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Doctor moved to Odisha to treat Adivasis, now behind bars for anti-mining protests
after completing his medical studies, randall sequeira chose a path less travelled. leaving behind mumbai, where he grew up, sequeira moved to odisha’s Kalahandi district, where basic healthcare remains out of reach for many tribals. While he worked...
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PM targets Rahul: New world order, some for disorder here
attempts to launch its leader,” he said. Singling out the Gandhi family, he said, “Whatever decline Congress chooses to bring upon itself is entirely its own concern, and we have no problem with that. but to protect one family from the repeated stain...
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Dry for a decade, Bihar hit by a new lethal high: drugs & addicts
in the 10 years since Bihar imposed prohibition, its police have seized around 3.16 crore litres of liquor and made around 7.15 lakh related arrests across the state — around 8,650 litres and 196 arrests on an average, every day. this is known. What is...
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Eve of visit, Rubio links pause on Russia sanctions to India-us deal
DAYS After the US signed a diesel purchase deal with russia and announced a pause on the Lindsey o Graham Sanctioning russia and iran Act of 2026, United States Secretary of State Marco rubio on Monday said the decision to waive russia oil sanctions...
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Kolkata stampede: Ropes dropped, one exit, warnings that led to panic
A MAN from Bihar and his seven-year-old son, two best friends in their teens, a promising young swimmer set to leave for a holiday the next morning, and a nurse at a cancer hospital who had come straight after her shift: these were among the 19 people...
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Choreographing Consent
DURING A student demonstration in eastern Paris this month, riot police pushed their shields against a group of young protesters. Wedged between them was a tall man in a gray suit and lavender tie. He spread his arms wide, shielding the boys, and...
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Over 100 detained after protests against CEC, Opp demands release of Dipke, Bora
Police DETAINED more than 100 people, including Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and All india Students’ Association president Neha Bora, as protesters gathered in and around Connaught Place in the heart of the Capital Friday evening,...
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Zelenskyy says ‘done’ with Trump’s energy truce, hits Russian refineries
ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery thursday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv was “done” supporting a ceasefire on energy targets announced by us President donald trump was ignored by Russia. since trump’s surprise announcement on...
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The long and rocky road to a trade deal with US
ON SATURDAY, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said that India and the US would finalise their interim trade agreement framework in line with “changed circumstances”. That statement appeared to indicate that negotiations for the first phase of the...
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India global growth partner, reform our conviction, not compulsion: PM
POSITIONING India as a “steady pillar” carrying everyone along in a world roiled by conflicts and uncertainty, Prime Minister narendra Modi said Tuesday that the country’s confidence is at an “unprecedented high” and reforms are being pursued with a...
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Opp leaders put up united front, march to SC, file joint petition
ESCALATING THEIR campaign seeking the removal of Chief election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and scrapping of the Special Intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, opposition parties, led by the Congress, drew thousands of workers and supporters to...
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SC: Ensure no illegal detentions, restore Metro, internet services
AMID The ongoing protests in the Capital, the supreme Court on sunday directed the authorities to ensure that there are no illegal detentions, free and smooth movement of people is allowed, Metro and train services function normally, and internet...
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Kathak exponent Roshan Kumari, part of celebrated trinity of Sitara Devi and Damayanti Joshi, died this week
Devoted to Dance Kathak exponent Roshan Kumari, part of celebrated trinity of Sitara Devi and Damayanti Joshi, died this week
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Delhi locks down to block protests seeking CEC exit
Forty FIVE stations on the Delhi Metro network were closed, at least 245 trains arriving at or leaving New Delhi and hazrat Nizamuddin stations were cancelled, mobile internet was shut down in a large part of Central Delhi, and layers of barricades...
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Taxman’s pre-prosecution arrest powers taken away
in A bid to boost business sentiment, the Goods and Services tax (GST) Council on thursday approved sweeping process reforms, ranging from the removal of arrest powers from tax officers at the pre-prosecution stage to a minimum threshold of Rs 10,000...
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Scars from Oct 7 fuel divisions over Netanyahu ahead of Israel election
AS ISRAEL gears up for its first elections since hamas’ october 7, 2023, attack, Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the heart of their campaigns. nearly every poster, stump speech or televised debate seems to...
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Ukraine fires 900 drones at Russia, braces for response
Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as occupied Crimean Peninsula and sea of azov, Defence Ministry in Moscow said tuesday. unconfirmed media reports said a major fuel...
