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India Asian Games 2026: 503 Athletes Take the Fight to Aichi-Nagoya • Why India Must Build Its Own Global Technology Companies • Can ₹20 Lakh Fund a Degree Abroad? Costs for Indian Students • International Migrants Day: The Human Cost of Migration • COP31: How the Indian Diaspora Can Support Climate Action • Jodhpur RIFF 2026: Rajasthan’s Folk Music Meets the World • Karishma Swali: How Indian Craft Is Finding a New Language • Satish Gujral: The Indian Artist Who Refused One Medium •
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Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt - The Guardian

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Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend - The Guardian

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Latest OTT And Theatrical Releases This Week: Gajab Raat, Udta Teer, Little Thomas And More - Outlook India

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Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt - The Guardian

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China issues guideline to boost financial support for international sci-tech innovation centers - 巴士的報

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Diriba breaks course record, Berhanu threatens mark at Amsterdam Marathon - worldathletics.org

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Earth Is Constantly Changing

Earth’s surface, atmosphere and ecosystems are continuously changing through natural and human-driven processes.

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The Deep Ocean Remains Difficult to Explore

Extreme pressure, darkness and difficult access make deep-ocean exploration one of science’s major challenges.

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WORLD RECORD

Human Performance Continues to Push Limits

Athletes, scientists, engineers and explorers continue to establish new benchmarks in many fields.

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FOOD

Food Often Tells the Story of a Region

Ingredients, climate, migration and local traditions all influence the foods associated with different places.

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TRAVEL

Some Cities Have Remarkable Geographic Identities

Cities shaped by mountains, rivers, coastlines or multiple cultural regions often develop distinctive identities.

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SCIENCE

Scientific Knowledge Changes With Evidence

Scientific explanations are refined when new observations and stronger evidence become available.

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ANIMALS

Elephants Maintain Strong Social Bonds

Elephants live in social groups and use vocalisations, touch and body movements to communicate.

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Trade Routes Shaped Civilisations

Long-distance trade carried not only goods but also languages, technologies, ideas and cultural traditions.

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HIP Video Promo Presents: The Dead Daisies release brand new music video "Lift Me Up" - Bergen Record

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Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend - The Guardian

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Latest OTT And Theatrical Releases This Week: Gajab Raat, Udta Teer, Little Thomas And More - Outlook India

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Rakesh Gangwal’s 400 Crore IIT Kanpur Medical School Commitment
October 17, 2026

Rakesh Gangwal’s 400 Crore IIT Kanpur Medical School Commitment

Rakesh Gangwal’s ₹400 Crore IIT Kanpur Commitment: How an Indian-American Entrepreneur Is Investing in India’s Next Generation of MedTech IndiGo co-founder and IIT Kanpur alumnus Rakesh Gangwal has committed a total of ₹400 crore to his alma mater’s medical school, including a new ₹300-crore matching-grant pledge. The initiative offers a revealing example of how successful Indians who built careers abroad are helping create technology-driven institutions in India. From an Indian engineering campus to global aviation When Rakesh Gangwal graduated from IIT Kanpur with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1975, the institution was already establishing itself as one of India’s leading centres for science and engineering. Nearly five decades later, Gangwal is helping expand that engineering legacy into a completely different domain: medicine. On August 24, 2026, IIT Kanpur announced that Gangwal had committed another ₹300 crore toward the development of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology (GSMST). The new commitment comes on top of the ₹100 crore he donated in 2022, taking his contribution to the project to ₹400 crore. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur The latest commitment is particularly significant because it is structured as a matching grant. Gangwal will match contributions from other supporters up

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IISc: How India’s Premier Science Institute Is Building the Future
September 19, 2026

IISc: How India’s Premier Science Institute Is Building the Future

IISc: Where India’s Scientific Ambition Becomes Research, Technology and Innovation In Bengaluru, there is a university campus where the trees are old, the laboratories are serious and the homework can occasionally involve problems that do not have answers at the back of the textbook. That institution is the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Founded in […]

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Explore how Amity University has evolved from 2005
September 19, 2026

Explore how Amity University has evolved from 2005

Amity University: From a Noida Campus to a Research, Skills and Global Education Network There was a time when choosing a university largely meant asking three questions: What course? What campus? What job after graduation? Today, the question is considerably bigger: What can a university actually help a student become? That question is particularly relevant […]

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India’s Universities at a New Crossroads
September 19, 2026

India’s Universities at a New Crossroads

AI Innovation Meets a Governance Test India’s universities are being asked to do two very different things at the same time. They must prepare students for a world being transformed by artificial intelligence, advanced technology and rapidly changing employment patterns. At the same time, institutions — particularly private universities — are facing sharper questions about […]

