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Students’ organisations, including the SFI, NSUI, MSF and AISF, clash with the police while protesting against a national seminar on Vande Mataram organised at the Central University of Kerala on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) | Photo Credit: special arrangement Four students were reportedly injured during clashes between the police and student protesters at the Central…
(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.) On September 30, 2026, more than 23 years after the invasion, U.S. troops finally left Iraq, amid another American war in the region. The basis for the United States’…
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Ever since the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a regional election last month, not a day goes by without Ola Akhras and her husband discussing whether they should go back to Syria. The couple live with their two young daughters in Magdeburg, where Saxony-Anhalt’s newly elected State legislature was set to meet…
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A 32-year-old man, Shyam Sundarrajan of Sholavandan, was stabbed to death within the limits of Sholavandan police station on Monday (October 5, 2026) night. The police suspect that a previous enmity among his relatives over an illicit relationship may have led to the murder. While Sundarrajan was riding a bike on the Sholavandan-Vadipatti Road, he…
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Israelis stand on the sidewalk outside a police station where a memorial stands for victims of the October 7 attack by Hamas three years prior, in Sderot, southern Israel, on October 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Israel’s Defence Minister on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) said he had put the military on high alert before…
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Representational image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Keralam government’s announcement that it will make private health care more “affordable” through consultations with the private health sector, and that a Bill in this regard was in the offing, should be seen against the State’s seven-year legal battle before the Kerala High Court upheld the Kerala…
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By 2047, India plans to become an economically developed country. By 2070, it aims to become a net-zero emissions economy. Achieving both of these targets requires the Indian government to deal with one of the most important sources of emissions: construction. This sector consumes steel and cement, among other materials, and its footprint contributes 35%…
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Iran-backed Houthis said on Monday (October 5, 2026) they had struck Riyadh’s international airport, an oil refinery and other sites in Saudi Arabia, as the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said they had destroyed Houthi targets on the Red Sea coast. Pakistan and Turkiye have pledged to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia under a new mutual…
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The Forum for Constitutional Democracy (FCD) has condemned the Delhi Police for allegedly refusing to register an FIR against ACP Vivek Bhagat following complaints by three women journalists accusing him of molestation. In a joint statement issued on Monday, October 5, the FCD said the Delhi Police had received three complaints against the officer on…
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Harmanpreet Kaur, under whom India won its maiden ODI World Cup, said she is leaving the captaincy “with a heart full of emotions, but also with peace” | Photo Credit: ICC via Getty Images Indian women’s cricket team’s long-serving captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) stepped down from her position in all three…
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