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Davide, who left Cameroon in September 2013 at the age of twenty-five, was interviewed in Madrid in 2018 by David Kestenbaum of National Public Radio. In Kestenbaum’s words: ‘Davide describes the whole thing almost as if he were a kid setting out on an adventure… Unlike a lot of people trying to get from Africa to Europe, he said he wasn’t persecuted back home.

Read this excerpt from Amitav Ghosh's 'Wild Fictions'


Opinion: 'CPI(M) councillor Kala Raju’s humiliation can’t be seen as an isolated case. The party promotes aggression and violence from the grassroots level, starting with university campuses in Kerala.'

Anand Kochukudy, Kerala-based journalist and columnist, writes


Indian institutions have realised the potential of social media. They are conducting workshops for content creators on how to become effective science influencers—and get both facts and fusion right.

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Opinion: 'Pilots had embraced these changes, but concerns among airlines have deepened over increasing operating expenses and interruptions. The issue of working conditions in airlines received plenty of attention, though only after the pilot deaths.'

Karti P Chidambaram, Sivaganga MP & AICC member, writes


Has India’s Bangladesh policy failed? 75 years of Indian republic in a hostile neighbourhood, but what are we missing?


Watch special edition of ThePrint #WorldView on Republic Day, with Swasti Rao, Mahfuz Anam, The Daily Star editor from Dhaka, & Dr. Qamar Cheema, defence expert from Pakistan




The challenges posed by climate change, nature loss and water risks, combined with rising global food demands, necessitate a coordinated approach to data management.

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The government can easily say this is not practical. This is something the public should arrange themselves. But, due to our special circumstances, I think the government should take steps toward some coordinated program in this direction.

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Scholars speculate that gatka was established by the sixth Sikh guru, Guru Hargobind, who introduced the kirpan (dagger) for self-defence.

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'History is history because new things are written in it every day.' In 1952, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar spoke strongly about India’s future after Independence. Watch Zoya Bhatti explain his stance in ThePrint #GreatSpeeches

https://youtu.be/5PxhwGT2Itw


A fossil of a 70 million-year-old Pterosaur, the first flying vertebrate in the world, was found with a bite mark on its neck bone, from what scientists say could be a crocodile-sized animal.

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Two orders from the Bombay and Allahabad High Courts over the past week have reignited the debate over the use of loudspeakers at religious sites, with both rulings reaffirming that loudspeaker use is not integral to religious practice, and must adhere to noise pollution regulations.

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Opinion: 'Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MK Stalin released a report titled ‘Antiquity of Iron: Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’ on 23 January at the Anna Centenary Library, Chennai. In front of an assembly of archaeologists and experts, he declared that the Iron Age began on Tamil soil.'

Disha Ahluwalia, archaeologist and junior research fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research, writes

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On 26 January today, as the 76th Republic Day Parade rolls down the imposing Kartavya Path, we get a glimpse of how the first Republic Day parade looked

Video: INC YouTube | Photos: PIB | Audio: Pixabay

Compiled by Sonika Kumar


Patent officers, who did not work from home even during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the sensitive nature of their jobs, have been working from home for over a year now due to a lack of office space even as the seven-storey patent building in Dwarka, Delhi, lies vacant.

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