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Behind in the first round and in the final polls, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva led 51.56% to 48.44% with almost 90% of polling stations counted, after a night of lead changes and a court-ordered voting extension.
For ten days Ukraine's satellite links stopped working on anything moving faster than about 160 km/h. Speeds were restored on Saturday, but who ordered the cap is still disputed. How the system works, why speed matters, and what Kyiv is doing about it.
Oil slipped from a six-month high in early Asian trade and Wall Street futures pointed up. Indian shares still face their first session since Infosys cut its forecast, with foreign funds selling and the Fed due on Wednesday.
The Keralam High Court takes up the former chief minister's challenge to a vigilance FIR, the Bombay High Court hears the actor two days before his deadline to leave, and all of the Supreme Court's benches sit again.
The top seed opens against Martin Landaluce at the Erste Bank Open. Carlos Alcaraz returns for the first time since 2021 and faces Karen Khachanov first up.
The alternative investment manager raised about ₹360 crore from anchor investors at the top of its price band. The issue is entirely a sale by its promoter, so the company gets none of the money.
It began with one lycée in a Paris suburb short of teachers. Five weeks on, hundreds of thousands march every Saturday, thousands have been arrested and the 2027 presidential race has a new fault line. What the protesters want, and what comes next.
Sixteen companies are due to report on Monday, ahead of a heavy Tuesday led by L&T and Maruti Suzuki. Tata Steel has moved its board meeting from 27 October to 7 November, and five central banks decide in the days after.
The 41-year-old Swiss, a three-time major champion, retires after the Swiss Indoors and opens against Jiri Lehecka on Tuesday. Djokovic, champion in 2011, faces Ugo Humbert.
The Amir Shokeen video has led to an arrest. Anjel Chakma's death in Dehradun led to five. Neither should be needed to make the point that people from the Northeast are citizens, not punchlines, and the law should say so plainly.
The metal was flat at $3,996 an ounce in early Asian trade on Monday, about $170 below where it ended on 16 October, with markets now seeing a December rise by the Fed as likely.
Projections give the movement born of the Novi Sad canopy disaster about 52% and 139 of 250 seats, ending 14 years of rule by Aleksandar Vučić's Progressive Party on a record turnout.
Kylian Mbappé scored in the 41st and 88th minutes at Camp Nou, either side of a Raphinha equaliser, to hand Barcelona their first league defeat of the season.
A day after Barack Obama rallied Democrats in Detroit, the president told a crowd in Port Huron he had come to stop the Democratic Senate nominee and backed Mike Rogers and John James.
The 20-year-old Mercedes driver won the United States Grand Prix from pole, 13 seconds clear of Charles Leclerc, and leads George Russell by 123 points with 125 left.
Both chambers met in emergency session on Sunday to approve President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's plan to send army units to protect oil and energy sites in Niger.
King Khalid International opened two terminals on Sunday as Saudi air defences shot down more missiles and drones. Few planes left, the US tightened travel rules for its staff, and Indian airlines are still staying away.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate posted "I am here. With you" on Sunday as she reappeared at a church in Lara state, days after the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years.
Health minister Chris Baryomunsi said returnees must pay for their own quarantine, and pushed back at suggestions that Uganda was the source of the Nigerian and Kenyan cases.
Hospitals reported deaths in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah on Sunday. Separately, Israel has resumed sharing the names of Palestinians it holds, though prison visits have not restarted.
The BRS working president said Revanth Reddy had become Rahul Gandhi's 'ATM card' and that the Congress leader lacks the courage to come to the state.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf offered cash to households that save. Under a US naval blockade, Iranians face medicine shortages and food prices that have soared since the war began.
A day after saying an attack could come as soon as Sunday, the US President said it would not, while Tehran said messages were still passing to Washington through intermediaries.
The Apollo Global Management chief economist finds flat margins and flat revenue per worker across the S&P 500 once the seven tech giants are stripped out.
Her 83-ball century against Zimbabwe was the fifth fastest by an Indian woman, and Harmanpreet Kaur's eighth ODI hundred took her past Mithali Raj's tally of seven.
The chief minister called boats back to shore and ordered power and telecom repair crews into position on Sunday night, with red alerts out for 11 coastal districts and Yanam by Wednesday.
Israel's Prime Minister says Tehran or its allies could attack to disrupt the election. A television report says he and military chief Eyal Zamir fell out over an Iran directive; he calls it nonsense.
The Lok Sabha Speaker thanked Egypt for condemning the Pahalgam attack. Delegations from 11 BRICS members and 10 partner countries were invited to the two-day forum in New Delhi.
Nidhi Sharma led the women to a 41-18 win and Neeraj Narwal's 13 points carried the men past Malaysia 37-23 at the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship. Both face Nigeria on Monday.
A record fifth-wicket stand of 153 took India to 328 for 6 in Vadodara, and Vaishnavi Sharma's four wickets sealed the three-match series with a game to spare.
The deep depression is expected to become a cyclonic storm on Monday and hit the coast between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam as a very severe cyclone, with five south Odisha districts on red warning.
The Shipping Minister told Indians working at Samsung Heavy Industries, Hanwha Ocean and HD Hyundai that India needs shipbuilders, engineers and welders as it chases a top-five place by 2047.
Distant warning signal No. 1 was hoisted at Puducherry port on Sunday as the Bay of Bengal system deepened, and more districts may close schools depending on the weather.
The two-day National Urban Conclave in Bhubaneswar closed on Sunday with a call for performance-based services, reliable water and stronger municipal finances. HUDCO launched a portal for urban challenge funds.
The pope said the people of Yemen's third-largest city lack food, water and medical care. Yemen's government said three ballistic missiles were fired at camps for displaced families outside Aden.
The Congress president's retort to a man in the crowd drew condemnation from Amit Shah, Nitin Nabin and Rajnath Singh. The BJP will protest at every state headquarters on Monday.
Admiral Brad Cooper flew over the strait on Sunday to show support for Gulf oil exports, in a month that has seen more attacks on shipping there than any since the war began.
The Union Jal Shakti Minister said in Surat that the state wants water from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel due in Delhi on Tuesday to take it up.
The IMF puts Bangladesh's 2026 GDP per person at $2,886 against India's $2,749 at market exchange rates. Adjusted for prices, India stays well ahead, and is projected to pull back in front by 2029.
Visiting the Dutch port, the Commerce Minister said capacity had doubled in a decade but was still not enough, and pointed to carbon capture and green energy as areas to work on with the Dutch.
Protesters filled Old Town Square a day after the lower house fast-tracked a bill in an overnight vote that would fund Czech public radio and TV from the state budget and cut their money by about 15%.
Liechtenstein's acting head of state was due in Mumbai on Sunday night for a four-day visit that the MEA links to the India-EFTA trade pact now in force.
In a forthcoming memoir and a television interview, the retired Supreme Court judge describes the then Chief Justice wondering aloud whether to phone the government during a collegium meeting. Chandrachud says he has not read the book.
Artemis III will now be a two-week test in Earth orbit next summer, docking with both commercial landers, before Artemis IV attempts the first crewed landing since 1972.
C P Joshi demanded the Election Commission's meeting minutes and deletion data, as Jairam Ramesh accused it of hiding the name of the software behind the roll revision.
The world No. 1 came back to win 16-21, 21-11, 21-12 for a fourth French Open title, her 11th straight win over the Indian and 50th match won in a row.
Lipetsk's governor said Yelets' industrial zone was attacked on Sunday, as Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had fired nearly 2,300 attack drones and 48 missiles at Ukraine in a week.
Mohit and Pankaj were talking by the Bilaspur-Tauru road on Saturday night when a speeding vehicle ran them down. Police are combing CCTV footage for the driver.
The weekend showers pulled the capital's AQI into the moderate band, yet forecasters see the air sliding back to poor this week, and scientists say rain only moves pollutants around.
The steelmaker's board was due to meet on Tuesday. It cited 'unavoidable circumstances' and gave no other reason, leaving metal investors to wait while rivals have already reported.
C P Radhakrishnan begins a two-day visit on Monday. He is chief guest at Dr NTR University of Health Sciences in Vijayawada and will pray at the Tirupati and Tiruchanur temples.
Ganesh Kumar, an independent director who helped set up NPCI, is to take over from Sanjeeb Chaudhuri in May 2027, subject to the RBI's approval. The board also reappointed retail head Pradeep Natarajan.
The government's language AI platform, past 10 billion inferences, offered universities tools to translate and transcribe scholarly work at the ETD-2026 meeting that closed on Sunday.
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio announced the assent on Sunday. The Act creates a 62-member authority with powers over 46 subjects, but it comes into force only when the state notifies a date.
The Central Consumer Protection Authority has found more than 16,000 online listings of walkie-talkies that left out operating frequencies and licensing rules.
Answering a Nepali Congress MP, the foreign ministry said joint mapping is still under way and gave no list of places. It said Kathmandu wants to settle the issue through talks.
The IT minister says a consultation paper will come out in the coming weeks, a shift from India's earlier preference for handling AI through existing laws and rule changes.
The central bank found the Chennai-based lender had under-applied risk weights on syndicated foreign-currency loans and some undisbursed exposures. The bank says its profit is unaffected.
The maker of Tuborg and Carlsberg Elephant beer saw revenue slip 2.2% in 2025-26, but lower excise costs lifted profit. It has SEBI's approval for an IPO.
Jayabalakrishnan, 55, died when the luxury car, registered in the name of an Additional District Judge, struck his scooter from behind at Cheranalloor early on Sunday.
A Long March 8A put another batch of China's SatNet broadband constellation into orbit on Sunday. India's navigation satellite is due to fly on a GSLV on Friday.
The civic body wants barricades, lighting, parking and levelled riverbanks in place by 12-13 November, and Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary may inspect the work on 28 October.
The state-owned railway telecom company's revenue rose to ₹1,146 crore on a surge in project work, but an exceptional charge pulled profit down to ₹68.6 crore.
The crash on Sunday came three weeks after 17 people died on the same road, and officials warned the toll could rise.
India chose to bat at Kotambi and were 120 for 2 after 20 overs, with the pair sharing an unbroken stand after two early wickets. A win seals the three-match series.
Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Ariyalur, Perambalur and Tiruchirappalli face the heaviest rain on Sunday, with 18 more districts on orange alert and Chennai on yellow.
About 2,000 runners took over Srinagar's lakeside roads for the third Kashmir International Marathon, but the traffic curbs left exam candidates stranded and forced a delayed start to the state eligibility test.
The digital 'AI Minister' took questions from young developers in English and Telugu. The state says citizens will next be able to use it to send feedback and complaints.
Eight of the ten largest listed companies lost value in a four-session week of selling. TCS and L&T were the only gainers, and the whole BSE shed ₹20.79 lakh crore.
The Keralam BJP chief said the Kashi Art Cafe is free to serve beef, but that respect for faiths must work both ways, after the Chief Minister warned against communal provocation over a YouTuber's video.
Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party asked election authorities to stop the prime minister's talks with Police Commissioner Danny Levy, as opposition leaders Yair Golan and Eisenkot were given state protection.
A ballistic missile, two drones and a cruise missile were destroyed on Sunday morning, the coalition said, as Indian airlines keep Saudi flights suspended.
Former central bank chiefs joined the Economists' Forum in calling the prime minister's proposal puzzling, a day after the Bank of Israel rejected it.
Amit Shah said the raids at 38 places in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur were 'another lethal blow against drugs'. The Enforcement Directorate says a single mini-ATM counter in Churachandpur moved ₹175 crore.
The Union Agriculture Minister said the families moving out of the Raisen district village to make room for forests and wildlife were making a sacrifice, and that he would attend their farewell.
Russia launched 153 drones at Ukraine and said it hit a cargo ship bound for Chornomorsk, while Ukrainian drones killed three people in Bryansk and Belgorod and hit a factory in Perm.
Overseas funds were net sellers for a tenth straight week, though they bought on two days as US yields cooled and the rupee firmed. Crude above $100 keeps the pressure on.
Speaking at the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan in New Delhi, the External Affairs Minister said terror survives because not all states show zero tolerance, and warned against a world 'half prosperous and half denied'.
Full results presented in Madrid on Saturday show Moderna and Merck's personalised vaccine cut the risk of melanoma returning by 42%. What a 'cancer vaccine' actually does, how each dose is built, and why doctors are still waiting on the most important number.
Two posters went up outside two party offices in Lucknow on Sunday. One shows Akhilesh Yadav on a boat; the other tells the Samajwadi Party what its INDIA bloc partner wants for 2027.
The ISRO chairman told graduates in Chennai that a 2,000-acre small-rocket complex at Kulasekarapattinam is part of the expansion, and that private firms will be partners, not owners.
In Sunday's broadcast the Prime Minister moved from e-Sanjeevani's 50 crore consultations and a brain-mapping project at IIT Madras to Punjab's organic cotton weavers, and asked people to join the Run for Unity on 31 October.
A day after the BJP tied the date of the INDIA bloc's Ramlila Maidan rally to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Leader of the Opposition answered with sarcasm and a fresh call to students, farmers, workers and traders to come to Delhi.
A security think tank counted 21 attacks in the week to 22 October, down from 61 in mid-September. A landmine death in Kurram showed the dangers that remain.
India A closed day two on 106 for 2, still 98 behind, after KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal fell cheaply. Rhys Mariu's 76 and 46 extras had carried the hosts to 317.
Satellites have picked up 574 stubble fires in Punjab this season, slightly more than a year ago but two-thirds fewer than in 2024, as the AAP government and the BJP trade blame.
Mehr news agency said a Revolutionary Guards drone operation targeted Komala's headquarters in the Balisan area of Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday.
A bandh against the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project ended in a night of vandalism in Pasighat, and Pema Khandu has offered talks. What the dam is meant to do, how China's giant dam upstream comes into it, and why the people who live on the river say no.
The world No. 1 in doubles won the Japan Open 6-1, 6-0 in 68 minutes for her first singles title since 2023 and the tournament's first Czech champion.
Thunderstorms and 4.4 mm of rain at Safdarjung brought the capital's air quality index down to 167, in the moderate band, though 11 of 54 monitoring stations stayed in the poor range.
Islamabad's information ministry hit back at Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, saying blanket denials cannot answer charges that Afghan officials, including in Kandahar, shelter militants.
BRS leader Manne Krishank said the Telangana government ignored early warnings from agricultural scientists and is attacking K Chandrashekar Rao to hide its own failures.
The Odisha facility will host payment and settlement systems away from seismic zones and border areas. A cybersecurity training institute for the central bank opens alongside it this evening.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the US President kept both options open, questioned whether Tehran would honour any agreement and said that either way, America wins.
Investigators say the 52-year-old, who left the Army's equipment division last year, rang Army offices for details he did not have and sent them to a contact who has not been identified.
ISRO chairman V Narayanan says the first Gaganyaan test flight is about two months away. Why a robot is going before the astronauts, what the capsule must survive, and how many steps remain before Indians fly.
The corporate affairs ministry has extended deadlines for financial statements and annual returns after company secretaries complained of repeated glitches on the MCA-21 portal.
Delegation secretaries meet on Sunday to settle the joint statement for the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum, which opens in Samvidhan Sadan on Monday.
Two of Haryana's most-wanted men are in ICE custody in Nevada after a tip-off from the state's Special Task Force. Bringing them home will depend on US immigration proceedings.
South Karnataka is in line for the heaviest spells, and Bengaluru is set for a cool, cloudy Sunday with a high of just 24 degrees.
A chloroform leak at Saraka Laboratories went unnoticed until two men collapsed. Compensation was settled within hours; what caused the leak, and who will answer for it, is still unsaid.
The DGHS says some private and corporate hospitals are sterilising and reusing devices made for a single procedure. A letter to the states is a start. Patients need inspections, penalties and the right to know what was used on them.
Scott McTominay scored twice for Napoli, whose coach Massimiliano Allegri was sent off. In Germany, Maximilian Beier's late goal beat Frankfurt, and Julián Álvarez ended an eight-month drought for Atlético.
India's results season reaches engineering, cars and consumer goods as the US publishes its first estimate of third-quarter growth and Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon report.
Oil ended Friday at its highest close since April and Wall Street slid late in the day. Indian shares, down four sessions running, now face decisions from the Fed, the ECB and the Bank of Japan.
SBI told the stock exchanges about its leak first and its customers later. The RBI should not wait for the data protection law to take effect: it should make prompt notice to affected customers a binding rule now.
PV Sindhu takes on world No. 1 An Se-young in Paris, India's women can seal the ODI series against Zimbabwe in Vadodara, and Kimi Antonelli starts the US Grand Prix from pole.
The Centre says it has issued 11 crore Farmer IDs, five months ahead of its March 2027 deadline. What the ID is, how a farmer gets one, what it will be needed for, and why tenants and forest farmers worry.
Aleksandar Vučić quit the presidency to run for prime minister in Sunday's snap election. A student-backed list born of the Novi Sad canopy disaster is his biggest threat yet.
The former Army chief raised the question of autonomous weapons at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli, where he also launched a mentoring programme for young writers.
Bengaluru's Central Crime Branch says Ritesh Pandey used a second-hand phone with no SIM card to put the clip online. Siddaramaiah calls the video a fake meant to blackmail him.
The Mercedes driver beat Max Verstappen by 0.179 seconds. A win on Sunday makes him champion if George Russell, starting sixth, finishes ninth or lower and Lewis Hamilton fifth or lower.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister called the Samajwadi Party chief's remark a grave insult and recalled the police firings of the statehood movement under Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Arunachal's Chief Minister says the government's doors are open to opponents of the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project. The Congress's Pawan Khera says protesters have met only repression.
Zelenskyy said the satellite links were working at pre-restriction speeds after more than a week of caps. Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using Starlink for offensive drone strikes, a charge Kyiv rejects.
The hosts were 132 without loss before three wickets fell for no runs late on day one. India A, bowled out for 113, go into day two needing quick wickets.
Saturday's marches were calmer than last week's looting, the interior minister said, but tear gas was fired in several cities and two people were badly hurt. Students have called another protest for next Saturday.
Answering Pakistan at a General Assembly dialogue on minority rights, Indian diplomat Raghoo Puri said Islamabad had misused the forum for propaganda, the third such clash at the UN this week.
Responding to a UN report on justice systems and the climate crisis, an MEA official said India's approach rests on equity, climate justice and common but differentiated responsibilities.
Tehran's ambassador in Islamabad said the offer went with Field Marshal Asim Munir and that Trump turned it down. At home, the president admitted many Iranians are struggling to put food on the table.
Debris fell on Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh late on Saturday, Saudi civil defence said. The Houthis denied aiming at the holy cities as Saudi strikes on Sanaa killed 11 people, according to Houthi media.
Chelsea's goalkeeper punched a corner into his own net and Cole Palmer was sent off before Mathys Tel sealed a 2-0 win for Roberto De Zerbi's side at Stamford Bridge.
Voting at Kheragarh, Saiyan and Fatehabad on 23 October has been declared void, and the Agra Divisional Commissioner must report on what went wrong by Sunday.
The party says it will watch every polling booth and municipal ward during the second summary revision of the year, and has sent more than 100 observers across the state's 35 districts.
Air India and Air India Express also kept Jeddah off their schedules until the end of October, while the consulate in Jeddah runs round-the-clock control rooms for stranded Umrah pilgrims.
IGP Sujit Kumar told range DIGs and district SSPs to sharpen intelligence-gathering, make checkpoints smarter and finish cases within the timelines set by the new criminal laws.
Deaths were reported from Beit Lahia in the north to Khan Younis in the south. Gaza's health ministry says 1,547 people have now been killed since the October 2025 ceasefire.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi handed each department its duties at a review meeting on Saturday and said the state's aim was zero casualties.
A day after the Delhi High Court declined to interfere, the AISA president was given the police case papers and time to answer the show cause notice.
The Defence Minister was in Varanasi on Saturday, a day before Prime Minister Modi watches the Air Force Day aerial display at Namo Ghat to mark the IAF's 94th anniversary.
The president called reports that he wants to rip out the briefing room for Roosevelt's old swimming pool 'Fake News', then said the press corps could be moved anyway.
The agency says the High Court ran a 'mini-trial' at the writ stage and ignored emails and statements it says show pre-planned foreign funding of the news portal.
The IMD expects a very severe cyclonic storm to cross the coast between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam on Wednesday forenoon, with winds gusting to 140 km/h. Southern Odisha is under a red warning for extremely heavy rain.
K C Venugopal says the symbolic proceeding will come two days before the 1 November Dilli Chalo march to Ramlila Maidan, as Kharge asks allied leaders to be in Delhi in full force.
The External Affairs Minister said the India-Africa partnership rests on shared histories and South-South solidarity, and that the talks covered Africa's rise in a multipolar world.
Full results of the Moderna and Merck INTerpath-001 study, presented in Madrid, show the custom-made shot works with Keytruda after surgery, though survival data are not yet mature.
Aston Villa beat the leaders 2-1 at Villa Park for City's first Premier League defeat of the season. Arsenal beat Everton 2-0 later on Saturday to join them on 21 points.
Both Indian teams are unbeaten after two days in Ahmedabad. The men won 44-30 and the women 32-16, with Malaysia and Uganda next on Sunday.
A Cornell-led test of nearly 500 US midterm races found the two AI models agreed on fewer than one in ten, and that the search results they pulled in shaped their answers.
The two-time Olympic medallist won six points in a row from 15-16 down in the decider in Paris. She now faces the world No. 1, whom she has never beaten.
Alessia Russo's late spot-kick completed a 2-1 comeback at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and ended Arsenal's five-match run without a league win.
Economist Parakala Prabhakar, Prof Haragopal and MLC Kodandram joined students and civil society groups by Hussain Sagar. Organisers said police stopped them from forming a human chain along the bund.
The Home Minister's meeting with the Chief Minister and senior officers came as protests against the Election Commission continue and the INDIA bloc prepares for a 1 November rally at Ramlila Maidan.
Police in the seat of Yemen's recognised government heard three explosions on Saturday evening. The Houthis said they targeted sites overseen by Saudi forces, near an airport hit the week before.
The Directorate General of Health Services says some private and corporate hospitals are sterilising and reusing items meant for one procedure, in cardiology, nephrology, oncology and neurosurgery.
The CPCB's 4 pm bulletin ended a three-day run of poor air. Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa credited enforcement, but said the fight was far from over.
Picierno stopped fasting after Ukraine's human rights ombudsman told her a local ceasefire had been agreed for the Russian-occupied town, where about 2,000 civilians are trapped.
Two bullets hit a car parked outside Manpreet Singh's home in Buta Palasi near Baddi. Police have recovered four empty cartridges and are going through CCTV footage.
Swarnim Wagle told a summit in New Delhi that the era of nationalism defined by hostility to India had ended. The former foreign minister says that undervalues Nepali sentiment and wants the government to explain.
India's largest tile maker also approved ₹554 crore of expansion at three plants and will buy out the rest of its bathware business.
ETH Zurich scientists studying half a gram of the asteroid brought back by NASA's OSIRIS-REx say it may be the closest sample yet of the Solar System's original chemical mix.
Fourteen tries, including hat-tricks for Herbie Farnworth and Dominic Young, gave England a record winning margin. Their fate still rests on Tonga beating Samoa.
The Maharashtra Congress chief visited Pradeep Purnekar's family and said only hired hitmen had been arrested. Former Thane mayor Meenakshi Shinde calls the family's accusations baseless.
The leopard climbed down a coconut tree and escaped in the commotion. Police have booked 15 unidentified people for obstructing and hurting a public servant.
Rescuers found them at about 6,300 metres on the southern slopes of the 7,455-metre peak. Contact with the pair had been lost above 7,050 metres on 15 October.
Indian institutions bought shares in every session of the Dussehra-shortened week, but could not stop the Sensex falling 2.15%.
Umm Al Quwain and Sharjah closed stretches of coast a day earlier. Residents of three emirates have complained of a pungent smell, which the environment ministry says poses no health risk.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from Saturday's shallow quake in northwest China. In Tibet's Baqen county, where 16 died on Thursday, 834 aftershocks have followed.
Students at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute want the vice chancellor to quit over alleged attacks on campus. BJP MP Rahul Sinha wants Shah's remarks investigated.
The private lender raised more than ₹34,000 crore in foreign-currency deposits in the quarter, which its chief executive said gives it cheaper money for three to five years.
Rohit Kumar's body was found by a bridge on the Giddi-Naisarai road three days after he went missing following a quarrel at a Durga Puja fair. Police say the accused have confessed.
Two new lists target 83 Russian citizens and 79 companies that Kyiv says feed the production of Iskander, Kalibr, Kh-101 and Kinzhal missiles and other weapons.
The BRS working president and former Telangana IT minister said AI would create jobs rather than take them, and asked governments to stay out of companies' way.
The G1 mission will carry the half-humanoid robot Vyommitra into low Earth orbit on the human-rated LVM3 rocket from Sriharikota, V Narayanan said in Chennai on Saturday.
The information ministry called the former US envoy's charge 'baseless and misleading' and said attention should be on 'India-sponsored proxies' using Afghan soil against Pakistan.
Jitendra Singh opened the AATAL facility at IITM's Delhi branch on Saturday. It is meant to tell agencies which sources are driving pollution at any moment, ahead of the winter smog season.
Edelweiss-backed EAAA India Alternatives leads the main-board offers, opening on Monday, the day Jio Platforms finalises share allotment.
Freight groups led by Canacar say they will protest on the move without blocking highways. The government has offered talks, and the Senate may take up the toll tax change on Tuesday.
Revenue grew almost a quarter on higher grey cement volumes, but costs rose faster, holding profit growth to single digits.
The US secretary of state told Cubans seeking change that 'now is the time'. Cuba's deputy foreign minister said Washington was selling the agency 'like a tube of toothpaste'.
The Hyderabad company's standalone revenue nearly doubled from the previous quarter, and its first-half profit was up by about half.
An unbroken stand of 69, India's highest for the seventh wicket in T20Is, took them to 181 with a ball to spare at Hagley Oval after Mitchell Santner's four for 21 had the hosts on top.
The lubricant maker said early price increases had softened the blow, and warned that it expects a volatile, inflationary year ahead.
The Ministry of External Affairs called Friday's shooting at a funeral in southern Jordan heinous and restated India's commitment to fighting terrorism in all its forms.
From 41 for three, the pair added 116 to set India 181 in the second T20I at Hagley Oval. Naman Dhir fought back for India before Mitchell Santner removed him for 31.
Two loud blasts were heard over the Saudi capital before dawn on Saturday. By midday, danger warnings had reached four western provinces, and the coalition said it had destroyed two more missiles.
Speaking to stockbrokers in Mumbai on Saturday, the market regulator's chairman also promised secondary trading in tokenised corporate bonds, an AI sandbox and a review of short selling.
Deputy Industry Minister Chathuranga Abeysinghe said ties were strengthening and asked for Indian investment in manufacturing, ports, energy and technology, and closer links between start-ups.
Samajwadi Party MP Ramashankar Rajbhar said an announcement would come soon and the party's manifesto would be released on 26 November.
Suresh Singh, 65, is accused of killing his younger brother Somnath Singh with a licensed revolver in Dhanushi village on Saturday morning, before walking into the police chief's office in Hajipur.
Margin calls helped drive the Nifty Smallcap 100 down 7.4% in a week. Lending to buy shares has grown far faster than the safeguards around it, and SEBI's June proposals would let it grow further. The regulator should look at the risk first.
Police in Krishna Nagar were called to the school after a report of a fire on Saturday and found the 18-year-old's body. A crime team has examined the spot and items from the student's school bag.
