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One day in 2025, Jane perched facing a computer screen. The screen’s top half displayed a black circle on a magenta background. The bottom half had a black arrow on white. After what appeared to be a moment of deliberation, Jane extended her neck and touched the circle. Small pellets of food appeared in the…
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The Japanese Embassy in Beijing. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AP China imposed new export controls on Monday (June 29, 2026) on 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to the country’s “remilitarisation” as tensions with Tokyo continue to rise. Twenty Japanese entities, including multiple divisions of Mitsubishi Corporation, have been placed on a…
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“The boards of directors of Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Limited have approved a scheme of merger for the two power sector companies,” according to an official statement issued on Monday (June 29, 2026). The merger will create a financing entity with an aggregate loan book of more than ₹11 lakh…
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The current batches of classes 7, 8, and 9 who have already taken two foreign languages would continue with the same with one additional native Indian Language (Bhartiya Bhasha), revised guidelines issued by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) said. In a circular issued in May, CBSE had stated that students in Class 9 too…
A view of the Vidhan Bhavan building in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Maharashtra legislature erupted in protests on Monday (June 29, 2026) as Opposition legislators demonstrated on the Vidhan Bhavan steps and later walked out of the House, accusing the government of total failure to prevent examination paper leaks, including the…
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Ignore a mosquito bite and the itch is ‘gone in five or 10 minutes for most people’. ‘But if you start scratching it, it’s your friend for a week.’ | Photo Credit: NIAID/Unsplash A lot of things can cause itchiness, sometimes serious diseases. Whatever the cause, doctors have long warned that scratching too much can…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: R.V.S Prasad The Department of Consumer Affairs on Monday (June 29, 2026) said it has introduced an “Improvement Notice” mechanism under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, allowing businesses to rectify first-time procedural non-compliances before facing penal action. The change has been effected through the Jan Vishwas…
The plan marks President Lee Jae Myung’s boldest push yet to align South Korea’s AI and chip ambitions with his pledge to narrow regional disparities and revive economies beyond the Seoul metropolitan area. Image for representation | Photo Credit: Reuters South Korea on Monday (June 29, 2026) laid out a sweeping industrial strategy centred on…
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Tipplers outside a house opposite a Tasmac outlet on Canal Bank Road in Adyar. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “Guests to our apartment are threatened by drunk men. Women are scared to walk past. We have even helped a woman who cried out for help when a tippler allegedly tried to harass her,” said Sekar,…
K. Sasikala | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A 32-year-old woman from a village in Tiruppur district died on Sunday (June 28, 2026) of post-partum haemorrhage and related complications after she gave birth to a baby at her home, allegedly assisted by her husband watching YouTube videos on birthing, on June 24. The police said that following complications,…
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