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PM greets people on Guru Purnima ECI Announces Bye-Election Schedule for Ranikor Assembly Constituency in Meghalaya Sindhudurg Airport nearing completion PM's address at BRICS Outreach dialogue in Johannesburg, South Africa IAS Officers of 2016 batch call on the President DEPwD takes initiative of verification audit of accessibility features in 70 Railway Stations The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, will visit Lucknow on 28th and 29th July. A three day National Conference of Vice Chancellors of Universities and Directors of Higher Education Institutions being held in New Delhi Udhampur to get Super-specialty Army Hospital: Dr Jitendra Singh Tiger numbers increasing, need to build a social Movement for Tiger Conservation: Dr. Harsh Vardhan Niti Aayog CEO Says Unequal Growth Holding India Back. Here's What He Means - BloombergQuint India Ranked Very Poorly On Human Development Index: NITI ... - NDTV Modi calls for South Asia peace in chat with Imran Khan (Lead) Substantial increase in denial of H-1B visa petitions of Indians: Report Press freedom protected under Srikrishna panel's data protection Bill This Week In China Tech: AI Disrupting Insurance Claims, China Opens Airspace For Drones And More Thailand's Supatra Dynasty - 4 Generations Of Women Running The Chao Phraya River Mark Zuckerberg's Net Worth Tumbles $18.8 Billion, More In One Day Than Ever Before Trade Deal with Europe Squeezes China, White House Says Channel - Block D - Billionaires - blog - Position 4 - John Schnatter Sues Papa John's, Backtracks Admission To Use Of Racial Slur Channel - Block D - Billionaires - blog - Position 5 - Mark Zuckerberg's Net Worth Tumbles $18.8 Billion, More In One Day Than Ever Before Channel - Block F - Industry - blog - Position 3 - Trade Deal with Europe Squeezes China, White House Says Channel - Block F - Industry - Position 3 - Charles Wallace Article Teaser Lessons from Spain’s recovery after the euro crisis Tech firms are suddenly the corporate world’s biggest investors On tyranny, populismâ€"and how best to respond today What is at stake in Zimbabwe’s election? China’s belt-and-road plans are to be welcomedâ€"and worried about more Heat is causing problems across the world WhatsApp suggests a cure for virality Has BRICS lived up to expectations? Under Donald Trump, more cops are acting as immigration-enforcement agents Australia’s Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment will merge An interview with Bjorn from ABBA Loneliness is not just a problem for the elderly Donald Trump agrees to cease fire in the trade war with the EU Imran Khan’s unsportsmanlike win in Pakistan How free expression is suppressed in Saudi Arabia Xi’s world order: July 2024 Universal lessons Breaking point: December 2020 Generation XX: January 2069 Run, TaskRabbit, run: July 2030 What if people were paid for their data? Avast, me hearties Empty sky, empty Earth? The future of food, served up right here in augmented reality What if AI made actors immortal? A different dream Hair today, gone tomorrow? “Sin†taxes on tobacco or sugar are less efficient than they look Islamic State, Israel and the Assad regime square off Labour’s anti-Semitism row contains lessons for the Tories Ryanair’s battle with its unions gets nasty An emoluments suit against Donald Trump gets the go-ahead Astronomers have found a lake on Mars Uniformity is the watchword for the new Elizabeth line Why it is difficult to regulate 3D-printed guns Charlemagne: the backlash against Airbnb Inequality is rising relatively slowly among black and Hispanic Americans Why does Japan have so much plutonium? Saddam Hussein: my part in his downfall How the Bullet Journal stopped me lying to myself Could he become the world’s best tennis player? Homer meets #MeToo Why business travel leads to vice How to use data to pick the perfect one Greek fascism is satirised in a dark comedy It’s hard to have an unusual name in China Print Edition article">MANY OF THE photos seem older than they are. In black and white, they show Spaniards wrapped in overcoats, the men with sideburns, the women with perms, voting in a referendum on a new constitution on December 6th 1978. SODANKYLA, a town in Finnish Lapland just north of the Arctic Circle, boasts an average annual temperature a little below freezing. Residents eagerly await the brief spell in July when the region enjoys something akin to summer. This year they may have wished for a bit less of it. TOBACCO was new to England in the 17th century, but even then, smoking had plenty of critics. “LONELINESS is a crowded room,†as Bryan Ferry of the band Roxy Music once warbled, adding that everyone was “all together, all aloneâ€. The open-plan office might have been designed to make his point. That is not the rationale for the layout, of course. FOR the first time since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe goes to the polls on July 30th without Robert Mugabe on the ballot. Instead the old despot’s former sidekick, who took his place after a coup last year, is bidding for legitimacy, together with Zanu-PF, the ruling party. “THIS is a pivotal moment in the history of Zionism and the state of Israel,†said Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister (pictured), in the early hours of July 19th. