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French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/india-the-marke…

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest | TechCrunch
BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year.

How To Turn A Block Of Tofu Into An Irresistible Meal (Or Two) #plantbased

How To Turn A Block Of Tofu Into An Irresistible Meal (Or Two)
Discover how Nisha Vora’s grated tofu technique transforms a block of tofu into a crispy, savory, and versatile ingredient

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory.
The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president,
who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.
https://bsky.app/profile/norm…

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social)
We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

"From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain"
#India #SolarPower #Energy

From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain
On remote river islands in eastern India’s Assam state, solar power is helping children access education more reliably, reports Mongabay India’s Shailesh Shrivastava. Schools in Assam’s Brahmaputra River Valley recently introduced digital classroom infrastructure, bringing audio-visual learning to children. For some students, this shift from chalkboard-only teaching has been a game changer. “Until last year, […]

38 North: outside radio broadcasting to North Korea is down 85% since the start of 2025 due to the shutdown of US broadcasters and South Korean policy changes (Hyung-Jin Kim/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-radio-int…

Efforts to send foreign news into North Korea face major setbacks
Decades-long efforts to provide uncensored foreign news into North Korea are facing setbacks now. Big government-funded broadcasters in the U.S. and South Korea have fallen silent one by one this year amid policy shifts in the countries. That leaves only several small civilian or religious organizations still operating to transmit radio broadcasts into North Korea, where all radio and TV sets are fixed to state-run channels. But defectors have testified they modified their radios or used smuggl…

Browns QB Shedeur Sanders 'confident' but not 'comfortable' going into second start https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-confident-but-not-comfortable-going-into-second-start

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/its-whack-a-mole-alarming-rise-in-pet-trade-fuels-wildlife-trafficking-into-california/<…

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California
In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, repeatedly claimed the bump was “pirrin,” a Spanish word for penis. His history of smuggling birds into the U.S. prompted further examination, […]

A look at India's rationale for banning online real-money games, with IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw citing 450M people losing a combined ~$2.3B to them (Vivek Kaul/Newslaundry)
https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/08/27/the-rs-444-question-why-in…

The Rs 444 question: Why India banned online money games
The real challenge lies in balancing innovation with protection, profit with responsibility, and freedom with regulation.

Widespread UN sanctions against Iran have come back into force for the first time in a decade,
after last-ditch nuclear talks with western powers failed to produce a breakthrough.
The sanctions, which came into effect late on Saturday and three months after Israel and the US bombed Iran,
bar dealings related to Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missiles program and are also expected to have wider effects on its troubled economy.

Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.