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Sweet risks: Lead to kidney stones—bubble tea’s dark side
They’ve become as common on British high streets as coffee shops – bubble tea outlets offering colourful, Instagram-worthy drinks in endless flavour...
Digital dependence: AWS outage exposes global cloud weakness
23 Oct 2025 6:40 AM ISTThe outage began around 6 pm AEDT on Monday and stemmed from a malfunction at one of AWS’s data centres in Northern Virginia, United States.
Equity and excellence: Tamil Nadu’s shift toward academic autonomy
23 Oct 2025 6:30 AM ISTState’s proposed amendment to the Private Universities Act marks a pivotal shift in higher education policy — one that promises greater autonomy and...
Editorial: Dark money in dank places
22 Oct 2025 7:00 AM ISTIt’s such a colourful history that it lends itself to the movies. In 2020, Anurag Kashyap made one with the alluring plot line of a woman stumbling...
Defiled power: Trump’s lust for desecration
22 Oct 2025 6:20 AM ISTFights over resources and beliefs can be settled. It’s much harder to imagine reconciliation with those who want, above all, to befoul us.
Mind erosion: AI is hollowing out higher education
22 Oct 2025 6:00 AM ISTWhile the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual...
Can Taylor Swift be an underdog and the biggest pop star on earth?
20 Oct 2025 8:35 AM ISTAsked by Apple Music radio host Zane Lowe how she felt about the reaction to her 12th original album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” Swift seemed to...