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On a remote Greek island, empty classrooms signal enrolment crisis across Europe
CHRYSSA NTALAKA’S classroom has become an object lesson in subtraction. The sole teacher in the last school on the idyllic Greek island of Kalamos has a shorter list of students every fall. This year, just two. on September 23, the sixth graders sat...
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Team depth to individual gaps: India’s Asian Games report card for LA 2028
●BETWEEN THE 2022 Asian Games in china’s hangzhou and the latest edition that wound up sunday in Japan’s nagoya, the Government spent Rs 97.84 crore under the Target olympic Podium scheme (Tops). only two per cent of it, approximately, translated to...
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A poet for the ages
DOWN IN JUNGLELAND BY RANJIT LAL What makes insect wings marvels of natural engineering
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‘Told myself door right there, do it,’ pilot tells PM; UAE calls attack an act of terror
a day after he was airlifted to the uae from saudi arabia, flydubai’s indian pilot Captain smit Machchhar, attacked by a co-pilot who allegedly attempted to crash the plane flying to Tel aviv from dubai, told Prime Minister narendra Modi friday that as...
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‘Left out’ voters: EC orders special drive in 20 states where SIR over
Under fire over the scale of deletions from voters’ lists in the nationwide Special intensive revision (Sir) exercise, the election Commission of india (eci) has directed the 20 states and Union Territories where the exercise has been completed to run...
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Global firm will design Gandhi Ashram museums; politicians, academics on board
AS the new Gandhi Ashram takes shape in Ahmedabad, the contract for designing the 23 museums on the premises has been awarded to Museum Studio, a globally acclaimed executing firm for turnkey projects in cultural institutions. Museum Studio, which is...
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Four women, many struggles, one gold: India’s 4x400m relay team tops podium
• For KIRAN PAHAL, running was once an act of defiance. her father had to fight an entire village in Sonipat to allow his daughter to pursue athletics. • For Prachi Choudhary, a farmer’s daughter from Saharanpur, the dream of a DSP post in the UP...
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Maharashtra top poll officer wants ECINET discretion for local staff — a demand the two ECS had flagged
The Chief electoral Officer of Maharashtra, the largest state now in the notice phase of the Special intensive Revision (SIR), wrote to the election Commission of india (eci) in New Delhi last week, seeking four changes to the ecinet software, each, in...
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Violence over sexual assault claim in LPU, university denies incident
Students of Lovely Professional university (LPU) in Punjab’s Phagwara staged a violent protest early on Sunday, damaging property, vandalising shops, setting vehicles on fire and blocking a national highway, alleging that a girl student had been...
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Unmapped voters need not attend hearings, ECINET to get a review Disquiet within, all three Election Commissioners meet, take first steps
in its first meeting since The Indian Express reported on the deep divide within the election Commission over the past 10 months, the poll panel on saturday sought to address several concerns raised by its two commissioners sukhbir singh sandhu and...
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NDA partners to EC: Clarify, problematic if people begin to doubt electoral process
Members Of the ruling Bjp-led NDA on friday said Chief election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar must “dispel misgivings in the minds of the people” and the election Commission (ec) must issue a clarification on internal differences over special...
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Trump rolls out red carpet for Xi as both seek stability despite tensions
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday for a lavish state summit expected to be heavy on symbolism but light on substance, with both leaders keen to showcase stable ties despite a host of thorny...
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After Trump’s ‘annihilation’ threat, Pezeshkian says Iran won’t surrender
iran and the United States remain far apart on how to end their war but diplomacy must continue, a senior iranian official told Reuters Wednesday, after iran’s president told the Un General assembly tehran would never surrender to US pressure. iranian...
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In UN address, Trump says he faces a choice to make a deal or annihilate Iran
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday to make the case for his war on Iran, arguing he has prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and warning he could “annihilate the Islamic Republic” if no deal is reached...
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IIT-Bombay removes prof named in student suicide from dean post
amid MOUNTING student protests following the death by suicide of 20-year-old student sahil wakode, Iit-bombay on Monday suspended “with immediate effect” Prof suryanarayana doolla from the post of dean of administrative affairs. The institution’s...
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2017 doklam border fallout in mumbai: china’s top bank froze loans worth $185 mn, told party cadre to alert embassy
When INDIAN and Chinese troops were locked in a face-off at doklam along the northeastern border in 2017, the fallout was felt over 2,000 km down the map — in mumbai, home to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s only branch in India. The ICBC...
