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Food, travel, health, housing and the everyday decisions of an urban Indian household.
SKF's campaign for magnetic bearings reanimated a star who died in 1990, using American and Chinese AI tools. Critics called it an undead resurrection; others asked what a synthetic star means for the industry it came from.
Gold is roughly 30% below its January peak and silver close to 54% below its own. Brokerage research that swept the record since the 1970s finds this cycle is severe by recent standards and mild by historical ones.
Farmers read the arrival of the pied cuckoo as the monsoon signal it has never been. Separately, the forest floors around Purushwadi fill with fireflies in the weeks before the rains peak.
The meteorological department's May outlook promised more heatwave days and hotter nights. Three weeks later the national power peak had set an all-time record. This is what a hot month costs an ordinary household.
The headline accelerated from February's final 3.21 per cent. Food prices went the other way, and precious metals did a disproportionate share of the work in holding it down.
The price of a 19 kg commercial cylinder rose by Rs 111 in the metros from January 1. The 14.2 kg domestic cylinder did not move at all, and the ministry said that was deliberate.