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, had just passed a law stating that the right of national self-determination is “unique to the Jewish peopleâ€. “SELL in May and go away,†say the denizens of Wall Street, and to the usual summer lethargy is added the excuse of a heatwave. But for those working in private equity, there is no let-up. PRIESTS, teachers and parents have for generations advised their wards to think twice before speaking, to count to ten when angry and to get a good night’s sleep before making big decisions. Social networks care little for second thoughts. DOES anyone still care about the BRICS? Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa concluded their tenth official summit in Johannesburg on July 26th. The widespread perception is that the group has failed to live up to the hype the acronym helped to generate. But that is only half true. THE meeting was supposed to last for just an hour. And yet on July 11th, a gathering convened by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in Knoxville, Tennessee dragged on for three times as long. Ever since John Fairfax took over the fledgling Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in 1841, the Fairfax name has straddled Australia’s media. After 177 years, it is to disappear. On July 26th Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment, Australia’s oldest television network, announced they would merge in a deal worth A$4.2bn ($3.1bn). Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA tells Anne McElvoy, our senior editor, about the melancholy beneath the exuberant voices and his musical influences. Would he write the same songs in the #MeToo era and which song has had its lyrics changed for a different feminist time? In the north of England in the early months of 2015, Jo Cox walked the streets of Batley and Spen, chatting to constituents about what she hoped to achieve if returned to Westminster as a member of parliament. PRESIDENT Donald Trump has not been shy about his admiration for tariffs. But on July 25th his love of deals appeared to prevail. Tweeting a picture of Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, kissing his cheek, Mr Trump heralded an advance in trade relations between America and the European Union. SOME 22 years after Imran Khan founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to break open the country’s corrupt dynastic politics, the 65-year-old former cricket star was waiting, as The Economist went to press, for official confirmation that his party had won the most seats in Pakistan’s general election. A year ago Jamal Khashoggi (pictured), a prominent journalist and past newspaper editor, left his home in Saudi Arabia for the last time. He is now in self-exile, living in Washington, DC, fearing that he will be arrested for his political views if he returns to his country. THE people of Sweida, a city in Syria’s south, near the border with Jordan, had been spared the worst of Syria’s seven-year war. But the relative calm came to a bloody end on July 25th. In one of their deadliest attacks, gunmen and suicide bombers from the Islamic State (IS) group raided targets in and around the city. IT WAS supposed to draw the row to an end. Labour’s new code of conduct on anti-Semitism was the “gold standardâ€, declared Jon Lansman, a prominent Labour activist who sits on the party board that signed off the new rules this month. RYANAIR, Europe’s largest low-cost airline is known for three things: affordable fares, a record of punctuality and the abrasive personality of its chief executive, Michael O’Leary. This summer the biggest set of strikes by pilots and cabin crew in the airline’s history puts the first two of these at riskâ€"though not the third. OF ALL his real-estate holdings, America’s president might be proudest of the Trump International Hotel (pictured), a luxury property located three-quarters of a mile from the White House. THERE is no shortage of water on Mars. Astronomers reckon that at least 5m cubic kilometres of ice is locked up beneath the planet’s dusty regolith. Whether any of it is liquid is a trickier question. THE Elizabeth line, the latest addition to the London Underground, is a feat of engineering. When it gets rolling in December, it will stretch more than 60 miles from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. IN 2013 Cody Wilson, a self-described anarchist, fired the world’s first 3D-printed handgun. It was a crude, single-shot pistol made almost entirely of plastic. He called it the Liberator (pictured) and posted the printing manual, in the form of software code, online. It was downloaded nearly 100,000 times and reposted elsewhere. TO WAKE up in an Airbnb apartment can be briefly disorientating. Where are you? The brushed steel, the exposed lightbulbs, the mid-century furnishings. The lively walls and bookshelves (a guide for hosts recommends accentuating “personality, not personal itemsâ€). NEARLY half of Americans consider income inequality to be a “very big†problem. At first glance, a report published this month by the Pew Research Centre seems to contain welcome news on this front. TEN years after the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American nuclear bombs, Japan embraced “atoms