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Extradition of Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could take place via a “well-structured process” that involved “legality”, and that a legal process was “in place”, India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi said on Saturday (October 3, 2026). Speaking of Ms. Hasina’s presence in India at the Bay of Bengal Conversation, an annual conclave…
Five workers were killed, four on the spot, and one was severely injured in a boiler explosion at the TIL Healthcare facility, a pharmaceutical manufacturing unit catering to exports, within the Sri City Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Satyavedu mandal of Tirupati district at 8 a.m. on Saturday (October 3, 2026). The exact reason for…
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Nearly two and a half months before Delhi Police denotified Jantar Mantar as a protest site and designated three new protest venues — Ramlila Maidan, Burari Ground in north Delhi, and CBD Ground in east Delhi — it had issued a tender for 338 cameras, including facial recognition models, to be installed across central and New…
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Students of Providence Women’s College, Kozhikode, celebrating their victory in the college union election on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Thursday claimed it has won the students’ union polls in 30 of the 48 colleges in Kozhikode district, under the University of Calicut, where elections were held…
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An ambitious public-private partnership project by an Agriculture Ministry body to install automatic rain gauges and automatic weather stations in States is proceeding at a crawl, with completion rates in the single digits and at least a year behind deadline. Over 96% of planned sensors are yet to be installed. The reason, companies tasked with…
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The Delhi High Court on Thursday questioned the jail authorities over delays in implementing the Supreme Court’s directions to provide open and semi-open prison facilities in the Capital. Open and semi-open prisons are less restrictive correctional facilities available to eligible inmates. A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Sanjay Sharma referred…
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Duddilla Sridhar Babu, Minister of Information Technology, Electronics & Communication, Industries & Commerce and Legislative Affairs, Government of Telangana, Speaking at the Invest Telangana Global Summit 2026 Roadshow in Chennai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ The Telangana government is developing an exclusive 200-acre drone park to build a complete ecosystem for the…
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We are at Eden Gardens, the theatre of dreams, of hopes and aspirations, of ambition and desire. Except that, on this night, it is all this for India. For West Indies, it was the stuff of nightmare. In a must-win, virtual quarterfinal of the T20 World Cup this March, with the winner guaranteed a shot…
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Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP), Enforcement Bureau-CID, K. Shankar, on Thursday urged colleges to conduct orientation programmes for new admissions, as part of the ‘Drug and Tobacco-Free Campus’ initiative. The sessions must cover the risks of drug abuse, penalties under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, institutional disciplinary measures, and confidential counselling services….
Gadi Eisenkot, center, former Israeli military chief of staff and leader of the centrist Yashar “Straight” party, with supporters after delivering a statement ahead of Israel’s general election near Israel-Gaza border, southern Israel, on October 15, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival in upcoming elections,…
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