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INDIAN EXPRESS

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3 yrs, 100 tigers killed & counting: new-age poaching mafia taps tech, digital payments, hawala networks

Investigators from five states, four Central agencies, and the Interpol; three nationwide alerts; two critical meetings of chief wildlife wardens; over a dozen arrests in five states this year alone; and, a syndicate spread across the country's tiger map. 


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X moves court against section in IT Act being used to block content

Billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has filed a lawsuit against the Central government, challenging the use of Section 79 (3) (b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, to issue blocking orders, claiming that it leads to creation of a "parallel" and "unlawful" content censorship regime. 


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Global trade disorder 

"No trade is free," declares Dani Rodrik, a Harvard economist who writes extensively on globalisation and economic policy. He argues that trade between countries always involves some form of regulation, cost, and/or strategic interest. Several others - including rather famously, Robert Lighthizer, the former US Trade Representative (USTR) in the first Trump administration - have repeated the sentiment. Lighthizer published a tome in 2023 by that title.


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FED'S DELICATE DANCE 

The US Federal Reserve chose to keep interest rates unchanged Wednesday, noting that "uncertainty around the economic outlook has increased". The target range for the federal funds rate remains at 4.25 to 4.5 percent.


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Supreme Court decision on motor insurance claims likely to speed up payouts 

The Supreme Court decision on Tuesday asking courts and tribunals to direct insurance companies to transfer motor accident claim amounts directly to the claimants' bank accounts is expected to expedite payment of claim amounts, insurance officials said. 


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India-EU FTA talks: Progress on dispute settlement, stalemate on rules of origin 

In the first round of trade deal negotiations between India and the European Union after the EU College of Commissioners' visit to India last month, both countries made considerable progress in agreeing on the norms that will guide dispute settlement under the pact but failed to make a significant breakthrough on rules of origin, which help determine the national source of a product.


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VOYAGE OF THE IGUANAS: HOW THEY TRAVELLED FROM AMERICAS TO FIJI

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from the southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America. 


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The looming power shortage

The focus on rapid expansion of renewables in the absence of energy storage systems, especially over the past decade, is now resulting in increasing instability in the country's electricity grid, with power shortages projected to rise sharply in May and June.


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Aurangzeb's tomb in Khuldabad, at the centre of violent protests in Nagpur

Aurangzeb, who ruled for almost a half-century from 1658 until his death in 1707, is buried in Khuldabad in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, a place of considerable Muslim religious and spiritual significance in medieval times. -18


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