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17 days, 14 demands. How Pune tribal students made Maharashtra listen

A stage with Rahul Gandhi, a 17-day hunger strike, three snakebite deaths, and a 14-point charter turned a Pune hostel protest into Maharashtra’s biggest tribal student movement in years.

Bengaluru startup builds India’s 1st private nuclear fusion tokamak. Next step is a reactor

Bengaluru startup Pranos’s tokamak PRAGYA is a ‘test bed’ for the real goal—a full-scale nuclear fusion reactor for clean energy by 2030.

Harish Rana’s eyes now belong to someone else after euthanasia. His parents long to meet them

Five months ago, Nirmala and her husband Ashok Rana said goodbye to their son Harish, after the Supreme Court permitted them to stop his life-sustaining treatment, allowing passive euthanasia.

No sirens, just scrambling. The uneven reality of Nepal’s early warning systems

Speaking to ThePrint, eyewitnesses across Rasuwa and Nuwakot say they got seconds to run uphill, with many receiving no siren, SMS or public alert before the deluge.

AI is creating lakhs of low-paying jobs in Gurugram, Noida. It is India’s new BPO

An invisible workforce is getting the world ready for AI dominance. Their job is to teach AI how to identify – a cat’s face, a pedestrian crossing a road, a drone carrying a parcel, or anything under the sun.

6 scientists, 120 research papers, 1 big bet—this IISc startup aims to put India on GaN map

For Agnit founders, the goal is clear–in the next five years, build a globally relevant product, which specialises in the design and manufacturing of GaN-powered semiconductors.

Gurugram’s trash has outlasted every firm hired to clear it—Ecogreen to new stopgap vendors

Gurugram’s garbage mess was long blamed on MCG vendor Ecogreen. Two years after its exit, there’s still no replacement and old problems have stuck on—‘government has run away’.

The Indian village vanished from Bollywood plots. Now they are back on OTT

From Gram Chikitsalay to Panchayat, more and more OTT shows have been painting the picture of a village life.

Rasagna Dharmana is making beer a woman’s world—Andhra’s first microbrewery to Goa factory

Rasagna Rao Dharmana is the first woman to set up a microbrewery and run a commercial beer-making unit in India. Now she’s launched India’s first corn lager Thala—‘Vijay Mallya inspired me’

336 beds, no patients. Why Delhi’s Sarita Vihar hospital remains shut

A CAG audit points to a wider failure in Delhi’s public-health planning: land lies unused, hospitals run years behind schedule and promised beds remain stuck on paper.

On Camera

PM Modi must revisit his 2013 SRCC speech. The glass is half empty, not half full

PM Modi sounded bitter and frustrated at SRCC on Saturday. He did wear a smile as he played to the gallery. The tone, however, changed drastically once he started giving his ‘report card’ since his last visit.

India’s key money market gets unusually quiet at the start of trade

Typically, a lot of transactions happen in the first hour as lenders borrow funds to meet regulatory requirements and cover short-term cash shortages.

Overhaul of Sukhois, software defined radios, new helicopters among Rs 1.1 lakh cr projects cleared

Overhaul process does not involve any addition of abilities & is very different from an upgrade. Clearances were given by Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

20% ethanol, 80% anger: BJP’s core voter is furious and looking for answers

While EBP may be a great idea, it needed 3-4 years of preparation. Now, with the festive season upon us, we have surging prices and a sugar shortage. To top it off, we’re bleeding foreign exchange.