for peaceâ€, a policy of civilian nuclear power championed by Dwight Eisenhower, America’s president. NEWS OUTLETS call him “China’s Edward Snowdenâ€. His fans worldwide call him “Brother Fuâ€â€"a tag now seen on T-shirts and in internet memes. Both labels are said to mortify Fu Xuedong, the shy Canadian-educated software engineer whose allegations about Chinese cyber-spying have been the summer surprise of 2024. AS YOU WALK from classroom to classroom at Tibba Khara school on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan’s second-biggest city, the children seem to disappear. Pandemonium prevails in the first classroom, packed with five- and six-year-olds in their first year of school. IT HAD SEEMED a small thing at the time. A court ruling in Ireland in March 2018 attracted little attention in a period when an uptick in growth meant the European Union was, for once, basking in an unexpected glow of optimism. AS THE GLOBAL elite gathered this week for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, the exclusive Alpine mountain-biking resort, the picture was familiar. Rotorpods with blacked-out windows dropped off captains of industry, there to discuss the plight of the world, as they have since the 1970s. THE EMAIL that landed in Eva Smith’s mailbox at 7pm on Friday October 13th 2028 had the ominous subject line “Changesâ€. Ms Smith, a director at a private-equity firm in New York, opened it with trepidation. “DATA SLAVERY.†Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live. To get free online services, she laments, they hand over intimate information to technology firms. “Personal data are much more valuable than you think,†she says. IT IS A bright morning in the eastern Mediterranean, and a small robotic watercraft operated by Greenpeace, an environmental group, is quietly approaching two fishing boats about 160 miles north of Egypt’s coast. WAXING AND WANING from invisible new to full-beam full and back, month in and month out, the Moon is famously inconstant. But appearances deceive. Its aspect in the sky may change; the brute fact of there being 73 thousand trillion tonnes of rock orbiting at a distance of some 380,000km does not. THE WORLD will need to rethink its approach to food as the planet warms and the population grows towards an expected 9.7bn people in 2050. AUDREY HEPBURN DIED in 1993, but in 2013 she nevertheless starred in an advertisement for Galaxy, a type of chocolate bar. She was shown riding a bus along the Amalfi coast before catching the eye of a passing hunk in a convertible. WHAT IF, INSTEAD of going to Memphis in April 1968 to lead yet another march, Martin Luther King had returned home, exhausted, to Atlanta? What if he had then avoided all his other would-be assassins and lived to old age well into the 21st century? null,"rubric":"Our cartoonist, KAL, considers a truly hair-raising scenario null,"rubric": Its admirable economic progress could be hobbled by politics Apple’s new headquarters has created 13,000 new construction jobs A book excerpt and interview with Madeleine Albright, former American Secretary of State and author of “Fascism: A Warning†Robert Mugabe is no longer on the ballot. But his catastrophic legacy looms over the vote The “project of the century†may help some economies, but at a political cost In the 40 years since its democratic constitution was adopted, Spain has achieved much, but it needs an overhaul, says Michael Reid Worryingly, such weather events may not remain unusual But they do help improve public health Some workplace designs are more about cost-cutting than collaboration In the first election since a coup, the party of Robert Mugabe deserves to lose The law seems designed to upset minorities They are reshaping Wall Street’s ecosystem Other tech firms should watch and learn The bloc of big emerging economies is surprisingly good at keeping its promises A controversial scheme may be better at pleasing conservative voters than at fighting crime A television network absorbs a newspaper empire in a joint bid to survive On #MeToo and melancholia Britain’s first Minister for Loneliness cannot solve the whole problem But American farmers are already suffering the consequences of his policies The former cricket star wins an election amid widespread allegations of cheating A self-exiled journalist reflects on his country’s direction As the regime thrusts south, the jihadists retaliate and Israel guards its border Conservatives should learn how not to tackle the Islamophobia in their own party Passengers should prepare for more delays and cancellations The legal challenge focuses on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC It’s 20km across and 1.5km beneath the southern polar ice cap Britain’s Crossrail project was made possible by co-ordinated, detailed planning. That also makes it architecturally dull American lawmakers are concerned about traceability and detectability Protests will meet holidaymakers But not for reasons that should be celebrated The nuclear material at the heart of Japan’s energy policy is becoming a liability As America defies and dismantles the international rules-based order, a report from the future imagines what might replace it Their lives would be better, even if they did not learn very much After the euro crisis and