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Delhi High Court initially indicated that it would defer the hearing until the Supreme Court passed orders on the pending pleas. However, it subsequently disposed of the petition, clarifying that it had expressed no opinion on the merits of the case. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (October 28,…
After Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s recent visit to India, the first by a Polish PM in 16 years, the India-Polish “strategic partnership” is expected to get stronger through better economic and defence cooperation. This comes two years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Poland in 2024, which was the first visit by an Indian…
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The Bihar cabinet on Wednesday (October 28, 2026) gave its nod to undertake a ‘Flood Plain Zone Delineation Study’ to identify and delineate flood-prone areas along the major tributaries of the River Ganga, namely the Kosi, Gandak, and Sone. It approved the proposal for signing of an MOU between the State’s Water Resources Department and…
New DelhiThe proposal to permanently shift the Uttarakhand High Court from Nainital to Haldwani has suffered another setback, with a Union Environment Ministry panel rejecting the State government’s plan to divert 30 hectares of reserved forest land in the Lamachaur area. The Regional Empowered Committee (REC), which examined the proposal at its October 16 meeting…
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Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar. File | Photo Credit: ANI On a day when NCP leader Praful Patel called for introspection within the party, another leader challenged Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar’s decision to appoint Umesh Patil as the national chief spokesperson of the party. “This decision is against the Constitution of the party. It…
The judge said, the apology, if any, to be made by the councillor should be made in a public platform since a video clip of the speech had gone viral on the social media. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Greater Chennai Corporation councillor Sudha Deenadalayan of DMK is willing to file an affidavit expressing regret…
Senior railway officials said a circular mandating the shutdown of mobile charging circuits during night travel had been issued more than a decade ago. However, the rule was apparently not being enforced consistently on some trains. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Train passengers will no longer be allowed to keep their mobile phones charging…
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Seventeen teams were formed to nab the escapees, and the SPs of Theni and Dindigul headed the search operation. | Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan With the arrest of all 17 remand prisoners who escaped from the Theni district jail, the combing operation concluded successfully on Wednesday (October 28, 2026). On Monday night (October 26, 2026),…
Dolores Huerta, the U.S. labour leader and civil rights icon whose union work changed the lives of migrant workers, has died, her family said Wednesday (October 28, 2026). She was 96. For nearly four decades, Huerta was vice president of United Farm Workers, the union she founded with Cesar Chavez, organising strikes and walkouts that…
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Cyclone Arnab, the first named storm of the North Indian Ocean cyclone season this year, intensified rapidly before making landfall as a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ on October 28. This particular rapidity is a challenge for forecasters and some models did fail to anticipate how strong Arnab would become. It also moved faster than expected…