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Bengal re-releases list of 1,806 ‘tainted’ candidates
State to meet SC’s December 31 deadline on teachers’ recruitment
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
WHEN A CLEAN-UP BECOMES A MESS
A year ago, the idea of a massive nationwide exercise to visit every single household to verify, add, or delete voters was not on anyone’s radar. After all, the Narendra Modi government did not even conduct the mandatory decadal census. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar took charge in February 2025 and, for three months, did not utter the term ‘special intensive revision’ (SIR). Suddenly, one day in June, the CEC announced a nationwide SIR beginning with Bihar. Why so suddenly and so hastily?
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
CM: Govt to help citizens recover unclaimed funds
DELHI government will work with banks to return the unclaimed money of people lying in their accounts, through special camps under ‘Apki Punji, Apka Adhikar’ (Your Money, Your Right) campaign, CM Rekha Gupta said on Thursday.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Letters to Sabarimala PO get a 'divine' touch
AS postal codes go, 689713 extends beyond the mundane - to the divine.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
B'desh court hands Hasina 21-year jail term in graft cases
Her son Sajib Wajed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul also sentenced to 5 years in jail
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Set for homework: Indian boys seek bright start
AS evening settled in different hues, a cool breeze kept blowing across the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium. It was cool by Chennai standards but enough to make players from different parts of the world comfortable during practice. Players were going through their rituals as a handful of people were busy with last-minute checks on Thursday.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Jemimah lends hand to Mandhana
IN a noble gesture, women’s ODI World Cup winner Jemimah Rodrigues decided to miss the remaining Women’s Big Bash League season in Australia and stay back in India to lend emotional support to her national teammate and good friend Smriti Mandhana.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
1 held for stealing ₹4 cr valuables from employer
A 30-year-old driver has been arrested for allegedly stealing jewellery, luxury watches and other valuables worth around ₹4 crore from his employer’s house in southwest Delhi, police said on Thursday.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
NO CLOSURE FOR NELLIE MASSACRE SURVIVORS FROM PROBE REPORT
On February 18, 1983, the vilest of human instincts manifested in Assam’s Nellie village when about 2,000 Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers were slaughtered at the height of an anti-immigrant agitation.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Over 60 % groundwater in Punjab contaminated with unsafe uranium threshold
A staggering 62.5 per cent of groundwater samples from Punjab have uranium levels above the safety threshold, the highest contamination intensity recorded in India, followed by Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh, according to the latest Annual Ground Water Quality Report 2025 by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Man nabbed for strangling partner, leaving body in car
A 35-year-old man allegedly killed his live-in partner in southwest Delhi’s Chhawla area after strangulating her during a fight.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Woman on run held in connection with 2021 murder case in Samaypur Badli
POLICE have arrested a 38-year-old woman who had been absconding for nearly four years in connection with the murder of aman who came to her house to recover money in Samaypur Badli area, officials said.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Children landing at doctors' clinics due to high pollution
AS toxic air continues to blanket Delhi-NCR, parents across the region are grappling with severe health concerns among their children.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
GROUNDWATER URANIUM NEEDS URGENT MITIGATION
A multi-agency study by Indian researchers published in Nature has found high levels of radioactive uranium-238 in breast-milk samples in Bihar. This alarming finding comes on the heels of earlier studies that found high levels of uranium concentrations in groundwater and soil in 151 districts across India. The recent study was conducted on samples from 40 lactating women from six Bihar districts. It found that all the samples had significant uranium-238 traces ranging up to 6 micrograms per litre. Unfortunately, while the World Health Organization has set 30 ug/L as the permissible limit for uranium in drinking water, there is no such safe limit specified for breast-milk, the primary source of nourishment for newborns that provides essential nutrients and antibodies to support their growth.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Assam passes bill banning polygamy; UCC next
THE Assam assembly on Thursday passed a bill to ban polygamy, making it an offence which may lead to a maximum of 10 years of imprisonment, barring some exceptions.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Mkt may face short-term setback after new high
INDIA'S equity markets may face a short-term setback after hitting a fresh milestones on Thursday.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
‘Will Lord Shiva come to present temple papers?’
AN encroachment notice sent by the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) to a Shiva temple has sparked anger in local residents, as it was sent directly to the temple rather than its management committee.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Busy roads push govt to choose smaller, nine-metre buses for city commuting
THE Delhi government’s procurement strategy for electric buses is increasingly favouring nine-metre vehicles instead of the 12-metre ones due to congested roads, manoeuvrability issues and cost efficiency, officials said.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Modi, Shah to attend 3-day DGP conference in C’garh
PM Narendra Modi & Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the All India Conference of Director Generals and Inspector Generals of Police on Nov 29-30 at Indian Institute of Management, Nava Raipur.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Jail officials say Imran is fine, rubbishes death rumours
PAKISTAN’s former prime minister Imran Khan is in “completely good health inside Adiala Jail”, the jail authorities said on Thursday, rejecting rumours on social media about his medical condition.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
HC fines official in sex toys case
Assistant commissioner of customs penalised for seeking judgment’s review that lacked merit
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Israeli hits Hezbollah sites in Lebanon
THE Israeli military carried out another series of strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Thursday, exactly a year into the ceasefire with the militant group.
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November 28, 2025
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Santosh Trophy final round to be held in Assam
THE final round of the Santosh Trophy will be held in Assam next January while the group stages will be organised at nine different venues between December 15-26, the AIFF said on Thursday.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
WE'RE FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS: GUPTA
CHIEF Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday assured that teams across the city are working relentlessly on the ground to control pollution, with intensified efforts focusing on dust control, sanitation, and waste management.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Punjab village’s stubble management hailed
UNION Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday congratulated Punjab for achieving an 83 percent reduction in stubble-burning cases, calling the state’s progress a model that should be followed across the country.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Need deeper financial awareness, says Sebi chief
EMPHASISING that there is an urgent need for deeper financial awareness, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey warned on Thursday that misinformation, fraudulent apps, deep fake impersonations, unregistered advisers and online persuasion are increasingly shaping household financial decisions and continue to deceive investors.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Homecoming, says Prez at Odisha House
THE Odisha Vidhan Sabha witnessed a historic moment on Thursday with President Droupadi Murmu becoming the first head of the nation to address the Assembly session.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Byju's founder to file for $2.5bn damages in US
BYJU Raveendran, the founder of edtech firm Byju’s, is preparing to file a $2.5 billion damages claim, alongside new evidence in a US court that he says disproves GLAS Trust's allegations that $533 million in ‘Alpha Funds’ was diverted by the company’s founders.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
Tribal youth make it big, conquer peak in Himachal Pir Panjal range
A group of tribal youths hailing from Jashpur—most of whom had never seen snow or experienced high-altitude terrain—returned with a historic achievement that filled all of Chhattisgarh with pride.
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November 28, 2025
The Morning Standard
NGT directs CPCB to trace barrels of Endosulfan insecticide in Kerala
AFTER untraced over hundreds of barrels of the banned insecticide Endosulfan in Kerala, the National Green Tribunal has ordered the Central Pollution Control Board, the Plantation Corporation of Kerala, and the State Pollution Control Board to investigate and submit a detailed report by the first week of January.
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