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Defending world title tougher than winning first time: Gukesh
How does one deal with the shift from wanting to win a world title to not wanting to lose it — something that has become one’s prefix, central to one’s identity? It is a question D Gukesh is confronted with this year as he prepares to defend his title.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Russia threatens more strikes on Kyiv, urges foreigners to leave city
Russia said on Monday it plans to launch more strikes on Kyiv, including on its “decision-making centres”, and repeated a call for foreign citizens and diplomats to leave the city.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
At Wazirabad, Yamuna runs so low that ‘even kids can cross it’
Around 5km upstream of the Wazirabad barrage, the Yamuna has mostly dried up.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
CBSE admits mix-up after student highlights answer-sheet mismatch
Hours after facing online abuse for flagging discrepancies in his Class 12 Physics answer sheet, Delhi student Vedant Shrivastava received relief on Monday after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) acknowledged that an incorrect scanned copy had been uploaded against his roll number and sent him the correct script.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
At 8,439MW, power demand hits new May high amid heatwave
Amid searing heat conditions, Delhi's peak power demand touched 8,439MW on Monday — the highest recorded in the city so far this year and the highest-ever for the month of May.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Nadda chairs meet on Ebola preparedness
Union health minister JP Nadda on Monday chaired a high-level meeting to review levels of preparedness against Ebola Virus Disease in the country, the health ministry said in a statement.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Reduce spending on official travel by 25%, Delhi govt tells depts
The Delhi government has ordered a sharp reduction in official travel spending, mandating a 25% cut in domestic travel expenses across departments in 2026-27, compared with the previous financial year.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘Govt open to views on capital gains tax cuts’
The government is open to stakeholder views on reducing capital gains tax on investments in stock markets, aiming to make domestic markets more attractive to foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Govt eases LPG surrender rule, allows reconnection
The government on Monday permitted consumers to retain the option of restoring their surrendered domestic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or cooking gas) connections in future if they move to areas that do not have piped natural gas (PNG) infrastructure.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Peace hopes in West Asia drive global stocks higher
Stocks surged on Monday as optimism about an impending US-Iran deal cooled crude prices and lifted markets worldwide.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
After recusal row, Kejriwal set to participate in excise case hearing
Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, and AAP leader Durgesh Pathak have decided to participate in CBI's appeal challenging the trial court's order discharging them and 20 others in the Delhi excise policy case, now being heard by Justice Manoj Jain.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
CBI likely to file charge sheet in NEET leak case within a week
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a charge sheet within a weeks’ time in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, naming three teachers - PV Kulkarni, Manisha Mandhare and Manisha Havaldar - as the key individuals behind the leak of chemistry, biology and physics questions, respectively, people familiar with the development said.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
SC: In marital disputes, husband's kin not liable until proven complicit
The Supreme Court on Monday said that in matrimonial disputes, relatives of the husband cannot be fastened with criminal liability if they fail to intervene or ask the wife to adjust in the matrimonial relationship without there being any evidence to show their active complicity in the crime.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Pope Leo urges govts to regulate development of AI systems
{ ‘MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS' } SAYS A.l. MUST BE ‘FREED FROM LOGIC THAT TURNS IT INTO AN INSTRUMENT OF DOMINATION AND DEATH’
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
ZEPTO EYES $1 BN IPO, PUBLIC LISTING LIKELY IN JUNE
Rapid-commerce firm Zepto Ltd is preparing to publicly file in the first half of June for an initial public offering (IPO) that may raise up to $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Smoke from UP deputy CM's flight sparks scare
A government's chartered aircraft carrying Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak developed a snag at Moradabad airport on Monday moments before takeoff, officials said.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘Corruption definitely a key reason for the defeat of TMC’
{ HT INTERVIEW } KAKOLI GHOSH DASTIDAR, TMC MP
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Fed Cup: Javelin throwers fail to make CWG mark; Gill qualifies in shot put
After three days of record-breaking performances, India’s track and field athletes got a rude reality check on the concluding day of Federation Cup in Ranchi with a number of them missing the Commonwealth Games cut.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
No Real player in Spain WC squad
European champions Spain will travel to next month’s World Cup with plenty of Barcelona players but no-one from Real Madrid.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
UP gram pradhans to continue as village administrators till polls
With the tenure of incumbent gram panchayats constituted ending on May 26, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to appoint the sitting village heads (gram pradhans) as administrators to ensure continuity of routine administrative work until the new gram panchayats are formed, a first in the state's history.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
The mid-summer’s Amaltas survey
Season’s notes from the roadsides
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘NETANYAHU ADMITS DIFFICULTY IN INFLUENCING TRUMP'S DECISIONS’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told confidants in private conversations that Israel has little ability to influence Donald Trump's decision-making on Iran as the US president negotiates a deal in the nearly three-month-old war, two sources said.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Sirsa reviews Okhla effluent plant, says ageing units will be upgraded
Delhi’s environment and industries minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday visited the Okhla industrial area and inspected the common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) to assess their efficacy.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
TMC struggles to find candidate for Nandigram bypoll
Two Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders have refused to contest the by-election for the Nandigram assembly seat in East Midnapore district which West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari won in April, along with his second seat, Kolkata’s Bhabanipur, where he defeated three-time chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
No ground support for ‘cockroach party’: Saini
Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Monday dismissed the newly founded satirical outfit, the Cockroach Janata Party as a ‘‘short-lived’’ movement that has no traction among the youth and no groundswell of support among the masses.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
TWO MORE HELD IN ₹8.70-CR GUJ BANK THEFT CASE
Police in Ahmedabad on Monday confirmed two additional arrests in the case regarding the alleged theft of ₹8.70 crore from a Bank of Baroda branch in the city on January 13.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
India turns to Latin America, Africa for oil after Hormuz crisis
Indian refiners turned to imports from Latin America and Africa after supplies from the West Asia were disrupted as the Israeli-US war on Iran restricted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, data provided by trade sources show.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
SHAH TO UNVEIL SMART BORDER PROJECTS, HOLD SECURITY REVIEWS
Union home minister Amit Shah, over the next couple of weeks, will visit border areas both at Indo-Bangladesh and Indo-Pakistan borders, unveil smart border projects, and hold security review meetings with senior officials, officials familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
With only 12% of work done, judicial infra revamp delayed
Construction work of at least three new court complexes is running behind the schedule with only 10-12% progress so far, senior government officials said.
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May 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
FORMER DELHI MEDICAL COUNCIL REGISTRAR TO REPRESENT DMA
Former Delhi Medical Council (DMC) registrar Girish Tyagi has been elected as the Delhi Medical Association representative to the Delhi Medical Council (DMC).
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