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Daily Brief: 1 crore trees – not 8.5 lakh – could be cut for Great Nicobar project, one ecologist estimates, and more

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1 crore trees – not 8.5 lakh – could be cut for Great Nicobar project, one ecologist estimates

The government is greatly understating the deforestation that the megaproject will entail, environmentalists say.

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Ratan Tata, former Tata Group chairman, dies at 86

Tata, credited with expanding and diversifying the conglomerate, had been in critical condition at a hospital in Mumbai.

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After Haryana polls loss, Congress asks Election Commission to seal EVMs in 20 seats

The party said that 99% of its complaints were related to the batteries of the Electronic Voting Machines.

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Haryana is a reminder how firmly Indian politics is controlled by caste

The India Fix: A newsletter on Indian politics from Scroll.

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Opinion: Supreme Court order to delete caste references in prison data will not end discrimination

The landmark ruling strikes the right note but echoes the political rhetoric of privileged castes that erasing records equals erasing casteism.

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Ramachandra Guha on naturalist M Krishnan, who wanted to make cities hospitable to nature

An excerpt from ‘Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism’, by Ramachandra Guha.

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Dibakar Banerjee on his shelved film ‘Tees’: ‘Not so futuristic after all’

The unreleased movie about three generations of a Kashmiri family stars Manisha Koirala, Huma Qureshi and Shashank Arora.

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Coming undone: The IOA’s infighting threatens to ruin the country’s recent sporting achievements

Indian Olympic Association chief PT Usha, a former athletics star, has been at constant loggerheads with the executive council.

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