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Robert Moreno. File | Photo Credit: Reuters South Korea’s underfire football association on Tuesday (August 1, 2026) appointed former Spain boss Robert Moreno as interim coach, following a disastrous World Cup and series of damaging controversies. Also read | Africa bests Asia in reaching the knockout stage Moreno, who was forced to deny earlier this…
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In the heart of the Western Ghats lies a rare conglomeration of freshwater swamps, restricted to a patch in Kulathupuzha, Kerala: it consists of plants with pneumatophores (aerial roots that grow vertically out of water) and stilt roots adapted to waterlogged conditions and they support a plethora of fauna. They are ecologically crucial in regulating…
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(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.) After Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed, the Jewish nation launched an immediate retaliatory war on Gaza. Its leaders vowed to…
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T.J. Marce during his Mount Elbrus expedition in August 2026. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT For T.J. Marce, ageing has been less about slowing down and more about reaching new heights. The septuagenarian from Wayanad in Keralam has scaled two of the peaks in the Seven Summits in less than a year, adding a new…
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Residents queue up at an LPG gas agency in Shaikpet with empty cylinders for e-KYC verification after receiving messages that their scheduled deliveries had been cancelled. File | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal A software update for cooking gas agencies on non-eKYC stocks and a communication late evening pushing back the August 31 deadline till September…
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The latest hike follows two recurrent tranches wherein prices had cumulatively declined by about ₹380 per cylinder across two tranches. | Photo Credit: J. Allen Egenuse Reversing course after two months of decline, prices of the commercial variant of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder were hiked by approximately ₹10 for every cylinder across the country…
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In March 2026, IIT Kharagpur—the oldest Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) that has been training thousands of minds to design bridges, cars, and computer chips for the last 75 years did something unprecedented. It formally applied to the National Medical Commission (NMC) to offer a postgraduate medical degree, the Doctor of Medicine (MD). (Sign up…
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U.S. Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation, the White House confirmed on Monday (August 31, 2026) , following reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Asked about a Wall Street Journal report that Mr. Driscoll had resigned, White House Principal…
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A jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, finally bringing a measure of resolution to a case that had gripped hip-hop fans and lingered in the public imagination for decades. The 63-year-old Davis was convicted on Monday (August 31, 2026) of a single count of…
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Image for representation only | Photo Credit: J. Allen Egenuse At least 2.08 crore voters, or 21.14% of Maharashtra’s pre-Special Intensive Revision electorate, have not been included in the draft electoral roll published on Monday (August 31) following the SIR exercise across all 288 Assembly constituencies in the State. Of the 9.78 crore voters on…