Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Inflation: Pulses put on display for sale at wholesale grocery market Khari Baoli, Delhi | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The latest annual report released by the RBI highlights the factors and disruptors that heightened inflation levels worldwide. It also identifies the specific commodities that affected inflation across different components, like food, fuel and core […]

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Berlinale 2023 | From ‘Golda’ to ‘The Fabelmans’ to ‘Blackberry,’ the films at Berlin festival blur the lines between fiction and reality

Berlinale 2023 | From ‘Golda’ to ‘The Fabelmans’ to ‘Blackberry,’ the films at Berlin festival blur the lines between fiction and reality

Berlinale co-director Mariette Rissenbeek (centre, in red) stands alongside actors Kristen Stewart and Golshifteh Farahani at a show of solidarity with women in Iran during Berlinale 2023. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Actor and director Sean Penn’s Ukraine documentary  Superpower — which attracted the most media attention ahead of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) […]

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Explosion kills two in Poland near Ukraine border

Explosion kills two in Poland near Ukraine border

Russia pounded Ukraine’s energy facilities on November 15 with its biggest barrage of missiles yet, striking targets across the country and causing widespread blackouts. A senior U.S. intelligence official said missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, where two people were killed. A second person confirmed to AP that apparent Russian missiles struck a site in […]

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Ukraine-returned medical students: ‘It’s ok, not all dreams come true’

Ukraine-returned medical students: ‘It’s ok, not all dreams come true’

They wanted to become doctors, surgeons and super-specialists. They had dreamt of saving lives, of sitting in air-conditioned cabins with their degrees hanging on the wall. There’s very little left of these dreams and hopes now. The war in Ukraine, now in its eighth month, not only forced Indian students studying medicine there to return […]

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Russia-Ukraine live updates | Human cost of Severodonetsk fight ‘terrifying’, says Zelensky

Russia-Ukraine live updates | Human cost of Severodonetsk fight ‘terrifying’, says Zelensky

Ukraine said on June 13 that its forces had been pushed back from the centre of key industrial city Severodonetsk, where President Volodymyr Zelensky described a fight for “literally every metre”. The cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which are separated by a river, have been targeted for weeks as the last areas still under Ukrainian […]

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Japan, NATO step up ties amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Japan, NATO step up ties amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Japanese and NATO officials agreed Tuesday to step up military cooperation and joint exercises as they shared concerns that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is causing a deterioration of the security environment in Europe and Asia. Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said after meeting with NATO Military Committee chief Rob Bauer that Japan hopes to strengthen […]

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