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Opinion: 'The US influence on the Philippines regarding the South China Sea issue is a matter of considerable discussion in China. The Chinese MFA accused the US of destabilising the region by supporting the Philippines.'

Sana Hashmi, fellow at Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, writes in ThePrint #EyeOnChina

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Beijing is now involved in new hotspot in South China Sea. ‘White-eyed wolf’ is the threat

China is accusing the Philippines of actions similar to its own decade-long strategy in the South China Sea—constructing artificial islands and militarising the disputed sea.

While ISRO builds satellites and probes to launch into space, Physical Research Laboratory’s scientists, under India’s Department of Space, study the data from these missions to understand bodies within and beyond our solar system.

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Mount Abu observatory is India’s eye in the sky. It’s hunting for Earth’s distant cousins

Mount Abu Infrared Observatory has already discovered 4 planets outside the solar system. Now it’s using cutting-edge PARAS-2 spectrograph to search for planets similar to Earth.

In a house of 230 MLAs, Madhya Pradesh has the capacity of 34 ministers. According to a senior state government official, the government paid Rs 79.07 lakh towards Income tax of its ministers in 2023-24, whereas the figure for the past five years cumulatively stood at Rs 3.17 crore. This amount will now be paid by ministers themselves.

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MP ministers will now pay their own income tax, 1972 rule putting onus on state govt struck down

Madhya Pradesh government paid Rs 79.07 lakh towards income tax of its ministers in 2023-24, it is learnt, and figure for the past five years cumulatively stood at Rs 3.17 crore.

While Manmohan Singh’s second term did not see the disastrous economic crises of the Weimar republic’s final five years, it presided over a fall in growth and a rise in inequality. Singh’s efforts to give substance to Indian federalism left his administration vulnerable to inimical state administrations, while Weimar’s federal constitution yielded provincial revolts against republican administrations.

Read this excerpt from Radha Kumar's 'The Republic Relearnt: Renewing Indian Democracy 1947-2024’

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Why Manmohan Singh’s India was similar to the failing Weimar Republic

In 'The Republic Relearnt', Radha Kumar explores parallels between Manmohan Singh's India and the Weimar Republic of 1920s Germany.

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An analysis of interim and full budgets since 2004-05 shows that total expenditure budgeted by the government changed only marginally, and that the divergence between interim and final amounts has decreased over the years.

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Not enough time left, same fiscal constraints — why July budget maths will be similar to February’s

Leaving interim budget largely unchanged would be in keeping with trend since 2004-05. Even when new parties have come to power, budgetary allocations have not changed substantially.

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During Covid-19, ed-tech saw a huge boom, and many startups made big profits wooing the young sitting at home. But as soon as the pandemic was over, the lure of offline coaching was back.

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Byju’s, StudyIQ, UPSC Wallah made millions online. Now they are all in concrete classrooms

These online institutes now entering the offline space charge around Rs 1 lakh for GS course; established offline players such as Vision IAS and Drishti IAS charge Rs 2-2.5 lakh.

Opinion: 'We’d all agree that debates which analyse the BJP leadership — and dare to even raise an eyebrow at PM Modi’s style of politics — is a 10-year wonder.'

Shailaja Bajpai writes in her column #Telescope for ThePrint

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TV news dares to ‘debate’ Modi-BJP leadership after Bhagwat comment—a small change on the air

When RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat commented on the Opposition not being an enemy and called for its perspectives to be respected, he could have been addressing the media as much as the politicians.