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Essential upgrades: On upgrades to India’s statistical databases

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Essential upgrades: On upgrades to India’s statistical databases

The government has, in recent months, implemented several long-overdue but welcome upgrades to India’s statistical databases. Wide-ranging, they cover the way the country measures Gross Domestic Product (GDP), industrial production, and price changes at the retail, wholesale, and producer levels. These updates have not only made India’s key economic statistics more representative of reality, but…

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Doctor bludgeons, stabs his domestic help to death at Mount Kailash home

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Doctor bludgeons, stabs his domestic help to death at Mount Kailash home

Doctor Manish Gupta confessed to attacking the victim with a bat and later stabbing her with a knife.  | Photo Credit: Special arrangement A well-known dermatologist was arrested on Thursday for bludgeoning and stabbing to death his 58-year-old domestic help at his Mount Kailash home in south-east Delhi, the police said. The 56-year-old doctor, identified…

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Indira Canteen tops Kochi Corpn.’s Budget wish list

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Indira Canteen tops Kochi Corpn.’s Budget wish list

Indira Canteen, a budget eatery initiative, was launched by the UDF governing committee in March. | Photo Credit: file photo The Kochi Corporation remains hopeful that its wish list of 12 prominent projects will find due consideration in the maiden Budget of the United Democratic Front government (UDF), to be presented by Chief Minister and…

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Former Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Gujral duped of ₹7.68 crore in cyber fraud

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Former Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Gujral duped of ₹7.68 crore in cyber fraud

Former Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Gujral was duped of ₹7.68 crore after cyber fraudsters impersonated him on a messaging platform and tricked one of his employees into transferring funds to multiple bank accounts, the police said on Thursday. Mr. Gujral, 78, is the son of the late I.K. Gujral, who served as India’s 12th Prime…

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DVAC conducts surprise checks at RTOs, MVIOs across Tamil Nadu

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Former Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Gujral duped of ₹7.68 crore in cyber fraud

The officers of the Anti-Corruption and Vigilance Directorate (DVAC) on Thursday conducted surprise checks at Regional Transport Offices (RTOs), Motor Vehicle Inspectorate Offices (MVIOs), and driving schools across Tamil Nadu, seizing unaccounted cash of ₹31.85 lakh and detecting suspicious Google Pay transactions worth ₹5.95 lakh. These checks were conducted on the orders of DVAC Director A….

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13 held in child-trafficking racket operating from hospital, 5 infants rescued

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13 held in child-trafficking racket operating from hospital, 5 infants rescued

Police said the racket had been operating for nearly one-and-a-half years | Photo Credit: ANI Delhi Police has busted an inter-State child-trafficking racket allegedly run from a private hospital in north-west Delhi’s Begumpur, and rescued five infants while arresting 13 individuals, including the facility’s owner, officers said on Thursday (June 18, 2026). The case surfaced…

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Forum seeks probe into ‘irregularities’ at Sanskrit varsity

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The Save University Campaign Committee (SUCC) has written to the Governor Rajendra Viswanath Arlekar, who is also the Chancellor of State universities, seeking a probe into the alleged irregularities in the financial affairs and faculty appointments at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS), Kalady over the last 10 years. The SUCC urged the Governor…

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Customs seize hydroponic cannabis worth ₹11 crore at Chennai airport; two Kerala passengers arrested

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Chennai: Customs officials at Chennai International Airport busted an alleged international drug trafficking operation and arrested two passengers from Kerala with 11 kg of hydroponic cannabis valued at around ₹11 crore. The seizure was made by officers of the Air Intelligence Unit, who had been monitoring the suspects based on specific intelligence inputs. The two…

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