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Senior railway officials said a circular mandating the shutdown of mobile charging circuits during night travel had been issued more than a decade ago. However, the rule was apparently not being enforced consistently on some trains. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Train passengers will no longer be allowed to keep their mobile phones charging…
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Seventeen teams were formed to nab the escapees, and the SPs of Theni and Dindigul headed the search operation. | Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan With the arrest of all 17 remand prisoners who escaped from the Theni district jail, the combing operation concluded successfully on Wednesday (October 28, 2026). On Monday night (October 26, 2026),…
Dolores Huerta, the U.S. labour leader and civil rights icon whose union work changed the lives of migrant workers, has died, her family said Wednesday (October 28, 2026). She was 96. For nearly four decades, Huerta was vice president of United Farm Workers, the union she founded with Cesar Chavez, organising strikes and walkouts that…
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Cyclone Arnab, the first named storm of the North Indian Ocean cyclone season this year, intensified rapidly before making landfall as a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ on October 28. This particular rapidity is a challenge for forecasters and some models did fail to anticipate how strong Arnab would become. It also moved faster than expected…
The drive, initiated on the directions of Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide, will cover major roads, including the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR), Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR), Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) Connector, Eastern Express Highway and Western Express Highway. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will undertake a nine-day special cleanliness and dust…
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan will release a book co-authored by the late B. Madhusoodana Kurup, founder Vice-Chancellor of the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies and former Director of the School of Industrial Fisheries, Cusat, at a function in Kochi on Friday (October 29, 2026). The book, Exploring the Legacy of Fishing and Farming…
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Benjamin Netanyahu was at the centre of Israel’s October 27 elections. For Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, who oversaw a genocidal war in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attack, the election was the biggest test of his political career. For the Opposition, which promised to hold him accountable for the failures of October 7 and end…
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The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Wednesday alleged that Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) PhD Admission Prospectus 2026–27 falls short of the prescribed reservation quotas for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD). It called on the university to rectify the shortfall in the seats advertised for the current admission…
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‘Disinvestment is a policy choice aimed at unlocking greater value from public assets, widening public ownership, and improving efficiency and governance through greater market discipline. The 2022 LIC IPO which drew in many first-time retail investors and policyholders remains a prime example’ | Photo Credit: Reuters Seven months into 2026-27, the fiscal year has been…
Persons with disabilities and their companion can now travel free of charge in government buses with their Unique Identification Card (UDID). The Welfare of Differently Abled department issued a government order for persons with disability with over 40% disability to travel n the city ordinary, express buses, low-floor buses, deluxe buses excluding air-conditioned buses of…
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