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Police personnel stationed near Jantar Mantar on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Over the past few weeks, several organisations — from anti-reservation groups to those opposed to the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls — have sought permission to hold demonstrations at Jantar Mantar. Their requests have been denied amid concerns over “open calls”…
Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments S. Ramesh on Wednesday instructed executive officers to work in tandem with officials of revenue and forest Departments to retrieve lands belonging to temples in the State. Addressing officials during a routine review of works at the department headquarters in Nungambakkam, the Minister also said that they should take a…
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There are three life stages of property tax — enumeration (identification of properties and maintenance of property records along with property details), property valuation and tax assessment, and tax billing and collection. Representative file image used. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A robust property tax system is vital for India’s cities. Property tax is not…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Madhya PradeshChief MinisterMohan Yadav released two cheetahs in the Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve in Sagar district on Wednesday (October 7, 2026), marking the expansion of the cheetah conservation project. Also read | As Project Cheetah completes 4 years, big cat population in India rises to…
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Years into SpaceX’s efforts to get permissions to operate its satellite broadband service in India, the firm’s founder and CEO Elon Musk has accused “certain oligarchs” in India of stimying the service’s launch in India. Mr. Musk made the…
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Tourism Minister Kandula Durgesh at the International Tourism Innovation Summit-2026 in Seville, Spain, on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangment Andhra Pradesh is taking a major step towards transforming the tourism sector through artificial intelligence and digital technology, Tourism, Culture and Cinematography Minister Kandula Durgesh said at the international Tourism Innovation Summit-2026 in Seville, Spain…
At the United Nations High Level Meeting (UN HLM), in New York in September 2026, India made official remarks on the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response (PPPR). The Declaration is part of the emerging global legal regime on pandemics led by the WHO-Pandemic agreement (PA). Shaping the framework The PA was adopted…
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For four days in early September, Manush Shah travelled to Mumbai, the hometown of his mixed doubles partner Diya Chitale for a relatively simple job. Train. There were no selection meetings to worry about, no administrative developments to follow, no uncertainty over who would be around the Indian table tennis team. In Mumbai, the pair…
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (L) and WHO epidemic and pandemic management head Maria Van Kerkhove attend a press conference on global health issues in Geneva on October 7, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP A top official with the World Health Organisation said Wednesday (October 7, 2026) the UN health agency doesn’t know how a…
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Edtech company byteXL has raised $9 million in a funding round led by Elevar Equity with participation from Kalaari Capital and The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. The company will use the new capital to expand its institutional footprint across India, strengthen AI and technology-led learning platform, expand academic and delivery capabilities and develop new…