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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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From ~1,400 tigers in 2006 to ~3,600 by 2022 — India now hosts 70% of the world's wild tigers. How Project Tiger reversed extinction, and why the success is
500 GW of renewables by 2030: the math says ~50 GW a year — double the current pace. Grid integration, Chinese supply chains, and battery storage are the
Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy — four million Indian Americans punch far above their numbers in US politics, holding structural power nationally.
Trump 2.0 means tariffs, visa risk, and transactional diplomacy for India. The opportunity: China+1 supply chains. The risk: IT services and H-1B access
India-Pakistan is the world's most politically charged sporting rivalry — hundreds of millions watch, and the match has become a proxy for a conflict
From Non-Aligned solidarity with Palestine to joint military exercises with Israel: how India recalibrated its foreign policy — and domestic and moral costs.
The 7% per-country cap gives India ~10,000 green cards yearly. Over a million Indians wait in decades-long limbo — and America is losing them.
Indians get ~70% of H-1B visas while the green-card backlog stretches decades. As US restrictions tighten, the IT model built on visa arbitrage is ending.
Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.
In May 2015 the world was told a Nigerian restaurant served human flesh. Days later the Anambra police debunked it and the BBC retracted the story.
Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.
In February 2015, Israeli journalist Zvika Klein walked Paris for ten hours wearing a kippah, filming the reactions — weeks after the Hypercacher attack.
In August 2013, the NSA admitted analysts had spied on their own love interests using agency tools — the internal nickname was LOVEINT.
Two New York wine collectors sued Chicago chef Charlie Trotter in 2013, claiming $46,000 bottles of 1945 Burgundy were counterfeit.
Gloria C. MacKenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, claimed the $590 million Powerball jackpot — the largest undivided lottery prize in US history at the time.
A first-person account from Istanbul of the 2013 Gezi Park protests — written by Turkish blogger Defne Suman as police cleared Taksim Square.
Tyler Deutsch of Washington put his 6-week-old daughter in a 10-degree freezer for an hour; bail was set at $1 million. She survived.
The body of missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi was found in Providence waters and identified on April 25, 2013, through dental records.
Brown student Sunil Tripathi was wrongly named online as a Boston bombing suspect in April 2013. He was never a suspect in the attack.