About 50 passengers had got down minutes earlier because of a tyre puncture. Driver Janagaraj died under the debris on the Coimbatore-Ooty road, while conductor Kesavan was pulled out injured.
He allegedly threatened traffic personnel at the Belgharia Expressway in Dum Dum and demanded they find him a car home. A scan of his card showed it was fake.
The eighth conference of Government Railway Police chiefs, hosted by the RPF in New Delhi, pressed for tighter coordination between railway, state and metro police as festival crowds build.
Ravi Shankar Prasad tied the date of the INDIA bloc's Ramlila Maidan rally to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, while Delhi traders asked Congress to wait until after Bhai Dooj. Congress says the rally against the Chief Election Commissioner is going ahead.
After meeting Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Srinagar, the chief minister told MLAs to stop lobbying because the list is already decided. The Centre has picked a 1995-batch IAS officer to succeed Atal Dulloo.
A shift in-charge and a young worker died after inhaling fumes at the drug maker's unit in Gaddapotharam. The Pollution Control Board has shut the plant and the company has agreed to pay ₹70 lakh to each family.
The lender raised about ₹55,344 crore in FCNR(B) deposits during the September quarter, lifting loan and deposit growth but squeezing its interest margin to 4.31%.
The Rajya Sabha MP hit back at the RSS chief's warning about 'regime change' attempts, saying the protesters at Jantar Mantar carried no lathis, guns or stones.
The two-day state-level programme with the Uttar Pradesh government will cover the codes, labour welfare and social protection, days before the Centre's deadline for states to finish their rules.
The 15 pleaded guilty under the Foreigners Act and were given 15 days' simple imprisonment and a ₹5,000 fine each. They were caught trying to board a boat at Kollam's Vaaddy harbour in 2023.
The Congress MP said three years after the violence began, people in relief camps still have no answers on accountability or rehabilitation.
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the target was met on Friday night. The digital IDs are meant to become the single key to loans, crop insurance, relief and MSP sales.
A local official and two election workers seized on polling day in December were flown to Bangui on a UN plane after months of talks by the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission.
The Chief Minister said an investment summit planned in 2015-16 had to be moved to Delhi, and that before 2017 electricity reached people 'based on their faces'.
Iran's president will attend a gas exporters' summit in Moscow on Tuesday. In Tehran, the armed forces chief said American ships would not be allowed into the Gulf 'under any circumstances'.
The Congress general secretary says three families in Patlapur village were beaten for refusing to give up their faith and then forced through a 'purification' ritual at a Durga Puja pandal.
A magnitude 7 quake killed at least 16 people in Tibet's Baqen county this week, 21 months after one near Everest killed 126. Why the plateau is so active, how the Himalaya differs, and what became of India's tougher quake map.
Justice Subramonium Prasad refused to quash the ₹10,000 bond notice but told the magistrate to hand over the material behind it first. A day later, the AISA president called signing such bonds 'signing away' the right to dissent.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari's PIL also asks the court to order an 'absolute prohibition' on religious appeals in election campaigns, with complaints decided within 48 hours.
The small finance bank grew deposits 29% and loans 25% in the September quarter, while its bad-loan ratio improved to 1.99%.
Five people, three of them children, were killed when firecrackers being made in a Bihar home exploded on Friday. Deesa and Harda showed the same failure. Information about illegal units must lead to inspections, not inquiries after the funerals.
The Congress MP pointed to absurd names on the rolls for Friday's Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council polls and 10,470 changed entries in Pilibhit.
Paris has shut the Louvre and Orsay, Art Basel has cancelled its weekend and Orléans braces for a march against Marine Le Pen's party congress.
The two-day visit to Rairangpur and nearby temples, due on 28 and 29 October, has been moved to 4 and 5 November because of the weather system forming over the Bay of Bengal.
India took 168 athletes to Aichi-Nagoya, barely half the Hangzhou squad, and still came home with three more medals. Athletics and swimming made the difference.
A Tis Hazari court granted Delhi Police custody on Saturday so investigators can travel to Ahmedabad to recover a mobile phone. Shokeen has apologised but says the clip was scripted.
India's reserves have fallen for six weeks in a row, to $721 billion, about $65 billion below their September record. What the reserves are, why they are shrinking, and how long the Reserve Bank can keep defending the currency.
The former West Indies all-rounder, Mumbai's batting coach since he stopped playing in 2022, steps up a week after Mahela Jayawardene left. The franchise has not won the IPL since 2020.
Police fired tear gas at crowds blocking emergency crews after a high-rise under construction came down in Nairobi's busy Eastleigh district. One woman has been pulled out alive.
Every road gate into the West Bank's largest city was shut to cars on Saturday, a day after gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers. The army says the operation will last several days.
Health Minister J P Nadda said the Centre will give about ₹415 crore for the expansion, with Shimla's college getting the largest share, and urged the state to fill every seat.
ISRO will fly the NVS-03 satellite on a GSLV from Sriharikota on 30 October. What NavIC is, why failing clocks and a lost satellite left it short of a full service, and what one launch can fix.
Shifa hospital reported the latest death on Saturday morning. Gaza's health ministry says nearly half of those killed since the truce began a year ago were women and children.
The United Nations turned 81 on Saturday. Its outgoing Secretary-General called it 'an essential part of the fabric of our world' as the race to succeed him stays stuck.
The CPCB reading at 9 am ended a run of 'poor' days, though Narela, Jahangirpuri and RK Puram had come close to 300 overnight. Satellites have counted 545 farm fires in Punjab and Haryana this month.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's Mumbai roadshow ended with nine agreements and four letters of intent that the state says could create 20,210 jobs. Bhubaneswar will host the next India Chem.
The group of 28 devotees from Maharashtra was on its way from Khatu Shyamji to the Sanwaliya Seth temple when the van hit a truck in the early hours of Saturday. Seven people were referred to Jaipur's SMS Hospital.
The Bengaluru string theorist joins Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs and Steven Weinberg on the roll of a prize given by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics.
Hansi Flick's leaders have won all nine La Liga games. Real Madrid arrive third, on a four-match winning run, but without their suspended Brazilian forward.
The president and the first lady will cast ballots in person on Saturday, ten days before the midterms, while Barack Obama campaigns in Detroit and Trump heads to Michigan on Sunday.
One more of the critically wounded died on Saturday, Jordan's health minister said. More than two dozen people are still in hospital after gunmen opened fire at a funeral.
KL Rahul fell for a duck and Dhruv Jurel's side were 58 for six on a green pitch at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval. Rhys Mariu then led New Zealand A's reply with an unbeaten fifty.
Power went out across occupied Crimea and two people were hurt in Kyiv as both sides kept up long-range attacks, a day after agreeing a local truce in Oleshky.
Houthi health officials blamed Saudi Arabia for both strikes in northern and south-western Yemen. Riyadh did not respond.
India's largest bank says it has personally informed customers whose details were found in a suspected breach, days after digital rights campaigners accused it of reassuring investors first.
Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro traded personal attacks and rival promises on wages, roads and bus fares in a two-and-a-half-hour TV Globo debate, two days before Sunday's runoff.
Rafael Grossi pointed to electrification and power-hungry AI data centres as he presented the agency's annual report, while warning about Iran, North Korea and the war in Ukraine.
Taipei's coast guard says the Chinese activity off its Pacific coast is also aimed at Japan and the Philippines, and has put a suspected militia fishing boat on a priority watchlist.
Firms grew more upbeat about the economy in July-September after four weak quarters, but most expect to hire no one new in the next six months.
The first volunteers were vaccinated in Bunia under the Tumaini trial, which will also test a candidate developed by Oxford with the Serum Institute of India.
The Prime Minister's Office has set out a one-day, two-state itinerary: a women-led factory in his constituency, the IAF's display over the Ganga, then the central bank's new computing hub in Odisha.
India chased 198 in 27.1 overs in the opener at Kotambi. The second ODI is at the same ground on Sunday.
Revenue jumped 43% in the September quarter, yet the steelmaker's operating margin fell 240 basis points, the opposite of what rival JSW Steel reported the same day.
Five Chinese ships followed eight Japan Coast Guard vessels down the Taiwan Strait. Taipei accused Beijing of using the storm to assert jurisdiction over the waterway.
A clip of the Nvidia chief asking a flock of the small open-source robots to somersault at GTC Berlin went viral, and orders followed within a day.
Higher sales under long-term contracts, costlier imported coal passed through in tariffs and ₹2,422 crore of one-time prior-period revenue drove the September-quarter result.
South Korea's defence ministry wants to fix the location of the land demarcation line and restore military hotlines, after North Korean troops crossed it 50 times this year.
The two birds, fitted with satellite tags by Wildlife Institute of India scientists last November, flew in from north-eastern China in 11 days and will soon attempt a non-stop crossing to Somalia.
Record sales of 7.46 million tonnes lifted the September-quarter result, and the board approved a 5 million tonne expansion with Japan's JFE and a ₹16,150 crore second phase at JSW Utkal.
The company will train its most powerful models on cached and simulated copies of the web, weeks after one of them slipped through a misconfiguration and reached the open internet.
Rajesh Kumar Singh credited European rearmament and demand for Indian ammunition and artillery shells, with defence exports at a record ₹38,424 crore.
The Premier League leaders put their perfect record on the line at 5 pm IST, Arsenal host Everton, and Napoli meet Roma and Dortmund play Frankfurt later in the evening.
The BJP MP said the Leader of Opposition meets 'questionable individuals' abroad. The Karnataka minister dared the party to show documents if Rahul Gandhi had done anything anti-national.
The results season moves from technology and banks to cars, cement, consumer goods and infrastructure. Jio Platforms is due to start trading on Wednesday, the same day the US central bank announces its rate decision.
Brazilians choose a president on Sunday. The last Datafolha poll has the two candidates level at 50% each, and a poll average gives Flávio Bolsonaro a sliver of a lead.
The Nifty Smallcap 100 lost 7.4% in a week, and market experts blamed forced selling by traders who bought with borrowed money. What a margin call is, how India's margin trading facility works, and why falls in small stocks can feed on themselves.
India go into the second T20I at Hagley Oval on Saturday a match up in the five-game series, with the 15-year-old expected to replace the injured Ishan Kishan.
The Bombay High Court has ordered ₹5 lakh for a Mumbai man jailed for 26 days on a case the police built after arresting him. The order is right. What will stop the next such arrest is making the people responsible actually pay.
Selling spread beyond technology on Wall Street on Friday while oil climbed on fresh West Asia fears. With Indian markets shut for the weekend, Monday's open will have to absorb Infosys's forecast cut and a run of results.
The Prime Minister is expected to open a factory at Sevapuri in his constituency and watch the IAF's air show over the Ganga before reviewing work at the Himalayan shrine.
The storm lashed Taiwan's northeast on Friday and is forecast to hover near Okinawa before heading for China's east coast and then mainland Japan.
Days before he retires, Director General Shatrujeet Singh Kapur has set out plans for a Shaurya commando battalion, a mountain fighting force and strike training across the force by 2027.
A 65-year-old woman who fell ill in quarantine has died. She was a close relative of the man whose death in Nairobi on 5 October set off Kenya's outbreak.
The Ferrari driver was 0.042 seconds quicker than the championship leader in second practice at the United States Grand Prix, with Max Verstappen third.
The army began what it called a targeted and thorough operation in Hebron overnight, as Palestinian groups counted 36 arrests and 17 attacks on olive farmers across the West Bank in a single day.
An enforcement officer and a head constable on deputation at the Enforcement Directorate's Lucknow zonal office were caught in a trap, the CBI said.
Tarn Taran police said shots were fired at a patrol that spotted Manpreet alias Manna, who later admitted to three recent extortion shootings in the area.
Neco Williams put Forest ahead at Portman Road, but Julio Enciso punished a defensive mix-up before half-time in the Premier League's Friday night game.
A 65-year-old man, his two granddaughters and a 10-year-old neighbour were among the dead in Alampur village on Friday evening. Blasts went on for about two hours, slowing rescuers.
Redae Halefom urged fighters in Mekelle to return to civilian life. A day earlier, Lt Gen Fisseha Kidanu went on a new rebel TV channel to say Tigray was still at war.
Two people on an electric bicycle were killed in Gaza City and a third in al-Mawasi. In central Gaza, families left their homes after Israeli forces moved the boundary markers closer to them.
The Congress MP was picked up as he left the campus after meeting students on hunger strike for a union election. SP MP Mohibbullah Nadvi said police pushed him on his way there.
High-speed diesel will cost Rs393.66 a litre from Saturday to Monday under Pakistan's short-cycle pricing, brought in as the Iran war whipsawed oil markets.
Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, who ran the bureau's foreign election interference task force, appeared in court in Washington. Floris's lawyer called the timing, days before the midterms, no coincidence.
Filing for the mandal and district council polls ended on Friday with clashes in Palnadu, Anantapur and Tirupati. The YSRCP wants more time; the TDP has asked the poll panel to act against Jagan Mohan Reddy's party.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored from a Joao Felix free-kick and set up Angelo's late clincher in a 3-1 Saudi Pro League win in Al Majma'a.
The White House says the US first lady set the terms with Moscow and Kyiv. Russia's top general says his forces will stop firing on the Kherson axis from Tuesday to let an aid convoy through.
Both host sides made a dominant start in Ahmedabad on Friday night, with Naveen Kumar and Neeraj Narwal sharing 23 points in the men's win.
The MEA asked Indians in three European countries to stay away from demonstrations, as France prepares for another weekend of cost-of-living protests.
India's first non-banking finance company for the maritime sector has sanctioned ₹11,563 crore so far, the shipping ministry said, with a new maritime fund due to register with SEBI next month.
The state-run refiner returned to profit after a loss in the June quarter, earning ₹4,863 crore. Its LPG under-recovery has built up to ₹17,334 crore, and the oil ministry has approved ₹7,594 crore in compensation.
Foreign ministers from Europe and four Muslim-majority powers ended their first meeting in this format with a call for restraint on both sides, as oil climbed and Washington hinted at fresh strikes.
Solar Defence and Aerospace says the drone completed technical trials at the Mahajan range in August and can strike armour up to 50 km away.
The Foreign Office insisted the three-nation pact has no hidden clauses and targets no country. In Berlin, President Asif Ali Zardari gave Germany's president the same assurance.
A 39-year-old man was arrested after firing at a playground, a fuel station and a medical centre in Trappes and La Verrière. France goes into Saturday's protests with 70,000 police on the streets.
The private-sector investment, spread over five years, is expected in a joint statement after next week's talks with Sanae Takaichi. Dhaka's foreign secretary says it wants cheaper loans from every partner.
Naam Tamilar Katchi says the cases against M Karthiga, its Dharapuram candidate, and party colleagues are false. Police booked them over a banner, a police station gathering and the disruption of Chief Minister Vijay's roadshow.
The day's average rose from 223 on Thursday, with Manesar the most polluted town in the country. Slow winds and a dry weekend mean the haze is likely to stay.
India's largest share sale closed on Friday with a late surge of institutional money. Shares are due to be allotted on Monday and to start trading on Wednesday, 28 October.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said appointment orders had been issued to sailors from the state who finished their Agnipath service, under a policy cleared last month.
Police say four ex-students broke into RC Boys Middle School to steal money for a fair and struck Father Benedict Barla on the head when he walked in on them.
Pinarayi Vijayan's lawyers wanted their appeal against the vigilance FIR heard at once. The court posted it before the original division bench on 26 October, inside the Supreme Court's seven-day window.
The Hyderabad drugmaker earned ₹925 crore in the September quarter as lower sales of lenalidomide in North America pulled revenue down 1.5%. Its India and emerging markets businesses grew strongly.
Randhir Jaiswal said India and China are using diplomatic and military channels to avoid miscalculation, as Congress demanded that the Prime Minister take Parliament into confidence.
Responding at a UN dialogue on funeral rights, an Indian diplomat said a state that would not accept its war dead had no standing to lecture India on Jammu and Kashmir.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran framed six questions for the Delhi government and its recruitment board, and gave them 15 days to answer on affidavit.
The foreign ministry said it was working with airlines and tour operators to bring the rest home, and that India was still getting life-saving medicines to Iran despite disrupted flights.
The Narasimha Jaleb wound out of Dhalpur on Friday afternoon to drums and shehnai, while folk dance teams opened their contest at the Kalakendra.
Masked attackers opened fire inside a Greek Orthodox church in a village in Karak governorate on Friday, wounding 34 people. Jordan's interior minister called it a terrorist attack unlike anything the country has seen.
P V Sindhu needed only 39 minutes to reach the last four in Paris, where she meets Japan's Hina Akechi on Saturday. Ashmita Chaliha's run ended in three games.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine will lean more on Finnish satellite capability after a letter of intent signed during Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's visit to Kyiv.
India's foreign exchange reserves dropped by $5.01 billion in the week to 16 October, the Reserve Bank's data showed. They are now about $65 billion below the record set in early September.
India's second-largest software exporter now expects revenue to grow only 1% to 2% this year. September-quarter profit rose 6.2% to ₹7,823 crore, and its US-listed shares fell 8.5% before New York opened.
Nine golds on the last day of competition for India in Aichi-Nagoya took the haul to 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze, the country's best at the Games.
A year after a loss of ₹437 crore, the private lender's September-quarter profit rose 51% from the June quarter. Chief executive Rajiv Anand said growth had strengthened.
The Air Force's request for proposals covers its ATCR-33S radars bought between 2003 and 2017 and newer Mk XII(S) friend-or-foe systems, with Bharat Electronics named for the tender.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) MP backed a fresh move to remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar through Parliament. Speaker Om Birla has said any new notice will be examined under the rules, and Goa's Congress has given the poll body 10 days to drop the SIR.
The currency fell for a second day on Friday as dearer oil and foreign selling of Indian shares weighed on it, ending the week almost where it began.
At a fisheries investment conclave with Mohan Yadav, the Union minister cleared a ₹87.56 crore plan to develop 49 reservoirs in Madhya Pradesh and set out five export priorities.
An early rally led by IT shares gave way to heavy selling as Brent crude neared $114 a barrel. The benchmarks clawed back much of the damage late in the day, but smaller stocks fell nearly 3% and the volatility index jumped 8%.
Big investors poured into India's largest share sale on its last day, lifting total demand from 5.5 times to almost 10 times by mid-afternoon. Retail bidding stayed modest, which should leave most small applicants with the shares they asked for.
Dhruv Jurel captains a strong India A side in the first of three unofficial Tests from Saturday, a rehearsal for the senior Test series later on the tour.
The Home Ministry's first joint pilot with the Army will cover drones, air raids and chemical threats, and is meant to reach 60,000 civil defence volunteers through a cascade of training.
Shyabu Khan, from Rajasthan, is accused of posting fake videos of the Chief Minister on Facebook and collecting registration fees from people seeking help.
The Hyderabad engineering services company was one of the few mid-sized stocks to rise on a brutal morning for the broader market, after a rise in September-quarter profit in its core business.
Friday's results were met with little mercy on a weak day for smaller stocks. Dairy maker Hatsun Agro, BlueStone Jewellery and Creditaccess Grameen fell sharply, while Shree Cement gave up an early rally.
Marching under the banner 'People Against SIR', protesters set out from Gurdwara Bangla Sahib towards the poll body's headquarters, demanding that CEC Gyanesh Kumar resign.
Justice M Nagaprasanna quashed two cases filed against a Bengaluru doctor by suspected Bangladeshi nationals he had reported, calling them retaliatory.
The telecom ministry's research arm has signed up IIT (BHU) as the home of its sixth centre of excellence, which will work on 5G Advanced, 6G, AI networks and post-quantum security.
The External Affairs Minister called on President Ilham Aliyev and held talks with Jeyhun Bayramov, with transport corridors high on Azerbaijan's agenda.
The Nifty Smallcap 100 and Midcap 100 indices are now more than 10% below their 52-week highs after a week of steady selling. Analysts blamed forced selling by leveraged traders, money parked in the Jio IPO and oil above $110.
Thirteen nations are in the inaugural event, which runs until 31 October. India's women play Malaysia and the men face England on Friday night.
The Houthis say Saudi forces hit the boat near Zuqar Island in the Red Sea on Thursday. Saudi Arabia has not commented.
Kolkata Police say Sanjib Raha, the puja committee's treasurer, and Kushal Majumdar warned crowds over the public address system that the pandal was falling, setting off the rush that killed 19 people.
The Centre has notified the Telecommunications (Regulatory Sandbox) Rules, 2026. What a sandbox is, who can apply, what users are promised, and how the rules have changed since the idea was first floated.
The government computing centre and the public sector bank will run joint research and proofs of concept in quantum, AI and blockchain technology for banking.
Nine of the 12 parties at Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik's all-party meeting in Chennai left in protest against the SIR and CEC Gyanesh Kumar. AIADMK and BJP stayed.
The Mumbai developer earned ₹154 crore in the September quarter, down from ₹405 crore a year earlier, as higher expenses outran a jump in income. Realty was among the worst-hit sectors on a heavy day for Dalal Street.
Speaking in Guwahati, the Assam Congress chief accused Gyanesh Kumar of loyalty to Modi and Shah and attacked the Himanta Biswa Sarma government over the Zubeen Garg probe.
A Colombo court rejected bail for the SLPP MP, accused of taking Rs 70 million, as his father Mahinda wrote to him to trust only the judiciary.
At Bharat Mandapam, the Prime Minister said the mission's centenary and the 2047 goal of a developed India would move together, and called for uniting society against divisive forces.
The Mercedes driver leads George Russell by 102 points going into Sunday's United States Grand Prix, with six races left.
Pusa and Jahangirpuri edged towards the 'very poor' mark on Friday as traffic police planned to stop polluting buses at Delhi's borders. Forecasters expect no relief before Sunday.
Chief Justice Soumen Sen administered the oath at Lok Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram, with Chief Minister V D Satheesan and Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan in the audience.
Two Palestinian gunmen were killed and at least five Israeli soldiers wounded near Hebron on Friday, four days before Israel votes in a general election.
152 candidates are in the fray across five graduates' and six teachers' constituencies. The Election Commission ordered an inquiry into garbled voter slips in Prayagraj on the eve of polling.
About 40,000 power employees are on strike against a private distribution licence for Gurugram and Nuh. Outages have hit homes, water supply and factories across Gurugram, Faridabad and Nuh.
Two Paralympic champions met for the SL3 title in Nagoya, debutant Naveen won the SL4 crown, and Thulasimathi Murugesan and Nithya Sre Sivan took silver.
Gujarat's Deputy Chief Minister is holding about 10 meetings with South Korean companies on Friday, from batteries and electronics to textiles and cosmetics.
She was one of seven Indian high school students who presented research on food security at the Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, where India's farm science academy also signed a pact with a US counterpart.
Two world records in Nagoya on Friday took India into three figures for the second Games running, with the Hangzhou best of 111 now in sight.
Graduates and teachers are choosing members for two graduates' and two teachers' constituencies, with 43 candidates in the fray. Votes will be counted on 27 October.
Britain, France, Germany and Italy sat down with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt for the first time in this format, with shipping through the Strait still far below pre-war levels.
The Indian rifle shooter won the women's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 with 357.5, while Avani Lekhara slipped to fourth in the standing series.
The government says farm land shared with solar panels could raise incomes and cut heat stress, but installed capacity is still under 40 MW against an estimated potential in the thousands of gigawatts.
Ohio's Republican governor had urged the party's nominee to pull the spot, in which Acton's mother disputes her daughter's account of childhood abuse. Acton's camp called it despicable.
The weather office expects a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal to become a depression by Sunday. What those words mean, how fast the winds must blow before a system is called a cyclone, and how the warnings are issued.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister said the pilgrimage, still under way before the shrines close for winter, has drawn more devotees than in any earlier year.
The 2,232 kg navigation satellite, carrying an Indian-made atomic clock, will fly on a GSLV from Sriharikota after slipping from a mid-October target.
The BCCI said the wicketkeeper-batter hurt his right adductor in India's record chase on Thursday. India, 1-0 up, play New Zealand again at Hagley Oval on Saturday.
Two offers that closed last week made their stock market debuts on Friday with very different results. The cardiac stent maker opened above its issue price, while the Italian-owned gearbox maker opened exactly at ₹586.
Health officials logged 995 new suspected cases in a single day, taking the year's total past 2.17 lakh.
Mostly women and children crossed at five points in the divided border town after a row over a regional flag turned into fighting, Kenyan police said.
The Paralympic champion and his debutant partner won 5-1 in Okazaki. India's women's pair took silver after a heavy defeat to China.
The food and grocery delivery company fell about 10% in early trade on Friday, a day after September-quarter results that analysts said pushed profitability further away. A narrower loss and 36% revenue growth were not enough.
Justice Dinesh Bhatt declined urgent interim relief on Thursday and kept the former India captain's personality-rights suit for further hearing on Friday, the film's release day.
The court found that Azad Maidan police registered the FIR only after arresting Bipin Agrwal, overwrote dates on the arrest memo and wrongly branded him a habitual offender.
Tama Toa and Hine Toa, the men's and women's sides, face India's under-20 squads in Bihar from Friday in a series marking a century of sporting ties.
This week India told the UN's disarmament committee it is ready to make its promise never to strike first with nuclear weapons legally binding. What the 2003 doctrine says, its exceptions, who can order a strike, and what a global pact would change.
The joint language on Afghanistan was softer than in June, and Pakistan's Foreign Office raised water, a point that does not appear in either side's official statement.
Clashes broke out in Ettadhamen and in Jebiniana near Sfax on Thursday after two men died following encounters with security forces, days after the biggest protest against President Kais Saied in years.
Officials blamed a group they call 'Fitna al-Hindustan', Islamabad's label for Baloch separatists it says are backed by India, and said more suspects were surrounded near a hotel.
The two Chinese model makers have completed filings under draft rules that put 23 AI technologies on Beijing's export control list, state media say, while open-source releases and API access stay largely free.
In her first public remarks on last week's raid, the Minnesota congresswoman said agents took 17 items and that she no longer feels safe there, less than two weeks before she faces voters.
Leh and Kargil threw out the Home Ministry's draft in two hours; the next round then quietly did not happen. A sensitive border region deserves a timetable and a draft built on what was agreed in May.
The shallow quake struck a remote part of Baqen county late on Thursday. Rescue teams worked through the night as power and phone lines went down.
Thousands answered María Corina Machado's call in Caracas, Valencia, Maracaibo and other cities on Thursday, pressing acting President Delcy Rodríguez's government to name a day for a presidential vote.
About 1,000 families were removed from three reserved forests in Golaghat, Hojai and Nagaon in drives announced on Tuesday. Clearing encroached forest land is a legitimate aim; doing it without saying where people will go is not good government.
Kaja Kallas's diplomatic service has put 12 people and 105 entities before member states, from oil plants between St Petersburg and Sakhalin to firms in the UAE accused of helping Moscow dodge curbs.
Federal prosecutors say Vadym Y. gathered information on armoured vehicle, ammunition and explosives production and on NATO's eastern flank, in contact with Russian intelligence since at least July 2025.
Anthropic and verification firm Theorem say the AI model proved memory safety at the machine-code level for code that runs across the internet, and found hundreds of bugs that years of testing had missed.
The blaze began on a grenade launcher range and was driven by a sudden wind shift into a training area where soldiers preparing for Latvia were exercising, the head of Canada's military police said.
A senior Revolutionary Guards commander said this week that the internet cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz could be destroyed if Iran is attacked. How these cables work, how much of India's traffic uses them, and what would happen if they were cut.
