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Indian shipyards must win foreign orders and deliver ships on time, says Rajnath Singh

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Indian shipyards must win foreign orders and deliver ships on time, says Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh speaks at Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: V. Raju Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) said Indian shipyards must move beyond building for the country’s own needs and compete for orders from friendly foreign nations. The goal, he said at the launch of…

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World No. 1 Jannik Sinner’s 2026 season ends with knee injury

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World No. 1 Jannik Sinner’s 2026 season ends with knee injury

Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Tennis world number one Jannik Sinner will not compete again in 2026 ​after opting to continue his recovery from a knee ‌injury that has sidelined him since his ​triumphant Wimbledon campaign in July, the ⁠Italian said on Tuesday (October 6, 2026). Sinner has not played…

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Harmanpreet Kaur loved to lead, and did so from the front

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Harmanpreet Kaur loved to lead, and did so from the front

Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur in action during an Asian Games match. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Nearly 3 lakh views. More than 10,000 comments. In less than two hours after she announced through social media that she was stepping down as India’s captain, the traffic on Harmanpreet Kaur’s Instagram page reflected not…

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Rajnath Singh launches Navy’s first indigenous fleet support ship ‘Surya’ at Visakhapatnam

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Rajnath Singh launches Navy’s first indigenous fleet support ship ‘Surya’ at Visakhapatnam

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with naval officers and officials in front of the stern of Surya after its launch at Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: V. Raju Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched the Indian Navy’s first indigenously built Fleet Support Ship FSS-1 named Surya and laid the keel for…

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India’s blind women cricketers still wait for house sites and jobs a year after their World Cup win

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India’s blind women cricketers still wait for house sites and jobs a year after their World Cup win

Andhra Pradesh Minister for MSME Kondapalli Srinivas hands over a ₹50,000 cheque from Hindustan Shipyard Limited to cricketer Pangi Karuna Kumari at the felicitation of the Indian women’s blind cricket team at Mangalampalem on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Deepika T.C. captained India to victory in the first Women’s T20 World Cup for the…

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4 students injured as protest erupts at Central University of Kerala during Vande Mataram seminar

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4 students injured as protest erupts at Central University of Kerala during Vande Mataram seminar

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…

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View From India Newsletter From Iraq to Gaza: A Long Trail of Damage 

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View From India Newsletter From Iraq to Gaza: A Long Trail of Damage 

(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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Far-right election win leaves migrants questioning their future in eastern Germany

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Far-right election win leaves migrants questioning their future in eastern Germany

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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Man stabbed to death in Madurai over previous enmity

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Tamil Nadu allocates ₹812 crore for Annan Seer scheme 

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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