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India, celebrated as the world’s fastest-growing economy, has become the world’s fourth-largest economy, and is expected to be the next engine of global growth. Yet beneath these numbers lies a grim reality: India is drifting toward the middle-income trap, in which countries exhaust their gains from cheap labour and rapid catch-up and fail to transition…
Tanya set a new hammer throw record. | Photo Credit: R.V. MOORTHY Even as the biggest names in Indian track and field turned out to test themselves one last time before the Asian Games, hammer thrower Tanya Chaudhary hogged the limelight at the Indian Athletics Final Series on Thursday. Tanya took gold with a best…
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The CJI had orally observed that the Magistrate had no authority to issue such a notice “when we have already annulled [FIRs] and directed that no penal action would be taken against any student”. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Solicitor-General of India Tushar Mehta informed the Supreme Court on Thursday about the suspension of an…
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Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi battle it out in the Global Chess League in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Bibisara Assaubayeva had played seven games and won none. On the eve of her eighth game, her teammate Javokhir Sindarov joked she could take one of his Player-of-the-Match trophies from the Tech Mahindra Global Chess…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sudan’s army shot down drones belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Thursday (September 10, 2026), a military source told AFP, after explosions were heard over the capital Khartoum. “Our air defences engaged and shot down all of the militia’s drones that attempted to…
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Saket Gokhale. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday (September 10, 2026) alleged that the Election Commission (EC) has not responded to a Right to Information (RTI) application seeking information on the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) though 84 days have passed since the application was made. Shortly after…
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks at a German ambassadors’ conference in Berlin, Germany, on September 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters NATO chief Mark Rutte said Thursday (September 10, 2026) that the alliance would remain “strong” whoever wins next year’s presidential election in member state France. Polls show that far-right leader Marine Le Pen…
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The Telangana High Court directed the State government to furnish the proceedings relating to the revision of the layout plan of the plots near Durgam Cheruvu of Raidurg village by the Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation. A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin passed the direction after hearing a Public Interest…
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun. File | Photo Credit: Reuters China and the U.S. hope to reach an agreement on lowering import taxes soon, a Chinese government spokesperson said Thursday (September 10, 2026), fuelling expectations that an announcement could come when the leaders of the two countries meet in two weeks. Also read |…
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) forecast India’s oil demand to accelerate by 0.06 million barrel per day (mb/d) in 2026 from the comparable period last year, and a further 0.4 mb/d in 2027 primarily driven by an overall healthy economic momentum and sustained demand for hydrocarbon fuels. However, it trimmed their forecast for…
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