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Topic: Chingari

TikTok’s India rival Roposo is booming with 5 lakh users added every hour

Saritha Rai -
Two weeks after India banned TikTok, Bengaluru-based Roposo is peaking at 5 lakh new users an hour & expects to have 100 million by month’s end.

Video-sharing app Chingari, the ‘accidental’ Indian start-up that’s replacing TikTok

Sandhya Ramesh -
Chingari has hit 10 million downloads on Google Play Store in no time. But despite its similarity to TikTok, users complain about it being a ‘buggy’ app.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Mohenjo-daro city is not older than Egyptian cities. Here’s what the recent dig really shows

Disha Ahluwalia -
Recent evidence from Mohenjo Daro does not suggest that urbanisation at the site is dated to 3300 BCE. Rather, it indicates that the site is rooted in a much earlier, pre-urban phase.

India’s non-profits are in a regulatory hell—state surveillance to confiscation of assets

What’s shaping space race 2.0—minerals on Moon, human colonies, Helium-3

Economy

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

Hallie Gu -
War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Defence

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

Adurthi Ashwin Swarup -
From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

National Interest

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

Shekhar Gupta -
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.

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