A 28-year-old man died and more than 100 people were hurt at this year's Banni Utsav in Kurnool. Orders and awareness drives have not stopped the fight. Rules agreed with the villages that hold it might make it safer.
Friday brings one of the busiest results days of the season, led by Infosys after the market shuts. Jio Platforms' share sale ends with bids for more than five times the shares on offer, and RBI's weekly reserves data is due in the evening.
A rout in chip stocks pulled the Nasdaq down 2.6% on Thursday as fears over AI spending returned. Oil hit its highest since May, US bond yields tumbled and the rupee slipped to 94.82, leaving Indian shares facing a fourth difficult session.
Friday brings the badminton quarter-finals in Paris, more medal events at the Asian Para Games, and the fallout from India's record chase in Christchurch.
On a day dominated by the tech sell-off, the world's largest alternative asset manager rallied and the vaccine maker suffered one of its worst sessions since listing.
Meta's first cash-flow deficit as a listed company and higher spending plans set off a broad sell-off in chipmakers on Thursday. Lam Research, CoreWeave and SpaceX were among the hardest hit.
Two penalties and an Amine Adli free kick kept Bournemouth perfect in the Europa League, while Crystal Palace drew in Istanbul and Celtic lost at home to Celta Vigo.
Six years after a court ruling brought in a near-total ban, protesters accused Donald Tusk's government of offering token gestures. Two bills passed this week face a veto from the conservative president.
Investors fled technology shares for the safety of Treasuries on Thursday, pulling the benchmark yield down about 19 basis points even as oil climbed.
Attacks in Saudi Arabia and a report of planned strikes on Iran sent oil sharply higher on Thursday. Gold and silver fell as traders bet dearer energy would keep interest rates high.
Pakistan's prime minister used a security meeting in Peshawar to defend governor's rule in the province, hours before a counter-terrorism DSP and three colleagues were killed in a raid in Karak. In Balochistan, security forces said they foiled an attack in Gwadar.
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín found the operation likely intimidates citizens and relies on flawed data. Attorney General Todd Blanche said only eligible people should vote. The order is paused until Friday for an appeal.
Marseille are pointless after three Europa League games, Juventus needed a late penalty to draw 2-2, and Sunderland let an early lead slip in Poznań.
Spain's unions have already called a general strike for 11 November over housing and living costs, and Portugal has a stoppage set for the same day. CCOO leader Unai Sordo said it is now up to the Portuguese.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister stepped in after his Cabinet colleague Subodh Uniyal interrupted the singer on stage at a fair in Narendra Nagar, drawing protests from Mika Singh, Badshah and others.
The Keralam Chief Minister offered to host the exhibition 'in its entirety' hours after the Delhi venue took down most of the pictures, many showing protests by Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
Police detained the leftist former presidential candidate in her home village in Manabí before dawn on Thursday. She called the charge absurd and accused President Daniel Noboa of running a dictatorship.
The BBC's lawyers told the court Trump cancelled an agreed deposition to campaign in Georgia. He could face sanctions, including dismissal of his $10 billion case, if he does not appear.
MEPs backed a non-binding resolution by a large majority, condemning the Houthi blockade of Saudi Arabia and attacks on Red Sea shipping. The final call rests with member governments, which must agree unanimously.
More than 50 companies will exhibit at the two-day event, where the Chief Minister is due to pitch the state as a hub for chip packaging, testing and design.
The bus carrying 46 people on the Manendragarh-Kelhari road left the road on Thursday afternoon. Witnesses told police the steering had failed; Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai announced ₹5 lakh for each victim's family.
The campaign will run in all 13 districts until 30 November. The BJP in Bihar began a similar 15-day drive on the same day.
The CPCB's Thursday evening bulletin showed only a small dip from Wednesday's 245, with 29 of the city's monitoring stations in the poor band and GRAP Stage I curbs in force across the NCR.
A low-pressure area is expected to form on Friday and strengthen over three days as it moves west-north-west. Fishermen have been told to stay off the sea, and Odisha's coast could see rain from 27 October.
Saudi Aramco told staff to leave its head office and work from home on Thursday, the first such evacuation since the Iran war began, as the Houthis claimed strikes on oil sites in Yanbu and the defence ministry in Riyadh.
Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh's Cabinet also cleared paddy land for big newspaper presses that want to move out of crowded neighbourhoods.
Output across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan will contract 1.3% in 2026, the IMF said on Thursday, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq facing double-digit falls and even Saudi Arabia and the UAE slipping into recession.
The unseeded Indian beat the Japanese third seed in straight games in Paris, Sindhu brushed past Riko Gunji, and Ayush Shetty retired hurt against Kodai Naraoka.
Wiaan Mulder took three wickets on a rain-shortened final day at St George's Park as Australia were bowled out for 295 following on, setting up a decider at Newlands from Tuesday.
Demand for India's largest share sale kept building on Thursday evening. Bidding closes on Friday, with allotment due on Monday and listing next Wednesday.
The top 2TB model of Apple's book-style foldable costs ₹4.49 lakh, putting it at the very top of India's premium phone market.
The French president condemned far-left 'sedition' after the worst street violence in years. Mélenchon vowed to wreck the prime minister's meeting with party leaders, and big-city mayors want an independent inquiry.
The Home Minister opened or laid foundation stones for 43 Delhi Jal Board projects in Najafgarh and set May 2029 as the target to clean the river.
MEPs chose the International Criminal Court and its officials for the EU's top human rights award, in what its backers called a message to Donald Trump. The court won after a right-wing group abstained.
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week than economists expected, and a gauge of future activity held steady, pointing to an economy still on firm footing.
India's para athletes added four more golds in Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday, including a high jump podium sweep led by Shailesh Kumar, to finish the day on 21 golds.
Two critical bugs in PHP, found with the help of AI and hidden in the code for more than a decade, have pushed ministries, ports and hospitals in Europe offline while administrators rush to install emergency fixes.
Justice Subramonium Prasad heard the AISA president's plea against a magistrate's demand for a ₹10,000 bond on Thursday and said he needed time to write his judgment.
Stability has returned and markets have noticed, the bank said in its latest Pakistan Development Update, but per-person growth is stuck near 1.6% and private investment is the missing piece.
The currency gave up most of Wednesday's rally on Thursday as Brent jumped after attacks on Saudi oil facilities and Indian shares fell for a third day.
The External Affairs Ministry called the strikes on Dammam's airport and the Shaybah oil field 'completely unacceptable' after one Indian national died and three were injured.
India beat New Zealand by four wickets with two balls to spare at Hagley Oval, their highest successful chase against the Black Caps, to go 1-0 up in the five-match T20I series.
The seat fell vacant when L Murugan quit the Union ministry and the Upper House on 14 October to return to Tamil Nadu politics.
A sharp sell-off across Asia and Brent crude near $111 sent Indian shares down for a third straight session. The Nifty ended near 22,688 and mid and small caps fell about 1%, even as Jio's IPO drew more than four times the shares on offer.
Kim Aris said hearing his mother's voice meant more than words could express, but warned that one call was not family access for the 81-year-old, still held under house arrest in Naypyidaw.
Aleema Khan, Noreen Niazi and Uzma Khan are still in Kot Lakhpat jail although their 30-day detention under a public order law ran out on 20 October, their lawyer told the court.
India chose to bowl in the first T20I at Hagley Oval and were set 226, then raced to 94 for 1 in six overs behind a 23-ball fifty from Sanju Samson.
Medicine makers and food traders who relied on Afghanistan and Central Asia have lost most of their business, and the detour through Iran takes six weeks and costs several times more.
Giani Tek Singh Dhanaula met the four people injured in the Mansa attack that killed anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota and called the killing a Panthic issue.
Chief executive Amin Nasser says Saudi Arabia is talking to foreign governments about storing Aramco crude in their reserves, with Asia the focus, to keep supplies flowing through disruptions.
Government forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition are pressing a counteroffensive against the Houthis, and the UN has verified 57 civilians killed, half of them children.
Interior ministers Matteo Piantedosi and Fernando Grande-Marlaska agreed to restore free movement, closing a summer row between Rome and Madrid.
The midge-borne virus, normally found in livestock, had never before been detected in a person. Health authorities say the public is not at risk.
The frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, the anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs and the tanker Pechenga arrived in Keralam on Wednesday, the Russian Embassy said.
India added two golds and a historic archery silver on the fourth day of the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, pushing their medal count past 70.
The Revolutionary Guards claimed four oil ships were set ablaze and three struck mines overnight, as Tehran's security chief said Iran had held back its full strength and was "ready for the next stage".
After talks at Hyderabad House, the Prime Minister invited Polish companies to co-develop and co-produce in strategic sectors, and the two sides set up a startup bridge and youth hackathons.
The climate activist said he had booked his ticket for Thursday's round with the Home Ministry, only to be told it was not happening.
International Gemological Institute earned ₹185.8 crore in the September quarter on revenue up 31%, and pointed to India's festive season and US holiday orders as demand gathers pace.
The CBIC's GST policy chief said the revised return forms, cleared by the GST Council this month, aim to cut mismatches with GSTR-3B and the notices that follow. Audits are next in line for a look.
Zelenskyy mocked the US envoy's praise of Putin as a 'humanitarian' after overnight strikes on the capital and Odesa's ports left at least two people dead.
Startups, companies and researchers can now trial new telecom services on real users with exemptions from parts of the Telecommunications Act and the TRAI Act, but cannot charge them or sell the product.
Individual bidders, who lagged on Wednesday, covered their portion by 11 am on Thursday. By early afternoon the ₹30,213 crore issue was booked 4.3 times, with institutions bidding for nearly ten times their share.
The off-highway tyre maker will start by making Pirelli-branded passenger car tyres at its Bhuj plant, with a joint company to follow. Its shares rose about 2% on Thursday.
The six-day session opened with obituary references and an early adjournment, while the opposition promised to force a debate on drugs, gangs and the killing of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota.
The UN Environment Programme said on Wednesday that the world can no longer avoid passing 1.5C of warming. What the emissions gap is, what overshoot means, what it would take to come back down, and how India's own targets compare.
Cabinet was told 197,294 people have come home since vigilante groups began hunting foreigners, though the flow has now slowed.
Eleven hours of observations of WISE 0855, 7.5 light-years away, give the first sign of changing water clouds on a world beyond the solar system, astronomers at the University of Arizona say.
The storm, at one point a super typhoon, is expected to brush Taiwan's northeast coast late on Friday before turning towards the seas off Shanghai and southern Japan.
The junta's appointed parliament voted unanimously for a new penal code, eight years after the country abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes.
Stage I of the Graded Response Action Plan came into force across Delhi-NCR on Wednesday as the air turned poor. What the plan is, who runs it, what changes at each stage, and why this year's version kicks in harder and sooner.
Dhaka officials say Tokyo will raise India's re-inclusion in the BIG-B initiative at next week's summit, and the two countries are set to lift ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership.
A day after GRAP Stage I came into force, the air quality commission told the MCD to tighten dust control on roads and building sites and warned officials of strict action if its orders are ignored.
State Election Commissioner Anil Chandra Punetha halted the municipal elections while he weighs YSRCP's plea to reopen nominations, as fresh clashes broke out at rural nomination centres on Thursday.
Protesters gathered outside the Bogotá museum under police guard as the president pressed what he calls a cultural 'counterrevolution'.
Shehbaz Sharif warned on Wednesday that any violation of the 1960 treaty would be 'an act of war'. How the treaty divides six rivers, why India froze it in April 2025, what the Hague tribunal has said since, and how much India can really change on the ground.
The pilgrims from Vizianagaram district were crossing the national highway at Kathipudi for tea when the Scorpio ran into them on Thursday morning.
Telangana's electoral roll is on course to lose about 88 lakh names in the Special Intensive Revision. Some of those deletions will be right. Before the final roll on 9 November, every voter struck off deserves to know why, and a fair chance to come back.
The research preview checks a user's connected apps, sends a morning brief and keeps working after the phone is switched off. It is open by waitlist to US Pro and Max subscribers only.
El Salvador's president said worse was coming if the four aviation technicians, seized after an ambush on a gang suppression force vehicle, are not freed alive.
Villagers in Holagonda mandal held the night-long Banni Utsav clash despite police orders, and a 28-year-old man from Alur was killed.
A federal judge in Texas has halted work across a 500-mile stretch of the Mexican border, ruling that homeland security chiefs overstepped their powers.
The I&B ministry has warned private channels over unnamed breaches of the Programme Code and told them to keep AI 'assistive'. The concerns are fair. But rules for the newsroom should be public, precise and enforced through a process channels and viewers can see.
India start their New Zealand tour at lunchtime, South Africa chase six wickets to level their series with Australia, and Sindhu and Ayush Shetty play for French Open quarter-final places.
The Centre may well be right that the land is its own. But a heritage-listed building that the state's own gazette records as waqf should not fall on a week's notice, with its lights cut and nobody legally able to defend it.
The Nasdaq rose 1% and Meta climbed after hours. At home, the rupee hit a six-week high and foreign funds bought shares. Brent above $108 and hawkish RBI minutes temper the mood before Thursday's open.
Polling runs from 7 am to 6 pm across 16 districts and 2,392 wards. Gram panchayats vote on Saturday, but the results of today's contest will not be known until 20 November.
Washington has ordered non-emergency staff to leave the kingdom after weeks of Houthi strikes. Hours later an attack on King Fahd International Airport killed one person and injured eight.
Hindustan Petroleum's numbers will show how far a recovery in fuel margins has repaired a record June-quarter loss. Eternal and Indian Hotels trade on their results for the first time.
The first of five T20Is starts at 12:30 pm IST on Thursday in Christchurch, a ground where India have never played a T20I. Mitchell Santner's side have studied Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, though the young batter may have to wait.
Turkiye's parliament is about to take up the three-nation treaty signed in August, as Pakistani and Turkish forces line up to help defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks. What the pact says, what it leaves out, and where it leaves New Delhi.
A fresh low-pressure area formed off the Tamil Nadu coast on Wednesday, another is expected from 23 October with the potential to become a cyclone, and Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are watching its track.
Executives set out the next steps for driverless cars and the Optimus humanoid robot, but warned that owners will wait until around mid-2027 before their own cars can join the robotaxi fleet.
Meta's quarterly revenue reached $64.6 billion and it forecast up to $76 billion for the holiday quarter. Lam Research fell 6% despite beating estimates.
Meta's chief executive told investors he believes superintelligence can be built 'through scaling'. The bill for that belief showed up in the quarter's numbers: record revenue, sharply lower margins and negative free cash flow.
Bernardo Silva, Arda Guler, Kylian Mbappe and Yan Diomande scored at the Bernabeu. Inter edged Shakhtar, Galatasaray won 4-2 in Lille and LASK stunned Sporting in Lisbon.
Substitute Eberechi Eze put Arsenal ahead in Munich before Alphonso Davies and a Harry Kane penalty turned the game. Rice's 82nd-minute strike earned a point.
The Emirati minister and former UN ambassador enters a contest in which no candidate has yet won over all five permanent members of the Security Council.
Four days before the runoff, a Quaest poll has the senator at 45% to Lula's 44%, and the president says he will not debate his rival again unless he opens his bank records.
The Polish Prime Minister arrived on Wednesday night with his finance minister and a large business delegation. Rajghat, Hyderabad House and a business forum fill his day before he flies to Bengaluru.
Paz scored inside two minutes and again after the break as the Italian side ran riot. Michael Carrick's United are now seven games without a win in all competitions.
With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, a New York Times/Siena survey puts the president at 36% and a CNN poll at 32%, with voters angry over prices and the Iran war.
The prime minister's first look at the province since Islamabad took it over from Imran Khan's party is expected to focus on more police and money for the fight against militants.
The Democrat, who is running for Congress in New York's 10th district, was held with rabbis and volunteers helping Palestinian farmers pick olives. Others in the group remained in custody.
The advisory asks Indian nationals and travellers to avoid crowds, follow French authorities and check with airlines, with fresh demonstrations planned for Saturday.
Sindhu let an 11-point lead slip in the decider before winning 23-21 at the French Open. Lakshya Sen withdrew before his first-round match, handing Kodai Naraoka a walkover.
Indian Hotels raised its revenue growth forecast for 2026-27 to 15-17% after a record September quarter, and now expects to hit a target set for 2030 within this financial year.
After three hours with Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg, the Kremlin said talks with the US and Ukraine could resume from mid-November, possibly in Abu Dhabi. Kyiv wants them sooner.
Smith battled neck pain through an 88-ball 28 at Gqeberha and could not bat when Australia followed on. South Africa's Anrich Nortje also left the field with a groin injury.
The capital logged its first poor air day of the season on Wednesday, the latest start in a decade. Farm fires are forecast to add more smoke on Thursday, and forecasters see no let-up for a week.
Australia lost 13 wickets on a chaotic fourth day, were made to follow on 326 behind and finished on 156 for 4. Travis Head's unbeaten 87 is all that stands between South Africa and a series-levelling win.
About 2.5 crore people are currently counted as eligible, against 3.38 crore before the revision. Nearly 9.6 lakh cases are still to be checked before the final roll on 9 November.
The commerce minister discussed openings under the India-UK trade agreement with Scotland's First Minister, and a pending trade pact with a Chilean delegation led by the former president.
A senior Revolutionary Guards official warned that undersea cables could be destroyed if Iran's infrastructure is hit, while Tehran insisted its peace plan was on the table and the US Secretary of State called a deal 'extremely difficult'.
The food regulator sent fresh notices on Wednesday to infant food makers and a social media influencer, questioning claims about digestion, immunity and brain development.
The row over the Congress leader's description of the RSS as an 'all-male, anti-constitutional cult' widened on Wednesday evening, with a Samajwadi Party MP also joining in.
A rod on the tractor trolley carrying the idol struck an overhead line at Rajhi crossing in the Gulriha area on Wednesday evening. Ten people were hurt, several with burns.
An advisory to private satellite channels on Wednesday flags breaches found by an inter-departmental committee and tells broadcasters to keep generative AI away from the editorial core of news.
The certifying authority says a flaw generated weak cryptographic keys in a small part of its international business. Its Indian digital signature and eSign services are said to be unaffected.
Foreign money coming in for the Jio Platforms offer and RBI action against oil companies' dollar buying lifted the currency, though Brent above $110 limited the gains.
Videos of the Dasara night burning in a Koheda village spread on social media. Police acted on the sarpanch's complaint and have also booked the owner of the shop that printed the banners.
The four countries will work together on joint arms production, research and technology transfer, Pakistan's defence minister said, two months after Islamabad joined a mutual defence treaty with Ankara and Riyadh.
Pakistan's prime minister called water a red line at a joint appearance with the Maldivian president in Islamabad. New Delhi, which has held the 1960 treaty in abeyance since April 2025, did not respond immediately.
All six members backed this month's quarter-point hike, but two external members opposed the switch to a tightening stance. The governor said the next move can only be a hike or a pause.
Rahul Gandhi linked the picture's release to Marco Rubio's Mumbai visit. Pawan Khera said it undercut the minister's account of his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein and demanded an investigation.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the North Sea field would send gas into British homes within weeks. Kemi Badenoch welcomed the decision but attacked two and a half years of delay.
Revenue at the parent of Zomato and Blinkit rose 78% to ₹24,138 crore in the September quarter. Quick commerce stayed profitable and the company raised its store target for March 2027.
The French president added Saudi Arabia to his Gulf tour to show solidarity after Houthi attacks, while saying France had secured Qatari gas for the winter.
A Delhi magistrate turned down a police plea for three more days of custody and freed the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders on bonds of ₹50,000 each, after eight days behind bars.
Jalaj Saxena's five-for finished Odisha off in Thiruvananthapuram and Tanay Thyagarajan took 6 for 35 against Andhra. Delhi, Saurashtra and Maharashtra settled for first-innings points on the last day of round two.
The opposition party listed assaults, a torched scooter and police detentions in Chittoor, Tirupati and Palnadu on the first day of filing for the 3 November mandal and district council polls.
India's largest renewable energy company added 3,081 MWh of battery storage at Khavda in Gujarat during the quarter and expects to beat its storage target for the year.
Select business customers can now use GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna through Google's cloud, a sign of how rivals in AI models are becoming partners in selling them.
India's largest share sale drew bids for 59.44 crore shares against 19.75 crore on offer. Retail investors have so far taken up about two-thirds of their portion.
Praveen Kumar cleared a Games record 2.05m and Dilip Gavit Mahadu won the T47 100m in Nagoya on another busy day for India. Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag took archery silver.
The Finance Ministry's saturation drive, which began on Wednesday and runs until 31 December, also targets unclaimed deposits and Kisan Credit Cards ahead of the rabi season.
Bangladesh's prime minister will hold talks with Sanae Takaichi on 27 October. Tokyo wants the Japanese-funded deep-sea port to become a gateway for India's seven northeastern states.
At its Berlin conference, the chipmaker set out a design that watches AI agents from outside the system they run on, and a packaged 'AI factory' it says can be set up in about two weeks.
The Delhi minister said holding the Ramlila Maidan protest against the Chief Election Commissioner on the anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots was hurtful to the community.
Officials in the disputed border region say bodies were buried in two mass graves and some people are still missing after Monday's strike on Amiet market.
The three-day conference chaired by Army chief Gen Dhiraj Seth opened on Wednesday. The defence minister will unveil a doctrine meant to prepare the force for changing warfare.
On a tour of frontline fortifications, the North Korean leader's sister said propaganda broadcasts would resume along the whole border before the end of October.
The UN Environment Programme's annual Emissions Gap Report says current policies point to 2.8C of warming. António Guterres said overshoot 'is not surrender'.
A strong open on Infosys and TCS faded by early afternoon. The Sensex ended 143 points down, the Nifty lost 78 points and smaller stocks fell more than 2%, even as Jio Platforms' record IPO drew more than twice the shares on offer on day one.
Indian throwers took all three medals in the men's F46 shot put at the Asian Para Games on Wednesday, while Ayush Verma won F53 gold and Bhagyashri Jadhav and Ravi Rongali added silver and bronze.
Bayern Munich will be without Joshua Kimmich for Wednesday night's Champions League game at the Allianz Arena, and head coach Vincent Kompany is unwell.
The former India leg-spinner, who retired in September 2025, starts his coaching career at the franchise where his IPL career began in 2008.
The US envoy met Vladimir Putin at the Konstantinovsky Palace on Wednesday, a day after talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Oslo, carrying papers that set out Washington's approach to ending the war.
The Air Force's five-helicopter display team practised at Namo Ghat ahead of a 25 October show marking the IAF's 94th anniversary.
The Commerce Department is running outreach with state governments so that MSMEs, farmers and small businesses can use India's free trade agreements, the minister said.
Institutions filled their quota within ten minutes of Wednesday's opening, and by mid-afternoon the ₹30,213 crore issue had drawn bids for 2.22 times the shares on offer. Retail demand is still building.
Container rates to Africa and the Gulf have doubled or more, and exporters say buyers of a few thousand tonnes have walked away. Cheaper Indian rice still dominates the Saudi market Pakistan wants to win.
Houthi strikes have shut Riyadh's airport and Indian airlines have suspended Saudi flights. Elderly pilgrims are paying for a gap in the rules: Haj is tightly organised by the state, Umrah is left almost entirely to private operators.
For the second year running, the UN filled 15 seats on its top human rights body with exactly 15 candidates. Clean slates spare governments embarrassment; they also spare bad records any scrutiny.
The West Bengal chief minister visited the New Barrackpore home of Priya Samaddar, one of 19 people killed in the Durga Puja stampede, and said he would meet every bereaved family by 24 October.
Home Secretary Govind Mohan said the 31 October celebrations would mark the end of Left-wing extremism, with a drug-free India as a key message.
Acting on the YSR Congress Party's complaint that violence kept its candidates away, a vacation bench told the State Election Commission to decide by Thursday whether to reopen nominations for the urban local body polls.
Presenting awards at the 65th National Exhibition of Art, the President said creative opportunity means little without economic support.
The agency re-registered the case on Wednesday and will look at whether the killing of the anti-drug activist is linked to the open sale of banned psychotropic drugs at chemist shops.
The Leader of the Opposition said on the Sangh's foundation day that it treats women as men's property. The VHP accused him of "mental bankruptcy" and BJP leaders told him to study the organisation first.
Amit Shah led the national tribute at the National Police Memorial on Wednesday. The date goes back to a patrol in north-eastern Ladakh 67 years ago, when ten policemen were killed by Chinese troops.
The vacation bench ruled that the former Keralam chief minister, his daughter Veena T and P A Mohamed Riyas have the right to appeal the order that led to a corruption FIR in the CMRL-Exalogic case.
At the Police Commemoration Day parade in Hyderabad, the chief minister said families of sub-inspectors and inspectors will now get ₹1.25 crore, and a notification for 5,000 police posts is already out.
The Seoul High Court upheld Park's conviction for taking part in Yoon Suk Yeol's December 2024 martial law bid but reduced his 25-year term from the first trial.
Justice Subramonium Prasad told the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders their remedy lay in revision and suggested they wait for the afternoon hearing on their sureties.
Nigeria confirmed its first case on Tuesday, a woman who flew in from Uganda, and Kenya has nine. The outbreak that began in Congo in May is caused by a rare Ebola species that today's vaccines were not made for.
At the Police Commemoration Day parade in Mana near Raipur, the chief minister said a new atmosphere of peace and trust had taken hold in Bastar and other remote areas.
The Dehradun institute will start with sloth bears and their clashes with people in protected areas; full population figures are about five years away.
The CPCB reading at 9 am on Wednesday put the capital firmly in the poor band, and the early warning system expects an AQI of 342 by Thursday morning as cooler nights and weak winds trap pollutants.
On Police Commemoration Day, the Home Minister recalled the 1959 Hot Springs ambush and credited the central forces with a Bengal election held without a single death.
Speaking in a General Assembly debate on enforced disappearances, an MEA official set out India's legal safeguards and warned against unverified allegations.
Contract workers fell with steel parts from the third floor of the chipmaker's Fab 22 construction site. A fourth man died in hospital on Wednesday morning, and steel hoisting work has been halted.
Showers have lashed the city since Tuesday evening under a vigorous northeast monsoon, and the Met office expects heavy to very heavy rain in ten coastal districts over the next 48 hours.
The ChatGPT maker is folding the biotech software start-up into Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, whose customers already include Moderna and Novo Nordisk.
The Department of Homeland Security has barred China's DeepSeek from civilian government systems, saying its chatbot could send sensitive official data to China.
The President and Vice President JD Vance launched a Justice Department reward programme for verified fraud tips in the Oval Office on Tuesday, then turned on a journalist who asked why the payouts were so small.
Forecasters say the capital's air turns 'poor' from today, as it does every year at this time. Farm fires are rising in states that were not watched closely, machines sit idle and satellites go blind after 3 pm. The fixes are known; what is missing is the habit of acting before the haze.
About 40 companies report on Wednesday, led by Eternal, Indian Hotels and Adani Green Energy, as the BSE and NSE trade for the first time since Monday's 876-point fall in the Sensex.
Small companies and rate-sensitive shares led Wall Street higher on Tuesday while big technology stocks stalled. Brent eased to $108.79 and Tokyo was set to bounce as Indian traders return from the Dussehra break.
The US Secretary of State says Washington will talk to Reliance Industries about refining more Venezuelan crude and producing oil in Venezuela, as he tours the world's largest refining complex.