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Trump signs Russia sanction bill giving him power to levy 100% tariffs on India
US PRESIDENT donald Trump Friday signed into law the Lindsey o. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, giving himself the authority to impose tariffs of up to 100% on countries, including India and China, that continue buying Russian oil and...
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Hostel collapse: Civic body, DU responsible too, says HC
the delhi High Court on Monday said responsibility for the building collapse at satya niketan in south delhi, which killed seven people, could extend beyond the Pg owner to delhi university and civic authorities, while flagging the “absolutely...
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Far-right AFD posts historic election win, exit polls show
THE ALTERNATIVE for Germany (AFD) surged into first place in state elections in Saxony-anhalt on Sunday, exit polls showed, putting a Far-Right party on the cusp of power at state level for the first time since World War II. The AFD won 44.5% of the...
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Fighter jet as gift, Razia Sultan story: On gender bias, Punjab textbooks turn new page
what Sidhak wants is a kitchen set. all her friends have one, and when her “Daarji”, who’s cooking in the kitchen, ignores her, she gets petulant. “Daarji just doesn’t care,” she says. Instead, her grandfather asks her to watch the republic Day...
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GSLV sheds ‘naughty boy’ tag with india’s first geo-imaging satellite
In ITS first launch since January, the Indian space research Organisation sent an earth observation satellite, eos-05, to space early Friday morning, using a Gslv rocket. The eos-05 is India’s first dedicated imaging satellite to be placed in the...
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Police camera ‘caught’ murder, rape accused at Jantar Mantar protest — at least 25 of them were in jail, records show
ON TUESDAY, when the supreme Court quashed all FIRS related to the exam leak protests by students, it let the government proceed against the 2,873 people who the delhi Police claimed had criminal records and were identified by its facial recognition...
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Pattaya’s nightlife eyes a boom as war-weary crew of US warship arrives for ‘R&R’
THERE’S NO getting around the fact Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya has a lingering reputation for sex tourism, even though that’s only part of the story for the city offering shore leave for crew members aboard USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft...
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Toll crosses 1,000; morgues full, Kathmandu sees mass burials
AS DUSK fell over Kathmandu and rain swept across the valley, a line of ambulances arrived at the western gate of Gokarna Forest Resort, a former retreat and hunting reserve of Nepal’s royal family. Police personnel and workers soon began carrying the...
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Trump vows to hit Iran hard after first exchange of fire in a month
US president donald Trump was quoted on monday as promising to “hit them hard” after Tehran launched missiles overnight at two US air bases in Jordan in response to a attack on iran's larak island. “We’re going to hit them hard,” a Fox News reporter...
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Lanka beckons, but for refugees in TN, too much time and distance lie in between
Five DAYS before his family fled Sri Lanka, men from the eelam People’s revolutionary Liberation Front arrived looking for boys above the age of 12. mahendran was 11. his parents hid him, his brother and cousins in the narrow space between the roof and...
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275 Indians still missing in Nepal, toll climbs to 675
AS SEARCH and rescue operations continued in nepal for the fourth day on Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said 275 indian nationals and another 128 people of indian origin — mostly Kailash Mansarovar Yatra pilgrims — remained missing....
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‘They all died, and I lived’: Survivors of Nepal flood left in stunned disbelief
the survivors sat patiently, waiting for their turn to be transported to safety. some wept. mothers clutched their babies. husbands grieved for the wives whose hands they could no longer hold. and some onlookers expressed guilt that they had little to...
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Nepal races against time to look for survivors, 290 Indians still missing
With hundreds still missing in Nepal a day after a flash flood ravaged several districts in the country’s north, rescuers searched mud-filled valleys and hills for survivors as the official death count climbed to 392 Thursday night. in New delhi, the...
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Over 100 Indians among hundreds missing in Nepal flash flood fury
over 150 people were killed while at least 484, including 105 indians and 37 non-resident indians (nris), were reported missing after massive flash floods in nepal’s districts bordering tibet on Wednesday. according to official figures, 391 foreign...
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Iran vows to resist widened sanctions, says US seeks talks
IRAN DENOUNCED on Tuesday expanded US sanctions aimed at isolating its economy as an act of “gross lawlessness”, expressing confidence that many countries would not join the pressure campaign. Almost six months into a conflict the US has struggled to...
