Month: August 2026

Jadavpur University on the boil as supporters of ABVP and SFI clash

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Jadavpur University on the boil as supporters of ABVP and SFI clash

Armed with sticks and batons, supporters of ABVP stormed inside the JU campus, tore posters of the Left-backed students, and set them on fire. Credit: X/@cpimspeak post screengrab Jadavpur University remained on the boil since Wednesday evening (August 19, 2026) after clashes erupted between supporters of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Left-backed student unions,…

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Supreme Court scraps worker-friendly 1978 ‘industry’ precedent for new labour code

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Supreme Court scraps worker-friendly 1978 ‘industry’ precedent for new labour code

In a verdict in which judges varyingly differed on issues, the nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday (August 20, 2026) held that a nearly half-century-old expansive interpretation of ‘industry’, which previously granted workers stronger labour rights and protection, will not apply under the new Industrial Relations Code, 2020. The reference before the Constitution…

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In glory in Galle, it’s time for Team India to iron out the flaws

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In glory in Galle, it’s time for Team India to iron out the flaws

India’s captain Shubman Gill congratulates bowler Prasidh Krishna for the dismissal of Sri Lanka’s Niroshan Dickwella during day five of the first cricket test match between Sri Lanka and India in Galle, Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: AP The triumph at Galle was a fitting climax to India’s 600th Test. It spread cheer in the…

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Bank employee kills wife, sister before shooting himself in Lucknow

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Bank employee kills wife, sister before shooting himself in Lucknow

A police vehicle outside the ICICI Bank branch in the Gomti Nagar area, after a bank employee allegedly shot dead his wife, a bank official, and his sister before shooting himself, in Lucknow, on August 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI A double murder-suicide shocked Lucknow on Thursday (August 20, 2026), when Manas Vajpayee, a…

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Deliveries at Keralam’s Kozhikode Government Women and Children’s Hospital decline

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Deliveries at Keralam’s Kozhikode Government Women and Children’s Hospital decline

Normal deliveries are declining and C-section deliveries remain high at the Government Hospital for Women and Children at Kottaparamba in Kozhikode City, Keralam. According to the Health department, there were a total of 5,201 deliveries (2,729 normal and 2,472 C-section) in 2020-21. This number came down to 2,238 (1,387 normal and 851 C-section) in 2025-26….

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Centre’s fiscal outlook faces geopolitical, revenue risks

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Centre’s fiscal outlook faces geopolitical, revenue risks

Geopolitical headwinds in the background of recently introduced tax changes would shape the Centre’s fiscal outlook for 2026-27. Despite pressure on tax revenues and subsidies, strong non-tax receipts and policy interventions may keep fiscal outcomes broadly on track. Centre’s revenue receipts As per the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) data, the Centre’s gross tax revenues…

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Socialist surge: On the rise of democratic socialism in the U.S.

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Socialist surge: On the rise of democratic socialism in the U.S.

As the Trump administration persists with its blunderbuss reshaping of American foreign policy — a marriage of hyperimperialism, with wars in West Asia, a de facto capture of power in Venezuela and the strangling of Cuba’s fuel trade, and isolationism, seen in withdrawals from multilateral institutions and tariffs imposed on a whim — the world…

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Roads to be priority in new development zones, says DDA V-C

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Roads to be priority in new development zones, says DDA V-C

L-G Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Union Urban Development Minister Manohar Lal, CM Rekha Gupta and other dignitaries at the unveiling of the MPD-2047 in New Delhi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will prioritise the development of road networks in new areas identified for development, including land pooling zones,…

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Construction activities around Pallikaranai marshland can be regulated, not banned: TNSWA tells Madras High Court

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Construction activities around Pallikaranai marshland can be regulated, not banned: TNSWA tells Madras High Court

The NCSCM’s report says the variation in the proposed ZoI shows the heterogeneous character of the wetland-urban interface and supports a site-specific approach. | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B In what could give hope to thousands of property owners around the 1,247.54-hectare Pallikaranai marshland in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu State Wetlands Authority (TNSWA) on Thursday…

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