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The Morning Standard
HC may punish officers for contempt in Deepam issue
THE Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court said on Friday that it would frame contempt charges against the officers, who failed to implement its order directing lighting of lamp on ‘Deepathoon’ on Thiruparankundram hilltop last year, if they don’t properly show cause before February 2 as to why contempt proceedings not be initiated against them.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Want to create a larger pool of South African players: Smith
FOUR washouts in 17 games, thanks to unseasonal rain.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
NEEDED: A FRESH POLICY FRAMEWORK TO ENGAGE THE U.S.
Trump 2.0 doesn’t have an India policy. But the relations are not guaranteed to improve when the administration changes. Time for a reset like the one a quarter century ago
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
FIX GROK FLAWS, DON'T LET USERS DESTROY WOMEN’S DIGNITY
SOME recent posts on X involving Grok should concern anyone who believes technology should improve public life rather than degrade it.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
MIND ECOLOGICAL BALANCE WHILE RAISING TEAK OUTPUT
INDIA now needs to import an expensive product it once was the leading producer of.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
A Pho affair
TMS checks out Delhi's favourite Vietnamese spot Vietnom, where summer rolls, pomelo-papaya salad, comforting pho, lemongrass chicken, and grilled sea bass headline the revamped menu
2 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
POSTER OUT FOR FILM O’ ROMEO
SHAHID Kapoor’s first look from Vishal Bhardwaj’s upcoming gangster film O’Romeo is out.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
BYD sales rise to 5,402 units in ’25, Tesla sees cold response
AMONG the niche and EV-only brands in Indian car market, Chinese automaker BYD achieved sales of 5,402 units in CY25, a surge of 88% year-on-year compared to 2,689 units sold in CY24.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Shah launches war on narco-terror, pushes for full eradication in 3 years
UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday set a three-year deadline to put in place a comprehensive national mechanism to eradicate the drug menace, calling for a “collective campaign on all fronts” tomake India drug-free.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
IOA AGM: More incentives for NSFs
HOSTING international competitions, annual grants to National Sports Federations (NSFs) and launching a National Olympic Academy are some of the key takeaways from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Annual General Meeting held at Ahmedabad on Friday.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Mamata hits the road against raids in Bengal, her MPs detained in Delhi
CM says ED action was meant to steal TMC poll strategy, threatens to expose BJP’s corruption
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Sabarimala thanthri held in gold case
Remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody & sent to the special sub-jail in Thiruvananthapuram
2 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Grok restricts images after global deepfake backlash
ELON Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing nonpaying users from generating or editing images after a global backlash erupted over sexualised deepfakes of people, but the change has not satisfied authorities in Europe.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Assam gifts rhinos, cobras to MP, to receive tigers
A vast stretch of dense forests in eastern Madhya Pradesh, which were once used by the armed Naxal cadres as the passage to further their expansion plans, will now be home to wild buffalos that reportedly became extinct in the state over 100 years ago.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
UP junior doctor, accused of attempting forcible religious conversion, held
DR Rameezuddin Nayak, a Junior Resident at the Department of Pathology in Lucknow’s King George Medical University (KGMU) was arrested by the UP police from near the Nepal border on Friday.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Rogue elephant kills two more in J'khand, toll reaches 22 in nine days
AFTER a 48-hour pause, the killer elephant once again trampled two more people to death on Friday, while an employee of the forest department, who was deployed to drive it into the jungles, was critically injured and is battling for life.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
No point in fighting, ready to supply Polavaram water to Telangana, says Naidu
MAKING it clear that there will be no compromise in safeguarding the interests of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has asserted that there will be no use with conflicts among riparian States on river water sharing.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Assembly panel authorises action in Phansi Ghar row
THE Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday took a decisive step in the “Phansi Ghar” controversy after former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his then-deputy Manish Sisodia, ex-Assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel and his then-deputy Rakhi Birla failed to appear before the Privileges Committee despite being summoned earlier.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
13 killed in Israeli strikes as Gaza truce holds uneasily
ISRAELI strikes across Gaza have killed at least 13 people, according to health officials, as Donald Trump was expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Hill yes! How thousands are reverse migrating
THE migration pattern that hollowed out Uttarakhand's villages for decades is showing signs of reversal.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
63 Maoists, including 18 women, lay down arms in C’garh under rehab policy
A total of 63 cadres of CPI (Maoist), 36 among them carrying a cumulative reward of over 21.19 crore, surrendered in Dantewada district, south Chhattisgarh on Friday.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Gang of three held in TN for drug abuse
THE Podanur police in Coimbatore arrested a three-member gang ina drug abuse case.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
AGR dues: Vi to pay ₹124 cr annually till 2031
Telco to pay ₹1,144 cr over next 10 years and rest of AGR dues, frozen at ₹87,695 cr, from March 2036 onwards
2 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
After Modi push, new mothers scheme gets tech transparency
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi has suggested reforms to make the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PM-MVY),acentral flagship scheme that provides maternity benefits to pregnant and lactating mothers, more technology-driven, transparent and robust, official sources said Friday.
2 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
BLURRED VISIONS OF FUTURES PAST
PERHAPS the standout event of 2026 is already over—the US campaign against Venezuela, with the plainly-declared aim of taking over its oil resources.
3 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Revanth okay with Andhra's give & take call
ECHOING the views of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy on Friday too suggested a give-and-take approach among stakeholder states to resolve interstate water disputes amicably.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
RBI CUTS US TREASURY EXPOSURE FOR FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS
IN what may be a strategic shift towards foreign exchange reserve diversification and non-dollar assets amid rising global economic and geopolitical risks, the Reserve Bank of India has cut 21% of its holdings of US Treasury securities.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
SOFTBANK SELLS 2.15% STAKE IN OLA ELECTRIC
SOFTBANK, through its investment arm SVF II Ostrich (DE) LLC, has reduced its stake in Ola Electric Mobility Limited by 2.15%, according to a regulatory filing released on Friday.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
SIP inflows cross ₹31,000 crore in Dec, overall AUM declines
THE monthly inflows into SIPs or systematic investment plans has for the first time crossed the ₹31,000 crore mark, rising by 5% and 17% on a monthly and yearly basis, respectively, even as inflows into equity funds declined 6% to ₹28,054 crore in the December.
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January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Iran burns as protests grow, Khamenei warns of crackdown
At least 62 people dead; Trump has pledged to support protestors in Iran
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