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Modi-Gupkar meeting was a four-part game. Delhi has upper hand in three rounds

Tara Kartha -
An echo of Vajpayee’s own reach-out to Kashmiri leaders, Modi's 'Dilli ki duri and Dil ki duri’ will require trust.
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China’s invasion of Taiwan will be a disaster for Asia. India must draw a red line

Rajesh Rajagopalan -
India’s voice alone is not going to change Xi Jinping’s mind on Taiwan, but it can complicate his calculations.
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Global spread of Delta variant shows ‘no one is safe until everyone is safe’ from Covid

Mohamed A. El-Erian -
Delta variant is yet another example that the pandemic won't end suddenly. Developed nations need to assist poorer countries to improve everyone’s durable protection against Covid.
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India playing the Taliban move won’t checkmate Pakistan

Ayesha Siddiqa -
New Delhi’s shift is more about India feeling that it has come of strategic age and less about beefing up its security.
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How palm oil became the world’s most hated and most used fat source

Jonathan E. Robins -
Palm oil is in everything — from cosmetics to food. Today there are enough oil palm plantations worldwide to cover an area larger than Kansas.
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Some people see more vivid mental images than others – test yourself here

Reshanne Reeder -
You see the world as continuous and dynamic, thanks to your brain’s sophisticated ability to fill in the blanks.
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Don’t rush to cancel wokes in McCarthyist panic. Keep 5 things in mind

Rama Lakshmi -
Wokes have been called illiberal, online lynch mobs, an intolerant new religion and 'souped-up' Communists.
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A new language is here, and almost everyone in the world knows it ?

Rachel John -
Emojis have ended up in court cases, fatwas, good-morning messages, White House reports and more. And by 2022, we’ll have over 3,400 of them.
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Muzaffarpur to Mexico City — Lockdowns reduced urban crime by over a third around the globe

Amy Nivette -
This hibernation of crime in public spaces was relatively short lived. Crime levels started to creep up again a few weeks after lockdowns began.
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Global herd immunity remains out of reach– 99% of people in poor countries are unvaccinated

Maria De Jesus -
Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the Covid-19 pandemic.
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BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

+TFP Yogendra Yadav -
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Rajkummar Rao must keep his chin up. Questions will be asked and he’s no victim

DD News anchor calls Congress wealth survey ‘communist ideology’. It’s following BJP’s lead

Economy

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

Bharath Rajeswaran -
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Defence

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Smruti Deshpande -
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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