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A few hotels, restaurants, and wayside eateries in Kozhikode have unilaterally increased the prices of various food items, citing a shortage of commercial liquefied gas cylinders and rising prices of essential commodities. The price disparity came to light after some customers openly challenged the move by traders, many of whom had not even displayed the…
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The Odisha government on Wednesday (September 2, 2026) warned of another round of flooding in Balasore district as the Subarnarekha River, swollen by heavy rains in neighbouring Jharkhand, was in spate. Due to heavy rain in Jharkhand, floodwater was entering the Subarnarekha River through 13 gates, which were opened at the Gauludih barrage. Against a danger…
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Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, KPCC president B.K. Hariprasad, and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah during a protest in Bengaluru on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Stating that the BJP was attempting to stifle Opposition voices, the Congress held a protest in Bengaluru on Wednesday against the FIR filed against Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha…
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. File | Photo Credit: AP Ukraine said on Wednesday (September 3, 2026) it had formally notified the International Civil Aviation Organization that Russian airspace was “not safe”, following repeated Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory. The ICAO, a United Nations agency that regulates and establishes standards for civil aviation, made no…
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Two days after Delhi’s draft roll was published under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) drive, several voters who submitted their enumeration forms to Booth Level Officers (BLOs) found their names missing from the roll and marked ‘permanently shifted’ or ‘absent/untraceable’ despite the forms having been officially signed and digitised. The Hindu has verified at least…
The All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court against the Delhi University’s requirement for candidates to submit an indemnity affidavit and parental surety bond of ₹1 lakh to contest the university’s students’ union (DUSU) election scheduled for September 18. The DUSU Election Committee has circulated an affidavit for 2026-27…
The Fed has missed its long-term 2% target for inflation for more than five years, and U.S. households have been battered by the high prices. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday (September 2, 2025) flagged that while the country’s general economic outlook was positive, heightened uncertainty due to high energy…
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Chief Minister Rekha Gupta interacting with citizens during a ‘Jan Sunwai’ event at her camp office in Civil Lines on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI The Delhi Cabinet has approved the Delhi Ease of Doing Business Bill, 2026 to bring “fundamental changes” to the process of obtaining approvals, registrations, licences and other clearances to set…
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The Edayar industrial stretch on the banks of the river Periyar near Kochi on September 2, 2026. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The inspections carried out by the Environmental Surveillance Centre of the Kerala State Pollution Control Board in Eloor here to check the efficiency of odour control systems in bone meal units, chicken waste…
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While warning that breaching the 1.5°C global warming limit would bring irreversible losses that no adaptation initiatives could undo, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday (September 2, 2026), for the first time, set out a detailed “overshoot, peak and decline” pathway. This is a route under which the world overshoots the 2015 Paris…
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