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7-yr-old locked in school, found with head stuck in window grill
A Class-II girl of Anjar government upper primary school in Odisha’s Keonjhar district was accidentally locked inside the classroom for over 17 hours before being found with her head stuck in the window grill on Friday morning.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
NMC yet to release disability SOP
Commission asked to issue revised guidelines for Sept NEET-PG counselling as per SC order
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
India is Kremlin's ‘laundromat, 50% tariffs from next week: Trump's aide
THE additional tariffs to punish India for purchasing Russian oil will kick in as scheduled on August 27, according to US President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Secular service: MP Muslim man offers to donate his kidney to Hindu preacher
IN Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district, a 26-year-old Muslim man has offered to donate one of his kidneys to Hindu preacher Premanand Govind Sharan 'Premanand Ji Maharaj', calling it his contribution to communal harmony.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Famine declared in Gaza for first time
Largest city faces extreme hunger, likely to spread without ceasefire and aid. Israel calls starvation reports lies by Hamas
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
‘Athletes must come out of comfort zone'
Athletics chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair says Open Nationals mandatory to get selected for relay teams
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
US Halts Work Visas for Commercial Truck Drivers
3 people recently died after wrong U-turn by Punjab-origin driver
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
'Victory of compassion': Activists
New SC ruling on strays brings a wave of relief for dog lovers, mixed reaction from RWAs
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
FBI Raids Trump's Top Adviser-Turned Critic John Bolton's Home in Classified Files Probe
THE FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Tribal held captive, starved and assaulted for 5 days at a farm stay in Palakkad
A 54-year-old man was allegedly locked up, starved and assaulted for five days by the owner and employees of a farm stay in Kerala's Palakkad.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
SC opens online SIR claim window
Allows excluded voters to upload forms along with Aadhaar copy or one of 11 documents
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
'D' link surfaces in inter-state synthetic drug cartel in MP
BHOPAL finds itself at the centre of a massive synthetic drug racket, this time with alleged links to the underworld.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Thai Court Acquits Former PM of Royal Insult Charge
THAILAND'S former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court on Friday, in a case that could have sent him to prison for up to 15 years.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Vulture count dips, Assam drive takes wings to save nature’s ‘cleaning crew
IN view of a sharp dip in vulture numbers in the state driven by chemical poisoning, a well-known Assam-based biodiversity conservation organisa-tion, Aaranyak, has taken it upon itself to save Mother Nature’s cleaning crew.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Rajit Punhani appointed FSSAI chief, Piyush Goyal named mines secretary
IN a major bureaucratic reshuffle, several senior civil servant-shave been shifted to different departments, and some promoted. Atish Chandra, Additional Secretary in the PMO, has been promoted to the rank of Special Secretary.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
India is Kremlin's 'laundromat', 50% tariffs from next week: Trump's aide
THE additional tariffs to punish India for purchasing Russian oil will kick in as scheduled on August 27, according to US President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Major portion of ₹76k cr Semiconductor PLI largely committed: MeitY secretary
A significant portion of the ₹76,000 crore approved under India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Semiconductors has already been committed to selected companies, said S Krishnan, secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Monday.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Time To Cut Our Dress According To Our Cloth
China envy got us nowhere. Now it's time to shed our America complex too. Rather than pretending to be a world-beater, India should be mending fences
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Can Take Action Against Aggregators for Bike Taxi Services on Platforms: HC to AG
The Karnataka High Court on Friday orally told the advocate general (AG) that authorities can take any action as per law against aggregators for resuming bike taxi services after he complained the services have been resumed though the court had not given them such liberty.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
How a Gulf returnee turned jackfruit a brand
After spending 45 years in Abu Dhabi, Thankachan Yohannan returned home not in despair but with a determination to begin afresh.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Bhubaneswar civic body to launch dog census soon
IN the wake of the Supreme Court's directives on tackling the stray dog menace, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday announced a canines census in the city and roll out an effective animal birth control drive to contain their population.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
₹5,000 cr sought from Centre for pending projects
TDP supremo says Telugu pride irrelevant in vice-presidential polls
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Rising heat reduces working capacity: Report
HEAT stress induced by climate change decreases work productivity, a report brought out by the UN health and climate agencies says, adding that the productivity of workers in extreme heat drops by two to three per cent for every degree above an ambient temperature of 20°C.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
HC seeks Centre, city govt reply on Vikas Yadav’s plea for remission
MORE than two decades after being jailed in the Nitish Katara murder case, convict Vikas Yadav has urged the Delhi High Court to grant him release by extending the benefit of statutory remission and also sought interim bail ahead of his wedding next month.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Detailed disaster management plan for road & highway sector unveiled
THE Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has finalised a Disaster Management Plan (DMP) - a comprehensive framework for managing natural and man-made calamities with a focus on maintaining and restoring connectivity on roads and highways.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Vulture count dips, Assam drive takes wings to save nature's 'cleaning crew'
IN view of a sharp dip in vulture numbers in the state driven by chemical poisoning, a well-known Assam-based biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak, has taken it upon itself to save Mother Nature's cleaning crew.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Ex-President Kovind to be chief guest at RSS Vijayadashami Utsav
FORMER president Ram Nath Kovind will be the chief guest at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) annual Vijayadashami Utsav in Nagpur.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Man detained for sloganeering at CM’s event
A 60-year-old businessman was detained on Friday for raising slogans against Gandhi Nagar MLA Arvinder Singh Lovely during an event attended by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Sri Lanka's Former President Ranil Arrested
SRI Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested on Friday for allegedly misusing state funds during his tenure as head of state, police said.
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August 23, 2025
The Morning Standard
Sudhakar Reddy, who took charge of CPI after Bardhan, passes away at 83
CPI former general secretary and ex-Lok Sabha member Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy passed away in Hyderabad on Friday due to age-related illness.
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