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BJP leads Bengal, Assam, TVK advances in bypolls
Vote counting for six high-profile bypolls across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry began on Friday, October 9, with the results offering an early assessment of politic...
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GST Council scraps officers’ arrest powers
SportsAgarkar exits after trophy-laden stint as India selector
TechnologyPM Modi flags cyber fraud at IMC 2026
LifestyleAnne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in literature
HealthWHO issues first global guidelines to tackle child obesity
World NewsUS proposes $70,000 OPT fee for international students
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El Niño set to intensify, raising global weathe...
The world is preparing for a potentially powerful El Niño event that could intensify in the coming m...
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Jeffrey Archer dies at 86, leaves literary legacy
Jeffrey Archer, the British novelist whose gripping tales of ambition, betrayal, love and redemption...
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GST Council scraps officers’ arrest powers
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has approved a series of changes to tax administration, seeking to make compliance easier, reduce...
RBI removes Paytm Bank from scheduled list
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has formally removed Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL) from the lis...
RBI raises repo rate to 5.50%
The Reserve Bank of India has raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50%, marking the first in...
Sitharaman flags tough India-US talks
India and the United States appear to have reached a difficult point in their negotiations for a tra...
Reforms put India closer to Viksit Bharat goa...
India’s economic resilience is the result of years of reforms rather than a temporary phase of stron...
technology
PM Modi flags cyber fraud at IMC 2026
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a global framework to tackle cyber fraud and deepfakes, saying digital technology can reach...
Starlink India launch faces hurdles
Elon Musk’s Starlink is ready to enter India, but the satellite internet company is yet to receive all the clearances needed to begin c...
Google intraduces Nano Banana 2.1
Google has launched Nano Banana 2.1, its latest artificial intelligence model for image generation a...
Oppo F35 Series debuts in India
Oppo has launched its new F35 series in India, bringing the Oppo F35 5G and Oppo F35 Pro 5G to the m...
India blocks Bitchat over security concerns
The Indian government has moved against Bitchat, the decentralised messaging application backed by T...
OpenAI adds AI try-on to ChatGPT
Online shopping is becoming more visual, and ChatGPT is taking another step in that direction. OpenA...
health
WHO issues first global guidelines to tackle child obesity
A growing number of children are entering their teenage years with a health problem once associated mainly with adults. Childhood obesity has bec...
Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize for cosmic neutrino discovery
Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observat...
Russia lab death sparks plague fears in Siberia
A laboratory worker’s death in Siberia has triggered fears of a possible pneumonic plague infection, prompting Russian authorities to place nearl...
lifestyle
Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in literatu...
Canadian poet, essayist and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, earning global recognition for a body of work that...
Nana Patekar’s legacy goes beyond cinema
Veteran actor leaves behind powerful performances and lasting legacy of service to farmers and famil...
Jeffrey Archer dies at 86, leaves literary le...
Jeffrey Archer, the British novelist whose gripping tales of ambition, betrayal, love and redemption...
Arijit Singh announces 2027 India tour
Arijit Singh is returning to the stage in a big way. The singer has announced a nine-city India tour...
Avinash Mishra wins Khatron Ke Khiladi 15
Avinash Mishra has emerged as the winner of Khatron Ke Khiladi 15, turning weeks of fear, physical c...
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BJP leads Bengal, Assam, TVK advances in bypolls
Vote counting for six high-profile bypolls across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry began on Friday, October 9, with the re...
INDIA Bloc holds silent protest at Raj Ghat
The INDIA bloc’s protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar entered its third day on Thursday, October 8, as oppos...
Protests intensify over CEC Gyanesh Kumar
Political tensions over the Election Commission’s voter-list revision exercise intensified on Thursd...
PM Modi marks 25 years of leadership, service
Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed 25 years today, at the helm of a government, marking a politi...
Rahul Gandhi detained during poll panel protest
Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi was detained in New Delhi on ...
India strengthens naval, aerospace defence manufacturin...
India has taken two significant steps towards strengthening its indigenous defence manufacturing cap...
opinion
When cybercrime becomes warfar...
For years, the standard advice to a company under cyberattack has been curiously one-sided: defend yourself, preserve the evidence, cal...
The India we built since 1947
Try to imagine India as we were in 1947 — try it without the sepia photographs, patriotic songs and ...
Tata does not need another Chandra
The market delivered its verdict within hours. After N Chandrasekaran announced that he would not se...
When Kerala’s political fault lines surface publicly
Barely two months after the formation of the V.D. Satheesan government, Kerala's political discourse...
Austerity begins with the State
While PM Modi’s call to conserve fuel, reduce imports, and avoid buying gold might reflect a genuine...
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Thackerays lead Mumbai poll protest
Uddhav and Raj Thackeray jointly led Mumbai’s Virat Garjana Morcha, demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, scrapping of electo...
PM Modi speaks to Flydubai pilot
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with injured Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar, praising his courage during the cockpit attack. M...
Maharashtra marks 265 talukas drought-hit
Maharashtra has declared 265 of its 358 talukas drought-affected after an 18.8% rainfall deficit. The government announced crop-lo...
world news
Houthi strikes escalate Riyadh airport crisis
Saudi Arabia is facing a dangerous escalation in the widening Middle East conflict after attacks attributed to Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi moveme...
US proposes $70,000 OPT fee for international students
A new proposal from the United States Department of Homeland Security could make it dramatically more expensive for international students to sta...
France students take to streets over school crisis
France’s young people are making themselves heard. What began as students blocking school entrances has grown into a wider protest movement, with...