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‘Hadn’t even seen son’s face’: Three newborns killed in fire at Amravati hospital
AS he sat outside the mortuary on Monday, Swapnil Borge was shell-shocked. his son was born only a day before, and though he’d not even seen his face yet, Borge had gone around distributing sweets to anyone he came across — staff of the government...
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Railways rolls out waterless urinals for pilots of India’s most powerful locomotives
The LACK of a urinal or toilet in locomotives is one of the biggest operational challenges for the country’s loco pilots. This challenge has become even more pronounced given that the Railways is inducting women as loco pilots. Now, India’s most...
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THE WORLDS INSIDE A SONG
Irshad Kamil, one of Hindi cinema’s most prolific lyricists, on how his roots in Punjab have shaped his writing for over three decades
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Rashtrapati Bhavan announces, retracts Rahman visit statement
There were red faces in New Delhi Friday after rashtrapati Bhavan announced the cancellation of saturday’s Change of Guard ceremony “due to the full rehearsal for the ceremonial welcome” of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique rahman, and then withdrew...
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RWAS a barrier, Govt may let high-income households compile own spending data
TWO years ago, the Ministry of statistics and Programme implementation (Mospi) and some Resident Welfare Associations (RWAS) had squared off: the latter felt the government’s surveys asked difficult questions and sought private details, while the...
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workers protesting for higher wages got over 50 days on average in jail — until courts stepped in
It’s a tale of two protests — and two very different outcomes. last month, the Jantar Mantar protest demanding a leakproof exam system ended with the Union education Minister’s resignation and an assurance by the Centre and states that the police will...
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No suicide, self-harm, romantic or sexual chats: Openai launches CHATGPT for teens
openai is launching a version of chatgpt designed for teenagers — the first generation to grow up with artificial intelligence — who are already using it for schoolwork, questions about daily life and even companionship. The san Francisco-based...
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Amid protests, Soren cancels key exam, scraps all tests held by outsourced agency
Jharkhand Chief Minister hemant soren on Monday said the state Cabinet has decided to cancel the result for the JsscCGL examination, and all exams conducted by testing agency TDPL, in a bid to end a deadlock that has embroiled his government for weeks...
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Kyiv launches biggest drone attack on Russia so far, kills 6
UKRAINE LAUNCHED hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with longrange missiles and swarms of drones targeting...
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Youth will power our journey to Viksit Bharat 2047, says PM
MARKING THE 80th Independence Day in the shadow of the Jantar Mantar protests by the youth — which saw the resignation of a Union Minister and the promise of exam reform — Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday underlined “yuva shakti” (youth power)...
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Kyiv seeks Patriot missiles as Russia hits Danube port
RUSSIA STRUCK Ukraine’s largest grain export port on the Danube Thursday, causing damage and starting a fire, authorities said, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine needed more US air defence missiles to get through winter. The port...
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Putin threatens to seize EU ships if Europe targets Russian vessels
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR Putin said on wednesday that russia will respond in kind if European countries start to seize russian merchant vessels and the commander of russia's Pacific Fleet said his forces were ready to “inspect and detain” foreign vessels...
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AC vests and UV parasols: Southeast Asia turns to high-tech gadgets to beat the heat
STROLL THROUGH Tokyo on a summer day and you’ll see hand-held fans everywhere. But the light-blue one that eimi Nakayama was holding on a recent afternoon was a more high-tech variety. Outfitted with a small metal plate that runs on the same science...
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Lathis, tear gas, a sea of protesters: Jharkhand anger reaches Assembly
Protesters WHO attempted to march to the Vidhan Sabha in Jharkhand’s ranchi were met with lathi-charge, tear gas and water cannons as anger over alleged irregularities in state government exams saw no sign of ebbing. Meanwhile, former Jharkhand Public...
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Birdcall, insect flutter: Experts capture sounds of forest — and their meaning
last Year, a collective of ecologists and enthusiasts set out to capture the sounds of india’s key ecosystems. they came up with nearly a hundred hours of recordings across ecologically varied terrain — from the drenched corridors of the Western Ghats...
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UPI free for citizens, merchants may face ‘nominal’ fee: Govt
ALLAYING User concerns, the Ministry of Finance “categorically” stated saturday that consumers making UPI payments will not face any transaction charges, and all person-to-person transactions will continue to be free of charge. It, however, said as...
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No cover over House gate, Speaker asks CPWD to consider a porch
three years after the new Parliament building was inaugurated, Lok sabha speaker Om birla asked the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) this week to consider adding a porch over Makar Dwar, the entrance currently uncovered and used by the majority...
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