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How do we know climate science is credible? ✍️ @1amnerd trib.al/qxVZBY5

Nepal’s political shift opens a strategic window for India ✍️ K.V. Rajan and @atul_mdb trib.al/qe0jTEM

🔖 A war in its fourth week, a blockade threat, and a Supreme Court verdict that changes the rules for working mothers. We break it all down in this week's The Hindu Explains newsletter. Read and subscribe! trib.al/s5tM8OE

What insurance numbers do not reveal ✍️ T.C. Suseel Kumar and R. Sudhakar trib.al/QVlsYo8

Is compulsory voting feasible in the Indian context? ✍️ @rangarajan_ias trib.al/AQS2rYy

Explained | Indore tragedy: why do EV batteries catch fire? ✍️@1amnerd trib.al/mkOsaPJ

Explained | Why did the Supreme Court strike down Section 60(4) of the Social Security Code, 2020? What did it say about maternity leave for adoptive mothers? ✍️@prisjebaraj trib.al/TAGAuWJ

Explained | Why is the ground offensive concentrated in southern Lebanon? Why has Israel carried out several attacks against Hezbollah in the past and why does it want to dismantle the Shia militant group? ✍️ @johnstanly trib.al/3ITxEqg

Why has Madras High Court ordered eradication of seemai karuvelam? ✍️ @imranhindu trib.al/7X72Cj3

Indore tragedy: Why do EV batteries catch fire? ✍️ @1amnerd trib.al/Ht47tnO

Oil, power, and politics of disruption ✍️ @jayanjthomas trib.al/xntHimH

What are the changes being proposed to Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 ✍️ @al_lakshman trib.al/rdg2VCK

Moral disengagement and the impact of power ✍️ @RebeccaRoseVar1 trib.al/Zd08di8

On scientific collaborations in BRICS ✍️ @KRavisrinivas and @Sinha_Sneha7 trib.al/vBbjF42

Why nurses in Kerala’s private hospitals went on strike ✍️ A. S. Jayanth trib.al/Vimghle

🔖 From India’s LPG crisis and the Essential Commodities Act to U.S. investigations into tariffs, and more, here’s what we unpack in this week’s edition of The Hindu Explains newsletter. Read here: trib.al/tEQEzdO

Why is Rajasthan’s property Bill drawing scrutiny? ✍️ Saee Pande trib.al/8Sp4JOn

Why is the U.S. investigating India? ✍️ @SharadRaghavan trib.al/LSybAU9

What does ‘No Quarter’ mean? ✍️ @saurabh3vedi trib.al/JuD4FOm

As the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz exposed the vulnerability of India’s supply chain for cooking gas, the Union government invoked the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. How will it help solve India’s gas crisis? ✍️ @prisjebaraj trib.al/cLcZnHT