Month: August 2025

With Sci-Hub gone, will the ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ scheme step up?

August 27, 2025 admin

When the Delhi High Court ordered internet service providers to block access to Sci-Hub and its mirrors, it closed a chapter in one of the more fraught debates in contemporary research: who gets to read research papers, and who must pay. The verdict followed years of litigation by Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society…

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Spice trade spurred shipping, colonialism, capitalism; created today’s Mumbai and New York: Nicholas Nugent

August 27, 2025 admin

Journalists have an unending stream of stories to tell. Nicholas Nugent, who switched off his audio suite in the BBC as a broadcast journalist in 1999, continues to enthral listeners (in small conversations) and readers (of his seven books and the once-in-a-while newspaper column). Not with the “when-I-was-there” genre, however. In his elegant country house,…

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August 27, 2025 admin

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August 27, 2025 admin

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August 27, 2025 admin

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Why has the import duty on cotton been suspended? | Explained

August 27, 2025 admin

A worker feeds raw cotton into an opener machine at a processing facility in Amritsar on August 25. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: Cotton, which is the main raw material for the textile industry, is grown by nearly six million farmers in India. In the wake of declining production, the Central government…

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Physics of staying airborne – The Hindu

August 27, 2025 admin

First contact: K.N. Viswanathan | Anmol Agrawal | Tamal Biswas | Harilakshmi M. Physics of staying airborne When the engines of this aeroplane were removed, heavy winds were able to tilt it backwards. This is because the centre of gravity in its body shifted to the rear. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | The…

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U.S. to change green card: Commerce Secretary Lutnick says H-1B visa system ‘terrible’

August 27, 2025 admin

According to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, the Trump administration plans to introduce a “gold card” programme, which would allow wealthy foreigners to invest $5 million in exchange for U.S. residency. File | Photo Credit: Reuters United States Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said that the U.S. intends to alter the current immigration system,…

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