Brexit, Poland and Italy could open up new fissures within the EU. A report from 2020 imagines how How the business world finally reached a milestoneâ€"and what had to change along the way Driven by technological and legal changes, how far can the “gig economy†go? Advocates of “data as labour†think users should be paid for using online services How aquatic, autonomous robots could reduce lawlessness at sea Whether complex life would still have arisen on Earth in the absence of the Moon is the subject of much debate Examine the foodstuffs that might sustain mankind in 2050, right on your kitchen table Once filmmakers have no need of human actors, expect more sequels, more lawsuitsâ€"and fewer opportunities for newcomers Fifty years on, how might things have been different? Our cartoonist, KAL, considers a truly hair-raising scenario Data workers of the world, unite Sun, sex and bomb disposal Summer's best books Putin's Russia and the ghost of the Romanovs Ramaphosa: can he deliver Mandela's dream? Steps taken by the government to promote learning of science and mathematics in schools Government launches Swachh Bharat Internship to promote involvement of students in rural cleanliness Status of Major NHs projects Promotion of Inland Water Transport Clarification of WCD Ministry on the arguments of UN experts regarding Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 Setting up of Refinery Setting up of LPG Distributors Encouraging sports including Kabaddi and Badminton 3rd BRICS Film Festival concluded with India Day About Rs.12.68 Cr funds allocated for conservation, preservation and environmental development works at the Taj Mahal in the last 3 years: Dr. Mahesh Sharma Indian students excel at the International Physics Olympiad 26 religious cities/sites in 19 States have been identified for development under PRASHAD Scheme: Shri K. J. Alphons 1, 62, 660 cruise passengers visited the country in 2017-18: Shri. K J Alphons Rs. 426.02 Crores sanctioned for Tribal and Rural Circuit under Swadesh Darshan Scheme: Shri K. J. Alphons Lok Sabha passes bill for stringent punishment in rape cases (Lead) A bill that provides for stringent punishment, including death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years, was passed by the Lok Sabha on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, whose Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has emerged as the largest party in the country's general elections last week, and called for peace and development in the South Asian neighbourhood. England Test series a test of mind & character: Rahane Cheese your way to good health Google develops AR-powered microscope for real-time cancer detection Himachal to introduce free heli-ambulance services Government frames guidelines for food festivals Immunosuppresive drugs likely to keep Parkinson’s at bay A date with the monsoon, opt for bold colours Documentation in film industry must be encouraged: Big B India to became power exporter in last four years Storm cripples power supply in parts of Rajasthan Apple Increases Support For Malala Fund to Advance Girls’ Education SC refuses freeze on Yeddy oath but battle is on Donald Trump backs Italy's Conte on migration in White House talks Kathua trial on, but perceptions have hardly changed in Jammu Kathua gang rape: Cops were put on some other duties, says supplementary charge sheet BJP MLA tells kin of lynching accused to file cow smuggling case Mamata Banerjee likely to meet Sonia Gandhi, invite her to federal front rally Don't politicise NRC, it is not right: Rajnath Singh India leaves four million off Assam citizens' list, triggers fear Government looks to pool land holding of loss-making PSUs to monetise asset NCLT allows merger of LLP, private companies Will Rashid Matter? Standard Chartered’s global head of financial crime compliance John Cusac quits Global lenders line up to finance Birla's $2.6 bn Aleris deal Govt to monetise land lying with sick PSUs H1B heartbreak for Indians as visa denial rises Here comes a Harley specially for Indians Kathua trial on, but perceptions unchanged in Jammu Kathua: Cops put on other duties, says charge sheet Alwar lynching accused innocent: BJP MLA Trump backs Conte on migration in White House talks DLF Brands to close down women’s accessories brand Claire’s in India The move spotlights the increasing role of global lenders in raising cash for outbound M&As by Indian cos. Department of public enterprises (DPE) is making a cabinet note on loss-making firms and their assets. Data analysed over the years show USCIS adjudicators deny more applications and issue a higher rate of Requests for Evidence for Indians on both H-1B and L-1 petitions. Faircent The company has filed for Chapter 11 in the US and that is the reason we are closing the stores, said Timmy Sarna, chief executive of DLF Br... Ad: Career Times MH370 investigators say controls were likely deliberately manipulated Karunanidhi continues to be under constant medical attention AP FACT CHECK: Collusion not a crime? Not exactly the point. Higher fuel cost chips away at IndiGo's profit, down 97% YoY The attack by Houthis on Saudi oil tankers poses a threat to shipping in Red sea's Bab al-Mandeb strait. Instead of searching for the girl who was later found raped and murdered, the policemen