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INDIAN EXPRESS

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N-energy Bill rules likely to open space for foreign funding

Building on the clear directional push to open up the restricted nuclear power sector to private sector participation, the rules that will follow the passage of the proposed Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 (SHANTI) are likely to make a provision for potential foreign funding in the nuclear sector.


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Why curbing vehicular pollution is key to the fight against foul air

The Delhi government's decision to bar non-BS VI private vehicles registered outside the Capital from entering the city has come after three days of 'severe' air quality and as evidence mounts that vehicular emissions is one of the biggest and most stubborn contributors to air pollution


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LS passes Bill to raise FDI limit to 100% in insurance sector

The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Sabko Bima Sabko Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, that seeks to reform India's insurance framework through changes in the Insurance Act, 1938, the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956, and the IRDAI Act, 1999.


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1.02 crore names removed, draft rolls in 5 states/UTs shrink by 7.6%

The Publication of the draft electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, Rajas-than, Goa, Lakshadweep and Puducherry Tuesday showed a reduction of 7.6% in the electorate, with over 1 crore names being removed from the list.


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At 100, Indian communism has unfinished business, too early to write its obituary

The conditions that once gave rise to communism - deep inequality, agrarian distress, precarious labour, the persistence of feudal values, and global economic turbulence - are sharper than ever.


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Dear students, wait, your teacher is on election duty

Since Independence, schoolteachers have obediently served the duties assigned to them. They form a literate, reliable labour force, the government can easily access. They have kept democracy functioning.


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Behind smokescreen, SIR 2.0 could be biggest exercise in voter exclusion

It provides for another avenue of deletion of names - the 'unmapped' electors. These are persons who have submitted their forms, but without providing proof that they or their 'relative' featured on the voters' lists of 2002 or 2003.


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A Bill that takes us back to the days before MGNREGA

Οn December 15, with no prior consultation, the Centre scheduled the introduction of a Bill to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and replace it with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) - VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025. This Bill should have been two different pieces of legislation, because the MGNREGA and VB-G RAM G are fundamentally different in scope and objective


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How the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown changed a songbird's beak

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic represented a remarkable natural experiment, an opportunity to study what wild animals did when humans stayed home, en masse. During what has become known as the "anthropause," mountain lions crept closer to cities and sea turtles ventured closer to shore, while birds lowered the volume of their songs, scientists have found


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NREGS may not be cause of farm labour shortage

VB-G RAM G Bill provides for a 60-day agri season pause. But there isn't enough evidence that NREGS reduced availability of farm labour. 


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Climate change, deforestation worsened impact of SE Asia cyclones

The new study also said that at the time when Cyclones Ditwah and Senyar caused extreme rainfall in the affected regions, the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the North Indian Ocean, where the storms originated, were 0.2 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average. This would have added to the energy available for tropical storm development and evaporation, leading to the heavy rainfall


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INDIAN EXPRESS (17 Dec 2025) | Daily News Highlights