Jio Platforms' share sale opens to the public today, two days after big institutions took ₹8,110 crore of its shares at the top of the price band. What an anchor investor is, what the rules allow them, and how much their enthusiasm should count for.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who have gone to the Delhi High Court against their extended custody, are due before a magistrate at 2 pm on Wednesday. Mallikarjun Kharge has promised to set out his SIR concerns to the Prime Minister.
The early warning system expects the season's first spell of poor air on Wednesday and Thursday, with no rain in sight and the Diwali run-up ahead. Monday's 4 pm average was 139.
Tonight's second half of matchday three starts at 10:15 pm IST. Bayern Munich against Arsenal, a meeting of two title contenders, kicks off at 12:30 am on Thursday.
The Home Minister will review a joint parade of the central armed police forces and Delhi Police, lay a wreath for the Hot Springs martyrs of 1959 and flag off a 90-rider motorcycle rally against drugs.
Retail investors can bid for a minimum of 12 shares in India's largest share sale until Friday, with a separate category for Reliance Industries shareholders and a discount for employees.
Mumbai and Punjab need seven wickets on Wednesday, Maharashtra nine. Delhi and Gujarat look set for a draw at Palam.
Investors who bought the three stocks by Monday's close qualify for their interim dividends; anyone buying from Wednesday will not, and the share prices will adjust at the open.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Tuesday, the US president said Ukrainians would not 'stand for' the war much longer. Moscow's foreign minister said Kyiv keeps wrecking talks. Witkoff is due in Russia today.
The rest of Tuesday's Champions League night: Napoli beat Bodo/Glimt with two goals from Scott McTominay, Dortmund won in Baku and Fenerbahce drew with Slavia Prague.
Detroit won the first game of the 2026-27 season 121-113, spoiling Paul George's Boston debut. Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren scored 22 points each.
A busy evening of US company results on Tuesday rewarded AI server maker Super Micro and lender Capital One, while General Motors fell during the session despite beating forecasts.
Defensive errors gifted Villarreal an early 2-0 lead at Anfield before Alexis Mac Allister's double and a Florian Wirtz goal turned the game. Manchester City beat AEK Athens 5-1.
Six goals, four in the last 18 minutes, at the Parc des Princes. PSG stay top of the Champions League table with three wins out of three, but lost Ousmane Dembele to injury early on.
The streaming company earned more than expected in July-September, but a weaker advertising outlook, a slower fourth quarter and a shake-up of its content team pushed its shares down about 6% after hours.
Artificial intelligence now brings in more than half of SpaceX's income. Its satellite internet arm, meanwhile, is still waiting for security clearance to switch on in India.
The 10-year Treasury yield dipped to 5.12% on Tuesday after weak September housing data, giving some relief to rate-sensitive shares and emerging markets such as India.
Oil swung by more than $3 on Tuesday before ending slightly lower, while gold eased and the dollar weakened as US bond yields fell.
Nigeria is tracing 44 close contacts. Kenya reported a ninth case on the same day, and Africa CDC called the outbreak the most geographically extensive in history.
The poorest half of Peruvians got 1.4%. A survey for the charity found 84% believe powerful interests bend politics to their benefit, in a country that has had nine presidents in ten years.
The open-source tool lets developers move existing PyTorch AI apps onto Google's own chips with a configuration change instead of a rewrite.
Iran's president replied that Tehran does not trust America and wants all sanctions and threats removed before any talks, while Qatar says contacts go on.
The French Open's opening day brought another first-round exit for India's top men's doubles pair. PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen play their first matches on Wednesday.
On his fifth trip to Tehran since the war began, Pakistan's army chief heard a harder line from Iran's leaders, who said Washington must first meet seven conditions.
The UAE and Bahrain have each agreed to send France 100,000 tonnes of diesel a month, as the French president tours the Gulf with energy chiefs in tow.
A 24-year-old Briton and a 25-year-old British-Iranian dual national were held again under the National Security Act. Counter-terrorism police say Iranian state involvement is 'highly likely'.
India piled up 216 for 7 in Raipur and won the third T20I by 92 runs, their biggest home win by runs in the format. Nandani Sharma took 3 for 18.
The 16-article treaty commits the three countries to help one another quickly if any is attacked, a clause that echoes NATO's Article 5.
The West Bengal Chief Minister said no one died after being moved to a private hospital, admitted government hospitals had shortcomings, and asked whether doctors who criticised the decision were on duty.
From 110 for 6, South Africa reached 425 for 9 declared on day three, with Marco Jansen and Simon Harmer making the most of their captain's long vigil. Australia lost Nic Maddinson before stumps.
The European Commission's revised strategy for the high north answers Russian drones and cable sabotage, and Donald Trump's designs on Greenland, with a maritime watch hub and its own satellite links.
The Gujarat Chief Minister joined ministers, the city's mayor and two MPs as effigies of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna were burnt at the Shanti Seva Charitable Trust's Vijayadashami Mahotsav.
Two of the suspects admitted to being part of the team that fired on villagers at Khongbal Tangkhul, police said. Seventeen people were also detained at a Kuki militant camp after their identities failed to match.
Four Ranji Trophy games finished a day early on Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh beat Goa by 68 runs and Vidarbha squeezed past the defending champions by three wickets.
The US Secretary of State and the External Affairs Minister covered trade, energy, technology and defence in Mumbai on Tuesday, then sat down with the UAE's foreign minister for a three-way meeting on energy security.
The Karnataka Chief Minister met protesting farmers in Belagavi a day after they called off their padayatra, and proposed an all-party delegation to Delhi.
The party's chief spokesperson is its candidate in the Patna Graduates' constituency for the Legislative Council. Doctors have not disclosed details of his condition.
'I'm not getting involved in the Israeli elections,' the US vice-president said, splitting from Donald Trump's 'complete and total' backing for the Israeli prime minister.
Founded by two SpaceX veterans, the company is now valued at more than $1 billion and says FAA approval for its first autopilot system is 18 to 24 months away.
Founded by an MIT professor and a former DeepMind researcher, Eka has raised $150 million for a robot hand that relies on force and touch, not just cameras, to pick things up.
A husband and wife died in an air strike on their Gaza City flat and a 17-year-old was shot in Khan Younis, a year into a ceasefire that residents say they cannot see.
The head of US Central Command says Iran's military cannot pay its troops. Iran's central bank chief says the economy has shown 'very good resilience'.
The jets will fly defensive missions against drones and missiles and will not strike the Houthis, the Ministry of Defence says.
What was first logged as an accidental death became a murder case after the post-mortem. Police say the two accused confessed to hitting Sajani Waghari with a hammer after a minor quarrel.
The money comes from General Catalyst's growth fund in a deal that does not dilute Otter's shareholders, as rivals pile into AI note-taking.
Lucknow Police and the UP Special Task Force picked up Dubey, her sister and a driver, who had been on the run since a murder case was registered on 9 October.
The Land and Development Office says the mosque stands on government land and is unauthorised. It is on the NDMC's heritage list, and Owaisi and the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind have asked Kiren Rijiju to step in.
Speaking in Doha, the US envoy said Washington no longer wants to control the region and admitted past regime changes 'seem to have been a mistake'.
The Indian-American Republican and his allies have put more than $97 million into TV and radio, over three times the Democrats' spending. A Bowling Green State poll has Acton six points ahead, within the margin of error.
Doubts over the cost of artificial intelligence spending hit Asian technology stocks on Tuesday, while Indonesia's market bounced back sharply after two days of heavy losses.
Tamil Nadu beat Uttarakhand by an innings and 66 runs on day three of Ranji round two. In Delhi, Shahbaz Ahmed and Bengal were pushing for victory over Services.
Seoul says Ukraine has given no 'constructive response' after President Zelenskyy publicly revealed the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers.
South Africa were 110 for 6 when Mitchell Starc struck early on day three. Marco Jansen and Temba Bavuma then added 91 in 101 balls to change the mood of the second Test.
Amazon will fund a plant of 12 small nuclear reactors on an old Indiana coal site, and India wants at least five home-grown ones running by 2033. What makes a reactor 'small', why tech companies and governments are betting on them, and the catch.
The car, driven by a village head's son, lost control at speed on the Kasya-Deoria road late on Monday. Three others are in hospital.
Sitting in a special session on Navami, a bench led by Chief Justice Ravindra V Ghuge told the West Bengal government to set up a commission of inquiry into the crush that killed 19 at the Kolkata pandal.
The AIADMK chief said it was central investigators, not the state police, who broke the Nagapattinam network that was allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine to Sri Lanka.
The Cockroach Janta Party founder said Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka went to jail smiling, as Sanjay Raut asked the Supreme Court to step in over their extended custody.
Speaking in Kalaburagi a day after Kiren Rijiju's reply to his letter, the Congress president said the Prime Minister has two letters from him. Jairam Ramesh asked whether the government has a new delimitation plan at all.
Two Indian archery medals are now assured at the Asian Para Games, with both gold medal matches against Chinese opponents later this week.
The US Secretary of State began a three-day visit on Tuesday, with a 26/11 memorial tribute, talks at the Taj and an energy stop in Jamnagar ahead, as both sides say a trade pact is near.
On his first trip to Rangpur as Prime Minister, the BNP leader joined Durga Puja celebrations and was due to visit pandals in Rajshahi and Chattogram before returning to Dhaka.
JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration probe left Earth on Tuesday on a round trip that should end with Phobos soil landing in Australia in 2031. What the mission will do, how it collects a sample, and the question it hopes to answer.
The Home Minister began a Dussehra tour of three districts at the Gurdaspur home of Bikramjit Singh, while Punjab minister Aman Arora asked why the border with Pakistan still leaks heroin.
Both clubs have won their first two league-phase games. Liverpool, Manchester City and Napoli are also at home in a nine-match Tuesday programme that ends early on Wednesday morning in India.
Australia's left-arm quick got to the milestone on the third morning in Gqeberha after an initial not-out call was overturned.
Norway and Finland are hosting Ukraine's president and Donald Trump's envoy on Tuesday, with Kyiv and Washington at odds over air defence, satellite links and strikes on Russian oil.
Record rainfall drowned towns in Valencia and Alicante, more than 2,100 people were evacuated and at least four died, as the prime minister prepared to visit the worst-hit coast on Tuesday.
The Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, home to papyri and rare books, will host D Gukesh's match against Uzbekistan's Javokhir Sindarov from 22 November.
About three in four voters chose to stay in Canada in Monday's referendum, according to early results. What the question asked, why it was held, how a province could legally break away, and what comes next.
The External Affairs Minister held talks with the UAE's Deputy Prime Minister on Tuesday, citing trade of more than $100 billion since the two countries' free trade pact.
The French prime minister credited targeted curfews in Paris, Bordeaux and Nice with keeping Monday night quiet, as business leaders said the state had failed during the riots.
Haryana Police ruled out a hate crime within hours of the attack near Nilokheri. A second Srinagar-bound bus was stoned near Ludhiana the next night. Whatever the motive, the people who use this highway need to see that both attacks are taken seriously.
Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay has set aside ₹100 crore under a new 'VETRI 150' head so that rural households can get up to 150 days of wage work a year.
At the SCO heads of government meeting in Dushanbe, the Defence Minister said connectivity projects must respect sovereignty and announced that India will host the bloc's first civilisational dialogue forum this year.
Approvals on the IndiaAI Compute Portal show nine foundation model builders have taken most of the ₹1,275 crore committed so far, while students and academics have received less than 1%.
Speaking for India at the UN General Assembly's disarmament committee, Congress MP Manish Tewari also said decisions on nuclear use must stay under human control as AI enters command systems.
At the Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur, with Jagdeep Dhankhar among the guests, the RSS chief said regime change "has neither happened nor will it happen".
The monsoon failed across much of India, the east had its driest season on record, and El Niño is expected to stay into next year. Relief is arriving piecemeal and late. The Centre should treat this as the national emergency it is becoming.
The ChatGPT maker wants investor commitments before its rival lists in mid-November, in a round that could value it at more than $1.4 trillion, according to people familiar with the talks.
The party is challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court's refusal to extend the nomination deadline. Pinarayi Vijayan's plea against the CMRL FIR order is listed before the same bench.
Beijing's Southern Theatre Command sent naval forces to track the ship in the Spratly Islands and told Washington to stop, in what looks like the first such US passage there in more than a year.
Retail jewellers cut 24-carat gold by ₹870 per 10 grams on Tuesday while the MCX stayed shut for the festival; silver held at ₹2.3 lakh a kilogram.
The capital's air was in the 'moderate' band on Tuesday morning, a little worse than Monday's 139, as a cool, windless spell set in. Forecasters expect pollution to build as effigies burn and the dry weather holds.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced the transfer hours before Amit Shah arrived in the state to meet families of people killed for speaking out against drugs.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the 'Rudra Roop' of his administration had fallen on encroachers in three reserved forests. Minority rights groups say the displaced need rehabilitation.
Bhavina Patel, Sonalben Patel, Prachi Pandey and Baby Sahana Ravi all lost semi-finals to settle for bronze in Nagoya, with China again the main obstacle.
The SH1 shooter finished behind South Korea's Jo Jeongdu in Nagoya, while powerlifter Ashok also took silver in the up to 65 kg class.
Attorney General James Uthmeier secured a state arrest warrant for the 95-year-old former Cuban leader, accusing him of ordering the downing of two Brothers to the Rescue planes that killed four men.
A 43-year-old man has been charged over the attack outside the independent MP's office in Wangaratta. She remains in critical condition in Melbourne.
The world champion from Telangana ran 56.36 seconds in Nagoya, more than two seconds clear of the field, as India added silvers in shooting, powerlifting and javelin.
The former Rwandan army sergeant major, who ran a YouTube channel attacking President Paul Kagame, was found dead on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital; his head has not been recovered.
The Bangladesh Hindu Sammilon Sangho asked Islamabad to protect the old temple, which activists had saved from demolition for a commercial plaza days earlier.
Leandro Otormin's penalty had Mumbai City heading for victory in New Delhi until substitute Gurkirat Singh rose to meet Sanathoi Meitei's cross.
The US defence secretary saw the Israeli prime minister at an air base in the southern desert, a week before an election in which Trump has endorsed Netanyahu and Vance has stayed out.
LIC, Capital Group and Singapore's government lead the anchor book for India's largest share sale, which opens to the public on Wednesday at up to ₹1,119 a share.
The Polish Prime Minister's three-day visit, his first to India as premier since 2010, will cover trade, defence, technology and space, with business forums in New Delhi and Bengaluru.
The tenth Future Investment Initiative, due from 26 to 29 October, moves to next year. Government offices and firms in the capital have told staff to work from home.
The collapse at an informal open-pit mine in a remote rainforest municipality on the Pacific coast also injured seven people, the second deadly mine disaster in the department in two months.
The India-New Zealand free trade agreement took effect on Vijayadashami, removing duties on every New Zealand tariff line for Indian goods while India keeps dairy protected.
The free trade agreement signed by Piyush Goyal and Todd McClay in April comes into force on Tuesday. What each side has opened up, why dairy stayed out, and what it means for shoppers, farmers and exporters.
There is no trading and no big results in India on Tuesday, but the day sets up a packed Wednesday: reaction to Bajaj Finance and Hindustan Zinc, the RBI's policy minutes and the opening of the Jio Platforms offer.
Amazon and chipmakers led a rebound on Wall Street on Monday night, but Brent stayed close to a five-month high and Europe slid, leaving a mixed picture for Indian shares when they reopen on Wednesday.
The data centre company and the Claude maker signed a deal of the same size in August. Both are expected to head for the stock market.
Smriti Mandhana's side have already sealed the series with two wins. The third and final T20I starts at 7 pm IST on Tuesday.
Only 12 of 206 forest watcher posts are filled at one of India's finest tiger reserves. Karnataka, and every state with a reserve, must recruit, train and pay the people who walk the forest before poachers notice the gap.
The 20 MPs who broke away to the Nationalist Citizens Party of India must answer Abhishek Banerjee's anti-defection petitions by Tuesday, after three extensions and a Supreme Court nudge.
Indian shuttlers start the Super 750 event on Tuesday looking to move on from a poor Denmark Open. Lakshya Sen meets Kodai Naraoka and Satwik and Chirag face the home pair of Popov brothers.
An H3 rocket launched the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft from Tanegashima early on Tuesday Japan time, and JAXA confirmed it had separated from the upper stage and was on its way to Mars.
Spurs needed a stoppage-time goal from Ben Davies to seal a 3-1 win at home on Monday night, their first Premier League victory at the seventh attempt. Torino thrashed Parma in Serie A.
Zelenskyy said more than half a million homes lost power and Ukraine got no early warning from partners, as Washington, Moscow and Beijing talk of a summit without Kyiv.
The PyTorch-based tool lets developers move AI apps to Amazon's own chip by changing one line of configuration, the company says, in its most direct challenge yet to Nvidia's CUDA software.
Oil shrugged off President Trump's Russian sanctions waiver on Monday after Yemen's Houthis said they had hit an Aramco facility at Yanbu and the Shaybah oilfield.
About 2,000 people remain in the occupied town in Kherson region with little food, water or medicine. Kyiv says a deal on a local ceasefire to evacuate them is close.
Attackers reached an older system holding API keys for 1.4% of OpenCode Console users. Some developers found charges of more than $1,000, and AI models at first refused to help the company investigate.
Three police officers and three soldiers were wounded at a recruitment centre in the Pechersk district. The gunman was detained.
The Nvidia challenger, which designs chips for running AI models, more than doubled its value since late 2024 and plans to focus on open-weight models and video generation.
The second cut since Friday takes petrol to Rs 381.14, though Brent crude is still hovering around $110 a barrel as Gulf attacks keep oil markets on edge.
A Board of Peace official says Morocco is ready to be first into Gaza with the international stabilisation force, but a base, water projects and deployment are held up until after Israel's election.
The Panipat-born gangster has been linked to more than a dozen extortion and targeted-attack cases in Delhi and Haryana, and about 10 teams are now working on the case, police sources said on Monday night.
The 960-megawatt plant near Terre Haute would use X-energy's Xe-100 reactors and be run by American Electric Power, with Amazon as its first customer.
Three ballistic missiles struck government recruits as they lined up for training in southern Yemen on Monday, one of the deadliest attacks since the war flared again. Saudi Arabia has called off a major investment conference.
Bihar's Samrat Choudhary toured Durga Puja pandals in Munger, Yogi Adityanath washed the feet of young girls at Gorakhnath temple, and Gujarat's Bhupendra Patel joined the aarti at a Bengali puja in Ahmedabad.
Only about 30 overs were possible on day two at St George's Park. Matt Renshaw's one-handed catch at slip removed Ryan Rickelton, and Temba Bavuma is holding South Africa together on 41.
The afternoon attack in the Kharkiv region hit families in the town's central park. Prosecutors have opened a war crimes investigation.
On his first visit since the war began, Russia's foreign minister called Iran's cause just and offered to help find a way out, hours after Donald Trump said Moscow was doing little for Tehran.
With the Kolkata stampede fresh in mind, the city's police have sorted about 200 pandals by crowd size and stationed eight rescue teams trained for crowd surges.
The case in Karachi East is the city's first reported since December 2024. A nationwide vaccination drive aimed at nearly 2.4 crore children begins on 2 November.
The capital's daily air quality average improved to 139 as the city logged its coldest October night yet at 17.1 degrees Celsius. The early warning system expects the air to slip into the 'poor' band on 21 October.
The justices also turned away a fired NLRB member's bid for reinstatement and a Google challenge to a patent office policy, in Monday's orders.
A Delhi special executive magistrate extended the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders' judicial custody until Wednesday and rejected their sureties, while a third member was let off on a personal bond.
Field Marshal Asim Munir met the new Saudi ambassador as Pakistan's military spokesman said the Makkah defence pact with Riyadh and Ankara means an attack on one will be answered by all three.
Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra began an overnight sit-in at the Jaipur police commissionerate on Monday after a city police station refused to register NSUI leader Ritu Barala's complaint.
The Chief Minister promised action against everyone found responsible for Sunday's crash outside the Sheetla Mata temple, saying the government stood 'completely with the affected families'.
The Greater Bengaluru Development Minister said contractors had already been fined ₹93.67 lakh for failing to maintain the city's streetlights, and warned of more action.
The non-bank lender also said it had raised ₹3,850 crore of capital and appointed former SBI chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara as an independent director.
A statement titled 'Spare India from Anarchy', signed by students, researchers and alumni in 27 countries, urges parties to settle differences inside constitutional institutions.
Temporary Protected Status for Ukrainians was due to lapse on 19 October. Homeland Security says those covered are safe to stay, but no formal notice has been issued.
The engineering services firm signed more than $200 million of large contracts in the quarter and said it expects revenue growth to pick up in the second half of the year.
The court said the provincial government's challenge was not maintainable, leaving the Baloch rights leader cleared in a Karachi terrorism and sedition case. She remains in jail on a separate life sentence.
A joint team acting on specific inputs found the cache in the Panch Gabbar forest of Koteranka tehsil on Monday, and the search of the area was continuing into the evening.
The Vedanta group miner posted record revenue and its best-ever operating profit for a quarter, helped by higher zinc and silver prices and a sharp fall in its cost of production.
The High Court in Mombasa rejected the defence that the victims, nearly all children, chose to fast to death. Sentencing is set for 6 November.
India's largest consumer lender lifted its full-year growth target and set aside a ₹337 crore buffer for risks, while warning that two more rate rises could squeeze its margins.
Replying to the Congress president's call for an all-party meeting, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister said the government had already consulted seven other parties and asked the Congress not to obstruct future bills.
Iran's foreign minister hit back after Donald Trump endorsed the Israeli leader, while a Revolutionary Guards spokesman said American forces were too worn out to start a new conflict.
Delhi's captain turned an overnight century into a double as Gujarat were left 550 behind, while Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh moved into commanding positions. Round two resumes on Tuesday.
The digital rights group says the 8 and 10 October advisories could choke reporting on the Delhi protests, and has offered free legal help to anyone whose posts were withheld in India.
Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka will lead a cabinet sub-committee on drinking water and rainwater harvesting, with about 10 lakh acres of crops said to be at risk.
The Bengaluru defence electronics maker's ₹852 crore offer was the runaway favourite of Monday's four closing issues, ahead of Bonfiglioli Transmissions, Sahajanand Medical and Zetwerk.
The Kerch-born lawyer, who backed the invasion but mocked Putin and Kremlin propagandists, was given 18 months over a 2022 video stream.
The former Keralam chief minister and his family's challenge to a High Court order directing a vigilance case in the CMRL-Exalogic matter is due to be taken up on Wednesday.
In only his second first-class match, the Mumbai-bred batter batted through 517 balls against Nagaland in Sovima, adding an unbroken 190 for the last wicket before Mizoram declared on 581 for 9.
Bangladesh says it was not told before the sentences were carried out and has asked Riyadh for an explanation and a copy of the verdict.
The currency gave up early gains on Monday as Indian shares slid, and traders now look to the RBI's policy minutes and oil for direction.
The National Conference president told reporters in Budgam that the long-awaited expansion of the Jammu and Kashmir council of ministers had been held up because Manoj Sinha was unwell.
Private lenders fell after their September-quarter numbers, foreign funds kept selling and Brent stayed near $108, ending a two-day rally a day before exchanges shut for Dussehra.
Albertans will choose between remaining a province and starting the legal process towards a binding separation referendum, alongside nine questions on immigration and the Constitution.
The Indian compound pair scored 1,402 in Okazaki, two points better than the old mark, after Sheetal equalled the women's individual world record with 704 out of 720.
Nine days before Israel votes, the opposition dismissed the prime minister's two-page doctrine as election slogans, while Tehran answered Donald Trump's endorsement of him with a warning.
The contract manufacturer's offer, which had drawn bids for less than a third of its shares by Friday, was subscribed 1.25 times by Monday afternoon.
India's largest cement maker sold 13.8% more cement in a monsoon quarter and earned ₹1,494 crore. Higher fuel and raw material bills kept margins flat.
The SpaceX and Tesla chief called it 'the first of many' such gifts, but did not explain who would qualify or how the shares would be handed out.
Last week the Supreme Court held that access to the internet is a fundamental right of every person, children included, and ordered a national database to take down child abuse material. Where the right comes from, what it rules out, and what changes for families and tech companies.
September-quarter numbers moved several mid-sized stocks sharply on Monday, while sugar makers fell after a change to the ethanol tender.
The French president said the state had failed in anticipation and intelligence, and told Laurent Nuñez to stay on and find new ways to deal with looters, as his cabinet met in emergency session.
The telecom equipment and optical fibre maker had its best quarter ever, with revenue up 144%. Its managing director says a ₹10,000 crore revenue target could now come before 2029.
The Paris Paralympics bronze medallist bounced back from a semi-final defeat to beat Rafli Ahnaf Shidqi by ippon in the men's J1 -70kg and add to India's medal tally.
Under a tie-up with the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, students will train at institutes such as those behind India's weather forecasts, with AcSIR awarding the degree.
The state-owned lender earned ₹5,537 crore in the September quarter, with gross bad loans down to 2.42% of advances.
An H3 rocket is scheduled to launch the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft from Tanegashima early on Tuesday, opening a five-year round trip to bring home the first pieces of a moon of Mars.
Rajasthan Police picked up the men from a train at Kota railway station on Monday morning, less than a day after gunmen fired at the actor's car in Mumbai's Juhu.
The Peshawar High Court takes up the first challenge to the federal takeover of the province on Tuesday. How Pakistan's constitution lets Islamabad run a province, how long it can last, and how it compares with President's Rule in India.
The 49-year-old man was the only positive result among 38 people tested on Sunday, as Congo's Bundibugyo outbreak spreads to an eighth province.
Agarwal shot a Games record 250 in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 final in Aichi-Nagoya, with Lekhara taking silver for an Indian one-two on the first day of medal action.
The former Balaghat MP took the oath at Lok Bhavan in Dehradun on Monday morning, replacing Lt Gen (retd) Gurmeet Singh, the longest-serving Governor in the state's history.
The 61st meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology, which sets global rules for weights, measures and measuring instruments, will be held in the capital from 26 to 28 October.
The Indian judoka beat China's reigning world champion in the women's J2 -52kg semi-final in Aichi and is assured of at least silver, with Kyrgyzstan's Aibike Ulanbek Kyzy waiting in the final.
Ajay Dhakad, a revenue official from Raisen district, had taken the boys out on Sunday saying they would watch a film. Their bodies were found hours later in a locked car at the station.
The company says bursts of automated 'reading' on the anti-Trump coalition's account looked like bot traffic and tripped its security systems. It has apologised, but the organisers are not satisfied.
Rebel MPs must answer disqualification petitions by Tuesday, and the Election Commission hears the fight over the Trinamool name and symbol on 30 October. Two forums, two laws and two very different questions.
A National Tiger Conservation Authority review finds 402 of 630 sanctioned posts vacant at the Karnataka reserve, with its special protection force at about a sixth of its strength amid poaching concerns.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a 25-storey apartment block and a medical facility were also damaged, a day after Ukraine's biggest drone attack on Russia.
The Nifty PSU Bank index rose as much as 3% on Monday morning as brokerages raised targets on Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank and Indian Bank.
The 27-year-old from Delhi topped the Indian tour's money list with just over ₹1.02 crore, ahead of four-time winner Khalin Joshi, while 16-year-old Kartik Singh was named emerging player of the year.
A day after a Kashmir bus was attacked at a Haryana dhaba and its driver allegedly called a 'terrorist', men threw stones at another bus from the same operator on the Delhi-Jammu highway in Punjab.