were “deputed for some other dutiesâ€, the J&K Crime Branch said in the document filed on Monday. The three arrested persons in the Rakbar case are all innocent and nationalists. I met their families and have assured them that I will back them till they walk out of jail, said the MLA. Trump said at the start of his meeting with Italy's Giuseppe Conte that the country's new populist government ``has taken a very firm stance on the border. AP FACT CHECK: Collusion not a crime? Not exactly the point. WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Donald Trump denies any "collusion" with the Russians, while his lawyer Rudy Giuliani says it's not even a crime. Case closed? Not exactly. Giuliani is right that the term "collusion" isn't a precise one when it comes to U.S. law. Global lenders line up to finance Birla's $2.6 bn Aleris dealThe move spotlights the increasing role of global lenders in raising cash for outbound M&As by Indian cos. Govt to monetise land lying with sick PSUsA senior government official said a cabinet note is being prepared by department of public enterprises (DPE) on status of loss-making firms, their assets and closure approvals. H1B heartbreak for Indians as visa denial risesData analysed over the years show USCIS adjudicators deny more applications and issue a higher rate of Requests for Evidence for Indians on both H-1B and L-1 petitions. Kathua trial on, but perceptions unchanged in JammuHere, Jammu represents Hindus who the locals believe have fallen victim to a conspiracy conceived in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Kathua: Cops put on other duties, says charge sheetInstead of searching for the girl who was later found raped and murdered, the policemen were “deputed for some other dutiesâ€, the J&K Crime Branch said in the document filed on Monday. Alwar lynching accused innocent: BJP MLAThe three arrested persons in the Rakbar case are all innocent and nationalists. I met their families and have assured them that I will back them till they walk out of jail, said the MLA. Donald Trump backs Italy's Conte on migration in White House talks Trump said at the start of his meeting with Italy's Giuseppe Conte that the country's new populist government ``has taken a very firm stance on the border. Kathua trial on, but perceptions have hardly changed in Jammu Here, Jammu represents Hindus who the locals believe have fallen victim to a conspiracy conceived in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Kathua gang rape: Cops were put on some other duties, says supplementary charge sheet Instead of searching for the girl who was later found raped and murdered, the policemen were “deputed for some other dutiesâ€, the J&K Crime Branch said in the document filed on Monday. BJP MLA tells kin of lynching accused to file cow smuggling case The three arrested persons in the Rakbar case are all innocent and nationalists. I met their families and have assured them that I will back them till they walk out of jail, said the MLA. IED attack kills one person in Iraq's Baghdad Leadership of Colombia’s largest cartel likely to accept Surrender Law terms, reducing disruption through ‘armed strike’ stoppages TERRORISM & INSURGENCY ONE person was killed and two others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced under a vehicle by unidentified militants, detonated on the Al-Mashtal bridge east of Iraq's capital Baghdad on 26 July, Iraqi News reported. The vehicle's driver was wounded in the attack. No group COUNTRY RISK IED attack kills one person in Iraqs Baghdad ONE person was killed and two others were wounded when an improvised explosive device IED emplaced under a vehicle by unidentified militants detonated on the AlMashtal bridge east of Iraqs capital Baghdad on 26 July Iraqi News reported The vehicles driver was wounded in the attack No group TERRORISM INSURGENCY documentreadyfunction Leadership of Colombia’s largest cartel likely to accept Surrender Law terms reducing disruption through ‘armed strike’ stoppages On 25 June Haftar handed over the control of Ras Lanuf and esSider oil ports to the eastern National Oil Corporation NOC which reports to the easternbased government which is not recognised internationally In response the Tripolibased NOC declared force majeure on loadings from County chiefs blame cramped India vs England schedule for slow ticket sales Jeremy Hunt and his wife Lucia A woman holds up a draft list of the National Citizen's Register in Assam The programme secretly targets people who exhibit odd behaviour such as excessive sweating. A new register of citizens excludes people who cannot prove they came to Assam state before 1971. Jeremy Hunt makes wife nationality gaffe India strips four million of citizenship PM shares vision of peace: Imran's party claims Modi ready to enter 'new era' of ties Trinamool delegation to visit Assam on NRC row from August 2 Awami league Mayoral candidates take lead in 3 cities in Bangladesh Soon retired jawans at unmanned railway crossings Attack on BJP worker in Sultanpur: One arrested Maratha Kranti Morcha gives ultimatum to Mah Govt on their demands ECB announced England's greatest ever Test side India A and U19s doing well is a reflection of our strong system: WV Raman
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