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BJP may retain Speaker, JD(U) Home
AMID hard bargaining among NDA allies over plum portfolios in the new Bihar ministry on Tuesday, the Speaker’s post is expected to stay with the BJP, while Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may retain Home despite the BJP pressing him to part with it.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
India-B'desh women series postponed
AMIDST diplomatic strain between the two countries, the women's cricket series between India and Bangladesh slated for December has been postponed. Interestingly, this comes a day after former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was handed a death sentence by a tribunal court in the country for alleged crimes against humanity.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
STUDENTS, ACTIVISTS SEEK ACTION AGAINST TOXIC AIR
Experts claim adverse effects are now observed across all age groups
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Centre rejects TN proposals to build metro rail systems
THE union housing and urban affairs ministry has rejected Tamil Nadu’s proposals to build metro rail systems in Coimbatore and Madurai, arguing that both cities fall short of the population and ridership norms laid out in the 2017 Metro Rail Policy.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Guv-TMC MP spat intensifies, Bose moves HC
THE Raj Bhavan on Tuesday filed a defamation case in the Calcutta High Court against Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee for making \"derogatory\" remarks against West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, escalating the ongoing conflict.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
‘Breathing a privilege?’ Toxic air fuels stir amid confusion over pollution curbs
AS Delhi grapples with another week of hazardous smog, confusion over emergency curbs, unfulfilled government promises, and rising public anger on the streets underscore the national capital’s struggle to address its annual pollution crisis.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Returning Arundhati delivers statement performance in ring
ARUNDHATI Choudhary had been patiently longing for this moment for the last 12 months or so. After missing out on her dream — the 2024 Olympics — the said period had been testing for her to say the least. Moreover, she had injury issues to deal with too. Making her first appearance at the international stage this year, Arundhati produced a statement performance on Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Sonowal, L-G review progress of Yamuna cruise
UNION Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW), Sarbananda Sonowal, along with Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena and cabinet ministers Parvesh Verma and Kapil Mishra, on Tuesday reviewed the progress of the upcoming Yamuna cruise service at Sonia Vihar on Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
UN endorses Don’s Gaza plan despite Hamas pushback, Netanyahu applauds
Blueprint sets up security force & new authority, with statehood linked to Gaza’s rebuilding
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Maha leads in PV sales, UP ahead in two-wheelers in Sept quarter
MAHARASHTRA recorded the highest number of passenger vehicles (PV) and commercial vehicles (CV) sales in the third quarter of this financial year (Q2FY26), while Uttar Pradesh topped in the two-wheeler and three-wheeler sales during the period, as per the data shared by industry body SIAM.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
National-level shooter ‘molested’ in Pune-bound bus, conductor on run
HIGH drama unfolded on board a private bus in Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital Indore on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, after a national-level woman shooter accused the conductor of touching her inappropriately.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Man sets himself ablaze over mounting debt
A 29-year-old man set himself on fire at his rented accommodation in central Delhi's Anand Parbat due to mounting debt after suffering losses in business, police said on Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
COP30 enters 2nd week with nothing but words
THE UN climate summit in Brazil is in its second and final week. Negotiators have till November 21 to untangle the knots they have not been able to resolve in the 29 meetings since Berlin 1995.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
PhysicsWallah makes Mkt debut with 44% gains
DEFYING grey market expectations in the backdrop of a tepid subscription rate for its initial public offering (IPO), PhysicsWallah made a strong market debut on Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Bihar Cong cracks whip on 43 for flouting party discipline during polls
BIHAR Congress on Tuesday initiated disciplinary action against 43 leaders, including former ministers and MLAs, for their alleged involvement in anti-party activities during the assembly elections.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Govt working to ease FDI rules
There will be follow-up actions across ministries, agencies tasked with evaluating proposals
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Ashoka, Penn Engineering sign MoU for collaboration
ASHOKA University on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Engineering) to deepen collaboration in research, teaching and academic mobility.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Stalin urges PM to relax paddy procurement norms
CHIEF Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a visit to Coimbatore today, to allow Tamil Nadu to increase the paddy procurement target for the Kharif season and relax the moisture norms for purchasing the foodgrain from farmers affected by unseasonal rain.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Security upgrade in e-passport rollout
WITH the nationwide rollout of e-passports, a major technological upgrade designed to enhance security and streamline global mobility is on the cards for Indian passport holders.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
TECH SUMMIT Sidda rolls out red carpet for investors in state
SETTING the tone and path for Karnataka’s development in coming years, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday rolled out the red carpet for investors and researchers to invest in the state, particularly in the technology and space sectors, at the 28th edition of the Bengaluru Tech Summit.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
PITCHES LIKE ONE USED AT EDEN BENEFIT NONE
THE pitch prepared in Kolkata became one of the chief protagonists in the drama of the first Test between India and South Africa.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
BJP & AAP lock horns over stray cattle menace in Patparganj locality
DELHI BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor on Tuesday hit out at Saurabh Bharadwaj, President of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi unit, saying the AAP leader was projecting the stray cattle issue as if it were a new problem that emerged under the BJP’s tenure.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Cloudflare glitch hits X, ChatGPT & transit systems for hours; services back
A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Erigaisi & Yi set for tiebreak
GRANDMASTER (GM) Arjun Erigaisi could not convert his advantage in the middle game and had to settle for a draw in the second game against GM Wei Yi as their FIDE World Cup 2025 quarterfinal heads to a tiebreak.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Morgan Stanley sees Sensex reaching 1,07,000 level by December 2026
DALAL Street is on course to begin a multiyear rebound soon, regaining the mojo it has lost since September 2024 when the bellwether had hit the lifetime high of 85,978.25, according to Wall Street major Morgan Stanley.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Ukraine seeks new peace talks as Zelenskyy travels to Turkey amid tensions
UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s full-scale invasion, which began nearly four years ago.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
BANGLADESH DEMOCRACY CAN’T BE REBUILT WITH VENDETTA POLITICS
THE death sentence handed to former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may carry the weight of legal procedure, but it also carries the unmistakable smell of political vendetta. The interim government led by Mohammed Yunus termed the verdict “historic” and “profound”, while urging calm. Yet the very insistence on restraint amid an uneasy political clime reveals the depth of the fault lines running through Bangladesh.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Sundar Pichai cautions on AI errors, looming investment bubble
'DON'T TRUST AI BLINDLY'
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
'LPG from US must be economically viable'
AS Indian oil marketing companies secured a one-year deal to import around 2.2 MTPA of LPG from the US, industry analysts believe that India must have secured a good deal that is economically viable for Indian OMCs.
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November 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Bullet train's inaugural run in '27 to cover 100 kms between Surat & Vapi: Vaishnaw
INDIA is set to witness the inaugural run of its first bullet train in August 2027, operating between Surat and Vapi in Gujarat.
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