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Savitribai Phule Pune University. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Studentsprotesting a mess fee hike at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) temporarily suspended their four-day sit-in on Thursday (September 24, 2026) after Vice-Chancellor Suresh Gosavi gave a written assurance to a Students’ Federation of India (SFI) delegation that the issue would be taken up at…
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray. File | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Friday (September 25, 2026) wrote to Maharashtra Governor Jishnu Dev Varma, seeking postponement of the upcoming MPSC State Service Mains until a reform panel submits its recommendations. In his September 25 letter, Mr. Thackeray said the…
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee President Ajay Rai, along with party workers, during a protest march against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his resignation, in Lucknow, on September 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI Uttar PradeshCongress unit on Friday (September 25, 2026) held a demonstration against the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, and clashed…
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Kunal Ghosh. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Trinamool Congress on Friday (September 26, 2026) accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of manufacturing a narrative of religious polarisation by paying YouTubers and social media influencers ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls. According to expenditure statements filed with the Election Commission,…
Charred remains of a sleeper bus after it caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway in the Greater Noida area, killing nine passengers, in Noida, early Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI The Greater Noida police on Friday arrested the booking manager of Raj Kalpana Travels, one of whose buses, en route to Mahoba…
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The Delhi High Court on Friday criticised Delhi University over its response on the issue of adding additional hostel facilities for students as “absolutely vague” while hearing various petitions on the September 6 Satya Niketan multi-storey building collapse in which seven persons, including five students, lost their lives. The court made stern remarks on the…
There is something amusing about the fact that a city famous for Chinese fishing nets, churches, synagogues and the occasional wholesome family lunch is also becoming a surprisingly interesting place to talk about sex. In Kochi, the conversation is increasingly moving beyond the old binary of sex as either something that happens after marriage or…
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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav relaunched public bus service in the State on Friday. The service was shutdown in 2005 and the relaunch came after a gap of 21 years. At a ceremony held on the birth anniversary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patron Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Mr. Yadav and Mr. Gadkari unveiled the ‘Mukhyamantri Sugam Parivahan Seva’ and flagged off 351…
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An interactive session held at the Kerala Responsible Tourism Mission Society stall at the Kerala Travel Mart in Kochi on September 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: John L. Paul Foreign buyers attending the 13th edition of the Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) have cited the need to augment marketing of Keralam’s attractive locales and the diverse…
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The Mumbai police’s Crime Branch has recorded the statements of 20 people in connection with the alleged death by suicide of IIT Bombay student Sahil Ravindra Wakode. The institute had initially claimed that he was caught cheating during an exam. Among those questioned so far are students, staff members, those present in the examination hall, teachers supervising the examination, and…
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