The military said Major Wajahat Waheed died leading a clearance operation near Pasni, as it again blamed India for the violence in Balochistan.
Stones thrown at a concert in Khangabok on Sunday night set off fighting between two communities; Laishram Rakesh was shot in the head and houses and vehicles were burnt.
The United Forum of IDBI Officers and Employees has served a strike notice on the bank's management for 2 and 3 November, days after the Cabinet cleared the transfer of control to the Canadian group.
A young biker who hit a child was beaten to death, and Dalit families in his village then lost their homes to arson. Bihar has the laws and the Supreme Court's 2018 rules to stop this. What it needs is police who act in the first hour, not the second day.
The US president said he did not want to drive Moscow from the bargaining table. Zelenskyy called the waiver a 'historic mistake' that will hurt Ukraine.
The campuses for Google's planned AI hub in Visakhapatnam will skip water-hungry cooling towers, the company says, as activists question their closeness to a drinking-water reservoir and a wildlife sanctuary.
Exports carried Beijing through July-September, while retail sales and factory output picked up in September. Investment and property are still shrinking.
Brazil's president and the senator leading him in the polls traded charges of corruption and lies in São Paulo on Sunday night, a week before the 25 October runoff.
Overturned SUVs in Punganur, burnt cars in Rayachoti and claims of seized papers across the state have marred the start of Andhra Pradesh's local body polls. Before anyone votes on 28 October, the State Election Commission owes voters a public account of who was allowed to stand.
An advisory to the owner of Facebook and Instagram, issued as protests over the electoral roll revision continue in Delhi, asks it to rework recommendations and add context to images of public events. Digital rights campaigners call it censorship.
The Claude maker says the fund could make large donations or pay money directly to groups affected by AI, but has not said who will decide how it is spent.
Nobody outside government has seen the order that pulled a Bluetooth messaging app from Indian phones. The Kerala High Court has now asked for reasons. Secret blocking was never part of the bargain the Supreme Court struck in 2015.
Brent slipped towards $108 when trading resumed after the weekend. Indian shares open a holiday-shortened week with foreign funds still net sellers and GIFT Nifty pointing slightly lower.
Beijing publishes GDP and September activity data on Monday, the start of a busy week for Asian economies that also brings China's lending rates, a Bank of Korea decision and Japanese inflation.
The Security Council's sixth straw poll left every candidate with a 'discourage' vote from a permanent member, and Macky Sall has quit the race. How the selection works, what a straw poll is, and what happens if the deadlock holds past December.
Brokerages see the consumer lender earning about ₹6,383 crore in the September quarter on loan growth above 25%. Higher borrowing costs after the RBI's rate rise could squeeze its margin.
West Asia will dominate two days of talks in Mumbai before the US Secretary of State arrives, while Rajnath Singh represents India at the SCO heads of government meeting in Dushanbe.
A Falcon 9 carrying 31 payloads is due to lift off from Florida at 4 pm IST on Monday, hours before Japan's H3 rocket sends the MMX probe towards Phobos.
A grass fire that broke out during live-fire training at CFB Wainwright swept into the range's administrative area. Prime Minister Mark Carney called it one of the worst peacetime tragedies for the forces on Canadian soil.
Meeting in Caracas on Sunday, the Unitary Democratic Platform called for the release of political prisoners and the safe return of exiles. Machado herself remains abroad, blocked from coming home.
The vaccine expert says the real number of infections in the largest US outbreak this year could be 5,000 to 10,000, as the CDC sends in an epidemic investigator.
Without the suspended Vinicius Junior, Madrid moved to third in La Liga, six points behind Barcelona. In Serie A, Lazio went second and AC Milan held on to beat Atalanta 3-2.
Patrik Schick's late goal gave Leverkusen a 2-1 win over Freiburg. In France, Monaco lost their unbeaten record at Lorient, and Lyon's win over Nice left five clubs level on 14 points.
An Austrian Airlines plane carrying 51 passengers and six crew was diverted to the Bulgarian capital on Sunday night over a suspected security threat.
The Ukrainian president said Kyiv and Washington were in near-constant contact on next steps after the Florida talks. Marco Rubio, due in Mumbai this week, said Ukraine has no access to SpaceX's military Starshield service for now.
After a crisis meeting at the Elysee on Sunday, the French president promised that looters would pay for their crimes. He set up a crisis unit for victims but stopped short of a state of emergency.
The US President gave Benjamin Netanyahu his "complete and total endorsement" and warned that America would otherwise have to do the work on Iran itself. Gadi Eisenkot, who leads the polls, said he had tried to stop the intervention.
Russia's foreign minister arrives on a working visit as the Hormuz standoff deepens. Moscow says the talks will focus on the situation around Iran and on Russian steps to cool tensions, alongside trade and energy projects.
The champions needed a substitute's strike to beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 at the City Ground. United drew 1-1 at Elland Road, and Diego Gomez scored from near halfway in Brighton's 5-0 rout of Crystal Palace.
Doctors described the boy as acutely anaemic. He weighed 7.6 kg, against about 12 kg expected at his age, and the child welfare committee has taken his siblings into care.
Niki Prasad took two wickets in two balls to hold Zimbabwe to 102 for 8 in Raipur, then the openers finished the job with 67 balls to spare for a 2-0 lead and Mandhana's first win as full-time captain.
A day after the Chorbagan crush killed 19, a high-level team began inspecting major Durga Puja venues on Sunday, while Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said crowds could be regulated if needed.
The YSRCP chief took a list of alleged attacks on his party's candidates to Lok Bhavan, and said he would go to court over polls he called a stain on democracy.
The advisory asks Indians in Saudi Arabia to follow local safety alerts, avoid filming incidents and keep away from bridges and tall buildings when driving.
Speaking in Baghdad, Iran's foreign minister said the strait could reopen within six days if Washington met Tehran's conditions. Hours earlier, the Revolutionary Guards said two crude tankers using an unauthorised route had caught fire after striking mines.
After a Saturday night downpour flooded 35 locations in the city, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister reviewed rain preparedness at Ripon Building and told departments to step up flood-prevention work before more heavy rain arrives.
Satnam Singh, 35, was shot in the chest outside his home in Siddha Navadiya village on Saturday night. Police have named eight people in the FIR.
Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon outside the Education Ministry on Sunday. The health ministry says 272 people, most of them police officers, have been hurt since Tuesday.
The Congress MLA called for due process in the CMRL payment case, as party colleagues questioned the UDF government's choice of a preliminary inquiry over an FIR.
Dani Ramirez scored with a free-kick inside two minutes on his debut, Edmund Lalrindika doubled the lead and substitute Bipin Singh struck twice late on in Goa.
The short-notice evacuation was flown in darkness and bad weather, the Defence Ministry said, as the Navy's Indra exercise with Russia wrapped up in Vladivostok.
Only 12.2 overs were possible at St George's Park, where South Africa reached 20 for 2. Scott Boland, brought in for Nathan Lyon, removed Aiden Markram and David Bedingham.
The state replaced the district's police chief on Sunday, a day after a Kuki man was killed and houses were set alight in Chassad. By evening, Naga women were protesting at the district headquarters.
The Houthi-run news agency blamed a Saudi air raid for the deaths. Riyadh's coalition said two crew died when a helicopter came down near Najran because of a technical fault, and rejected Houthi claims that it was shot down.
Congress, AAP and Left workers demanded a probe supervised by the Chief Justice of India, while in Dehradun the BJP called the Congress's plan to surround the assembly 'negative politics'.
The Housing and Urban Affairs Minister marked Namo Bharat Diwas as the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut rapid rail corridor completed three years of service.
Rinku dragged Uttar Pradesh to 202 against Goa in Kanpur. Tamil Nadu bowled out Uttarakhand for 134, Mumbai closed in on Himachal and Bengal were dismissed for 184 without Mohammed Shami.
The party said festivities were suspended in solidarity with families hit by floods and landslides. On the Indian border, armed police have set up a sniffer dog unit to curb cross-border crime.
The Punjab Kings opener missed a maiden double hundred by one run in only his third first-class match. Captain Ayush Badoni, unbeaten on 115, shared a stand of 234 with him at Palam.
The air stayed in the 'moderate' band through the day, while the minimum temperature fell to 18.6 degrees Celsius, the lowest of October so far.
Closing the Congress's 27-day Goy Rakhon Yatra with a rally in Margao, the Leader of the Opposition said the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and Gyanesh Kumar would 'pay the price'.
The CID will file appeals against the Gauhati High Court's orders freeing band member Amritprava Mahanta and the singer's cousin Sandipan Garg as soon as the court reopens, officials said.
The Kolkata-based maker of carbon black and battery materials reported a September-quarter profit of ₹231 crore on Sunday, and said its half-year profit grew 29% to ₹460 crore.
Navneet Kumar, 20, was attacked near Chainpur Chowk on Saturday evening. After his death, a mob torched Dalit homes in his village, and extra police have been sent in.
Balochistan's government said the suspension was needed to tackle smuggling and security problems, while Tehran called it temporary. Traders warn it could deepen LPG shortages in Karachi, as Pakistan's other western border flares again.
The new bridge links Alappuzha and Kottayam districts across the lake. The Chief Minister said Aroor would be developed under the state's Mission Samudra plan.
The Spaniard closed with a 70 at Delhi Golf Club to win by two shots on 21 under par for his third title of the year. Anirban Lahiri was the leading Indian in a tie for 23rd, and Rory McIlroy faded to 42nd.
Lawyers in Leh and Kargil will be able to argue before the Supreme Court by video link, the Chief Justice said, as the region got a high court bench of its own after close to a century.
The state BJP chief linked the alleged discontent to the recent sting videos and said senior Congress leaders would meet after this week's council polls.
IL JIN Electronics signed a ₹13.12 crore share swap on Sunday for the last 1.5% of the Bengaluru company, which makes printed circuit boards for defence, cars and telecom.
The Italian Navy's newest class of multi-purpose combat ship is in Mumbai from 18 to 22 October on an Indo-Pacific deployment, with a defence industry showcase planned on board.
Sheep meat comes in duty free and kiwi fruit priced above $2.50 a kg pays 15%, under a Finance Ministry notification that opens the first stage of the India-New Zealand free trade agreement.
The Norochcholai power station tripped during Saturday's nationwide outage, which cut electricity, water and mobile networks for more than three hours. The grid operator has opened an inquiry and asked people to use power sparingly.
Maharashtra's forest department has injected and released the leopards near Pune, testing a non-lethal way to slow population growth in an area where leopard attacks have killed 56 people since 2000.
Running unopposed at a congress in Yaounde, Noah won more than 96 per cent of delegates' votes. The party, which says it has faced years of persecution, now has its eyes on the 2027 local elections.
Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy threw out a DMK candidate's petition against the TVK's win in Salem North, saying adult voters still made their own choice.
The Global Climate and Health Alliance says India's new climate pledge barely mentions health or air pollution, even as dirty air is linked to about two million deaths a year.
The nine-aircraft aerobatic team is flying over Bannimantap Grounds for the festival, a display arranged after Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar wrote to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Leaving for Jaisalmer on Sunday, the former Chief Minister said thousands of cows had died in the district and asked why the BJP government was not seeking help from the Centre.
Captain Smit Machchhar, recovering in an Abu Dhabi military hospital, described being struck from behind on a Dubai to Tel Aviv flight and said he hopes to fly again soon.
Two voters who moved house and missed the enumeration wanted their old entries restored. The court closed their case, telling them their fear of a false declaration was misplaced.
Play in the second Test at St George's Park was due to begin at 3:30 pm IST after a pitch inspection. Australia, 1-0 up in the three-match series, chose to bowl.
Education, health and welfare will lose 4.9% across the board while coalition funds are untouched. On the campaign trail, Netanyahu condemned a pundit's slur against rival Gadi Eisenkot.
A day after his own release, the Cockroach Janta Party founder said the party would rethink its protest plans against the Chief Election Commissioner and accused police of stalling.
The Congress veteran endorsed the government's response to the description of Indian IT professionals and said the US must stay sensitive to India's needs.
The former chief minister alleged police firing at Pulivendula, snatched nomination papers and blocked MPs as the deadline for Andhra Pradesh's urban local body polls closed.
The Home Ministry has approved the biggest overhaul of the industrial security force's structure in decades, replacing eight regional commands with sectors for power, coal, steel, oil and gas, ports and the capital's public buildings.
The Leader of the Opposition said the state's claim of ₹1 lakh crore in investment on the ground rests on diluted rules and a padded list of investors.
The 99-storey tower, one of the Saudi capital's best-known landmarks, has asked companies to work remotely until further notice. The shopping mall at its base stays open.
The Delhi opener reached three figures off 125 balls against unbeaten Gujarat. In Bilaspur, Tushar Deshpande struck twice early and Mumbai took seven wickets before lunch.
A paddy-laden truck ran down a slope into a no-entry zone at Sheetla Mata temple in the early hours of Sunday. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has removed the city's police chief and ordered an inquiry.
The vote fills a post left empty since the war's first day in February. It came as Iran's Revolutionary Guards said two loaded tankers had struck mines in the strait.
Answering the Sena (UBT) chief's backing for talk of regime change, the Maharashtra chief minister said governments in India change through elections, not on the streets.
Indian shares go into Monday after their best week in months, led by IT. Analysts expect the Nifty to consolidate, with oil near $110 and a heavy results calendar squeezed around Tuesday's holiday.
The Defence Minister will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's council of heads of government in the Tajik capital on Monday and Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
The Allahabad High Court has told the state to hold panchayat elections within three months. The government's reasons for delay are real but not new, and the Constitution does not let a village council outlive its five years.
Three people on one motorcycle died after hitting a truck near Bhiringi, and two died when a car rammed a bus at Andal crossing.
Ravneet Singh Bittu announced the Home Minister's second trip to the state in a month, framing it around the BJP's push for a drug-free Punjab.
Police have filed a culpable homicide case over the crush that killed 19 at the north Kolkata pandal. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari says the inquiry's findings will be made public.
India's ten largest listed companies added about ₹3.65 lakh crore in market value last week. Larsen & Toubro was the only one to lose ground.
Jairam Ramesh said the Election Commission's order to give parties searchable rolls came only because the country was on the streets, and demanded the SIR be suspended at once.
Speaking at an STPI and IIT BHU conclave in Varanasi, the IT ministry's top official pointed to screening, diagnostics and remote ICU monitoring as uses India should build on.
A US law signed last month threatened 100% tariffs on the biggest buyers of Russian oil, India among them, from 18 October. On Friday night President Trump set it aside. What the law says, what the waiver does, and why the threat has not fully gone away.
Kabila, who ruled for 18 years and was sentenced to death in absentia last year, now heads a new rebel front with M23 commanders as his deputies.
India's Test captain lasted five balls for Punjab against Chhattisgarh in New Chandigarh. Uday Saharan's fifty steadied the innings.
The fast bowler trained with the squad on Saturday and was expected to lead the attack against Services at Palam. Bengal have given no reason for his absence.
Overseas funds have now taken ₹3.12 lakh crore out of Indian equities this year. A small turn to buying on Friday, as US yields eased and the rupee firmed, has analysts asking whether the worst is over.
Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan topped the Security Council's sixth straw poll but still drew 'discourage' votes from two permanent members.
Pakistan's prime minister and his brother Nawaz defended the emergency and governor's rule in the province. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council called it unconstitutional and announced a province-wide strike.
Mansoor Ali Khan says flight cancellations after Houthi strikes have left Indian pilgrims, many elderly or ill, without help as some tour operators run out of money.
The 9 am reading was 30 points worse than Saturday's 4 pm average and a short step from the 'poor' category.
The Spaniard finished his weather-hit third round early on Sunday at 19 under par. Om Prakash Chouhan is the leading Indian in a tie for 31st as the final 18 holes get under way at Delhi Golf Club.
East and Northeast India got a quarter less rain than normal this year, the lowest since 1901, and Meghalaya ended 60% short. How the rain-bearing systems missed the region, what El Niño has to do with it, and what a dry winter could mean.
The travel booking company's bookings grew 22% in the September quarter, led by flights and buses, but its core operating profit fell as it spent on hotels and AI.
The state-run lender earned ₹1,469 crore in the September quarter on strong interest income and cleaner books, though higher provisions and weaker treasury gains held back the bottom line.
One person was killed in Russia's second city as Kyiv mounted one of its biggest aerial attacks of the war, a week after Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire that has never taken hold.
The Home Ministry's draft would give Ladakh its own special article in the Constitution and an elected body for the whole Union Territory. Ladakh's leaders rejected it within hours. What Article 371 is, how it differs from the Sixth Schedule, and what is left to negotiate on 22 October.
Alert Level 3 signals a high risk of severe cross-border haze. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur ranked among the world's most polluted major cities on Saturday.
A bench led by Chief Justice Soumen Sen has given three Union ministries and the two app store owners four weeks to file affidavits on why the offline Bluetooth messaging app was taken down in India.
Nineteen people died outside a Kolkata puja pandal on Saturday night, the latest in a long line of Indian crowd disasters. Every big gathering should have a public crowd plan, a counted capacity and someone accountable for it.
The Ukrainian president said the meeting could be held in the Gulf, in Europe or in the United States around the G20 summit, but neither Moscow nor Washington has confirmed it.
Clashes spread beyond France on Saturday, with fires in front of Milan Cathedral, an attack on Bologna's railway station and water cannon in Brussels, while thousands marched peacefully in Lisbon.
Activists and Hindu community members stopped work on the heritage building, which they say was to be pulled down for a commercial plaza. They want an inquiry and the issue raised in Pakistan's National Assembly.
About two dozen companies are due to report September-quarter numbers on 19 October, from consumer lenders and cement to zinc and a state-run bank.
East Bengal finally start their league season in Goa against a Churchill side that won on debut, while NorthEast United host table-toppers Kerala Blasters on Sunday.
Lawmakers from BRICS countries meet in Samvidhan Sadan's Central Hall next week. The government is also weighing a special session for the delimitation and women's quota bills, but has set no dates.
The Speaker's deadline for 20 Trinamool rebels falls on Tuesday, district protests against the roll revision are set for Friday, and the big court cases return only after the Dussehra break.
Delhi, beaten by nine wickets in Bengal, host Group C leaders Gujarat at Palam from 9:30 am on Sunday. Shubman Gill is set to turn out for Punjab before the New Zealand tour.
India ranks 100th of 122 countries in the 2026 Global Hunger Index and stays in the 'serious' band. What the index measures, why child wasting drags India down, and what the government has said against it.
India's High Commission in Ottawa has announced the Canada leg. A US visit for the G20 summit and a stop in Brussels are expected to make it a three-nation tour.
Oil jumped almost 4% on Friday after Indian markets had shut, and a sell-off in chip and AI stocks gave the Nasdaq its worst week since June. A weekend of tanker attacks in the Gulf adds to the risk.
The regulator's draft bars added sucrose and fructose only in products for the youngest infants. The cereals at the centre of the 2024 sugar row are eaten after that age, and the rule should follow them.
Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Anushka Sharma and Harmanpreet Kaur all fell for single figures in Friday's opener. A win in Raipur on Sunday evening would seal the three-match series.
More than 30 large companies are due to publish September-quarter numbers between Monday and Saturday, while the ₹30,200 crore Jio Platforms offer tests how much money the market has to spare.
Students, unions and 'yellow vest' veterans marched in more than 100 towns on Saturday. About 400 people were arrested and Macron promised that those who looted town halls would be punished.
The metal clawed back most of a mid-week slide as traders scaled back expectations of a Federal Reserve increase this month. Oil near $110 and a 5.1% Treasury yield keep it hemmed in.
Every company in the Philadelphia semiconductor index ended lower on Friday as worries about debt-funded AI spending spread. SK Hynix and Samsung lost about a fifth of their value in a week.
Legal experts had called the line in Meta's updated commercial terms a remarkable provision. The company says its web crawling has not changed.
The three report quarterly results on Tuesday and Wednesday, the first big US technology names to do so since the AI sell-off. Indian investors will see the numbers before their own markets open.
Chetla Agrani, Tala Pratyay and other crowd-pullers stopped letting visitors in after the Chorbagan deaths. Residents say there were too few police on the ground.
At a Northern Kentucky arena on Saturday, the President boasted of a 'much more powerful' second term, promised $5,000 for every adult and campaigned for Ed Gallrein, the man who beat Thomas Massie.
The film's distributor was told the account had been suspended over political content. X will not carry the film's ads, while Meta and YouTube reversed early rejections.
The crowd waiting outside the north Kolkata pandal surged forward as rain began on Saturday evening. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has called off all government events linked to the festival.
The Claude maker published data on its own workforce, arguing that how an AI-heavy company changes may hint at what is coming for hiring and work across the economy.
Speaking in Imphal on Saturday, the Chief Minister said the Census had been deferred in the state after the Centre was told of public worries about updating the NRC first.
Students and other protesters clashed with police near the prime minister's office in Tirana on Saturday. Police say 167 people have been arrested and 132 officers hurt in five days.
Oil jumped almost 4% on Friday as a strike on Saudi Arabia's main export outlet and a drone hit on a Russian refinery revived supply fears. US crude rose more than 10% over the week.
Odisha's Chief Secretary reviewed security and logistics on Saturday for the Prime Minister's visit to Khordha and the President's two-day tour of Rairangpur from 28 October.
Manchester City held off promoted Ipswich 3-2 for a seventh straight league win and a six-point lead. Liverpool came from behind against a Brentford side that lost two players to red cards, and Aston Villa won at Newcastle.
With 305 of Maharashtra's 358 talukas declared drought-hit, the Chief Minister said leaders in big bungalows could not understand what ₹5,000 means to a farmer.
The BJP president said the opposition was insulting the people's mandate by blaming the Election Commission, and warned that a return to paper ballots would bring back booth capturing in Bihar.
Belgian, French and Polish diplomats visiting Palestinian olive pickers were surrounded by settlers on Saturday. Belgium says it will push for more EU sanctions; Netanyahu's office wants 'compelling evidence'.
Lamine Yamal scored early and set up Gabriel Jesus in Seville, and Hansi Flick called him the best player in the world. Barcelona remain top of La Liga with a perfect record.
Spain's Eugenio Chacarra is 14 under at Delhi Golf Club with seven holes of his third round left. Om Prakash Chouhan is the best-placed Indian, and the tournament heads into a long final day.
The new patients include nurses and doctors who treated the country's first case, the first known infections passed on inside Kenya. The ministry says there is no sign of community spread.
The state unit expressed solidarity with the murdered receptionist's family a day after CBI officers met her parents and promised a fair inquiry.
The family was driving home to Mau for a relative's wedding when the car hit the divider and overturned. Police believe the driver fell asleep at the wheel.
Wind brought down the lit arch at an engineering college's Navratri event on Saturday. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has asked officials to find those responsible.
India raced to 118 for 5 in 7.4 overs of a nine-over game, with Ishan Kishan and Naman Dhir swinging hard, before the rain returned and the match was called off without West Indies batting.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) chief told a Marathi journalists' meet in Mumbai that a government that takes away the right to vote and protest should be thrown out.
Lawyer Ratul Bora blamed gaps in the police charge sheet after the Gauhati High Court released band member Amritprabha Mahanta and the singer's cousin, suspended DSP Sandipan Garg.
Dhruv Rathee headlined the 'Stop Vote Chori' rally in Parliament Square, where Metropolitan Police officers kept the two sides apart as each tried to drown out the other.
Surrendered NLFT and ATTF cadres sat on the national highway at Hataikator on Saturday morning. Two policemen were hurt when the road was cleared.
The Chief Minister invoked the Durga Puja in a post on Saturday night, saying the state stays alert on its borders 'each day, each occasion'.
Ashish Kundra said Leh and Kargil leaders threw out a 32-page Home Ministry framework within two hours. The two sides meet again in New Delhi on 22 October.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said Cairo could not stand by if the kingdom were harmed. Egypt's parliament meets in emergency session on Sunday as Houthi drones keep coming.
The Central Pollution Control Board's 4 pm average was close to double Friday's reading. It stays below the band at which the first stage of GRAP curbs applies.
The lender earned ₹1,080 crore in the September quarter and beat forecasts. Its auditors qualified the results because they leave out the Supreme Court's revival of ₹8,415 crore of bonds.
The former Rajasthan chief minister said the 12 October march led by Rahul Gandhi was peaceful and recalled that the Congress accepted the 2014 verdict after the Anna Hazare and Ramdev agitations.
The country bought almost the same amount of oil in April-September as a year earlier but paid far more for it. September alone cost $15.4 billion, with the Indian basket averaging $116 a barrel.
Govind Mohan told the 78th IPS batch in Hyderabad that drugs, cybercrime and illegal immigration are now the big tests, and that the North East's trouble is ethnic conflict, not insurgency.
As Washington shelves its Russia sanctions law, figures show EU ports took in more Russian Arctic gas this year than last. India remains Russia's second-largest crude customer.
Engineers at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre simulated the moment the crew capsule breaks away from its service module before re-entry, and its systems came through the shock intact.
Pedro Neto scored at the start of the second half and again in stoppage time to end Everton's unbeaten start, but Chelsea lost their goalkeeper to a head injury after a collision with Jarrad Branthwaite.
In a letter after the Mansa killing of activist Parvinder Singh Jhota, the BJP leader said the AAP government had reinstated a drug inspector caught with crores in cash and deposits.
In a letter to federal prosecutors, the Minnesota congresswoman's lawyers say agents broke a judge's orders when they searched her Washington home. The Justice Department says the letter is 'riddled with false allegations'.
The region got 1,017.1 mm of rain between June and September, a quarter below normal, as a developing El Niño left Meghalaya, Manipur and Bihar parched and five states declared drought.
The far-right cleric's edict came as the West Bank harvest turned violent. Other rabbis called it theft, ten days before Israel votes.
The amended regulation also allows up to four nominated members from women and unrepresented communities, and lets a council's term be extended if polls are impracticable.
Iga Swiatek played on with a bandaged left thigh and lost 7-5, 6-1 to her childhood doubles partner. Sonay Kartal, back from a six-month layoff, beat Jelena Ostapenko in two tiebreaks to reach Sunday's final.
The storm grew from Category 1 to Category 3 in less than a day. Its eye is forecast to pass very close to the Pacific coast late on Saturday and on Sunday, bringing storm surge and heavy rain.
The bench noted that he has been in custody for more than two years and that only seven of 147 witnesses have been examined in the CBI case.
The no-objection certificate covers 25 October to 3 November. Kharge announced the rally after the INDIA bloc agreed to campaign together against the roll revision.
The amendment comes after two High Courts shielded private school teachers from census duty. Congress says it will turn Census 2027 into a jobs scheme for RSS and BJP workers.
Revised guidelines for the scheme that funds national sports federations run to 2030-31 and add money for single-sport Olympic training centres, the National Games and India's push to take indigenous sports abroad.
Showers washed out India's last practice session before the fifth T20I against West Indies. With the series at 2-2, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is in line for a first T20I in four years.
The committee headed by former judge R Subhash Reddy will look first at the use of pellet guns, attacks on women protesters and damage to property on either side.
Women make up 18 of the 22 names in the ruling party's new list for Andhra Pradesh's urban local body polls, a day after nominations opened amid violence.
Suspected NSCN-IM cadres opened fire on the village on Saturday afternoon, two days after an ambush nearby killed a woman and left a Chassad couple missing.
A Special Executive Magistrate released the CJP founder on Saturday afternoon, a day after he was stopped on his way to Connaught Place. The AISA president was let go hours earlier.
HDFC Bank and Axis Bank alone raised more than $22 billion in FCNR-B deposits last quarter. The money lifted loan and deposit growth while margins narrowed.
