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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicStar Wars

Topic: Star Wars

What the e-waste industry has learnt from Star Wars’ economic model

At a time when recycling markets are depressed, companies have shifted focus from salvaging raw materials to recovering whole gadgets and parts within them.

Disney bets on nostalgia to win back ‘Star Wars’ fans

Marketing for ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ plucks the nostalgia strings and plays up the fact that there won’t be another film for years.

Rahul Gandhi, may the farce be with you

This is all Narendra Modi’s doing. He has somehow come to define the ‘ideal politician’: he does yoga, works 19 hours a day, and eats mushrooms.

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Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

Indian drugmakers relieved but wary as US exempts pharma sector from new trade tariffs

Industry insiders say any rise in duties on Indian generics will squeeze profits for Indian companies, but will also make the drugs costlier for patients in US.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.