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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicWater pollution

Topic: water pollution

New study shows hundreds of sharks and rays entangled in discarded fishing nets, ropes

Mohana Basu -
Scientists say direct threat posed by over-fishing of sharks and rays has brought the menace of plastic entanglements under the radar.

West Bengal had India’s first arsenic poisoning case, 35 years on little has changed

Malavika Vyawahare -
Almost 70% of West Bengal’s districts report arsenic levels above the permissible limit of 10 µg/L but despite this, viable solutions remain elusive.  

This Kanpur village drinks neon green water & lives near a toxic waste dump as big as CP

Malavika Vyawahare -
The groundwater in Khan Chandpur and surrounding villages is contaminated with a carcinogenic heavy metal, thanks to 45,000 tonnes of toxic waste dumped nearby.

These giant machines are removing all the plastic choking India’s water bodies

Sandhya Ramesh -
The firms that deploy them work with municipalities, and the irrigation and water resource departments, and often provide end-to-end service.

Two MoUs signed 2 years apart, but there’s still no Yamuna sewage treatment plant in sight

Kaveesha Kohli -
The agreement involves the construction of a plant that has the capacity to treat 20 million litres of sewage per day for further use at a refinery.
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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Johan Jose -
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Economy

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

Tejas Bhatotia -
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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