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Love, Lies, and Loss: Unravelling The 'Pig Butchering Scam'

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Jan 4, 2025

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Your Data, Your Control: India's Personal Data Protection - Draft Rules 2025 Explained In 7 Points

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Jan 4, 2025

ETV Bharat Tech Team

T20 is traditionally known for the brute hitting showcased by the batters and the fearless approach adopted by them to go gung-ho right from the start. However, the Impact Player rule has taken the tendency of teams to score huge totals to a whole new level with allowance to field an extra player in the lineup.

IPL Impact Player Rule: How It Tilted The Game In Favour of Batters

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May 23, 2024

ETV Bharat Sports Team

'Friendship marriage' is a new relationship trend that is becoming popular in Japan among asexual individuals, homosexuals and straight people. According to the reports, in this type of relationship, people become 'platonic partners' without committing to love or sex.

Friendship Marriage: Japan's New Relationship Trend That Excludes Love, Sex

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May 11, 2024

ETV Bharat Features Team

The Yemeni Houthi attacks have led to a major disruption of shipping through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, one of the most important arteries for trade in oil, natural gas, grain and consumer goods between Europe and Asia.

Explained: Impact of Houthi's attack on merchant navy vessels in Red Sea

Dec 29, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday the government's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda as illegal, delivering a blow to a contentious central policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's administration. Five justices in the U.K. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous judgment in the government's attempt to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked deportations.

Explained: UK government's plans to send migrants to Rwanda is ruled 'illegal' by Britain's Supreme Court

Nov 16, 2023

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Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna recently became the victim of a deepfake video, where her face was manipulated onto another person's body. This incident has generated serious concern among all strata of people, because who would want their image to be harmed. But what is this 'DeepFake'? ETV Bharat's Pratik Parthsarthi explains...

What is Deepfake? Identifying this AI-powered feature and urgent need for vigilance

Nov 11, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

Rebutting Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly’s charge that India’s revoking of diplomatic immunity to 41 of her country’s diplomats was “contrary to international law”, New Delhi has said that its action is fully consistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations “The state of our bilateral relations, the much higher number of Canadian diplomats in India, and their continued interference in our internal affairs warrant parity in mutual diplomatic presence in New Delhi and Ottawa,” the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement. The Ministry said that India has been engaged with Canada over the last month in order to work out the details and modalities of bringing about this parity.

Explained: 'Interference in India's internal affairs'; why New Delhi wanted these Canadian diplomats out

Oct 21, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel's relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 attack, neighboring Egypt and Jordan have replied with staunch refusal, and they have multiple reasons for rejecting the idea.

Explained: Why Egypt, Jordan and other Arab countries are unwilling to take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza

Oct 19, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

The bursting of the Chungthang Dam in Sikkim caused by a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) has served as a grim reminder of the warnings issued by scientists and experts in the past about the dangers of constructing hydropower projects in the c. The Chungthang Dam is the biggest hydropower project in Sikkim. It is part of the 1,200 MW Teesta Stage III Hydro Electric Project. The Sikkim government has a little over 60 per cent in the project, which has a valuation of Rs 25,000 crore. The dam is located in the Mangan district in north Sikkim. It was commissioned in February 2017 and started making profits from last year after generating more power than the expected capacity.

Explained: What led to Sikkim dam destruction

Oct 5, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

Did you receive "Severe" emergency alert on your phone? Here's what you will do... Nothing!

Sep 21, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

. Green hydrogen is being touted around the world as a clean energy solution to take the carbon out of high-emitting sectors like transport and industrial manufacturing.

Explained: What is green hydrogen and why is it touted as a clean fuel?

Sep 6, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

All about Aditya-L1's SUIT payload imaging Solar Photosphere, and Chromosphere. It is scheduled to be launched on September 2 at 11.50 am from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh.

Explained: All about Aditya-L1's SUIT payload imaging Sun's Photosphere, Chromosphere

Sep 1, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

India's first space-based observatory to study the Sun, Aditya-L1, to be launched on September 2 at 11.50 hours from Sriharikota.

Explained: Aditya-L1 mission, India's first space-based observatory to study the Sun

Aug 30, 2023

ETV Bharat English Team

The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon. Russia’s unmanned robot lander crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported on Sunday, Aug. 20. 2023. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)

Explained: Why Luna-25 lander crash landed on Moon's south pole after racing ahead of Chandrayaan-3

Aug 22, 2023

The media frenzy surrounding ChatGPT and other large language model artificial intelligence systems are dependent on human knowledge and labour.

Human Knowledge powers ChatGPT and similar AI systems: Expert

Aug 19, 2023

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Bill, 2023, introduced in the Parliament on Friday, covers crimes against women and children including, for the first time, a provision to punish a person marrying a woman by concealing his identity, or having intercourse under a false promise of marriage, promotion and employment, gang-rape, rape of minors, stalking, and voyeurism.

Explained: BNS Bill 2023 covers sex after false promise to marry, concealing identity under crimes against women

Aug 12, 2023

Hopes are fading for a quick resolution of Niger's coup or the potential use of force by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to free Nigerien president Mohammed Bazoum and restore him to power. Ecowas leaders gave the Nigerien military junta an ultimatum to cede power within seven days of 30 July or face a military intervention.

Niger coup: Why an Ecowas-led military intervention is unlikely

Aug 9, 2023

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Union Budget 2025: Economists Suggest Tax Reforms, Focus on MSMEs, And Boosts For Education And Technology

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