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Hindustan Times Pune
BOLLYWOOD GOES BOO!
This Halloween, two leading ladies are serving fright in their own style. While Adah Sharma calls scaring people her 'cardio', Sunny Leone is going full zombie mode— building a haunted house
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
'Regime change bid': Cops oppose Khalid, Imam's bail in '20 riots case
The Delhi Police on Thursday strongly opposed the release of student activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and three others booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, arguing before the Supreme Court that the alleged offences involved a deliberate attempt to destabilise the State and therefore warranted “jail and not bail”.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Green approvals pave way for initial work on Great Nicobar project
Recent approvals issued for the Great Nicobar infrastructure project indicate that preliminary work on the township and the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) will start soon.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
'HC order not following SC judgment is nullity'
In a ruling reinforcing judicial discipline and hierarchy, the Orissa high court has held that any high court order which refuses to follow a Supreme Court ruling or attempts to revive a decision already set aside by the apex court isa “nullity’
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
SS Rajamouli announces 3D animated Baahubali film; estimated cost ₹120 cr
Filmmaker SS Rajamouli has confirmed a 3D animated film set in the world of his blockbuster Baahubali franchise.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
'INDIA bloc will be wiped out in polls'
Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that Bihar deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary would be made “a very big man’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the assembly polls, even as he attacked the Opposition Grand Alliance, reminding people of the ‘jungle raj during the Lalu-Rabri regime.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Far-right, centrists in election dead-head in the Netherlands
The Dutch election climaxed in an unprecedented cliffhanger on Thursday, with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right party of firebrand Geert Wilders and a pro-European centrist party.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Today wasn’t about me, I wanted to win it for India: Jemimah
“Stand still, God will fight for you. Stand still, God will fight for you...”
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
His noble soul remains country’s inner monitor
I have no memories of the great man. As a two-three year old, I was lucky enough to have seen Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel many times. Including on his last birthday, on October 31, 1950, when my parents took me to his home to greet him and join a two-family photo-op. But all those real ‘sightings’ as I would like to think of them, have been wiped off my mind's screens.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Thanks A Dot by SBI Life Insurance sets world record, turning breast health into living-room conversation
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), breast cancer remains the most common cancer among Indian women, accounting for nearly one in four female cancer cases.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Riddhima Kapoor Sahni refutes trolling claims after charity post for Sudhir Dalvi
Reality TV personality and jewellery designer Riddhima Kapoor Sahni recently made a donation towards veteran actor Sudhir Dalvi's medical treatment and found herself facing an insensitive comment online.
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October 31, 2025
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Smooth sailing presaged in latest growth figures
Country's industrial production shows strong resilience. Ouyang Shijia reports
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October 31, 2025
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Indian firms receive rare earth import licences from China
China has granted licences to an unspecified number of Indian firms to import rare earth magnets, the external affairs ministry said on Thursday against the backdrop of production of electric vehicles being hit by Beijing's recent restrictions on exports of the key components.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Scaring people is my cardio, says Adah Sharma
Adah Sharma made her debut with the supernatural hit 1920, so scares and spooks are hardly new to her. This Halloween, the actor opens up about costumes, candy, chaos, and her delightfully eccentric take on the festival of fright.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
US cuts China tariffs as part of trade truce
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed with President Xi Jinping to trim tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming US soybean purchases and keeping rare earths exports flowing.
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October 31, 2025
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Bismarck of India: How Patel corralled the princely states
Often forgotten in the narratives of how India achieved independence is the question of the princely states.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Friendship across Himalayas
Language learners bring civilisations together.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Called a cab driver: Diljit Dosanjh opens up on facing racism in Australia
Musician-actor Diljit Dosanjh, currently on a world tour for his latest album AURA, recently shared a behind-the-scenes video ahead of his Sydney concert, revealing that he encountered racist remarks during his visit to Australia.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Remembering 1984: A year of trauma, tragedy
Tombola is a fun game. Easy to organise, it caters to birthday parties and other occasions of social conviviality in countless homes, clubs and cantonments across the country.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
How Charani changed the semi-final
On a day when most of India’s bowlers went for plenty, the youngest player in the squad, Shree Charani --the bandannawearing left-arm orthodox spinner from Andhra Pradesh - held her own.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Sardar was the executive arm of the Gandhian fabric of power
It is difficult for me to write about the Sardar. Of the leading men with whom I have come into close contact, he has been nearest to me. I admire his extraordinary gifts, I cherish a deep affection for this man whom most men fear.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Nvidia CEO to attend India AI summit in Feb
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang will attend India's AI Impact Summit in February, a senior official from the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) confirmed to HT, as the country prepares to host what the government regards as the first global artificial intelligence summit in the Global South.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Sino-US trade détente, for now
While it’s a relief for global markets, there is a warning in Donald Trump's mercantalism
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Man accused in Pocso case involving his wife gets relief, SC warning
The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction and 10-year sentence of a man found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor — now his wife, on the condition that he must not abandon her or their infant, and asserted that “the law must yield to the cause of justice” in the unique circumstances of the case.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Groww’s ₹6,632 cr IPO to open on Nov 4; eyes $7 bn valuation
Billionbrains Garage Ventures, the parent company of stock broking firm Groww, on Thursday fixed a price band of 95-100 per share for its upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO), targeting a valuation of over ₹61,700 crore (about $7 billion).
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
US grants 6-month sanctions waiver to India on Chabahar
India said on Thursday that the US administration has granted India a six-month exemption for American sanctions applicable to Iran's Chabahar port, which has been developed by New Delhi over the past decade as a crucial gateway for expanding trade and transit with the region.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
'Bogey of jungle raj is just a ploy by NDA'
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, which is contesting 20 seats in Bihar as part of the Opposition INDIA blog, has promised new initiatives for land reforms, identity cards to sharecroppers, land for landless and regular wages to scheme workers. In an interview to Anirban Guha Roy, party's general secretary Dipankar Bhattarcharya says the verdict of the Bihar assembly polls will be decisive as the state is looking forward to bring a change in government. Edited excerpts:
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
FANS SING EVERY WORD AS ENRIQUE IGLESIAS RETURNS TO INDIA
The pop star performed to packed crowds at MMRDA Grounds in Mumbai, marking his first India appearance in over a decade
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October 31, 2025
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Legendary giants narrate moving epic of the eons
Pandas and poets, adventurers and ape men, soldiers and snow leopards, and a mountain god reborn as four supernatural sisters.
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Trump sets 7,500 limit for refugees entering US
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
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