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Nearly one in four people who call Berlin home pay its taxes and ride its trains every day, yet none of them can cast a ballot when the city votes for its government this year.
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Ten rupees per student sounds tiny, but multiplied across government-run residential schools in Odisha, it allegedly grew into a cash stash worth over fourteen lakh rupees.
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Vigilance departments are government units that investigate bribery and misuse of public funds by officials, like the Odisha case involving school auditors.
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Book a hotel room in an English city next year, and the final bill could include a new local charge that goes straight to the mayor's office, not the hotel. The UK government is set to let regional mayors introduce a tax on overnight stays.
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Governments collect taxes to pay for shared services like roads and policing, and a tourist tax is a small extra charge on visitors that helps a city fund the services they use.
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On September 1, 2026, Air Vice Marshal Shakti Sharma took charge as assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Education), a two-star post rarely held by a woman in the Indian Air Force.
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Picture entire hillsides washed away and rescue crews wading through mud, still searching for almost 4,800 people days after Nepal's deadliest monsoon flooding in recent memory.
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When a country reports a fast-spreading disease like Ebola, the World Health Organization steps in to coordinate money, medical teams, and information across borders.
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A government budget explains how a country plans to spend money and raise it through taxes or borrowing, which is the key to understanding why national debt keeps climbing.
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Curious why a state can suddenly cancel dozens of exams, as Jharkhand did with 44 recruitment tests? Here's how India's government job exam system is built, and why irregularities can force a restart.
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Imagine studying for years for a government job test, only to have it scrapped overnight. Jharkhand's government has cancelled 44 recruitment exams, from drug inspector to civil judge posts, after finding irregularities in the process.
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Crossing a border became deadlier than ever in early 2026, as war, extreme weather, and economic collapse pushed people onto riskier journeys worldwide, new United Nations tracking reveals.
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A second attempt to push out a sitting Federal Reserve governor is testing how far a president can reach into America's central bank, months after the Supreme Court already blocked the first try.
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Across West Africa, a fresh wave of legislation is criminalizing LGBTQ+ identity, and campaigners say politicians are using queer communities as political scapegoats to shore up power.
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Two separate complaints in Hyderabad have pulled Meta's top India executive into a criminal case over social media posts described as derogatory toward Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Intermediary liability rules decide whether platforms like Meta or Google are responsible for what users post, and understanding them explains why a company's India head can end up named in a police case.
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Dozens of countries now face fresh double-digit tariffs on their exports to the United States, as the Trump administration lets no tariff lapse without a replacement.
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A trade war happens when countries repeatedly raise taxes on each other's goods in response to one another, and understanding this cycle explains why tariff rates keep shifting rather than settling.
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Global trade lets countries buy and sell goods across borders, but taxes called tariffs can make imported products more expensive and strain relationships between trading partners.
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Imagine accusing a rival of secretly luring away lawmakers, then getting a letter demanding proof or a ₹100 crore bill. That is exactly what happened between the BJP and Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
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Crude oil is the raw liquid pumped from underground that gets turned into petrol, diesel, and plastics, and its price can rise or fall fast whenever there is tension in oil-producing regions like Iran.
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One announcement about Iran was enough to make oil prices jump and stock markets slide on the same day, showing how tightly connected the world's economy really is.
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When a computer can do your job faster and cheaper, what happens to you? Two former US governors from opposite political parties are building a plan together to help workers whose jobs could be taken over by artificial intelligence.
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In Kenya, students and teachers are caught between two worlds: learning better in their home language versus needing English to get a job or go to university. This tension over what language to use in classrooms is a debate playing out across the globe.
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A single chemistry process called downblending now stands between Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium and the world's confidence that it won't build a nuclear weapon — here's exactly how it works.
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Uranium enrichment is the process of increasing the concentration of a specific atom inside uranium ore, and the level of enrichment determines whether uranium can power a city or build a bomb. Understanding this process helps make sense of international nuclear agreements and why the world watches certain countries so
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A brand-new government school opened in Rangareddy district, Telangana — and its classrooms are designed not just for textbooks but for skills that lead to real jobs. The state government says upgrading public school buildings is the first step toward giving every child a fair shot at employment.
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A Swiss citizen was set to lead India's newest international airport near Delhi — until a security rule stopped him. Indian law requires the airport's top leader to hold a specific security role that only an Indian citizen can fill.
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A draft treaty circulating among African governments would legally reject decades of international human rights agreements — and rights organisations say the consequences for women and young people could be severe.
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Neither candidate won more than half the votes in Colombia's first-round presidential election, so the country will vote again on June 21 — a process called a runoff that decides who leads a nation of 52 million people.
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Fundamental rights are special protections written into India's Constitution that every person can claim against the government. Understanding them helps you know what freedoms you are entitled to and how courts can protect them.
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A tariff is a tax that a government puts on goods brought in from another country. Learn how tariffs work, why countries use them, and how they can affect everyday prices.
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When a new Assembly meets for the first time, it needs someone to run the room before a permanent Speaker is chosen — and that role, called Pro Tem Speaker, just went to Kerala's G. Sudhakaran, a veteran legislator with a remarkable political backstory.
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When India's Prime Minister visited Norway without holding a press conference — following a similar pattern in the Netherlands — journalists and diplomats began asking: does a foreign visit require a leader to face questions from the press?
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When a court rules that a tax was collected unfairly, you might expect the money to flow straight back — but for thousands of US businesses, billions of dollars in tariff refunds may never arrive. The paperwork maze explains why.
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Every day, millions of delivery riders and cab drivers in India work without a formal way to complain if something goes wrong — Karnataka just changed that with a first-of-its-kind digital system.
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Acid can dissolve metal and cause permanent injury, yet a ground investigation in Delhi found it sitting openly on shop shelves — no ID, no questions asked. India has laws to prevent this, so why aren't they working?
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The UN's top aid official has warned that South Sudan could face a full-scale famine. Years of conflict and flooding have pushed millions of people toward severe hunger.
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More than 50 countries and organisations have pledged $1.5 billion to help people in Sudan, where a civil war has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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A major UK think tank found that the government's Help to Buy programme, designed to help people buy homes, largely benefited those who could already afford to buy without it.
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The Democratic Alliance, South Africa's second-largest party, is working to attract more Black voters after being seen by many as representing mainly white South Africans.
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Voters in Hungary are choosing a new government in an election that could end Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule. His main rival is leading a united opposition for the first time.
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