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Removing bugs, raising bees For Rajendran Tamilarasan, an IT professional based near Tambaram, beekeeping exists alongside software work, family life and ecological advocacy: a parallel world sustained less by commerce than by fascination. Originally from Mullukurichi village near the foothills of Kolli Hills in Namakkal district, he traces his interest in bees back to childhood…
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India accounts for 3- to 4% of global market capitalisation. A portfolio invested entirely in domestic assets is therefore structurally under-diversified, ignoring the other 96-97%. Global investing is about diversification across geographies, currencies, and economic cycles. Exposure to dollar-denominated assets also provides the benefit of long-term rupee depreciation when you redeem and bring the money…
When one speaks of India and photography, the sentence feels incomplete without taking Raghu Rai’s name. His work became emblematic to the medium, not merely because he recorded India, but because he revealed it — with patience, poetry and an instinctive sense of order. In the years that he was active, from the mid-1960s to…
Venezuela’s government said on Saturday (May 16, 2026) it deported a close ally of Nicolas Maduro facing several criminal investigations in the U.S., less than three years after the businessman was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap. The decision marks a stark reversal for Alex Saab, who Mr. Maduro fought…
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Summer has always arrived in India with a promise of leisure, and unrelenting calidity: holidays, grandparents’ home, cousins and friends, of soulful food and the sweet smell of mangoes always lingering in the air. This year, that memory feels strained at the edges. Reports in The Hindu have pointed to one of the harshest summers…
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A man is carried from an ambulance as he arrives at Bunia General Referral Hospital following confirmation of an Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday (May 17, 2026) declared an Ebola outbreak…
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The story so far: Last week, Air India announced sweeping international schedule cuts between June and August, including a nearly 40% reduction in North America operations and significant cuts across SAARC and Southeast Asia. Which international routes have been affected? According to airline sources, a total of 145 weekly flights across North America, Europe, Southeast…
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The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) has arrested another member of a racket that facilitated cheating using high-tech methods for candidates at an online examination centre in Dehradun during a Staff Selection Commission (SSC) recruitment exam three months ago. The racket was busted on February 13 this year during the online examination conducted by the…
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Nagubai Chaudhary, 52, had always believed that the land would take care of her, and it did. For as long as she can remember. But in 2025, unseasonal rains lashed parts of western and central Maharashtra. The flash floods that ensued devastated the kharif crop. When the land began to dry, Nagubai and her husband, Malinath, 60, had to quickly think…