M, Chandrayaan-3 landed for ₹615 crore. What the numbers teach, and what they hide.
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Ayurveda's dinacharya schedules the day around sunrise, midday meals, and same-time sleep. Modern sleep and sitting trials keep landing in the same places.
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Gold trades near ₹1.5 lakh per 10 grams, yet Indian households sold less old gold last quarter than at any point in three years. They are pawning it instead.
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Rupee at 96 to the dollar, trade talks stalled. Meanwhile a quieter project runs on: settling India's trade in rupees. How SRVAs work, and their limits.
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India's 2,117 global capability centres form a $98.4-billion market employing 2.36 million. Inside the quiet boom reshaping Indian cities — and its limits.
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Piyush Goyal lands in Washington this week with a 100%-tariff law ticking behind him. What actually changed in the India-US trade standoff — and what hasn't.
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Waking at 3 AM is one of the most reported sleep complaints. The honest version: lighter second-half sleep, cortisol's pre-dawn rise, and the usual evening suspects. Ayurveda marked this hour two thousand years earlier.
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205,000 white-collar Indians came home in 2026, 17% more than in all of 2025. Who is returning, what the $100K H-1B fee changed, and why landing back is hard.
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One NRI said three years in Paris made her 'more Indian than ever' — and the internet pushed back. Inside the diaspora's oldest identity argument.
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US seniors posted their worst-ever reading scores; India's foundational reading is recovering. India treats reading as a skill. America treats it as taste.
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Ayurveda's post-lunch rest is having a moment. The honest version: the texts prescribe rest, not a nap — and science agrees the afternoon dip is real and short.
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EPFO 3.0 promises UPI and ATM access to provident fund savings. What's live, what's still a proposal, and what easy liquidity means for retirement.
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Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy: throat surgeon, mom of three, and the one person in Vivek Ramaswamy's orbit who has publicly disagreed with him. A profile.
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Does Cybersecurity Awareness Month make us safer? The research is mixed — October drills produce completion reports, while continuous training cuts phishing.
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A therapist tried AI therapy on himself after an assault and wrote about it in The Free Press. What the trials show, what can go wrong, and what it means
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Isabgol or senna for constipation? An honest, trial-backed comparison of psyllium husk and stimulant laxatives, Ayurvedic context included.
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H.R. 5334, the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, was signed into U.S. law on September 18, 2026 — giving the president authority to impose tariffs of up to 100% on the largest buyers of Russian oil and gas. What it means for India's rupee-settlement push.
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An expat debate over vegetarian summit menus reveals a deeper question: why does serving dhokla to foreign leaders make some NRIs cringe — and why shouldn't it?
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Worksheets drill compliance, gamified apps reward clicking — neither builds reasoning. How adaptive Socratic AI tutors could change the equation.
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Bo French's 'foreigners displacing Americans' post targeted South Asian UT students. Why the bipartisan Texas backlash cuts deeper than one tweet.
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Waking at 3 a.m. with a racing mind? Cortisol's early-morning rise and lighter second-half sleep explain most of it — the liver-glycogen story is only a
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Why startups rarely turn corporate innovation programs into production contracts — and how venture client units fix the plumbing of enterprise AI buying.
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Ayurveda's vamkukshi advises resting on the left side after meals. Modern reflux studies back the left-side habit, but the heart and lymph claims don't hold up.
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Please Clap with Shlok Sharma and Joe Greenfield plays March 27–28 at Nu Box Theater, NYC — a political comedy show named for Jeb Bush's most famous two words.
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Gum disease and heart disease are linked, but the link is not what headlines claim. What the American Heart Association actually found, and what to do about it.
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Operation Epic Fury, the death of Khamenei, Mojtaba's election, and the Strait of Hormuz crisis: what the 2026 US-Israel-Iran war means for the world and
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From Prada's Kolhapuri-sandal backlash to jhumkas on the runway: how luxury fashion borrows India's aesthetic, when credit is given, and when it is not.
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Brain organoids, a six-million-person genetics map, LSD-derived MM120 for anxiety, and an SGK1 trauma pathway: what neuroscience actually found about mental
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Why simulation theory went from Bostrom's 2003 paper and Musk's 'one in billions' to a hypothesis physicists take seriously — and why it may be unfalsifiable.
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US gas prices surged 20% to $3.55 a gallon ten days into the US-Israel operation against Iran, as Hormuz disruption pushed crude past $100.
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Galaxy S26 Ultra: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 200MP camera, the world's first built-in Privacy Display, and a $1,299 price.
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Pokémon turns 30: LEGO's first sets, three ANA Pokémon Jets, a Tokyo skyscraper light show — how a Game Boy cartridge became the top-grossing media franchise.
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Met Gala 2026: the 'Fashion Is Art' dress code, Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams as co-chairs, and the Costume Art exhibition — everything about
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A 1989 Miyazaki classic is selling out IMAX screens in 2026. Why Kiki's Delivery Service — and Studio Ghibli's whole catalogue — became Gen Z's comfort cinema.
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Film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones: Gen Z's 'going analogue' trend is spreading on the very platforms it's reacting against.
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37 million Instagram posts: why '2026 is the new 2016' became the defining trend — and what the nostalgia says about a culture exhausted by AI content.
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From ashrams to Instagram: how yoga became India's most successful cultural export, what was gained in translation, and who captures the value.
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Groundwater falling a meter a year, 30-40% of treated water leaking from pipes. India's urban water crisis is already here — not a future warning.
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27,000+ international runs and a T20 World Cup final Player-of-the-Match award: Kohli's career is the case study of individual brilliance inside a team sport.
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Pune, Surat, Lucknow, Indore were supposed to relieve the metros. Why Tier-2 cities grew but never became economic engines — agglomeration beats cheaper land.
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Delhi's air crosses AQI 400, Mumbai's 10-km commute takes two hours, Bangalore's groundwater is falling. Tier-1 cities are victims of their own success.
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2021's record funding flood turned into 2023-2025's reckoning: capital dried up and unit economics became the test. What separated survivors from failures.
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India's new middle class buys premium phones while hunting discount deals — aspiration mediated by anxiety in an economy that offers no guarantees.
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Educated urban Indians under 35 are reading the Gita and Upanishads not as religion but as philosophy — a selective intellectual recovery of Hindu texts.
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The rupee stays stubbornly domestic: the RBI's rupee-settlement push with partners is real but incremental, and its share of global payments remains below 2%.
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40% of global maritime commerce and 35% of seaborne oil transit the Indian Ocean. How China, the US, and India are contesting its future.
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India's brain drain is shifting: since 2015, IIT graduates choose Indian startups over US firms and founders return to build. The reversal isn't complete.
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The 2023 Hindenburg report halved Adani's market cap in weeks. It exposed how family-controlled conglomerates clash with investor demands for transparency.
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Ayodhya's Ram Mandir, the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, Tirupati's pilgrim economy: India's religious tourism boom — development policy in sacred dress.
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