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A 15-year-old lost a hand on Monday (October 5, 2026) in the latest round of French high school protests that have erupted into clashes with police, with more than 200 students injured in the violence. France has been shaken by a wave of demonstrations by teenage students at high schools, or lycees, since late September…
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All lined up for polling in Tamil Nadu for high stakes byelection; TVK, DMK keep fingers crossed Preparations are complete for the polling exercise to be held today for byelections to Madurantakam and Dharapuram Assembly Constituencies and the Tamil Nadu voters are poised to decide the fortunes of the fledgling TVK regime which hinges on…
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Cornell students thronged a campus plaza to protest the university’s response to allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house, and the school’s main administration building was splashed with graffiti and damaged overnight. At a demonstration that overflowed the large space in front of the school’s student centre, students, faculty members and others wore purple…
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Stating that the State government is committed to conduct elections to rural local bodies, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Eshwar Khandre on Monday said that draft reservation list for election to gram panchayats, taluk panchayats, and zilla panchayats was ready “We are ready to publish the draft notification. Since the model code of conduct…
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A Level-I fire was reported at at a temporary production unit at Goregaon Film City in Mumbai on October 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A fire broke out on the set of Colors channel’s reality show “Pati Patni Aur Panga Season 2” at Prime Focus Studio in Mumbai’s Goregaon Film City on Monday…
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BSP supremo Mayawati with her nephew Akash Anand during meeting with party leaders and workers, in Lucknow. File. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Monday (October 5, 2026) announced the reappointment of Akash Anand as the party’s national convenor, adding that the decision was taken in the interest…
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A barge carrying 540 metric tonnes of methanol left the Bogibeel Terminal in Dibrugarh district for Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday (October 5, 2025), marking the first international shipment from eastern Assam since India’s independence in 1947. Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, flagged off the vessel DLB Patkai, pushed by the tug…
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Argentina’s Lionel Messi trains for his final game with the national team, an international friendly soccer match against Benin, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Argentina fans are confident there is a bright future beyond Lionel Messi as the team’s most influential player of the last two decades prepares…
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A razor-wire boundary fence along the Polish-Lithuanian border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, near the Suwalki Gap. The Suwalki Gap is a 104-kilometre stretch that forms the only land corridor connecting the Baltic states with the rest of NATO, while separating Belarus from Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. | Photo Credit: AFP On October 1, Russian…
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In this image received on October 5, 2026, Bengali actor Koel Mallick gets felicitated with a BJP scarf as she joins the party, in Kolkata, West Bengal. Photo: Handout via PTI Photo Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran and former Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy has said that there was considerable anguish among party workers over nomination…