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INDIA bloc parties to hold ‘Save Democracy’ rally in Jammu on Oct 7, seek CEC’s removal Leaders of the INDIA bloc parties on Saturday (October 3, 2026) announced a joint ‘Save Democracy’ rally in Jammu on October 7, seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. Addressing a joint press conference at the…
Seshadri Sukumar in action. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In cricket, one regularly comes across teams that shift to a whole new lane in the second innings, with surprising progress, eclipsing their first-innings performance. And in that process, they bring immense joy and wonder to spectators. Seshadri Sukumar has pulled off something similar to that. …
Malini D, a young Ham radio enthusiast. There is usually an apocalyptic air to how Ham radio is perceived. The Ham radio enthusiast is readily visualised as trudging into a land overtaken by a massive disaster and where all technology-based communication lines outside the amateur-radio sphere have broken down. The enthusiast has morphed into a…
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. File. | Photo Credit: AICC via PTI Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (October 3, 2026) launched the ‘Satyagraha’ digital platform to map resistance movements across the country. This comes as Opposition leaders, civil society and youth-led organisations continue their…
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This satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Nolo in the Pacific Ocean, west of Hawaii, on October 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Nolo strengthened into a major hurricane on Saturday (October 3, 2026) far out in the Pacific Ocean, well to the west of Hawaii’s main islands. The storm’s…
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FILE PHOTO: Death row inmate Christa Pike, held at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) in Tennessee and convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, who is due to be executed by lethal injection on September 30, 2026 is shown in this 2023 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph. Tennessee Department of Correction/Handout via REUTERS…
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Apple has officially removed the offline messaging application, Bitchat, from its India App Store after a demand from the country’s IT Ministry, Jack Dorsey said in an X post on Saturday (October 3, 2026). “Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store,” the app’s developer and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in his…
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Supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Workers’ Party candidate for presidential re-election, attend a rally one day before the general election in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters A series of polls on Saturday (October 3, 2026) showed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva slightly ahead…
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Cornell University’s Chi Phi fraternity house in Ithaca, New York. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Cornell’s president called the alleged gang rape of a student at a fraternity house in 2024 “deeply disturbing” Saturday (October 3, 2026), said it would weigh on the university for years to come and pledged greater transparency amid mounting outrage…
Call it the continuum or an early image-building exercise, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, who also holds the Municipal Administration portfolio, has already deployed Ministers and senior officials to take up flood-mitigation works well ahead of the onset of the Northeast monsoon. He has instructed that all de-silting and stormwater drain (SWD) works be completed…