Your Weekly Fix
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‘Justice Hari Shankar’s defence of the marital rape exception upholds rape culture’
The judge who endorsed the exception that protects men from prosecution has mocked a married woman’s experience of being raped, says feminist Kavita Krishnan.
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Explained: What is happening in Sri Lanka?
There is no viable solution involving the current president, an interim government under him will lack legitimacy, says constitutional expert Gehan Gunatilleke.
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Heatwave: Experts’ forecasts of extreme weather if emissions aren’t curtailed are now playing out
The developed world has put very little on the table, not enough to stop catastrophic global warming, says environment journalist Bahar Dutt.
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Trending
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Does US have evidence of aliens visiting us on Earth?
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Watch: Madhuri Dixit does the viral ‘My Money Don’t Jiggle Jiggle’ dance trend on Instagram
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Caste threads are spawning deadly conflicts in Tamil Nadu schools
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Gunman kills 19 children, two adults in Texas school
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Yasin Malik gets life imprisonment in terror funding case
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‘Government’s focus on skilling, start-ups, to tackle unemployment, is like applying a Band-Aid’
The country needs aggressive investments, without which we will make little progress, says Mahesh Vyas, CEO of the Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy.
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‘This isn’t about encroachments – it’s about humiliating and economically harming a community’
Wide range of civil remedies available, demolition isn’t the first resort to deal with encroachments, say lawyers Nikita Sonavane and Mrinalini Ravindranath.
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“It is pragmatic, morally defensible for India to buy crude oil from Russia at a ‘discounted’ price”
It is the same energy security imperative that drove Europe’s decision to continue buying crude from Russia, says Vikram Mehta, former chairman, Shell India.
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Video
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‘We will stop you!’: Activists sing to disrupt oil company Shell’s annual general meeting in London
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Watch: New York City removes its last public telephone booth, an era comes to an end
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Watch: Volcano Mount Etna erupts, spewing lava into the sky and down the mountain
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Watch: Texas lawmaker suggests arming teachers, police presence in schools to prevent shootings
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‘Manchester United are rubbish’: BBC trainee learning how to write ticker text makes it to live TV
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Podcast: Have Mandal parties been marginalised by the BJP?
Post poll data from Uttar Pradesh shows that while the BJP consolidated its upper caste base, the party saw an increase of 4% vote share among other OBCs.
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‘Russia is not North Korea or Iran. Implications of sanctions on global economy won’t be marginal’
Sanctions will deliver a crippling blow to Russia, will have a chilling effect, says Ambassador Mohan Kumar, former India lead negotiator at the WTO.
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Ukraine crisis: ‘India needs Russia to prevent the rise of a belligerent, hegemonic China’
New Delhi’s position is not solely influenced by its reliance on Russian arms, says Nandan Unnikrishnan, Eurasia expert at the Observer Research Foundation.
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The Reel
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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ trailer: Christian Bale joins Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman
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‘Zollywood’ trailer: Marathi film about Vidarbha’s theatre scene is coming soon to cinemas
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Watch: Teaser of new ‘Mission: Impossible’ film ‘Dead Reckoning Part One’ is out
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The highs and highs of Jatin-Lalit’s Hindi film soundtracks
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31 children died by suicide every day in the first year of the pandemic. Nobody is talking about it.
A new book, Life Interrupted, hopes to break the silence around the suicide crisis. It urges policymakers to look beyond mental health interventions.
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Punjab elections: ‘Outcome may not be in conformity with opinion polls that put AAP in the lead’
The ground reality in Punjab is much more complex this election, says Pramod Kumar, director of the Institute for Development and Communication in Chandigarh.
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Podcast: Karnataka hijab ban is an abuse of power but Muslims must not ignore urgent need for reform
We are always told, seeking reform in personal law plays into the hands of BJP, says feminist Noorjehan Niaz. When will the time be right?
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The Field
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IPL 2022 Eliminator, LSG vs RCB live updates: Lucknow Super Giants face Royal Challengers Bangalore
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Cricket: India to face England, Australia away as ICC announces match-ups for Women’s Championship
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Indian football: Sethu FC take on defending champions Gokulam Kerala in IWL final
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‘Devasted doesn’t begin to describe it’: Steve Kerr, LeBron James react to Texas school shooting
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Football: Chelsea sale gets approval from UK government