Why are fewer Indian students choosing to study abroad in 2024? Diplomatic tensions, stricter visa policies, and rising costs have led to a decline in enrollments in the US, UK, and Canada.

Amid its tussle with the Centre over alleged Hindi imposition, the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol (₹) with a Tamil letter for ‘ru,’ derived from ‘rubai.

Kannada actor Ranya Rao was caught smuggling 14.8 kg of gold at Bengaluru airport. She confessed to learning smuggling techniques from YouTube videos.

A war of words has erupted between the Tamil Nadu government and the Centre over the New Education Policy. In a recent rally, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin launched a scathing attack on the Centre.

Separatist militants attacked the Jaffar Express en route from Quetta to Peshawar, targeting over 400 passengers. The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility.

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An unidentified man attacked devotees with a rod at Amritsar's Golden Temple, injuring five people, including a seriously wounded Sikh youth from Bathinda; police have arrested the attacker

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Climate impacts are unfolding faster than expected and scientists have been surprised by the speed of temperature rise, the chief of the United Nations' climate science panel has said.
In an interview with PTI, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chair Jim Skea said the world is in a worse situation than three years ago due to inaction on climate change.
"If you look back over the last, say, five years or so, I think scientists have been surprised by the speed at which temperatures have risen globally and by the very obvious nature of climate impacts we have already seen... wildfires in some parts of the world, floods and more extreme events.
"So, things do appear to be happening, perhaps more quickly than people expected," he told PTI.
The year 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first with the global average temperature 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the past decade (2015-2024) was the 10 .

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The total telephone subscriber base in India grew marginally to 1,189.92 million in December 2024 with Jio adding the highest number of subscribers in both mobile and fixed-line segments, a Trai report released on Tuesday said.
Total telephone subscribers stood at 1,187.15 million in November, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).
Reliance Jio Infocomm was the frontrunner with 476.58 million subscribers, followed by Bharti Airtel (289.31 million), and Vodafone Idea (126.38 million).
While urban telephone subscriptions rose from 659.87 million in November to 663.37 million in December, rural subscriptions fell from 527.27 million to 526.56 million during the same period.
Wireless subscribers grew from 1,148.65 million in November 2024 to 1,150.66 million in December 2024, at a monthly growth rate of 0.17 per cent.
Wireless teledensity increased to 81.67 per cent at the end of December, against 81.59 per cent at the end of November.
Reliance Jio added 3,906

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This marks the first time a state has rejected the national currency symbol, taking Tamil Nadu's resistance to the NEP to a new level

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Former Congress MLA Bamber Thakur was allegedly shot at by unidentified assailants at his home in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur, police said on Friday and added a manhunt had been launched to nab the accused.
Thakur and his personal security officer were injured in the attack. Thakur, who suffered a bullet injury in his leg, was referred to the Indira Gandhi Medical College in Shimla while his personal security officer was admitted to AIIMS, Bilaspur.
Taking serious note of the attack, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said in a video statement, "I spoke to Bamber Thakur and urged him to go to AIIMS but he wished to be treated at the Indira Gandhi Medical College  The deputy commissioner has been instructed to do the needful."
Directions have been issued to erect road barricades to nab the accused, he added.
Thakur and several others were sitting in the courtyard of his wife's government accommodation when four people came in and opened fire.
According to a witness, the attacker

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