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A dark smartphone lying on a wooden table with its SIM tray pulled out, a nano SIM card and an ejector pin beside it, in an AI-generated representative image.

WhatsApp SIM binding explained: why your messaging apps may need the SIM inside your phone from January 1

Explained22 Oct3 min read5 sources

A seafront promenade with concrete tetrapods and a curving line of buildings fading into thick grey smog over the sea, in an AI-generated representative scene.

Mumbai’s smog explained: why a breezy coastal city’s air is rivalling Delhi’s this October

Explained22 Oct3 min read5 sources

The cream-coloured colonial-era facade of the State Bank of India’s Chandni Chowk branch in Old Delhi, with blue SBI signboards in English and Hindi.

SBI data leak explained: what was exposed in 3,897 customer records, and what account holders should do

Explained21 Oct2 min read8 sources

Auto-rickshaws, cars and cycle-rickshaws on a tree-lined New Delhi road shrouded in thick grey smog, with a Chelmsford Road sign on the right.

GRAP Stage 1 is now in force in Delhi-NCR: what it means, and the bigger winter curbs due from November 1

Explained21 Oct3 min read8 sources

The curved tower of the Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai with its red BSE sign, seen from street level among trees.

Jio Platforms IPO explained: price band, lot size, retail quota and how allotment works

Explained21 Oct2 min read8 sources

Night-time Ramnagar Ramlila scene with costumed performers beneath a decorated arch and spectators gathered around them.

In Ramnagar’s Ramlila, the audience travels with the story

Explained20 Oct2 min read3 sources

Musicians carrying large brass instruments among a crowded Kullu Dussehra procession, with decorated palanquins and hills beyond.

Kullu’s Dussehra brings the valley’s village gods together for a week

Explained20 Oct2 min read4 sources

A decorated wooden chariot and a crowd outside an illuminated building during Bastar Dussehra in Jagdalpur, photographed in 2017.

Bastar’s Dussehra lasts roughly 75 days and doesn’t involve burning Ravana

Explained20 Oct2 min read4 sources