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NEW DELHI One in three removed electors from Delhi’s draft electoral roll covered in a door-to-door public audit across four polling booths in the Trilokpuri constituency, including two booths of Indira Camp, was wrongly categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), a survey by civil society organisations has found. Of the 1,236 audited deletions,…
A man films an electrical transformer toppled by heavy rain and strong winds as Cyclone Arnab approaches the Andhra Pradesh coast in Kakinada. | Photo Credit: AP The very severe cyclonic storm ‘Arnab’ has begun its landfall process near Narsapur town in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, at around 1.30 a.m. on Wednesday (October…
Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Aonla Lok Sabha constituency in Bareilly district, Dharmendra Kashyap, and his daughter, Kirti Kashyap, joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday (October 27, 2026) in Lucknow. Earlier, Mr. Kashyap resigned from the BJP and met SP president Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on October 11, accompanied by his daughter. Following…
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BIhar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Tuesday (October 27, 2026) ordered probe over the issue raised by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Sudhakar Singh with regard to defamation notice served to him by Kundan Krishnan, Director General of Police (Operation) and Special Task Force (STF) over Bharat Bhushan Tiwari police encounter case. Mohammad Imran, Deputy…
Security tightens outside the counting centre at Bankipur Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School on the counting day of the MLC elections, in Patna. | Photo Credit: ANI National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate on Tuesday (October 27, 2026) representing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Narendra Prasad Singh won the Tirhut teachers constituency seat by defeating independent candidate…
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A supporter holds a banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu during Israel’s national election, at Likud’s election headquarters in Jerusalem. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s election ended in an apparent deadlock on Tuesday (October 27, 2026), exit polls by major television networks showed, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor…
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Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted Saudi Arabia’s biggest oil refinery with a ballistic missile on Tuesday (October 27, 2026), as blasts shook the capital of the world’s top crude exporter. Saudi Arabia, West Asia’s largest economy, has suffered weeks of strikes from the Iran-backed Houthis against oil and civilian sites including Riyadh’s international airport. Houthis…
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CPI general secretary D. Raja and party supporters take part in a human chain protest in New Delhi on October 27, 2026 over the Special Intensive Revision row. | Photo Credit: ANI The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Tuesday (October 27, 2026) organised a human chain from its party headquarters Ajoy Bhawan to ITO…
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on August 31-September 1, 2026, and the BRICS summit in New Delhi on September 12-13, 2026, were remarkable. Iran received considerably more attention and support from members of both the groups, far more than anticipated. More consequential, however, was the shift in India’s stance on the…
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Street lights installed by the National Highways Authority of India along Container Road lit up on October 27. | Photo Credit: R.K. Nithin The switch-on of 1,100 street lights along the 17-km-long, accident-prone Container Road (NH 966A), which provides a direct link between the International Container Transhipment Terminal at Vallarpadam and Kalamassery on NH 544,…
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