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4 days, 6 hours ago

Climate change in 2025: An era of record heat and rising disasters

Hello and welcome to the first edition of 2025 of Climate Change And You. Climate Change Tracker View Full Image In 2024, extreme weather catastrophes like the Wayanad landslides were a result of climate change. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed on 10 January that 2024 indeed was the hottest year ever recorded, with the average global temperature …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

15 awesome stories you shouldn’t miss

Live Mint

New Delhi: Earlier this year, Varun Sood, Mint’s writer in Bengaluru, reviewed over 3,000 filings from the last 17 years to piece together a narrative on Quant Mutual Fund. And Sayantan Bera, our ace agri reporter, braved north India’s heat wave in June to arrive at a farm in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, to report on India’s mango exports. The curious …

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COP29 and the climate crisis: Navigating a world with Trump back in charge

Live Mint

To subscribe to this fortnightly newsletter and get it in your inbox, Dear reader, Welcome to the first issue of Mint’s newsletter on the climate crisis: Climate Change And You. He writes that unless countries act now, global GDP may decline by 10% due to climate impacts, and India may lose 5.8% of working hours and 34 million jobs due …

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2 years ago

National Chess Championship: Karthik claims title as Abhijeet draws against Sayantan

The Hindu

After Abhijeet Gupta’s five-hour search for a win ended in a draw against Sayantan Das, overnight leader Karthik Venkataraman became the National chess champion at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here on Tuesday. He topped a four-way tie at 9.5 points to finish runner-up Karthik, winner of the 2018 National junior title at the same venue, collected the winner’s share of …

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2 years ago

National Chess Championship: Karthik snatches sole lead before the final round

The Hindu

A second successive top-board victory with the dark pieces brightened Karthik Venkataraman’s prospects of winning the National chess title here on Tuesday. A day after upstaging Abhijeet Gupta in an unusual finish, Karthik benefited from a dubious rook-for-knight trade-off by country’s latest Grandmaster Koustav Chatterjee on Monday and won in 35 moves. On a day when the top-four boards saw …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Netflix's Ray Makers Say They'll Ensure Next Part Has Woman Director: We'd Approached Meghna, Gauri

News 18

Netflix’s anthology series Ray, based on legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s four stories, recently debuted on the streamer and has evoked mixed reactions from viewers. The anthology released in Ray’s centenary year consists of Srijit Mukherji’s ‘Forget Me Not’ and ‘Bahrupiya,’ Abhishek Chaubey’s ‘Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa’ and Vasan Bala’s ‘Spotlight’. We didn’t think like that.” Ajit Andhare, who is the …

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3 years, 8 months ago

EC showcauses BJP leader Sayantan Basu for his comment on Sitalkuchi incident

India Today

The Election Commission has issued a showcause notice to BJP leader Sayantan Basu for his comment in connection to the Sitalkuchi incident. Sources claimed the EC received a complaint, which alleged that BJP leader Sayantan Basu delivered an “inflammatory statement”--- which is an open threat to Bengal and its people --- while addressing a public rally in Baranagar. After verifying …

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3 years, 9 months ago

EC threatening police through arbitrary transfers at BJP's behest, claims TMC candidate and ex-top cop Humayun Kabir

Firstpost

A woman in her late 80s, sitting on a stool, used her off-white pallu to rub sweat from her forehead. This scene is hardly out of the ordinary for ex-IPS officer Humayun Kabir, a Bengal top cop turned politician and now the TMC candidate from the Debra constituency of West Medinipur. Image courtesy Sayantan Ghosh “The ground reality is that …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Myntra Changed its 'Offensive Logo' After Complaint And Started a Meme Fest on Twitter

News 18

Myntra, the e-commerce brand, announced its decision to tweak its logo after a formal complaint claimed that it was offensive and resembled a naked woman. READ: Myntra to Change ‘Offensive’ Logo Following Complaint from Women’s Rights Activist Rashmi Karandikar, DCP, Cyber Crime Department of Mumbai police, told Jagran English that the logo was found to be offensive in nature. pic.twitter.com/lJa43o9gsu— …

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5 years, 4 months ago

BJP's Sayantan Basu accuses Mamata Banerjee of 'speaking language of Pakistan PM' on Kashmir, appeasing minorities