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According to the apex court’s cause list of September 28, the plea would come up for hearing before a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana. Photo: Special Arrangement The Supreme Court will on Monday (September 28, 2026) hear a plea challenging the Centre’s decision to impose…
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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos Two men died after allegedly suffocating due to a suspected chemical leak inside a public toilet near Mrunaltai Gore Bridge in Goregaon East early on Sunday (September 27, 2026), according to preliminary information from civic authorities. The deceased have been identified as Prabhakar Dhanivar, 24, and Bhavin Desai,…
The site at Velusamypuram, Karur, where a stampede occurred during Vijay’s campaign rally in September 2025 | Photo Credit: M. Moorthy Velusamypuram, the epicentre of the crowd crush that killed 41 persons during the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam rally addressed by its leader C. Joseph Vijay on September 27, 2025, has seemingly returned to normalcy. A…
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Automotive President and CEO Nalinikanth Gollagunta said the company had already taken three price increases this year — in January, April and July, 2026, with the July increase being about 2.7% on sports utility vehicles. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Mahindra & Mahindra is weighing another price increase across its SUV portfolio amid recent commodity…
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Russia has backed India’s candidature for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council, saying that any reform of the UN body cannot involve…
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Pope Leo XIV will meet on Sunday (September 27, 2026) with victims of clerical sex abuse, a day after holding an open-air mass for hundreds of thousands of worshippers and praying at a holy shrine in Lourdes during his official visit to France. The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is on a four-day…
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Construction debris and waste dumped in a vacant plot in a residential locality in Puducherry | Photo Credit: S.S. Kumar Local bodies in Puducherry are grappling with the growing problem of vacant plots increasingly turning into informal dumping sites for household waste and construction debris, posing a challenge for them ahead of the rainy season….
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The story so far: On September 22, the Karnataka Legislature unanimously passed a resolution rejecting the K. Kasturirangan Committee report on the Western Ghats in its current form. The resolution was in response to the seventh draft, published on July 27 by the Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Climate Change to declare parts of the…
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Over the last 10 days, Indian women have put up a formidable cricketing display against their Asian counterparts. In Dubai, they first secured their eighth Asia Cup title, and then went on to defend their place as the gold medallists at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. However, women’s cricket in this country has had…
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Relentless rainfall across Nepal since Thursday (September 24, 2026) has triggered fresh floods and landslips, swept away houses and disrupted road traffic, according to a media report, as the Himalayan country reels from the disaster that killed at least 1,453 people and more than 5,000 remain missing. The bodies of 1,451 people have been recovered…
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