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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 notified government service online through a single myDelhi portal.
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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…
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Defence council clears ₹2.12 lakh crore arms buys: K9 guns, kamikaze drones, helicopters and naval platforms
About 82% of the equipment approved on Monday is to come from Indian industry. The clearance is the first formal step in a long…
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Delhi’s old RTR flyover to reopen for cars and bikes after crack repairs; heavy vehicles barred for a week
The airport-to-Vasant Vihar ramp, shut since October 20 after cracks exposed its reinforcement bars, carries nearly two lakh vehicles a day. Heavy vehicles will…
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Sultanpur court acquits Rahul Gandhi in 2018 defamation case over ‘murder accused’ remark on Amit Shah
The special MP-MLA court cleared the Leader of Opposition for lack of evidence, ending an eight-year case filed by a local BJP leader, who…
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Cyclone Arnab forms in Bay of Bengal, set to strengthen before Andhra landfall on October 28
The storm is expected to turn ‘very severe’ by Tuesday as more than 4,800 boats return to Kakinada and rain shuts schools across parts…
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Lula wins Brazil runoff with 51.75% to secure a historic fourth term, overturning first-round loss to Flávio Bolsonaro
Brazil’s president becomes the first in the country’s modern history to lose the first round and win the runoff, but faces a right-leaning Congress…
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Serbia’s Vučić concedes defeat as student-led movement heads for majority after record turnout
After 12 years in power, Aleksandar Vučić said his party had clearly lost Sunday’s snap parliamentary election to the Student List, a movement born…
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Two men feared trapped as slab of under-construction house caves in at Delhi’s Harsh Vihar
NDRF, fire and police teams searched the rubble in northeast Delhi’s Milan Garden through Sunday night for a 60-year-old and a 36-year-old, as ministers…
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María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after 10 months in exile, reappears at Barquisimeto shrine
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate slipped back into the country after several blocked attempts, setting up a direct test for interim president Delcy Rodríguez’s…