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20/10/2025

Among the changes proposed in the UCC, the state has addressed concerns surrounding privacy by culling Aadhaar-based authentication.

Among the changes proposed, the government has addressed concerns surrounding privacy by culling Aadhaar-based authentication and the registrar’s authority to inform parents or legal guardians of live-in registrants under the age of 21.

20/10/2025

A 'digital arrest' scam usually begins with a phone or video call from someone posing as a government official. Once the conversation starts, the caller builds credibility.
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-law/sc-digital-arrest-case-the-problem-10317468/

20/10/2025

Green crackers release fewer toxic particles, but the chemistry behind the sparkle is not entirely clean. Here's how green crackers work, where they succeed, and what needs improvement.
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sci-tech/green-crackers-iit-bombay-expert-explains-science-10316151/

20/10/2025

Israeli strikes have returned to Gaza less than a week after ceasefire was declared. What led to this, and what has happened in Gaza in the past week?

Israeli strikes have returned to Gaza less than a week after ceasefire was declared. What led to this, and what has happened in Gaza in the past week?

20/10/2025

The coming months could see a shift in the government’s policy focus, from an excessively pro-consumer approach to one that is more pro-farmer. These may take the form of restoring import duties.

Till last year, reining in food inflation was a top policy priority. But now, with a glut situation and most crops – from soyabean, maize and cotton to millets and pulses – selling well below minimum support prices, the focus may shift from the consumer to farmer.

20/10/2025

The government has rapidly increased its expenditure on creating physical infrastructure and brought in several policies to boost consumption. Yet, private sector investments into the economy are lagging. Why, and why is this a problem?

The government has rapidly increased its expenditure on creating physical infrastructure and brought in several policies to boost consumption. Yet, private sector investments into the economy are lagging

19/10/2025

Andrew has scaled back his public engagements since 2019. In 2021, Virginia Giuffre sued him, saying that the American financier Jeffrey Epstein arranged sexual encounters with the prince starting when she was 17.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-giuffre-book-allegations-10316557/

19/10/2025

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, detail the continued US-China tensions, an update on purges of top PLA leaders, and more.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/china-this-week-scott-bessent-he-lifeng-pla-ashley-tellis-10316376

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, we discuss continued US-China tensions, an update on purges of top PLA leaders, and more.

19/10/2025

From 1987, when Deng Xiaoping, considered to be the “architect of modern China”, compared China’s rare earth reserves in Inner Mongolia to West Asia’s oil reserves, the country has built up near-total control as part of its wider industrial policy.

Rare earths are not very rare, but challenges in ensuring the economic viability of extraction and processing mean that one country — China — has effectively monopolised these vital minerals. Now, Beijing is using them as a strategic lever in its ongoing trade war with the US

19/10/2025

Green crackers release fewer toxic particles, but the chemistry behind the sparkle is not entirely clean. An IIT Bombay expert explains how green crackers work, where they succeed, and what needs improvement.

Green crackers release fewer toxic particles, but the chemistry behind the sparkle is not entirely clean. Here's how green crackers work, where they succeed, and what needs improvement.

19/10/2025

The Nobel laureate in Economics, Philippe Aghion, said recently that while Europe was catching up with US standards of living as it recovered after WW2, since the mid-1980s, the average income of the eurozone has declined relative to the US.

In Explained’s new weekly column, titled ‘GDP: Graphs, Data, Perspectives’, Udit Misra looks at the lowered economic competitiveness of Europe, which essentially ran the world until a century ago.