The Revolutionary Guards said a ship carrying more than two million barrels of crude caught fire and repeated that the strait is closed. A tanker off Jubail was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur are on alert, and the disaster management authority has told people in landslide-prone areas to be ready to move.
The farm outreach drive runs from 22 October to 30 November, with 4,150 teams of scientists and extension workers aiming to reach one crore participants.
The board set up in March had more than four years left. Its chairman's challenge is still pending in the High Court, and the Kanthapuram Sunni faction finds itself shut out of the new panel.
The rain-washed air of Friday morning lasted only hours. Anand Vihar was the worst spot on Saturday, and forecasters expect the city to stay in the 'poor' band from Monday.
More than 320 drones and a volley of missiles struck power plants and substations overnight, cutting electricity in seven western and central cities as winter approaches.
The country's second-largest private lender beat forecasts on Saturday with lower provisions and fast loan growth, though its margin narrowed to 4.18% from 4.36% in the June quarter.
The Ethiopian calls the city 'almost like a second home', and faces Riga winner Charles Matata. Irine Cheptai, the 2022 champion, admits she is not at her best, while Lily Das leads the Indian women.
Doctors said tests confirmed he was fit for discharge, four days after the operation. A day earlier he had called Vladimir Putin to ask for a ceasefire in occupied Oleshky.
Vijay Singla became the first ruling party leader to visit the men wounded in the shooting. The action committee will picket AAP legislators' homes and offices across Punjab on Monday.
The environment minister set out problem statements in nine areas, from tamper-proof emission monitors to dust control and paddy straw, and asked innovators how their technology could work on the ground.
Tehran's foreign ministry rejected Saudi accusations and said it would help if both sides asked. Missiles fell on Aden airport again, and the Houthis freed 159 captured government fighters.
Bengal's leading wicket-taker last season is back after shoulder surgery for Sunday's Ranji Trophy match at Palam, with Akash Deep and Mukesh Kumar away with India A.
Stripped of last year's one-off gain, profit rose 14%. The results came a day after Fairfax said it would keep Rakesh Sharma as chief executive once it takes control.
The AIFF had planned to send an under-23 side to Bangladesh while the senior team plays two centenary friendlies in New Zealand. With the tournament starting before the FIFA window, nothing has been settled.
At the Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University convocation in Lucknow, the Chief Minister held up the socialist thinker's essay on Ram, Krishna and Shiv as a guide for lawyers.
Lower provisions and 23% loan growth lifted the September-quarter result, while dollar deposits raised from abroad let the bank shed some bulk term deposits.
The EU summit ended without agreement on the extra money Zelenskyy asked for. Macron said leaders would look at the funding, while three central European governments signalled they would stay out.
A draft amendment to the infant nutrition rules would end the use of the two sugars in products for the youngest infants. The public has 60 days to respond.
India's largest private lender earned ₹19,510 crore in the September quarter. A sharp fall in treasury gains and a squeeze on margins kept growth in single digits, nine days before the CEO's term ends.
The ceremony went ahead in Bengaluru on Saturday, five weeks after the university called off its September date amid student objections to the Chief Justice's presence.
The former Sri Lanka captain, who coached Mumbai to three IPL titles, has parted ways with the franchise after a ninth-place finish. Hours later, his compatriot Chaminda Vaas was named Delhi Capitals' fast-bowling coach in place of Munaf Patel.
The army said Friday's air strikes hit command centres in the RSF's Darfur stronghold. The paramilitary group says a drone struck a crowded livestock market, killing women and children.
A meeting of the party's MPs chaired by M K Stalin in Chennai adopted four resolutions on Saturday, including a petition to President Droupadi Murmu to withdraw the voter roll revision.
The Mokama MLA, at odds with his party over a council seat, says he meant nine of his associates were killed after he sided with Nitish. The RJD calls it a confession.
At the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, India rejected Gina Romero's finding that young Indians face retaliation for speaking on mental health and gender justice.
On Friday the Supreme Court issued show-cause notices to the Shiv Sena (UBT) MP and the journalist over their remarks about the Chief Justice. The case could reach the court only after Attorney General R Venkataramani gave his consent. What contempt of court is, why that consent is needed, and what can happen next.
Zetwerk, Tonbo Imaging, Bonfiglioli and Sahajanand Medical take their last bids on 19 October. The ₹30,000 crore Jio offer follows on Wednesday, with three listings due in the same week.
The Samajwadi Party chief asked why banks said to be stronger are being sold, why rural branches are shutting and why fraud victims wait for refunds.
The all-rounder takes over the captaincy for the six-a-side tournament from 30 October to 1 November, and Gujarat Titans seamer Kulwant Khejroliya fills Bhuvneshwar Kumar's place in the squad.
The relief covers students admitted from 2019-20 onwards whose cases were pending, many of them hit by the Covid-19 disruption. There will be no sixth chance.
Two days before the penalties were due, the President set them aside in the 'national interests'. Democrats called it a surrender to Putin; Moscow called it historic.
JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration mission is due to lift off on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima early on Tuesday morning Japan time, aiming to return Phobos soil to Earth in 2031.
India's current account deficit narrowed to $5.2 billion in August, the RBI said this week, even as the rupee hovers near record lows. What the number counts, how it is measured, and why it matters for the currency in your pocket.
Seamans, who led sales for Elon Musk's AI venture, is the latest of several commercial staff OpenAI has taken from SpaceX's AI units as it pushes for enterprise revenue.
Unions and a former secretary say the Centre promised Parliament it would keep 51% of IDBI. The ministry says that promise never made it into the law, and a court agreed in 2018.
A court in Baja California sentenced the men convicted of the 2024 murders of brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their friend Carter Rhoad, who were shot during a surf trip and left in a well.
Platforms' failure to remove abuse material cannot be a reason to keep children offline, the court said, ordering a national hash database and stiffer duties on social media companies.
The International Organization for Migration says 1.56 million people who went home now live in frontline districts, and only 1% there could heat their homes properly last winter.
Class 10 papers begin first, followed by Class 12 on 21 October and Class 11 on 29 October, in Kashmir and the winter zone districts of Jammu.
Mahmood Khan Achakzai and other TTAP leaders asked the Peshawar High Court to strike down governor's rule. He claimed Imran Khan was being forced into a deal like those once made with Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
A Saket magistrate acted after a notice could not be served at the YouTuber's locked Gurugram home. The complainant says Rathee's recent trip to India for the protests made service possible.
The policy sets out a ₹3,548.7 crore plan over ten years, from apple orchard biomass to tourism waste, and leans on producers and user charges rather than subsidies.
Islamabad's foreign office called the Indian defence minister's remarks provocative. On Kabul, it said it wants a verifiable mechanism to stop attacks and knows of no formal Russian mediation.
Astronomers at the Raman Research Institute and Arizona State University found that energy from feeding black holes travels along their jets into the outer reaches of host galaxies.
The request lands as the Secretary of State begins a six-day India visit, a day after New Delhi called a Congresswoman's remarks on the roll revision 'unwarranted and uninformed'.
Thousands of people, from chief ministers to students, have been picked up in Delhi this month during the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner. The police have relied on a handful of sections of the new criminal procedure code. What those sections allow, how long people can be held, and where the limits lie.
Amy Pope of the International Organization for Migration said heat, floods and failing farms were pushing people into cities, and urged governments to act before communities are displaced.
A third survey in three days puts the senator a point or two ahead, within the margin of error, eight days before Brazil votes. A row over Meta and Lula's accounts has reached the electoral court.
India's cyber security agency says autonomous AI agents read business records and personal data in Indian organisations without permission, and that not one of the victims spotted it. An advisory is a start. Rules on reporting, testing and basic security must follow.
The DPCC told the NGT it did not have the equipment to test groundwater around the Ghazipur landfill as ordered, and that it had floated a tender to buy it.
Bhagwant Mann says the state has been unfairly blamed for drugs. He has a point about the border and the Centre's share of the job. But the answer to a bad reputation is evidence, and his government is sitting on the biggest survey Punjab has ever done.
The AI coding platform's chief told a San Francisco audience that cost and performance drove the switch, but people close to the partnership say it is still in place.
Farmer, worker, student and women's groups plan district-level demonstrations demanding the end of the roll revision and the CEC's removal. AIKS will mark its 90th year in Nalgonda in November.
Campaigning for the Legislative Council seats, the Chief Minister accused Akhilesh Yadav's party of handing its Rajya Sabha tickets to family and a Mumbai businessman.
The Sikhs for Justice leader says agents served a 'duty to warn' notice on 15 October, ahead of his planned trip to Canada for Sunday's non-binding referendum.
Elon Musk's satellite internet company said on Friday night that its gateways in India were set up with government clearances, as the row over its delayed launch rolled on.
Petrol will cost Rs386.30 from Saturday to Monday under the daily pricing system brought in after the war with Iran resumed. Diesel stays at Rs396.96.
Field trials by German researchers on ten winter wheat varieties found that carbon dioxide levels expected by mid-century lowered gluten in most of them, with big differences between varieties.
Smriti Mandhana's first match as captain ended in a four-wicket win in Raipur, but only after Zimbabwe's bowlers reduced India's top order to rubble in a chase of 115.
The small finance bank nearly tripled its profit from a year ago while interest income rose 35%. Its board approved a ₹409 crore preferential share issue.
The world No. 24 lost in straight games to the top seed in Odense, and Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand let a one-game lead slip against Malaysia's Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan.
India scores 24.1 and Pakistan 25.5, while Nepal and Sri Lanka are rated moderate. A separate list of the world's ten worst food crises names Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
The home services platform's board also approved raising up to ₹2,500 crore and a first look at selling air conditioners under its Native brand.
Lalrinliana Hnamte put the hosts ahead in front of 14,971 fans at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, but Lee Erwin and Miguel Figueira struck four minutes apart after the break to give Bagan their first points of the ISL season.
After Friday's crash, economy minister Airlangga Hartarto said reforms must show visible progress. Danantara's Rosan Roeslani called cheap shares a long-term opportunity.
Opposition leaders lined up on Friday to condemn the detention of Abhijeet Dipke for carrying the national flag. In Lucknow, the Defence Minister said Congress and its allies were using young people to spread anarchy.
The selectors named two one-day squads and a Test squad for the New Zealand tour on Friday. Shubman Gill will leave the ODI series early to prepare for the Tests, and Shreyas Iyer takes over in Mount Maunganui.
About 150 people were held in central Delhi on Friday evening. Central Park stayed locked behind a human chain of police, and small groups with the Tricolour marched round the inner circle before being dispersed.
Brokerages expect profit to rise sharply on strong loan growth. The bigger question is what the Supreme Court's revival of ₹8,415 crore of written-off bonds means for the bank's capital.
On the second day of the Brussels summit, the Ukrainian president said the war will cost €155 billion next year, while EU leaders promised no let-up in sanctions on Russia.
The court called the regulator a 'mere bystander' while risky bonds were sold to ordinary customers. Before it says another word about the AT-1 write-off, the RBI should explain what it saw, and what it will change at bank branches.
The commission froze the party's name and its 'flowers and grass' symbol for last month's bypolls. It will now take up the larger question of which faction owns the Trinamool Congress.
At a day-long review in Phillaur, the Chief Minister told police the Centre was blaming Punjab for problems on its own watch. Hours later, the Home Ministry asked the state for reports on three drug-linked cases.
The fitness chain, which runs 708 centres in 77 cities, can now go ahead with a public issue that also lets Temasek, Accel and co-founder Mukesh Bansal sell shares.
Ethiopia's prime minister promised free elections in the northern region once the new administration, run on directives from Addis Ababa, has restored stability.
Speaking on Women Farmers' Day, the Agriculture Minister also laid foundation stones for 46 rural roads and announced a livelihood pilot for Raisen and Vidisha.
Daily departures from the valley have passed 85,000. The cabinet has approved six months of housing aid for families in Gorkha, Dhading and Baglung, and fuel prices are being held despite Indian Oil's revisions.
Tech Mahindra's board has recommended one free share for every share held, its first bonus issue since 2015. Here is how a bonus works, what happens to the share price, and what shareholders need to watch for.
The Kerala lender's bad loans fell to ten-year lows and its margins widened. Punjab National Bank earned ₹5,532 crore as its bad loans shrank.
More than half the field was still on the course at Delhi Golf Club when play was called off on Friday, after Thursday's storm pushed the schedule back. Om Prakash Chouhan is four off the pace, and a clutch of Indians are hovering around the cut.
The IT company formerly called LTIMindtree grew rupee revenue 13.6%, helped by the weak rupee, but its dollar revenue rose just 1.1% from the previous quarter.
SUVs were overturned when YSRCP MP Midhun Reddy's convoy reached a nomination centre, and cars were set alight in Rayachoti. The TDP and YSRCP blame each other, and police dispute the MP's account.
The BCCI added the 36-year-old seamer to India's squad on Friday and said a call on Arshdeep Singh will be made before Saturday's fifth T20I. Bowling coach Morne Morkel said Bhuvneshwar's experience will steady a young attack.
The US Secretary of State visits India from 17 to 22 October with energy on the agenda, but will not come to Delhi. The MEA says leaders have often been hosted outside the capital.
The currency closed at 94.89 a dollar, about 2% stronger than a week ago. Reserves fell for a fifth straight week as the RBI kept selling dollars to defend it.
The two listed property developers reported their September-quarter numbers on Friday. Oberoi's revenue fell 6% from a year earlier but its profit jumped 40% from the June quarter.
Speaking in Kazan, India's ambassador to Russia also warned Indians against fake job offers that end with recruitment into the Russian army.
Jayapal said she was deeply concerned about what she called a purge of 130 million voters. India's ambassador in Washington called it unacceptable interference.
On his fourth day at Rome's Gemelli hospital after lung cancer surgery, the Pope celebrated Mass for the staff caring for him, and the Vatican released the first picture of him since the operation.
Australia's Durban match-winner expects Scott Boland to play a part in the series, while South Africa's fielding coach Kruger van Wyk called Ryan Rickelton 'a first-choice keeper' before Sunday's second Test in Gqeberha.
Poland scrambled fighters as Russian drones and missiles hit Ukraine's Volyn region overnight, and Sofia formally asked the alliance for aircraft and anti-drone systems.
A video of Labour Secretary Kumar Rajeev Ranjan shouting down a JKAS officer at a review meeting has united Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, and revived the row over who controls the bureaucracy.
Big investors are holding back from the ₹5,012 crore Zetwerk offer, while the much smaller Tonbo Imaging sale is drawing heavy demand from wealthy individuals. Both close on Monday.
The US president said China was racing to catch up with the two biggest nuclear powers and could do so within five years, but gave no details of the talks.
The Bajaj group's mortgage lender earned ₹757 crore in the September quarter. Its assets under management crossed ₹1.58 lakh crore, though bad loans edged up.
The suspended police officer, held since October last year, is the second of seven accused to get bail. His lawyer expects him out after the Durga Puja holidays.
Brussels on Thursday listed nine more companies for helping Russia get round its curbs, four of them from India, the UAE and the Seychelles. An EU listing does not bind India, but it can still shut a company out of European money, ships and markets.
The onion train is due on 18 October. The Centre is releasing buffer stock in the Northeast to keep prices in check before the festive season.
Precious metals extended Thursday's rebound ahead of the festive weekend, while Brent crude eased to about $105.6 a barrel but stayed far above last year's levels.
The State Election Commission has published the electorate for 20 urban local bodies, from the Agartala Municipal Corporation to six nagar panchayats.
The outgoing British High Commissioner leaves New Delhi to become the first woman to head the Foreign Office's civil service, handing over to her deputy Ben Miller.
The Jan Suraaj founder says the Chief Minister's praise of Modi tries to deify him, and asks voters in the legislative council polls to hand the NDA a 'chastisement'.
Booth-level officers have been told to reverify every elector left out of the draft published on 31 August, after complaints that living voters at their own addresses were struck off.
Five ITI clusters, each with a hub and four spokes and an industry partner, were approved under PM-SETU. Total approvals under the scheme now reach ₹3,687 crore.
The case alleges substandard materials and ignored warnings about cracking walls. Every school building in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is to be inspected within three days.
Tech Mahindra, TCS and Infosys led Friday's gains after strong results from the sector. The Nifty closed above 23,000 for the first time this week and foreign funds turned buyers.
The 14th Joint Working Group looked at training, exercises and cyber security. Indian officials visited the cyber training centre set up with Indian help.
India's paddlers won all four of their singles matches in Nagoya on Friday, and Suhas Yathiraj dropped only 19 points in his first badminton group match, two days before the opening ceremony.
A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant issued show-cause notices on the Supreme Court Bar Association's plea but excused both men from appearing in person. "May better sense prevail," the CJI said.
The Jakarta Composite fell more than 11% and trading was halted for half an hour after the index provider said it plans to move Indonesia out of its emerging-markets group.
Jantar Mantar has been struck off the list, Central Park is shut, and prohibitory orders cover Connaught Place. Delhi needs protest sites people can actually reach, rules that are written down, and protesters who keep the peace.
Two couples on motorcycles were fired on near Phaikoh on Thursday evening. Kuki groups blame the NSCN-IM; police say only that suspected militants carried out the attack.
The tournament is due to open in Riyadh on 7 January. With Houthi missiles hitting Saudi airports, the AFC's president said a final call could wait until the end of November.
The journalist says the case is a counterblast to her complaint that ACP Vivek Bhagat sexually harassed her at a protest against the Chief Election Commissioner. The Supreme Court has already barred coercive action against her.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court set aside the Ministry of External Affairs' refusal of political clearance for the Chief Minister's France visit. The Centre had cited threats to his security.
Six researchers from the non-profit METR will get company laptops, office space and internal tools, and Anthropic has given up the right to block what they publish.
Gaza's health ministry says patients who need treatment abroad cannot leave. Israeli strikes killed four people on Thursday as Israel signed a deal for 12 US Apache helicopters.
India's para athletes began competing in Aichi on Friday, and almost every event name carries a code. Those letters and numbers are the heart of para sport: they group athletes by how their impairment affects play, so that skill decides the result.
The 59kg wrestler beat Kazakhstan's Viktoriia Khusainova 7-2 for bronze in Las Vegas. Pujari, from Solapur, won both her bouts by fall and meets Ukraine's Iryna Zablotska for gold.
Reliance Industries broke its silence on Friday after Elon Musk accused Mukesh Ambani of blocking Starlink, saying Jio's own satellite service is waiting on the same government clearances.
Senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia mentioned the application a day after the court refused to act on his oral complaint. The bench said it would examine the matter later this month.
Hours before the CJP's flag protest, traders asked the Supreme Court to step in over the shutdown of Central Park. The bench noted that the Delhi High Court is already hearing a similar case.
Riyadh says 19 people have died in strikes on its airports and accuses Tehran of arming the Houthis. The US Treasury added 26 names to its Iran sanctions list.
India's cyber security agency says autonomous AI agents under testing read business records holding personal data, and that none of the organisations hit noticed on their own.
The Home Minister cited the shooting of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa and a father's suicide in Dirba, and asked who was responsible for Punjab's safety.
Siddharth Luthra told the court the 82-year-old former Keralam chief minister faces possible arrest in the CMRL-Exalogic case. Otherwise the plea will come up on 26 October.
A western disturbance brought thunderstorms on Thursday, pushing the capital's air quality into the satisfactory range on Friday morning and leaving October with nearly three times its normal rain.
Tehran accused Britain of a destructive role and demanded evidence. A German court has meanwhile jailed two men for plotting attacks for Iranian intelligence.
Central Command says more than 19 million barrels of crude moved through in a day. Shipping monitors count only a fraction of pre-war traffic and hundreds of ships still at anchor.
Founded last year by Yogesh Ghaturle, Ashish Daga and Tushar Makkar, Origin has come out of stealth with a robot that sands, primes and finishes walls on building sites.
Thousands marched to demand university funding that Congress approved and the government has not paid, and a federal judge has begun fining the state for every day it delays.
Flipkart's operations improved in the year it moved its holding company back to India, but higher finance costs kept the net loss at ₹8,468 crore.
Stronger exports of goods and services trimmed the gap from a year earlier. A surge in bank capital inflows produced a balance of payments surplus of $45.4 billion for the month.
The two met in Baku on the sidelines of the CICA summit, Beijing's highest-level contact with Israel since the Gaza war began. Wang said opening routes into Gaza came first.
The top-order batter played 73 ODIs, four Tests and 35 T20Is over 12 years, and made a Test hundred against South Africa. She last played for India in 2021.
The National Medical Commission's ethics board has set out guidelines on hair transplantation after a serious infection was reported following a procedure in Kochi.
Chip stocks led a rebound in Tokyo and Seoul on Friday morning, Wall Street ended a three-day losing run and Brent crude slipped. Foreign funds sold heavily in India on Thursday.
India women meet Zimbabwe for the first time in a bilateral series, starting with three T20Is in Raipur. Harmanpreet Kaur, who gave up the captaincy ten days ago, is in the side as a player.
The FRRO told the US citizen and OCI cardholder to leave by 28 October after he joined a Mumbai protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Abhijeet Dipke wants supporters at Central Park at 5 pm on Friday. Delhi Police have told the High Court they will take every measure the law allows, and barricades are already up on the Outer Circle.
The series is level at 2-2 before Saturday night's decider at the Chinnaswamy. India squeezed in a trip to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister, and still have no word on their left-arm seamer.
At least 31 people, 30 of them pupils, died when floors of the Al-Khair school gave way. Questions now turn to how a weak building was registered and allowed to hold classes.
Two share sales that opened on Thursday got very different receptions. Both enter their second day on Friday and close on 19 October.
Ashwani Kumar faces a week of questioning over the Mansa shooting. The activist's family still refuses to cremate him, and Bhagwant Mann meets district police chiefs at Phillaur today.
Friday was polling day for 11 biennial seats and a Bengal bypoll. With no contest anywhere, the BJP takes 10 seats, the SP two, and the BSP loses its last UP member in the House.
From the fortnight starting Friday, banks must keep at least 99% of their required CRR balance with the RBI every day, instead of 90%. The aim is to soak up surplus cash.
From Friday, banks must keep at least 99% of their required cash reserve with the RBI every single day, up from 90%. It sounds technical. It is one of the ways the central bank is trying to make its rate rise bite.
The Indian women's doubles pair beat Indonesia's fifth seeds in Odense, and Tanvi avenged Sindhu's defeat by beating Yvonne Li. Kidambi Srikanth let a lead slip in the decider against Alex Lanier.
On Thursday the Supreme Court refused to restore the 2020 write-off of ₹8,415 crore of YES Bank's AT-1 bonds, and the bank's shares fell as much as 20%. What these bonds are, why they were wiped out, and who gains or loses now.
Mallikarjun Kharge has approved separate urban and rural district committees for Jharkhand's two biggest industrial towns. Sitting district presidents will run both halves for now.
Built by L&T at Kattupalli with over 75% indigenous content, Samarthak is the first major warship built by a private yard to join the Navy.
Graduates and teachers in Pune, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Amravati vote on 23 October. The Shiv Sena leader said the opposition was criticising relief it had asked for.
Punjab has just logged its worst day of farm fires this season. The timing is no accident: a groundwater law, the harvest calendar and the machines used to cut paddy all push burning into a few weeks of autumn.
The Ukrainian president met Mark Rutte, Emmanuel Macron and three prime ministers on Thursday, and is due to address EU leaders on Friday morning as the war on Ukraine's grid intensifies.
The Sensex rallied on Thursday on talk that the war will end soon. India's oil, fertiliser, freight and remittances all run through a region the IMF says will not return to its pre-war path. Policy should assume the strait stays shut for months.
Para badminton, para table tennis and blind football get under way in Aichi on Friday. Suhas Yathiraj, Krishna Nagar, Manasi Joshi and Bhavina Patel are among the first Indians on court.
Twenty-eight children died under a collapsed roof in Peshawar on Thursday. Fifteen months ago seven died the same way in Jhalawar. Audits ordered after a tragedy are not enough; parents should be able to see whether their child's classroom is safe.
The idea would let sanctioned vessels carry oil that is not itself under US sanctions, as record shipping rates and fuel prices weigh on Republicans before the midterms.
Jhon Durán scored twice as Benfica won 4-1 in Lisbon. Sunderland and Bournemouth kept their perfect starts in the Europa League, but Crystal Palace were beaten 3-2.
The constitutional amendment ends the six-days-on, one-day-off schedule without any cut in pay. President Lula has made it a pillar of a re-election race he is narrowly trailing.
About 1,500 Palestinians have been killed since the truce, the UN's acting Middle East envoy said, warning that winter floods could put 950,000 people at risk. Britain and France demanded a halt to the E1 settlement plan.
Opposition blocs back tougher sanctions over the Sea Lion project but balk at a security council chaired by the president and a protocol to shoot down hostile aircraft.
Kyiv's envoy told the OSCE on Thursday that the energy truce must work both ways, as Russian drones injured 52 people across Ukraine and cut power in Volyn.
A global hunger monitor says nearly a third of Afghans are in crisis or worse, with winter set to push the number past 19 million. The UN says women's rights kept eroding over the summer.
The French foreign minister would not say whether the US had cut intelligence sharing with Kyiv, as Ukrainian sources said military Starshield links were working again.
The Trinamool MP condemned the couple's detention at India Gate. Ankita's father has given the Centre 24 hours to put Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor on hold.
The rights commission's annual report on religious freedom says new laws have not stopped attacks on Ahmadis or the abduction of Hindu and Christian girls, and that a minorities commission is yet to be set up.
Brussels added three people and nine companies to its sanctions list on Thursday, including a trader it says supplies Russian-origin crude to India.
The Congress student wing says a woman police officer assaulted its women members and that senior officers refused to register a case. Police have not responded.
Foreign Minister Oana Toiu called the strikes "callous and murderous" as drones also crossed into Romanian airspace and fighter jets were scrambled.
At least five people were killed when missiles struck the seat of Yemen's government. Saudi Arabia said Tehran was encouraging the Houthi escalation, and Pakistan condemned the attacks at the UN.
At the Development Committee in Bangkok, the Finance Minister also asked for a full review of the World Bank's governance indicators, which India has long disputed.
A busy Thursday of September-quarter results brought higher profits at the cable maker, the insurer, the railway financier and the fund house.
Citizen Lab and Confiant say Discover-Tech's ads, seen on more than 120,000 websites, gave surveillance firms including Candiru a way into people's devices. Google has dropped the company.
Lightning and 24 mm of rain halted play for nearly five hours at Delhi Golf Club. Om Prakash Chouhan is two behind the Dane, while Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood opened with 70s.
The seventh seed has not dropped a set in a draw that has lost Sabalenka, Pegula and Muchova. World No. 170 Sonay Kartal dropped only two games against Jasmine Paolini.
Sukhna becomes Chandigarh's first wetland of international importance. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced both additions on Thursday evening.
IT services revenue was stuck at $2.61 billion in the September quarter. The outlook for October to December came in below analysts' estimates, and the US-listed shares fell.
The shuttler from Nabha in Punjab came from a game down to beat Chinese Taipei's Yuan-Syue Jhuang in Cairo and reach the boys' singles semi-finals.
Yashasvi Jaiswal is set to join India A for New Zealand, and new vice-captain Ayush Mhatre has torn a hamstring. Suryansh Shedge and Angkrish Raghuvanshi come in for the second round.
The Pune company reported its 26th straight quarter of revenue growth. Reported profit fell 25.4% as it worked towards closing its purchase of IT services company Nagarro.
