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Munnar's 103 Deaths Are a Map of Where No One Decided Who Has Right of Way

The Wildlife Institute of India's technical report puts a specific, high number on a long-running tension in Kerala's high-range districts - between communities living and working inside fragmented elephant habitat and the state's constitutional and statutory duty to protect an endangered, Schedule I species whose corridors that same development has cut through.

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10 nmol/L Was the Number That Decided an Indian Cricketer's Future - Set by Australia, Not India

An Indian athlete had to seek a ruling from a foreign cricket board because her own national board never responded to her request for one - turning the BCCI's year-long silence into the story, not just the eventual Australian clearance. Anaya Bangar, a transgender cricketer from India, was cleared to play community cricket in Australia amid a policy vacuum from the BCCI. This highlights the ethical tension between…

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Can an Institution Investigate Itself With a Panel It Can't Yet Trust?

IIT Delhi's handling of a student suicide inquiry - including having to reconstitute its own external panel after student objections - has become a live test case of institutional self-accountability, occurring alongside a Delhi Police FIR for abetment of suicide filed under Supreme Court-mandated National Task Force protocols.

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