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Supreme Court tells Centre to rethink open sale of acid after Bhajanpura attack, says guidelines have failed
Hearing a plea that grew out of an October 6 acid attack in northeast Delhi, the court asked the Centre to explain by November 23 why acid needs to be sold over the counter at all.
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Cyclone Arnab crosses Andhra coast near Yanam, uprooting trees and knocking out power across coastal districts
The very severe cyclone stalled along the coast for hours after its landfall began around 1.20 am, with gusts up to 150 kmph lashing…
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Israel exit polls show Netanyahu bloc short of majority as Eisenkot’s camp edges ahead, with no clear winner
Television exit polls give the opposition bloc 52-53 seats to 50 for Netanyahu’s allies, well short of the 61 needed, while Arab-led parties are…
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Cyclone Arnab nears Andhra coast: 84,000 evacuated, one dead, flights halted ahead of early-morning landfall
The IMD brought the landfall forward to between 2 am and 4 am on Wednesday near Kakinada-Yanam, as Andhra Pradesh evacuated over 84,000 people,…
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Truce takes hold in Russian-occupied Oleshky as aid and evacuation mission brokered by Melania Trump begins
Guns fell silent around the starving Kherson-region town at 4 am Moscow time on October 27. The pause is due to last until November…
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Delhi district court lawyers extend strike indefinitely, demand suspension of Shahdara ACP over alleged revolver threat
Advocates stayed away from work across the capital’s district courts on Tuesday and plan a march to Police Headquarters on Thursday, alleging an ACP…
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Karnataka’s final voter roll after SIR drops nearly 1 crore names, leaving 4.55 crore electors
The state’s electorate fell by 99.32 lakh after its first intensive revision since 2002, and questions remain over lakhs of voters marked as shifted…
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Israel votes in first election since October 7 attack, with Netanyahu’s 19-year hold on power at stake
More than 7.3 million Israelis are eligible to vote for a new Knesset, and opinion polls suggest neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition…
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Delhi’s draft IT policy plans 200-plus tech centres, two innovation districts and digital skills for up to 6 lakh youth
The 2026-2031 draft, the capital’s first IT policy in over two decades, offers power rebates and hiring incentives to tech firms and promises every…
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17 inmates break out of Theni jail after faking a seizure and attacking staff; four recaptured
The prisoners, all held in one cell, allegedly overpowered personnel who came in to help a ‘sick’ inmate. Police have set up checkpoints across…
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James Comey faces third criminal case under Trump, accused over a decade-old leak to a reporter
Prosecutors used a ‘criminal information’ rather than a grand jury indictment to beat a 10-year time limit; the former FBI director calls it an…
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Five shot dead at Guwahati’s Hotel Bilas Inn; leaseholder arrested within an hour over suspected lease dispute
Police say four of the dead were from the family that owns the hotel and suspect a quarrel over its lease agreement led to…
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Anthropic files for Nasdaq listing, reporting $16.3 billion half-year revenue and warning of AI’s ‘existential’ risks
The Claude maker’s prospectus shows revenue growing more than thirteen-fold alongside an $80.7 billion loss, and sets up what could become the largest stock…