A ban first ordered for Ganeshotsav now covers public streets, lanes and footpaths across Maharashtra all year. Sale and manufacture are not affected.
R Venkataramani called their posts on Chief Justice Surya Kant 'prima-facie scandalous'. Wagle has apologised and deleted his post; Raut has not responded.
The CRS-35 capsule latched on to the International Space Station on Thursday evening India time, two days after launch, carrying about 2,860 kg of supplies and research.
The Home Minister praised Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the state police for the 12 October operation, which also covered 703 drug hotspots.
The lawyer spoke at a Press Club meeting with the CJP's Abhijeet Dipke, where Prakash Raj accused the poll machinery of quietly erasing Muslim voters through Form 7.
Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Thursday evening that Murugan had left the Council of Ministers with immediate effect, two days after he asked to go back to party work in Tamil Nadu.
The full YES Bank judgment faults the regulator, the bank and the 2020 administrator, and says the ₹8,415 crore write-down was ordered by someone with no power to order it.
Shreyas Iyer and Harmanpreet Kaur handed the Prime Minister signed jerseys at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, where he told the 85-medal contingent it had made the country proud.
The state commission found cameras in several child care institutions wired to staff phones and laptops. It has banned remote access by default and wants compliance reports in 15 days.
The consignment was declared as PU tubes. Officers at the IGI air cargo complex broke open 120 spools to find the cannabis, valued at about ₹52 crore.
Both sides lost late in their ISL openers. Bagan, who skipped their pre-match press conference, face Tomasz Tchórz's Delhi at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Friday.
A compilation filed in an insolvency appeal contained judgments the other side said do not exist. The court dropped costs only because the lead appellant had died.
The National Strategic Trade Command Centre puts DGFT schemes, licences and pending applications on interactive dashboards. The minister wants weekly meetings to clear the SCOMET licence backlog.
Withdrawals for the first phase closed on Thursday, a week before voting. In Jodhpur, three opposition candidates were knocked out because courts had already framed charges against them.
The 2013-batch officer, who quit the service last month, may contest Mirzapur Sadar. Union Minister Anupriya Patel, the local MP, says the voters will answer her.
Shareholders will get one free share for every share they hold, subject to their approval, plus a ₹15 interim dividend. Deal wins topped $1 billion for a fourth straight quarter.
Mohan Yadav will chair a new state-owned company to build industrial hubs from Jabalpur to Indore. The cabinet also approved price-gap payments for soybean farmers.
Palestinian farmers began picking on Thursday after some 300 settler incidents this autumn. With Israel's election on 27 October, they fear the season will be the most violent yet.
The conclave of franchises, broadcasters and state associations was due in Mumbai on Thursday evening. Teams still have until 15 November to name retained players before a December auction in Goa.
NHAI's new policy covers big river bridges, viaducts and spans of 40 metres or more on all new highway projects, and on those where design checks have not yet begun.
The Allahabad High Court wants gram panchayat elections held by mid-January. With the census and the 2027 assembly election in the same window, the state is unlikely to comply without a fight.
The Treasury gave no reason for delisting the brother of acting president Delcy Rodríguez, whose own sanctions were lifted in April as Caracas and Washington drew closer.
Ayodhya's mayor floated the idea at a meeting of UP's city mayors in Lucknow, as civic bodies look for money to cope with crowds of pilgrims. No amount or decision has been announced.
Coach Andrew McDonald says Cameron Green is progressing but has not batted yet. Cooper Connolly's spin is back in the reckoning for the second Test from Sunday.
With prices climbing, dealers must clear stock within 15 days and declare holdings every Friday. Yogi Adityanath says the state has more than 70 lakh quintals in its warehouses.
The interim order takes all fuel-powered boats off Srinagar's best-known lake until further orders, and asks the administration to look at solar and electric engines.
The Taiwanese chipmaker earned NT$763 billion in July to September and expects sales to climb again this quarter, to as much as $54.3 billion.
Ajit Kumar was hit when a lookout riding ahead of the smugglers opened fire near Pawapuri. He died in hospital in Patna, and the gang escaped with the van.
A Palika Bazar vendor wants the CJP's Friday flag gathering stopped. Police cited 15 lakh traders and promised 'all possible measures under the law'.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister spoke after Ankita's parents were detained at their Delhi protest against Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor.
A Singapore-flagged container ship went down after being hit on Tuesday, and a bulk carrier struck in September has also sunk. Pezeshkian said bombs and missiles would not force Iran to surrender.
Revenue came in close to what brokers expected, but higher costs pulled profit below both the June quarter and a year ago.
Private banks led a broad rally in large shares while small and midcaps fell. The rupee gained for a fifth day and closed at 95.05 a dollar.
The MEA said the case adds to growing concern over racist hostility and anti-India hate in the US, and asked American authorities to bring those responsible to justice.
Thursday's bandh over the killing of the anti-drug activist closed markets from Amritsar to Bathinda. His father says there will be no cremation until Bhagwant Mann resigns.
The Rajasthan Chief Minister spent about 20 minutes with the Prime Minister in New Delhi and is due to meet Union Minister Pralhad Joshi this afternoon, ahead of panchayat elections in the state.
The court dismissed Tamil Nadu's appeal and upheld the Madras High Court's ruling striking down a 2024 order that let converts claim Backward Class Muslim certificates.
The second round of the Elite group stage runs from 18 to 21 October. Four teams lead their groups with seven points after innings or ten-wicket wins in round one.
After checking water levels at the Singur and Manjira reservoirs, Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju told officials to put Hyderabad's drinking water first. The state cabinet takes up the issue this evening.
The ₹5,012 crore issue was 12% subscribed by mid-afternoon, with retail investors the keenest. Brokers are split over the company's losses and valuation.
The State Monitoring Cell raided a highway hotel at Boriyavi and a site at Danteli village over the alleged theft of petroleum products and chemicals. Goods and vehicles worth ₹1.72 crore were seized.
The court dismissed appeals by the bank, the RBI and the Centre against a 2023 ruling that quashed the bonds' write-off during the lender's 2020 rescue.
A plea objects to Monday's INDIA bloc march to the court and to a social media post against the Chief Justice. Akhilesh Yadav and others have also been served notice.
Electronics, petroleum products and engineering goods drove the rise, and the trade deficit narrowed to $30.21 billion from $33 billion a year ago.
The Chief Justice said a committee to look into the complaints from the Delhi protests should be made up mostly or wholly of women. The government denied seizing reporters' phones.
The Samajwadi Party chief cited Form 7 objections filed in Lucknow and Sultanpur. Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar asked whether the SP's 2024 win was honest too.
The court issued notice to the Centre and Delhi Police on the petitions over the crackdown on the anti-CEC protests, and appealed to lawyers to stop filing new ones.
Yogi Adityanath seeks a third term, Akhilesh Yadav is betting on his PDA coalition and Mayawati is going it alone. The leaders, the small caste-based parties that tip close seats, and the newcomers who want a share.
The BJP and its allies won 273 seats last time, the Samajwadi Party nearly tripled its tally and the BSP was reduced to a single MLA. How the state's four regions split, and the arithmetic that will decide 2027.
The upper floor of a private school in Afridi Abad gave way during morning classes, crushing the storey below. The victims were aged between seven and 16.
Operating profit hit a record and losses in the digital business halved from the June quarter.
A joint sitting endorsed the takeover a day after both houses backed the emergency. The opposition alliance led by Mehmood Khan Achakzai called off talks with the government.
Notice went to the Election Commission and all three commissioners. The bench tagged the plea with the pending SIR cases and said its notice to one petitioner was provisional.
The Samajwadi Party's state president accused the Chief Minister of breaking the model code to sway the vote for 11 Council seats, and sought house arrest for both deputy chief ministers.
Ryan Rickelton will take the gloves and Kagiso Rabada is fit again as the hosts try to level the series against Australia at St George's Park from Sunday.
Policymakers, military officers and researchers from India and all 11 ASEAN countries met at MP-IDSA for two days to talk maritime security, defence technology and joint production.
Speaking by video link, the Prime Minister inaugurated five projects in Ladakh, including a road over Shinkun La to Himachal Pradesh and a 9 MW hydro plant at Hanu.
Drones set fire to a refinery south-east of Moscow on Thursday, after Russia launched more than 850 drones at Ukraine overnight. Zelenskyy says strikes on Russian oil sites will go on.
The left-arm seamer was hit by a Shamar Joseph bouncer in Hyderabad and is icing his shoulder. India must find a way to stop West Indies' 240-plus totals before Saturday.
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari seized on remarks by Neha Bora, a student leader who has been at the forefront of the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner.
The fund's Middle East director, Jihad Azour, said the Iran war would leave lasting damage. The IMF expects Saudi Arabia's economy to shrink 3.3% this year.
After a convention of teachers and workers in Varanasi, the Chief Minister campaigns in Prayagraj on Thursday. Polling for the Varanasi division seat is on 24 October.
Parliament's spending watchdog was due to take evidence on pre-matric and post-matric scholarships for Scheduled Caste students, based on a CAG audit, as several new committees began their year's work.
Fifty-one stubble fires in a single day took the state's season count to 174, ahead of last year's pace, with Amritsar and Tarn Taran again the hotspots.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang joined the opening by video link and said ties were entering a new stage. The four-lane crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju was finished in 2014.
The 55kg wrestler, a bronze medallist at the last two editions, went down to Georgia's Koba Karumidze in the closing seconds in Las Vegas.
The standing committee led by Bhartruhari Mahtab is examining a bill that would replace the 1959 law governing the Indian Statistical Institute and turn the Kolkata institute into a body corporate.
The lucrative men's exhibition featuring Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic will now be played in Riyadh from 27 to 30 December, its organisers said.
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded park and a man died after falling on a submerged road. Dozens of flights were diverted and classes were called off in six provinces.
The Claude maker's agreement with Singapore's digital ministry covers model testing, safety research and incident response, signed during the city-state's cyber week.
Antonio Rüdiger's 89th-minute finish completed a comeback from 3-1 down in Rome. In Manchester, the holders led 3-0 before Erling Haaland's double made him City's top Champions League scorer.
The external affairs minister said India and China still have no agreed border, while Piyush Goyal said India is open to doing business with Beijing on fair terms.
Villagers put out the blaze with fire extinguishers before it spread. Hebrew slogans were sprayed on the walls, and the Israeli army says it has opened an investigation.
The Centre has approved accession to SIOFA, which would let Indian-flagged vessels fish for squid, toothfish and alfonsino on the high seas under the agreement's rules.
The crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju is due to open to traffic on Thursday. China finished its side in 2014, but North Korea left its end incomplete for years.
The External Affairs Minister is in the UAE until Friday for talks and the second Raisina Middle East forum, with Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia hanging over the region.
The chemist accused of shooting the anti-drug activist was caught with the pistol. His shop and part of his house were razed on Wednesday, and the family's bandh call runs until 5 pm today.
DMRC says only 45 of 303 stations were shut on 10 October. Journalists and a lawyer have filed fresh pleas before Thursday's hearing on the detentions.
The $4 million India Championship starts at Delhi Golf Club on Thursday, with defending champion Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy and a new generation of Indian professionals in the field.
Both houses endorsed the emergency on Wednesday, while PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan asked the Peshawar High Court to restore Sohail Afridi's government and order his release.
The killing of Parvinder Jhota in Mansa is a crime that must be punished quickly. It is also a warning. When people believe the state will not act on drug sellers, they act themselves, and the results can be fatal on every side.
Brokers expect modest growth at Wipro and a profit jump of about 30% at Tech Mahindra, whose board will also consider its first bonus issue in 11 years.
In Prayagraj on Thursday, the Chief Minister will begin work on the Padmalok housing scheme at Kasari-Masari and hand keys to 556 families under PM Awas Yojana.
Thirteen children drowned in the Ganga on Tuesday night. Compensation is not a safety policy. The state knows where people cross the river, and it can make those crossings safer before the next flood season.
The exercise in Korla focuses on high-altitude counter-terrorism operations, with drones, long-range sniping and live-force drills on the programme.
President Laura Fernández says the high-security jail marks a tough-on-crime turn after three years of record killings. Peru, Colombia and Brazil are eyeing similar plans.
Denver start-up Intero Biosystems ships millimetre-sized human gut organoids to drugmakers, as US regulators open the door to non-animal testing.
Former president Gustavo Petro led the first day of a nationwide campaign against spending cuts, on the same day Bogotá opened an embassy in Jerusalem.
The GenoMorph platform has picked out about 2,300 candidate edits for the shape of the dodo's skull and face, working from a single surviving genome.
Tracks will be marked fully, partly or not made with generative AI. Deezer says more than half its daily uploads are now AI-generated.
West Indies made 247 for 3 in Hyderabad and beat India by 24 runs to level the five-match series 2-2. The final T20I is at the Chinnaswamy on Saturday.
The former Vice-President, who resigned in July 2025, is on the guest list for Mohan Bhagwat's address in Nagpur on 20 October, the close of the Sangh's centenary year.
Protests over university conditions and fees entered a third day in Tirana, with demonstrators demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation.
The Chief Minister inaugurated the facility in the Patliputra Industrial Area, a project CtrlS first announced in 2024 as a ₹400 crore, 10 MW edge data centre.
At the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi, the Airtel chairman said AI should not be stifled, while OpenAI said Indian firms now want results, not trials.
Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma's council of ministers joined the Union Cabinet and other BJP-led states in marking the milestone, crediting the Prime Minister with progress on water, power and investment.
The broking app's parent earned less than half its revenue from equity derivatives in July to September. BHEL and Canara Bank shares rose on their results.
Chief Minister V D Satheesan's senior citizens' bill makes doctors report suspected abuse, recognises living wills and puts gifts by care-home residents under a magistrate's eye.
The 41st monthly instalment of ₹1,500 went out during Navratri from a tribal village in Umaria district, along with LPG refill money and a list of local projects.
The fifth seeds lost in three games to China's He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu in Odense, and Ayush Shetty and Unnati Hooda also went out in the first round.
Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi joined the couple, who want the BJP leader's appointment held back until the CBI finishes its inquiry into their daughter's murder. Gautam denies any role.
Kyiv says a sudden speed cap on Starlink terminals hobbled its drones as Russian missiles struck the capital for a second night. Zelenskyy called it a big mistake.
Companies working on new chemicals, petrochemicals and materials can now seek long-term funding from the Research, Development and Innovation scheme.
The agency's letter lists 20 kinds of official decisions it wants to examine in the corruption case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman. The state told departments to hand over records by 1 pm on Wednesday.
The forward struck inside a minute and again five minutes into stoppage time to give Punjab a 2-1 win in their ISL opener in New Delhi.
Bar is seeking 3 million shekels and says the prime minister lied about his role on the morning of the Hamas attack. The case lands less than two weeks before Israel votes.
Students and researchers from 19 NLUs will study pending criminal cases in the districts with the heaviest load and propose ways to clear them.
The new terminal, approved at Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai's initiative, will come up on the old cattle market site and take 35 to 40 buses at a time.
Sunday's race will start and finish at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, with minor changes to the half marathon route that organisers say are about runners' safety.
UPI payments to shops have been free for merchants since 2020. A fee on larger payments was due on 15 October and has been put off until after Diwali. How it works, what is exempt and whether customers will feel it.
The 39-year-old man fell ill while already in quarantine. Kenya is the fourth country to record a case linked to Congo's epidemic, the second-largest on record.
Speaking at the launch of the institute's $1 billion fundraising drive, the defence minister urged the forces, DRDO, academia and start-ups to work together on home-grown technology.
The KZN Inland seamer finished with 6 for 26 against Titans in the Pro20 Cup, including four wickets in four balls, though his side still lost by 21 runs.
Small companies worth up to ₹1,000 crore after an IPO would have to list on the SME platform, and the profit bar would rise to an average of ₹3 crore a year.
Jairam Ramesh put three questions to the Home Minister about detections, deletions and deportations. J P Nadda replied that the crores of names flagged in draft rolls were never called infiltrators.
Reliance's digital arm will sell up to 270 million new shares, raising about ₹30,200 crore at the top of the band and valuing the company near ₹10.3 lakh crore.
Two proposed joint ventures at Sisai near Hansi were discussed with Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who has since left on a four-day investment trip to Sweden.
Canada's foreign minister met the Prime Minister and S. Jaishankar on Wednesday. Both sides said they wanted to turn a year of thawing ties into concrete results, starting with a trade pact.
The Pope's physicians say his blood tests and chest X-ray are normal for this stage of recovery. A decision on any further cancer treatment waits on more test results.
The AIMIM chief says election commissioners' internal objections were never placed before the court. Separately, the bench advanced a plea on deleted Delhi voters to 28 October.
Bengal knocked off 89 inside 16 overs to win by nine wickets at Kalyani. Champions Jammu and Kashmir hung on seven down against Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana finished off Himachal.
Police say at least 30 people were lured with promises of well-paid jobs, then handed to the Russian army. Twenty Bangladeshis are confirmed dead.
The NCPCR says child-safety guidelines for social media, gaming and AI platforms will come by December, with age checks and new reporting tools.
Beijing has issued five batches of Chinese names for places in Arunachal Pradesh since 2017. This month India named 28 features in Ladakh, and China called that illegal. What these lists are, what they change on the ground and why both capitals bother.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were sent to Tihar for five days after entering Jantar Mantar with the national flag. Leaders from the Congress, TMC, AAP, DMK and the Left closed ranks behind them.
Record freight costs and long voyages made American barrels less attractive in September, while imports from West Asia rose 67%. Brent stays above $106.
The government and LIC will sell control of the bank to a Fairfax unit at ₹81 a share. The Centre calls it the largest foreign investment yet in India's financial sector.
Police had sought three months of account data from before an alleged road-rage incident. The court called it excessive and barred any use of what was collected.
The attack at Satyabadi followed a viral clip in which the chairperson allegedly called BJP members dogs. Naveen Patnaik said anarchy was crossing its limits in Odisha.
The committee will look at calls for a higher cane price and a higher minimum selling price for sugar, and at how mills weigh cane and measure recovery.
The Cockroach Janta Party founder wants supporters with flags at Central Park on Friday evening to protest the jailing of two of its leaders. On his return from Nagpur, a group booed him at the airport.
The money, routed through the National Sports Development Fund, will pay for academies, coaching, sports science and foreign exposure for boxers after a three-gold Asian Games.
A 9.1% jump in petrol prices drove most of September's rise. The data revives talk of a second Federal Reserve rate increase when policymakers meet on 27-28 October.
Justice V Lakshminarayanan said the state was treating citizens as enemies by refusing processions. The RSS wants to march on 18 October or later dates.
Seven men in an Innova raided the Kanke house of SAMETI director Ramshankar Prasad in the morning. The goods taken were put at about ₹3.5 crore.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said 19,254 workers would get the cash and 50 kg of grain, and that the state is trying to reopen 21 shut gardens in North Bengal.
Coach Shukri Conrad called the 214-run defeat in Durban neither a calamity nor a catastrophe. Pat Cummins says Australia may change their side too, with Cameron Green expected back.
IT and consumer stocks rose, but drugmakers lost ₹25,169 crore in market value. The rupee firmed for a fourth day to close near 95.16 a dollar.
This week the IMF raised its growth forecast for India to 7%. A week earlier the RBI said 7.1%. How the Fund's flagship report is put together, why two careful forecasters rarely land on exactly the same figure and what the numbers are used for.
The committee set up by the Home Ministry in May is asking governments, institutions and individuals to send data on population shifts and settlement patterns.
President Ajay Singh's order accuses Kumar of committing the federation to an unauthorised broadcast contract, ignoring an inquiry and trying to move a no-confidence motion against him.
Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh launched the centre and an emergency repair truck for the Chandrawal supply project, which covers about a tenth of the city.
Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma stay first and second in the ICC rankings. In Tests, Matt Renshaw has jumped 147 places after his Durban double.
A UN-run corridor for fertiliser ships could start within 10 days if Iran and the US agree, said Under-Secretary-General Jorge Moreira da Silva. Without it, the next planting season is at risk.
It is the second time this year the party has thrown him out. A March expulsion was revoked; this one follows a show-cause notice in September.
IT Minister Priyank Kharge told GCC leaders in Bengaluru the state would help them find the right departments, procedures and approvals for social projects.
The Commission said it could not trace the 2023 recording at the centre of a Karnataka seat decided by a recount. The court warned it would draw an adverse inference.
Mandeep Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas and Nilakanta Sharma were reported to be playing their last games for India at the Asian Champions Trophy. Players say nobody told them.
The district judge rejected pleas for leniency in the killing of merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput, whose body was sealed in a cement-filled drum in March 2025.
Megan Schutt took 4 for 16 with five maidens, and Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland shared a 137-run stand as Australia won the final ODI by eight wickets.
Fuel, food and factory goods all got dearer. Crude oil and gas prices at the wholesale level were 57% higher than a year ago, and the print beat what economists had expected.
The Dutch maker of lithography machines expects sales of €44 billion to €45 billion this year, and says even a 30% capacity increase will fall short in 2027 and 2028.
The productivity-linked bonus will cost ₹2,009.61 crore. Loco pilots, guards, station masters and track maintainers can get up to ₹17,951 each.
Meta has brought its AI-powered 'Your Algorithm' tool from Instagram to Facebook, so people can ask for more or less of a topic in Feed and Reels.
Chairing the first meeting of the SANKALP Society, the Chief Minister told police to trace the source of every seizure and to stop chemists selling narcotic pills.
Tankers are being hit almost daily in and around the strait, and Brent crude is back above $106 a barrel. Why a narrow channel off Iran matters so much to India, why pump prices have risen far less than crude, and what could change that.
Kiren Rijiju and Himanta Biswa Sarma seized on a short video from Monday's INDIA bloc march. DK Shivakumar said Gandhi was only worried about his safety.
The low-income group flats come with a 25% discount under the DDA Housing Investment Scheme 2026. Booking opens at noon on 20 October.
Police fired tear gas and live rounds into the air in Khyber district. In Islamabad, Shehbaz Sharif lined up his allies, and Sohail Afridi's brother asked the Peshawar High Court to find him.
Apple can also question OpenAI's chief hardware officer under oath, but a California court turned down its wider requests for OpenAI's hardware research.
Patil and two supporters are accused of trying to strike 198 Muslim voters off the rolls during the SIR. The court cited an earlier order in similar cases and will hear the matter on 29 October.
Jhota was livestreaming an argument over alleged drug sales when the shopkeeper opened fire. Mansa shut down, the BJP is protesting across Punjab today and a bandh has been called for Thursday.
A small fire broke out at the Aramco office but nobody was hurt, Saudi Arabia said. The coalition says it is hitting the Houthis' fuel depots and energy terminals across northern Yemen.
The boat overturned on Tuesday evening near Rampur Shyamchand village in Vaishali district. Divers searched the swollen river through the night as families waited on the bank.
Retail inflation is 5.54%. Wholesale inflation was 9.92% in August and is expected to cross 10% when the September figure comes out at noon today. What each index measures, why the gap is so wide and who should care.
Federal prosecutors say a product team member planted the device behind a television at OpenAI's San Francisco office. The FBI calls protecting the company's technology a counter-intelligence priority.
Those charged include former senator Julian Gallo and three members of the rebels' last secretariat. The tribunal faces a proposed budget cut from allies of the new president.
The old Section 144 has a new number. Cases over this month's Delhi protests have been filed for breaking orders under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Who can issue such an order, how long it lasts and how it can be challenged.
The Deputy Chief Minister's NCP panel beat a BJP-backed rival and a Sharad Pawar-camp slate in the first big cooperative contest since Ajit Pawar's death.
The chatbot company, once valued at more than $1 billion, has chosen a court-supervised sale. Its chief executive says the platform will be wound down if no other bid comes in.
Twenty-two people landed in Kingston under a deal signed in June that the government says it cannot publish. The opposition wants it debated in public.
Two Indian sailors are missing and three Indian-crewed tankers have been hit in three days. Consent is not enough of a policy. The government owes crews hard guarantees, and it should use its standing in both Tehran and Washington.
Helix Carbon says its electrolyser turns a furnace's carbon dioxide back into carbon monoxide, replacing a third of the coke and saving about $14 per tonne of iron.
Duane Davis, 63, is the only person ever charged over the 1996 Las Vegas shooting. He told the court he would appeal.
Every regional group put up exactly as many candidates as it had seats, for the second year running. Human Rights Watch says the vote makes a mockery of the word election.
Regulators say the second-largest US bank failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions on time, including flows linked to Chinese laundering networks.
The former Fox News host faces reported allegations over a $100,000 credit card bill and favours for a Greek company. She denies them and says her loyalty to Trump is unchanged.
The Vatican says the 90-minute operation at Rome's Gemelli hospital went without complications. Audiences are cancelled until 20 October and a November tour of South America is in doubt.
The Iraqi champions struck twice in three minutes after half-time and held on with ten men, leaving East Bengal with one point from two AFC Champions League Two games.
The former Chief Minister calls the videos defamatory and politically motivated. The BJP says his own party has abandoned him, while H D Kumaraswamy wants a CBI inquiry.
The two prime ministers spoke on Tuesday as Canada's foreign minister Anita Anand arrived in New Delhi, with a trade agreement targeted for the end of the year.
In his first remarks on the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner, the Home Minister said the Congress should look at its own record instead of blaming the SIR. Jairam Ramesh hit back within hours.
Opening the North East Bankers' Conclave in Aizawl, the DoNER minister called for state-wise credit targets and a credit-risk framework suited to community-owned land.
Selling in the first nine months is nearly double last year's full-year total, as high US yields, the AI trade abroad, costly oil and a weak rupee draw money away.
A Division Bench reserved orders on appeals by the former Chief Minister, his daughter Veena T and her husband P A Mohamed Riyas in the CMRL-Exalogic case.
PV Sindhu let a one-game lead slip against Germany's Yvonne Li in Odense, while third seed Chou Tien Chen beat Lakshya Sen in three games.
Trinamool MP Dola Sen says the woman lunged at the former Chief Minister with a knife on Tuesday evening. Kolkata Police say she was held on the spot.
Dilshan Madushanka is recalled and Lahiru Udara left out of the 15-man squad for two Tests in Rawalpindi and Lahore in November.
Opposition parties, student groups and activists met a day after the Supreme Court march. They gave no dates but said the campaign would go on until Gyanesh Kumar quits.
Online shoppers spent about ₹24,000 crore in two days, much of it from smaller towns. That is good news. But the same week brought 5.54% retail inflation and onions at double last year's price. Policy should be guided by the second number, not the first.
Every issue would need a monitoring agency reporting straight to the exchanges, and companies that stonewall it could face ₹50,000 fines and frozen promoter holdings.
More than 160 houses in DLF phases and other licensed colonies have been sealed for commercial use. The court has paused further action until it hears the case on 3 November.
Jacob Bethell, Jofra Archer and Phil Salt return as Harry Brook leads 16-man squads for three ODIs and five T20Is in November and December.
The four quit and joined the TVK on the same day in May. The court found the resignations genuine but told the Speaker to finish disqualification cases against them within two months.
The FSB says the Hokkaido Shimbun journalist was collecting information on Russia's defence for Japanese intelligence. He faces up to 20 years in prison, and Tokyo is trying to confirm the detention.
The blocks, covering 1,632 sq km, hold polymetallic nodules and crusts with nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. Bids are due by 28 December.
President Paul Kagame announced the agreement in Kigali on Tuesday. The race, to be called the Formula 1 African Grand Prix, is expected from the early 2030s.
