WritingsOnTheWall: When Writings on the Wall predicted Nitish's win in 2010 & read Bihar's changing political equations

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As Bihar poll campaign gathers momentum, the Mahagathbandhan has released a joint manifesto. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta takes you back to 2010 when #WritingsOnTheWall described how Bihar's traditional political equations were changing. The two-part series from November 2010 also predicted Nitish's win in the Assembly elections & read the message of socio-economic change on Bihar's walls.----more----Read the two-part #WritingsOnTheWall from 2010 here: https://theprint.in/sg-writings-on-the-wall/a-mandate-for-nitish-hope-kumar/544132/----more----https://theprint.in/sg-writings-on-the-wall/when-lonely-lalu-misses-gentleman-sonia-and-a-muslim-calls-nitish-sher-ka-bachcha/544130/

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More than 20 years after its commissioning, the Lower Subansiri Project has begun its test run. The first of 8 units is now being wet trialled. By April-May next year, all units are expected to be commissioned, which will mean this project -- on the Arunachal-Assam border -- will produce 2000 MW of hydroelectric power, making it India's largest such project.----more----Read Moushumi Das Gupta report here: https://theprint.in/india/while-china-builds-its-mega-dam-on-brahmaputra-indias-long-delayed-subansiri-marks-key-milestone/2771548/----more----Read Ministry of environment and forest 2015 report here: https://moef.gov.in/uploads/2018/04/Volume-I.pdf----more----Watch full episode of CutTheClutter here: https://youtu.be/qSVgSN1WFJ4

What did PM Modi say about India-ASEAN ties in his virtual address at the ongoing ASEAN Summit?

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole. Watch this week's #NationalInterest with @ShekharGupta --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To read this week's National Interest: https://theprint.in/national-interest/india-pakistan-op-sindoor-gallantry-awards-citations-ai-grok/2770210/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To visit ThePrint Store: https://store.theprint.in/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced by: Mahira Khan

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Earlier this month, several TLP supporters launched a ‘Gaza Solidarity March’, leading to clashes with police after they were prevented from advancing. Over 100 social media activists held.  

'The institutional default is not the protection of students and staff, but damage control. You see it play out at SAU, IIT-BHU, RG Kar, and Durgapur. A sexual assault crisis is unfolding, across our higher educational institutions. It is bad enough that our campuses are demonstrably dangerous—as all public and private places in India tend to be. Some of the most prominent and horrifying cases of sexual violence over the last year have been reported from our colleges and universities, including the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata and the IIT-BHU gang-rape in Varanasi.' says ThePrint columnist Karanjeet Kaur----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/indian-universities-follow-the-same-template-on-sexual-assault-cover-up-blame-the-victim/2767603/