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India always looks at the Ganga treaty as a bilateral treaty but in the lean months it receives a lot of snowmelt from Nepal’s Ghaghara, Gandaki, and Koshi rivers; they also need to be monitored if we have to care for the Ganga,” Mr. Chowdhury said. Image for representation only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto…
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The companies completed the deal on Tuesday (October 6, 2026), ushering in a new Hollywood giant with the now shorter “Skydance” name tag. The merger brings two of America’s oldest moviemaking studios together. And HBO Max, titles ranging from “Harry Potter” to “Sinners,” and even networks like CNN find themselves under the same roof as…
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The story so far: The 2024 alleged Cornell University sexual assault case in the U.S. has resurfaced now after the woman involved filed a civil lawsuit in September 2026 against the university, the fraternity and the seven accused men. The alleged incident involved seven members of Cornell University’s Chi Phi fraternity. The university’s independent student…
MEA stated that navigation and commerce through international waterways must be restored at the earliest. | Photo Credit: AP The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) condemned the targeting of commercial shipping, seafarers, and civilian infrastructure following two separate attacks in the Black Sea and off Oman that left two foreign seafarers…
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A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service was arrested on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor’s office said. August Hanning, who led the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its German acronym BND, from 1998 to 2005, is “strongly suspected of…
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Announcement of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The prize was awarded for their discoveries of light-gated ion channels and optogenetics — a revolutionary technique that allows scientists to study how nerve cells control memories, emotions and behaviour in the living brain. It began with a simple question: How does a single-celled alga…
Supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) take part in a march in Kohat district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on October 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) invited the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf for talks to resolve contentious issues through dialogue,…
Ukraine’s domestically developed long-range drones and, increasingly, missiles have allowed Kyiv to hit Russian soil over the more than 4.5 years since Moscow’s forces launched a full-scale invasion. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian air defences intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and…
Eleven Indian crew members were injured on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) after a Panama-flagged commercial vessel was hit by a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, prompting a strong condemnation from India. The vessel, MT On Peace, carried 19 crew members, including 17 Indian nationals. In total, 12 crew members — 11 of them…
Students, teachers and parents marched in cites across France on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) and protesters blockaded hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed and dilapidated classrooms. In Marseille, Nantes and Lyon, the street protests began peacefully mid-morning, with the largest demonstration expected…
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