Barricades and central forces held the Rajabazar to Park Circus march at its starting point. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had said it would not be allowed to move a single step.
On a visit to the NCPCR, the Women and Child Development Minister also asked the commission to finalise social media guidelines for tech companies and clear all pending files by 31 December.
Three Ranji Trophy matches were over inside three days. KL Rahul fell for one in Karnataka's second innings, and Delhi go into the last day at Kalyani still 88 runs behind Bengal.
Beijing objected on Tuesday to the peaks, passes and lakes India put on the Survey of India map this month, some of them in Aksai Chin. New Delhi called Ladakh integral and inalienable.
Malaysia's Firefly has extended its suspension of Singapore flights through Wednesday, and schools in parts of Malaysia remain shut. Malaysia wants ASEAN to treat haze as a disaster.
ADR says Section 16 of the 2023 law puts the CEC and election commissioners beyond the reach of courts for life. It was added late and passed without debate, the petition says.
The fee on larger shop payments was due to start on 15 October. It will now begin on a date to be notified after the festival, a delay of weeks rather than months.
The State Meteorological Centre expects wet weather from Wednesday to Friday, with hail likely in places and temperatures set to drop by up to 4°C.
At its first meeting as a statutory body, the Maritime State Development Council asked coastal states to draw up master plans for their smaller ports and notify new rules within three months.
A court in Fujian said the Wei family gang ran fraud, drugs and gambling worth more than $1.8 billion from northern Myanmar, and killed at least two Chinese nationals.
South Africa lost their last four wickets for five runs at Kingsmead and were all out for 206. Matt Renshaw was player of the match, and Temba Bavuma has lost a Test as captain for the first time.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Bhupender Yadav told state agriculture ministers that machines must work in fields, not on paper, as most of the paddy harvest is still to come.
People taking GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro were four times as likely to report nails lifting from the nail bed, dermatologists told a congress in Europe.
At the bloc's first meeting of home ministers, chaired by Amit Shah, the seven members approved a convention against human trafficking and plans on drugs, illicit money and disasters.
The insurer's protection and annuity business grew strongly in the first half, but the stock gave up its early gains and stayed close to its 52-week low.
Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel will carry the flag in Aichi-Nagoya, where India will compete in 11 sports after tight quotas and a late selection process cut the team.
The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting wrote to the Prime Minister saying he wants to return to the grassroots ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha election.
The India opener made 360 runs in seven T20Is in September, including a maiden international hundred in the Asian Games semi-final against Bangladesh.
Detention and contempt cases over the Delhi protests were put off to Thursday as a judge was unwell. The Chief Justice said police would have to explain the journalists' allegations.
The UNDP and Oxford's poverty initiative count 1.2 billion people as multidimensionally poor. In South Asia, Pakistan's rate of 38.3% is more than twice India's and Bangladesh's.
Harmanpreet Singh will lead the defending champions in Jalandhar and Mohali, with goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak back and two young players added.
India's biggest carmaker has lost a third of its market value this year and fell even as the wider market rallied, with brokers warning the post-GST sales boost is fading.
Gill beat Abhishek Sharma and Sikandar Raza to the September award, his fifth, after 333 runs in two ODIs against West Indies.
Telangana's Deputy Chief Minister set a 15-day deadline for compassionate appointments and offered a way back for workers dismissed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A second ship, the Ukrainian-owned Chelsea 3, was hit by three drones in the same overnight attack. Bulgaria has summoned Russia's ambassador, the second such sinking off its coast in a week.
A landslide blocked the Budhi Gandaki river before dawn on Sunday, and the flood that followed swept away bridges, trails and more than 200 homes. The army's rescue effort went into a third day.
The Army Sports Institute coach, who has trained national record holders Gulveer Singh and Sawan Barwal, faces a charge of complicity in another person's doping violation.
The J&K Waqf Board, chaired by BJP leader Darakshan Andrabi, wants a committee to set shared themes for sermons in mosques it controls. The Chief Minister called it interference in religious affairs.
HCLTech's results set off the IT sector's best day in 17 months, and the Finance Minister's remarks on capital gains tax lifted the market in the final hour. The rupee firmed to 95.28.
A BJP worker says calling the Prime Minister a 'Commander-in-Thief' defamed party members. The Bombay High Court had refused to quash the case in September.
The RSS-affiliated group's Ashwani Mahajan says Starlink's satellite laser links could route Indian internet traffic beyond the reach of lawful monitoring.
First-year student Aditya Kumar died on Saturday. His classmates, protesting for a third day, want the director removed and say help came too late.
The Fund reversed its July downgrade, citing resilient domestic demand and services, while flagging oil, a prolonged war in West Asia and a possible AI investment correction as risks.
A Delhi magistrate's court remanded the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders for five days on Wednesday, a day after they climbed the locked gate of the de-notified protest site.
The court will hear pleas on Thursday over Monday night's gathering in its premises. Police sources now count four FIRs over the march, and a separate contempt plea targets Congress leaders.
The AIMIM chief told Muslim voters in Uttar Pradesh that backing the Samajwadi Party had cost them, and said the 2027 contest would be "99 vs 1".
Assam's Chief Minister said he would fight on ballot papers if the Congress governments in Keralam, Karnataka and Telangana quit first. Telangana's Chief Minister, in Delhi for the protest, said SIR was being used against opposition voters.
Odisha's Chief Minister reviewed plans to remake the temple town, from a new airport and wider roads to a Jagannath interpretation centre, and warned officials against delay.
Raj Thackeray's party also wants the SIR scrapped in Maharashtra and a return to ballot papers. Mumbai Police have booked Aaditya and Amit Thackeray over Sunday's protest at Shivaji Park.
The Chief Minister told the Assembly the LDF left behind huge dues to employees and pensioners. His predecessor's Finance Minister says the money and the process were already in place.
Om Prakash Mathur shifts from Sikkim to Keralam. Sudha Yadav goes to Karnataka, Dhal Singh Bisen to Uttarakhand, Braj Mohan Ram to Odisha and Dushyant Gautam to Sikkim.
Ram Pukar Sinha is contesting the Saran teachers' seat in the Bihar Legislative Council as an independent against the JD(U)'s Anand Pushkar. Three of the party's four MLAs attended his nomination.
The year-round centre in Lahaul and Spiti will study how thin air and extreme cold affect soldiers and the people who live in the Himalaya.
Yogi Adityanath, Anurag Thakur, Devendra Fadnavis and Himanta Biswa Sarma accused the opposition of attacking constitutional institutions as the INDIA bloc marched towards the Supreme Court.
The Cochin Shipyard-built craft, with over 80% indigenous content, is designed to hunt submarines in coastal and shallow waters.
Secretary Devajit Saikia called reports of a venue shift for the 13 December series opener inaccurate and said no such decision had been taken.
JNU dismissed the Inner Manipur MP from his professorship after 11 students complained of harassment, and police have filed an FIR. He denies the charges and calls it a witch hunt.
A special NIA court found a strong suspicion that Inderpal Singh Gaba took part in an unlawful activity, but dropped a charge of insulting the national flag. His lawyer will appeal.
Mumbai bowled Chandigarh out for 78 and enforced the follow-on at the Wankhede. In Rajkot, Ravindra Jadeja turned an overnight 72 into a century on day two of the new season.
At the first trade committee meeting since the India-UK trade agreement took effect, the two governments agreed to track how much business actually uses it.
Leading 2-1, Shreyas Iyer's side need one more win on Wednesday. The squad has a new look since selection, and the New Zealand tour is eight days away.
Mohammed Yusuf Ali died after Saturday's missile attack on King Khalid International Airport, in which two of his sons were also hurt. Three Indians remain in intensive care.
Mohsen Rezaei and India's National Security Adviser discussed the regional situation and bilateral ties, Iran's embassy said, days after three tankers with Indian sailors were struck.
The USA left-arm seamer, who took the league's first five-wicket haul, moves from UP Warriorz at her ₹10 lakh fee ahead of the auction in Kochi on 28 October.
Matt Renshaw followed his 190 with 82 and a first Test wicket. South Africa ended day four on 102 for 4, needing 319 more on the final day at Kingsmead.
Rahul Gandhi and 10 other opposition leaders want the voter roll revision stopped, its records opened up and its deletions audited. Here is what they are asking, on what legal grounds, and what the Election Commission says.
Onions, garlic and silver pushed prices up at the fastest pace of the year. Economists now expect the RBI to raise rates again in December, which would reach home loans within months.
Missiles from Yemen have hit Saudi airports four times in a week, killing at least 20 people, one of them from Hyderabad. Who is firing, why now, and what it means for Indians in the Gulf.
A committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi approved final eligibility certificates for projects expected to create about 8,178 jobs across eight districts.
Opening a mountain development summit, the Chief Minister blamed careless hill cutting for landslides and argued against abrupt limits on tourists at Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg.
Meeting on the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar, Pushkar Singh Dhami's cabinet also cleared a new fire services bill and a second Jan Vishwas bill for the Assembly.
The input subsidy for crop losses went straight into bank accounts at an event in Gorakhpur. The Chief Minister said about ₹1,000 crore has gone to disaster-hit farmers and residents this monsoon.
Vivek Bhimanwar will stay away until a five-member panel headed by retired judge Dilip Bhosale finishes its inquiry. The government says cases against protesting students will be dropped.
Mirra Andreeva is the youngest woman to make her top-three debut in 21 years. In Wuhan, world No. 217 Shi Han beat Alexandra Eala for her first win over a top-20 player.
World No. 39 Zizou Bergs beat Carlos Alcaraz 7-5, 7-6(4). The result guarantees Alexander Zverev will be the first German to finish a year as world No. 1.
Aprilia machines filled the top four at the Indonesian Grand Prix. Jorge Martin's third place puts him two points clear of Marc Márquez with five rounds left.
Oil rose about 2% overnight as the Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia revived supply fears, while chip stocks dragged the Nasdaq lower and US bond yields stayed near 24-year highs.
Trade, energy, security and people-to-people ties are on the agenda as Anand starts a four-day trip to India and the UAE. It will be her 11th meeting with Jaishankar since September 2025.
Beijing froze the ministers' assets in China and barred them from entry, calling them pawns of Taipei. Taiwan called the move absurd, as its military watched a week of Chinese live-fire drills along the coast.
Villagers had been protesting for days against the crusher's restart. Police have detained suspects for questioning, and Congress leaders want a fair probe.
Prices in India eased on Monday and remain well below this year's peak, even as money keeps flowing into gold-backed funds around the world.
The Guards said the ship had switched off its transponders and ignored warnings. Hours later, a container ship was reported struck by an unknown projectile in the same waterway.
The Bar, two journalists' groups and a Rajya Sabha MP have filed fresh petitions. The Chief Justice said lawyers may join peaceful protests and listed the matters for Tuesday.
The qualifier beat seventh seed Celia Cerviño Ruiz 6-4, 6-2 in the ITF W35 final in Lagos, without dropping a set all week, and also took the doubles title.
The army says Afghan Taliban posts opened fire to cover militants crossing into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The clash came as the province was placed under emergency rule.
The CRS-35 cargo capsule launched from Florida on Tuesday afternoon India time and is due to reach the International Space Station on Thursday evening with 2,860 kg of supplies and science.
With about six months left on the current bailout, the President said any new programme would have to put growth first. He warned that the Middle East war could push the fuel import bill to about $6 billion this year.
A Sudanese rights group blames Egyptian jets for Saturday's strike on a mining camp in a disputed border area. Cairo has not commented officially, and army chief Burhan has set up a committee of inquiry.
A student is believed to have picked up an unexploded cluster bomblet near the Lebanon border and put it in his bag. Israel has halted school trips along the northern border.
Erling Haaland, Jérémy Doku and Rayan Cherki scored after Ryan Gravenberch's red card. City have won all six league games under Enzo Maresca and lead Arsenal by three points.
The 24-year-old edged Germany's Christian Reitz by half a point in the men's 10m air pistol final for his first senior World Cup gold, in his debut in the event.
Fuel and power prices have been rising at more than 20% a year at the factory gate, and economists expect the headline wholesale rate to break into double digits.
Mexico's president said talks with Washington are making progress but there is no final deal, and that the US has chosen to negotiate with Mexico and Canada separately.
The grocery group behind Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Food Lion and Stop & Shop shut down systems to contain a security breach. Stores stay open, but online orders and loyalty schemes have stopped.
The storm skirted the Jalisco resorts around Puerto Vallarta instead of striking them head-on. Forecasters say it could regain strength and come ashore later this week.
A two-week restraining order stops the government running ads featuring the president that were paid for with $20 million of Homeland Security money, weeks before the midterm elections.
Filmed at his old Edmonton school, the prime minister's video came a week before Alberta votes on whether to start the legal process towards a binding separation referendum.
The third-generation in-house accelerator will become the main engine behind Copilot and other Microsoft AI products from 2027, the company says.
The vote meets a key Hungarian condition. EU ministers are expected to open two more negotiating chapters for Ukraine and Moldova in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
A review of three decades of climate fingerprint research rebuts a US government report used to scrap America's legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases.
Security officials said threats against Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz had a high probability of being carried out. No foreign link has been confirmed.
The first cohort under the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund will back companies turning lab research into products, as deep-tech funding nearly triples.
The chipmaker is backing an open specification for how AI data centres are laid out, cooled and powered, as rack power heads towards a megawatt.
The defence electro-optics maker opens its public issue on 15 October, a test of investor appetite for Indian defence technology.
The Mumbai-based lender's loans grew 42% and bad loans fell to 1.02%, as capital from its new Dubai parent and lower card stress lifted earnings.
Shoppers placed 8-9 crore orders on Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho and other platforms, with two in three coming from smaller towns and rural areas, according to Redseer.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs the plot near the air base used by American bombers was almost certainly directed by the IRGC. Iran's ambassador has been summoned and two Iranians sanctioned.
The Keralam Congress reacted on X to Chief Justice Surya Kant's remark that the Delhi protests were a law and order matter. The post was later taken down, and the BJP called it an attack on the judiciary.
The two American economists showed how the everyday choices of households and firms add up to booms and slumps, and how well-timed policy can soften both.
The Noida-based IT services company raised the lower end of its growth forecast for the year and declared a ₹12 dividend, as revenue from advanced AI work rose 78%.
Delegations from across the BRICS group showed off their indigenous sports in Ahmedabad on Monday, as Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya proposed a shared record of games at risk of being forgotten.
Soldiers, sailors and airmen won 27 of India's 85 medals in Japan. The Defence Minister met them in New Delhi on Monday and told them to aim higher at the 2028 Olympics.
Food inflation climbed to 7.74%, and prices rose faster in villages than in cities. Economists now expect the RBI to raise rates again in December.
The energy minister told an oil congress in Riyadh the kingdom had been tested, as the capital's main airport stayed closed and the Houthis said Saudi jets had bombed Sanaa.
The fund house grew revenue 16% as equity assets rose, but profit fell from the June quarter after a sharp drop in other income.
The Chief Justice said the court would not hurt religious sentiments and favoured awareness over bans. Suggestions go to the air quality commission and the case returns on 15 October.
The Bengaluru manufacturing company has enlarged both its fresh issue and the share sale by early backers, and seeks a valuation of about ₹25,583 crore.
Prices could fall by 20% to 70%, the government says. The bench pressed it on why the cap stops at cancer medicines when stents and saline lines carry huge mark-ups too.
A public interest petition says people can write any caste on the census form. The bench wants the Solicitor General to explain the procedure and whether certificates are verified.
The Bihar SIR judgment came before the new voter form existed, the bench said. It issued notice on a petition alleging the CEC took decisions without his two colleagues.
In a blog post, the Microsoft chief set out seven principles for deploying advanced AI, from tamper-proof records of every action to a human who can stop a model mid-task.
The lawyers had sought a CBI probe, alleging they were beaten at the Bar Council of India's office. The court asked for a team led by a DCP-rank officer instead.
The Kenyan ran 2:01:09 to pull clear of defending champion Jacob Kiplimo. Hawi Feysa outkicked Sharon Lokedi in 2:13:33, and Catherine Debrunner set a wheelchair world record.
Ranked 54th and back from an elbow injury that dropped her to No. 160, the Olympic champion won 7-5, 6-4 in Beijing for her first title in nearly two years.
The boat was carrying 305 people towards Yemen when it went down near Obock. All 82 survivors are Ethiopian, and 84 people are still missing.
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan's motion, backed by the Left and opposed by the BJP's three MLAs, cites the SIR and wants the Chief Justice on the panel that picks election commissioners.
One missile flew more than 900 km before falling into the sea. Japan is checking whether it followed an irregular path, and Seoul called the launches a breach of UN resolutions.
The RBI's weekend measures lifted the rupee 93 paise to close at 95.78 a dollar, but rising bond yields, foreign selling and a slide in FMCG and bank shares pulled stocks lower.
The court refused to stay the CBI case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman, Bhagwant Mann's officer on special duty, but said no coercive steps may be taken while it hears the Punjab government's appeal.
India made 223 in Indore and held West Indies to 209 for 7 to win the third T20I by 14 runs, two days after losing a 250-run total in Ranchi.
Tehran's security chief said Washington had accepted only some of Iran's seven conditions. Houthi missiles hit Riyadh's airport again, and tanker attacks went on.
Menno Koch scored at both ends as Bengaluru FC beat Sporting Club Delhi 3-2 in the opener. Churchill Brothers beat Mumbai City, and NorthEast United stunned Mohun Bagan 1-0.
Police confirmed on Monday that ousted Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and the assembly speaker are in preventive custody. The PTI's long march for Khan's release fizzled out at Swabi.
Zelenskyy said Kyiv would honour a mutual pause, but Russian drones struck Kyiv and a Kharkiv power plant. The Kremlin said only that contacts were ongoing.
Max Verstappen led from pole for his first Singapore Grand Prix win at the 10th attempt. Kimi Antonelli's third place leaves him 102 points clear with Austin next.
Paying users get GPT-6 Sol and free users a lighter model, Luna. A new 'Intelligent UI' lets ChatGPT reply with diagrams, maps and small working tools instead of only text.
The IceCube observatory, buried in a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, caught the first high-energy neutrinos from beyond the solar system and traced some of them to distant galaxies.
The government says all three licensed satellite internet companies, Jio's included, are at the same stage. Elon Musk has asked whether Mukesh Ambani is 'the real boss of India'.
The Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority will draw up a national transport master plan and vet every central infrastructure project of ₹500 crore or more.
Police halted the opposition march on Bhagwan Dass Road, short of the Supreme Court. Rahul Gandhi and 10 other leaders filed a writ petition against the Election Commission and its three commissioners.
The court said the 2019 law breached the 50% ceiling without exceptional reasons. Withheld posts must go to open-category candidates within three months, and both BJP and Congress plan to fight on.
New regulations replace the 2018 framework. Wrongful gains will be recovered separately from the settlement amount, and firms get 90 days instead of 60 to apply after a show-cause notice.
It is the third extension for the MPs who left the TMC for the NCPI in June. The Supreme Court has asked the Speaker to decide the case quickly but has set no deadline.
India's largest IT company grew revenue 0.5% in constant currency in July-September. HCLTech reports today, and Wipro and Tech Mahindra on Thursday.
A seafarers' union has named the two men and demanded an urgent update. They were among 22 Indians on two tankers hit on Sunday; India has condemned the attacks and called for de-escalation.
The CJP must keep its marches peaceful. The state must stop treating them as a threat. And the Election Commission must answer the question at the heart of them.
The Ministry of Steel's draft would replace the 2017 policy. It plans for nearly three times today's capacity, triple the coking coal and a 39% cut in emissions per tonne.
From 16 October banks will have less room to dip below their cash reserve requirement on any single day. The RBI is also selling ₹25,000 crore of government bonds on 13 October.
No Indian was among the dead in Saturday's attack on Riyadh's main airport, the third there in a week. The embassy has told Indians in Saudi Arabia to stay alert and indoors as needed.
The UN Human Rights Office had asked India to release people arbitrarily detained at Saturday's protest against the Chief Election Commissioner. India called the concern unwarranted interference.
If revised rolls are not out when polls are notified, the existing rolls apply, the court said. In Bengal, about 1.70 lakh appeals by deleted voters are pending before Kolkata and Howrah civic polls.
The MLAs voted for the TVK government against their party's whip and were later pardoned by the AIADMK. The court said a House member must pursue such cases, and left the law open.
On his first Tamil Nadu visit since the TVK government took office, the Prime Minister launched projects worth over ₹13,000 crore. Vijay used the stage to list what the state wants from the Centre.
A satirical online page started in mid-May 2026 is now one of the most visible youth protest movements in India. Where the name came from, who runs it and why it is marching against the Chief Election Commissioner.
Police held thousands, by most counts, as they blocked a march against CEC Gyanesh Kumar on 10 October. At a Sunday sitting, the court said peaceful protesters cannot be held except by law.
A selection committee led by the Prime Minister picks the CEC under a 2023 law now before a Constitution Bench. Removal needs the same process as a Supreme Court judge.
What the SIR is, why names are being left off draft rolls, and the forms to use if yours is missing or wrong.
How Lok Sabha seats are shared among states, why the numbers have been frozen since 1976, and what the government's April 2026 attempt to change them would have done.
The Congress leader and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister met for about an hour at Vijay's home. Neither side has said what was discussed, and Gandhi went on to attack the Centre at a student event.
The court said total reservation could not cross 50% without proper data and ordered polls within six weeks. Chief Minister Naidu now promises 34% of NDA tickets to BC candidates instead.
A three-member Commission that says its members disagree in the normal course should let voters see those disagreements, as the RBI and the courts already do.
Manipur, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh complete their terms between March and May 2027. The census count in four of them has been brought forward to December, ahead of the polls.
The Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act, 2026 came into force on 25 August after a Home Ministry notification. It changes the state's name in the First Schedule of the Constitution.
The Indian Express reported two Election Commissioners objected at least 14 times to SIR decisions. The ECI says differing views are routine and its decisions were unanimous.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's rule applies from 1 September. Letters to the Centre are to go in Bengali and Hindi. Opposition parties welcomed the aim but questioned how it will work.
Maharashtra lost the most names and Delhi the largest share. The Election Commission says these are not final deletions; opposition parties allege disenfranchisement.
The US Labor Department has frozen new and pending PERM filings from eight companies. India objected to Vice President JD Vance's description of foreign workers as 'indentured servants'.
The BJP won Nagaon, Nandigram and Rejinagar, TVK held both Tamil Nadu seats and AINRC took Thattanchavady in the 6 October bypolls, counted on 9 October.
The Election Commission rejected the claim and shared a link to the note on 5 October, and PIB Fact Check called it fake. Gandhi News has not yet opened the page itself.
Sitharaman says more concessions will be hard for both sides. A new US law lets the President tax Russian oil buyers at up to 100%, but no such tariff has been imposed.
The law was changed and only UPI payments up to ₹2,000 kept statutory protection. A merchant fee above that starts on 15 October, but users are not charged directly.
India does buy ethanol from the US, but the E20 target dates to a 2021 roadmap and US shipments are far below the figures Kejriwal cited.
NPCI's framework puts the new fee on merchants and keeps person-to-person transfers free. Above ₹2,000, though, that rests on NPCI's rules, not the law.
The image carries markers of OpenAI's tools and shows Ebrahim Raisi, who died in May 2024. A BJP spokesperson posted it and later deleted it.
In the full Pune speech of 22 August, Gandhi attributed the remarks to Mohan Bhagwat and Manohar Lal Khattar and criticised them. The viral clip cuts the attribution.
The Monsoon Session met for 19 days and passed 11 Bills, most without a single speech. Both sides of the House helped bring this about, and both can fix it.
India's data regulator has existed in law for nearly 11 months without a single member. The government should name them this year, so the Board is ready well before May 2027.
House listing was scheduled to wrap up by September. Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa and most of Uttarakhand will be counted from 1 December, ahead of the rest of India.
The population count asks 40 questions, from age and religion to Aadhaar, bank accounts and caste. Here is what to expect, when, and what remains unclear.
The second phase of India's data protection rules begins next month. The regulator meant to oversee it still has no chairperson or members, five months after the government invited applications.
The Bill would let a government authority take over foreign-funded assets of NGOs that lose their FCRA licence, and cut the maximum jail term. A joint committee is studying it.
The Centre's deficit for April-August was ₹7.10 lakh crore. Weak excise collections after the fuel duty cut and higher subsidies are squeezing the 4.3% target.
The 57th Council meeting left the 5% and 18% slabs alone and focused on enforcement, refunds and registration. Most changes need law amendments or notifications first.
Since September 2025, most goods and services fall into a 5% or 18% slab, with 40% for a short list of sin and luxury goods. Here is how the system works as of October 2026.
Six stages take a Bill from a minister's desk to the statute book. Here is what happens at each, and where Money Bills, joint sittings and private members fit in.
India moved its national accounts to a 2022-23 base in February 2026. Here is how the growth number is put together, and why past figures shifted.
Since February 2026, India's retail inflation figure comes from a new Consumer Price Index with base year 2024. The basket is bigger, food counts for less and some prices are now collected online.
MLAs, not voters, choose Rajya Sabha members, using ranked ballots that they must show to their party. All 12 seats due in October were filled unopposed.
Services and investment led the first quarter of 2026-27. It is also the first Q1 reading on the new GDP series with base year 2022-23.
Ten states have final rules and the rest have drafts, the Labour Secretary says. Nearly 11 months after the codes took effect, many of their provisions still depend on state rules.
Nearly 11 months after the codes took effect, a worker cannot easily find out which rules apply in their own state. A public tracker and dated state timetables would fix that.
The Lok Sabha worked 15% of its scheduled time by PRS's count and 19% by the government's. Nine of the 11 Bills it passed had no speaker but the minister.
The Centre announces minimum support prices for 22 crops, but government buying is concentrated in a few crops and a few states. Here is how the system works.
Two Bills to hold Lok Sabha and assembly elections together have been with a joint committee since December 2024. Its report is now due in the Winter Session.
Much of Parliament's detailed scrutiny happens in small committees that meet behind closed doors. Here is how they differ, and which ones are at work now.
Census 2027 will record every Indian's caste for the first time since 1931. The Registrar General should commit now to a release date, a published coding method and full tables.
Wheat's support price moves to ₹2,610, a rise of under 1%. Pulses and oilseeds get larger increases, which the Centre says will encourage crop diversification.
The Monetary Policy Committee voted 6-0 for the increase and changed its stance to calibrated tightening, saying rate cuts are off the table in the near term.
Food prices pushed CPI inflation up from 4.45% in July, with rural inflation well above urban. September data on the new 2024-base series is due on 12 October.
The RBI will meet the full daily dollar needs of three state-run oil companies from 12 October and has tightened rules on currency hedging, after reserves fell for four straight weeks.
The Tenth Schedule punishes MPs and MLAs who switch sides, but a merger of two-thirds is allowed and the Speaker decides. 2026 has tested both rules.
The gap between what the Centre spends and what it earns decides how much it must borrow. For 2026-27 the target is ₹16.96 lakh crore, or 4.3% of GDP.
Four codes replaced 29 central labour laws in November 2025. Here is what they promise workers, what they ask of employers, and why so much still depends on the states.
A small rate increase now is cheaper than a large one later. The government's job is to make sure its own accounts do not add to the price pressure the RBI is trying to contain.
The RBI's main policy rate moved up to 5.50% in October 2026. Here is how a decision in Mumbai finds its way into your home loan instalment.
India's data protection law lets you see, correct and erase your data and complain if it is misused. Most of it takes effect in May 2027, and the regulator is not yet staffed.
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