Following talks with his visiting Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said both sides had stressed on cooperation against terrorism and fundamentalism. “In order to keep the spirit of 1971 alive, it is very necessary that we jointly face forces that want to attack our mutual trust,” he said. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. |
THE BIG STORY Modi, Hasina seal pacts, hail bilateral partnership India and Bangladesh on Tuesday signed seven pacts for cooperation in areas ranging from sharing of river waters to space, and unveiled new connectivity and energy initiatives, with the two sides holding up their partnership as a role model for the neighbourhood. Read more. |
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The Big Question Are nasal vaccines a game changer for protection against Covid-19? Bharat Biotech’s needle-free intranasal vaccine against Covid-19 has been granted approval for emergency use in India, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday. The new vaccine can be delivered through the nasal route, making it a safer and more effective option. Read more. |
 Jason Allen won the Colorado State Fair’s digital arts competition. He didn’t use Photoshop or Procreate. In fact, he didn’t make the submitted pieces himself. Midjourney did all the work. Who (or what) is that? |
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From the Edit Page The uphill road that awaits PM Liz Truss Even as Liz Truss enters 10 Downing Street as the United Kingdom (UK)’s fourth prime minister (PM) in the last six years, she will be acutely aware that the London bookies are offering favourable odds on a shorter premiership for her than Theresa May’s 1,106 days. She would also not be unaware of polls that show that half of the country’s population is “disappointed” that she is the PM, including a third who are “deeply disappointed”. These facts will be a dampener on the euphoria of her victory over Rishi Sunak after a bruising and vituperative seven-week-long campaign that left a virtually leaderless country in the doldrums and raised questions about the future of the Conservative Party (the Tories). Read more. |
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Number Theory Behind the systemic roots of urban flooding in India Parts of Bengaluru, India’s IT and startup capital, have been facing unprecedented floods for the last two days. This is not the first instance of urban flooding in India. In fact, urban flooding is becoming increasingly common in many parts of the country with this monsoon season itself seeing many such instances in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh. Kerala, another southern state, has seen multiple instances of urban flooding in the past few years, and so has Gurugram, Delhi’s 21st century satellite. The fact that such instances are spreading to more cities and happening with greater frequency, suggests that something is broken in our response to such events. An HT analysis shows that repeated and growing problems of urban floods is a systemic problem and the root cause of this is prioritising economic gains over everything else. Here are three charts which explain this in detail. Read more. |
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From the Field Where roads are rivers: Decoding, fighting a man-made flood It takes a special kind of skill to cause floods, or more appropriately waterlogging, in a city like Bengaluru. A city that is on a ridge line between the Kaveri and Dakshina Pinakini basin. A city whose landform slopes down its three valleys of the Vrishbhavathi, the Koramangala-Challaghatta and the Hebbal, allowing rainwater to rapidly cascade out. Read more. |
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