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India Asian Games 2026: 503 Athletes Take the Fight to Aichi-Nagoya
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India Asian Games 2026: 503 Athletes Take the Fight to Aichi-Nagoya

India at Asian Games 2026: A Record-Sized Team Carries the Momentum of Hangzhou to Japan The next chapter of India’s Asian sporting story begins in Japan. The 20th Asian Games, Aichi-Nagoya 2026, officially open on September 19 and run through October 4, bringing together athletes from across the continent in one of the biggest multi-sport competitions before the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. For India, there is an additional layer of significance. The country is arriving after its greatest Asian Games performance ever. At Hangzhou, India won 107 medals — 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze — and finished fourth in the overall standings. Now comes the difficult part of sport: Doing it again. India sends 503 athletes to Japan India’s final delegation has grown to 503 athletes — 269 men and 234 women — according to the Olympic Council of Asia’s September update. More than 300 members of the athlete contingent are making their Asian Games debut, according to India’s Sports Ministry’s send-off information. That is more than just a number. It indicates both experience and renewal. There are established Olympic and Asian Games medallists heading to Japan, but alongside them is a substantial group entering the continental

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Why India Must Build Its Own Global Technology Companies
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India Must Build Its Own Tech Giants: From Digital Dependence to Technological Power India has the engineers, entrepreneurs, digital infrastructure and market scale to create globally competitive technology companies. But building credible alternatives to X, Instagram, WhatsApp, AWS and ChatGPT will take more than patriotic ambition. It requires sustained research investment, reliable infrastructure, user trust, original intellectual property and a strategy that prioritises genuine technological capability over copying foreign products. Imagine an Indian business launching a new social network, a cloud platform or an artificial intelligence assistant. Its technology works, its interface is polished and its engineers are talented. Yet customers hesitate to switch because their friends, colleagues, business software and digital workflows already depend on established global platforms. This is the central challenge facing India’s ambition to build its own technology giants. Developing software is difficult; creating a product that millions of people trust, businesses depend on and international customers are willing to pay for is harder still. India has become a major market for global digital services and a significant provider of software talent. It has also demonstrated that large-scale digital infrastructure can be built for Indian needs. The next strategic question is whether the country can turn

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Can ₹20 Lakh Fund a Degree Abroad? Costs for Indian Students
October 21, 2026

Can ₹20 Lakh Fund a Degree Abroad? Costs for Indian Students

The New Cost Calculus for Indian Students For Indian families, studying abroad is becoming a more careful financial decision—not simply a route to an overseas job or permanent residency. A ₹20-lakh budget can work for some programmes, but the country, course length, tuition rules, city and funding plan matter far more than a headline estimate. Germany, France, Malaysia and Poland offer different possibilities, while hidden costs and changing policies can quickly stretch a limited budget. The ₹20-lakh question: affordable degree or incomplete budget? For many Indian households, overseas education has long represented a combination of academic advancement, international exposure and the possibility of building a life abroad. But that calculation is changing. Tuition, accommodation, insurance and everyday expenses can make the total cost substantially higher than the figure advertised by a university or education agent. At the same time, a degree abroad does not automatically guarantee a job, a work visa or permanent residence. That makes one question increasingly important for families planning their finances: what does ₹20 lakh actually buy? The answer depends on whether the amount is intended to cover one academic year, a one-year postgraduate programme or an entire multi-year degree. It also depends on whether the

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International Migrants Day: The Human Cost of Migration
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The Contributions, Sacrifices and Untold Costs of Migration Indian migrants help staff hospitals, build cities, power businesses and connect cultures across borders. Their work supports families and economies, but the rewards of migration are not shared evenly. From recruitment debt in the Gulf to the strain of raising children across continents and the uncertainty of long immigration queues, the human cost can remain hidden behind the success story. International Migrants Day is a chance to look at both sides of that equation. A global contribution built one journey at a time On 18 December, International Migrants Day recognises migrants’ contributions and calls attention to their rights and well-being. The United Nations established the observance in 2000, reflecting the growing importance of migration and the need for international cooperation to protect people who move across borders. For Indian families, migration can be a route to better wages, education, security and opportunity. For destination countries, migrant workers contribute skills, labour, entrepreneurship and cultural knowledge. But “migration” is not one experience. A construction worker recruited for a Gulf project, a nurse joining the UK health service, a software engineer in California and a child born into a diaspora household encounter very different opportunities

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India’s Universities at a New Crossroads

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