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Ananth Krishnan analyzes global issues through an Indian lens.

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  • 15 hours ago | thehindu.com | Vasudevan Mukunth

    A: A cramp is a sudden, involuntary tightening of a muscle or a group of muscles that a person can’t immediately relax. Because the muscle locks up all at once, it often feels like a sharp knot and can hurt for a few seconds to several minutes. Muscle cramps occur in parts of the legs or hands as a result of dehydration, exercise or low potassium or magnesium levels. Menstrual cramps in the uterus are hormone-driven contractions to expel the uterine lining.

  • 23 hours ago | thehindu.com | Udhav Naig

    At a time when speculation is rife that the PMK may split — one faction under its founder S. Ramadoss and another under his son Anbumani Ramadoss — and possibly join rival electoral alliances, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K. Selvaperunthagai on Friday met Dr. Ramadoss at his residence in Thailapuram in Villupuram. The unannounced meeting created a flutter in Tamil Nadu’s political circles.

  • 1 day ago | thehindu.com | Vasudevan Mukunth

    After its recent airstrikes against Iran’s facilities in Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan, the U.S. has been claiming it has set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons ambitions by decades and nullified the country’s ability to make a nuclear weapon of mass destruction (WMD).

  • 1 day ago | thehindu.com | Vasudevan Mukunth

    Q: Name the war the Russian Empire was fighting at the time the crew of the Potemkin mutinied. Russia suffered heavy losses during one particular battle in this war, forcing it to sue for peace and sending crew morale in its naval fleet plummeting. This was one of the causes of the mutiny.

  • 1 day ago | thehindu.com | Nidhi Adlakha

    A few years ago, a professor’s walk inside Bengaluru’s Christ University led to a discovery. Saji Varghese, associate professor in the University’s Department of English, noticed several fallen coconut leaves and was reminded of his prior conversation with a visitor from the Netherlands on the single-use plastic menace. ‘Why not turn them into straws?’, Saji wondered. In 2020, he launched Sunbird Straws with Chirag MG and Sandeep U, two of his students, as co-founders.

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