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Police, bomb squad search Rajinikanth, Dhanush's homes after bomb threat
On Monday, the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) received emails claiming that bombs had been planted at the residences of actors Rajinikanth and Dhanush, among other VIPs in the city.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Where AI labelling norms are ineffective
While the proposed amendments to rules are well-intentioned, doubts remain if they can deter Al-enabled crimes
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
HASINA WARNS B'DESH GOVT OF MASS VOTER BOYCOTT IN POLLS
Millions of supporters of Bangladesh’s Awami League will boycott next year’s national elections, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday from her exile in New Delhi.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Too bad I can’t run for prez a 3rd time: Trump
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that “it's too bad” he’s not allowed to run for a third term, conceding the constitutional reality even as he expressed interest in continuing to serve.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
SUDAN CONFLICT SPARKS ALARM AFTER REPORTS OF MASS KILLINGS
Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds, including patients, after they seized el-Fasher city in Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced residents and aid workers.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
US ends automatic extension of employment authorisation
The US Department of Homeland Security has eliminated automatic extensions of employment authorisation documents, a move that will force foreign workers — especially Indians who make up a large portion of the expat workforce — to stop working if their renewals are not approved before their current permits expire.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
India, EU near consensus on trade pact
10 of 20 chapters closed, convergence likely on most of the remaining issues
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Bihar remote controlled by BJP: Rahul, Tejashwi
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched the election campaign for the Grand Alliance (GA) on Wednesday from Muzaffarpur in Bihar along with the bloc’s chief ministerial candidate and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and others.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
India can provide global stability amid churn: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday exhorted global investors to take bets on the Indian shipping sector, saying that ata time when the global seas are rough, India has the capability of becoming the steady power house of the world.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Consensus on half of EU FTA chapters, says Goyal
India-EU free trade negotiations have made “significant progress” as they “agreed to close 10 out of 20 chapters”; “broadly decided” another four to five chapters; and are working towards convergence on most of the remaining issues, Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal said after his three-day Brussels visit.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Pak: Will bomb Af Taliban back to caves if we face terror attack
Pakistan's defence minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday threatened to “obliterate” the Afghan Taliban and push them back to the caves in case of any future terror attack in his country, as ties between the two neighbours hit rock bottom after peace talks failed.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
URMILA'S OTT DEBUT IS ON TRACK
Producer Utpal Acharya sets the record straight on Urmila Matondkar's OTT debut Tiwari, confirming a February 2026 release
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
As campaign heats up, NDA, Oppn trade barbs
Campaigning for the high-stakes assembly elections in Bihar kicked into high gear on Wednesday as both the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition Grand Alliance deployed top leaders to address rallies crisscrossing the state, hoping to convince voters before the polls next month.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Ammy Virk says even words like 'saala' are off limits in his film
In a decade-long acting career, Ammy Virk has moved effortlessly between Punjabi and Hindi films. While Punjabi cinema has allowed him to experiment with diverse roles, his Hindi outings, from Khel Khel Mein to Bad Newwz (both 2024), have largely showcased his comic side.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Message to the US and Russia
The HAL-UAC civilian aircraft deal is rich in optics, and good for Indian manufacturing
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
NEW THERAPY OR DIGITAL TRAP? INSIDE THE RISE OF AI COMPANIONSHIP
As more young people turn to chatbots for connection, experts weigh in on whether AI relationships are healing emotional loneliness or deepening it
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Expelled leaders may hold key if poll race is close
The main political parties in Bihar have expelled close to 60 leaders ahead of the two-phase assembly elections next month, indicating that these rebels and dissenters could play a key role in case polls see a close contest between the National Democratic Alliance and the Grand Alliance.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Surya regains touch but rain washes out first T201
Cut short by rain but till the time Suryakumar Yadav was batting, he wasn’t looking anywhere close to a man who hadn't scored a fifty in his last 14 innings and averaged only 10.50 during that time. This India team has made it a mission to not overtly rely on any one player but the captain going through a slump of such proportions after spending the better part of 2024 as the No.1 batter had to be addressed sooner or later. Canberra seemed to have finally triggered that correction phase.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Bihar CM, PM posts not vacant for sons of Lalu, Sonia: Shah
Union home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday attacked the INDIA bloc during a rally in Bihar, alleging that RJD convener Lalu Prasad wants to make his son Tejashwi the CM of Bihar and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi wants to make her son Rahul the PM, while asserting that “both posts were not vacant”.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Etsy names insider Kruti Goyal as new CEO
Online marketplace Etsy named insider Kruti Patel Goyal as its new chief executive officer on Wednesday, succeeding Josh Silverman, who has spent over eight years in the role.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
AMID ROUGH INT'L WATERS, INDIA CAN BE STEADY WORLD POWERHOUSE: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday exhorted global investors to take bets on the Indian shipping sector, saying that at a time when the global seas are rough, India has the capability of becoming the steady powerhouse of the world.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
The history of caste in the Bihar assembly
The first story based on the database looked at the representation of Muslims in the Bihar assembly (https:/ bit.ly/BiharMus-limMLAs).
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
India put their dream on the line against Australia
In modern sport, it arguably doesn't get tougher than this. Australia are the team to beat in WODIs and have been it for a while. Since the start of the 2017 World Cup, their overall ODI record stands at an incredible 87 played, 78 won.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Being held hostage by hustle culture? Experts share insights
In a world where success comes measured in metrics — followers, funding, fame — slowing down can feel like falling behind.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Wolvaardt, Kapp take SA to World Cup final
South Africa needed to go where they had never gone before. Laura Wolvaardt needed to carry forward the momentum and conjure a semifinal special. Marizanne Kapp had to bowl with the heat that had eluded her in the tournament so far.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
Doing trade deal with India, Trump confirms
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he is “doing a trade deal with India”, raising hopes that an in-the-works agreement between the two countries would be finalised soon. His comments came ona day the US and South Korea came close to finalising a trade deal, and ahead of a Thursday meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that is expected to see the two sides resolve at least some of their trade differences.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
IOC’S SANCTIONS AGAINST INDONESIA A NOD TO INDIA'S POLICY: MINISTRY
The Sports Ministry on Tuesday justified its stand to play against Pakistan in multilateral international events pointing to the severe sanctions imposed by the International Olympic Committee against Indonesia for denying visas to Israeli athletes for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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October 29, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
SHREYAS OUT OF ICU, ‘ON ROAD TO RECOVERY’ IN SYDNEY HOSPITAL
India’s ODI vice-captain Shreyas Iyer, who suffered a ruptured spleen and rib cage injury during the third match against Australia, has been moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Sydney hospital and is now in a stable condition, BCCI said on Tuesday.
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October 29, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
LIC says its decisions had no external say
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Tuesday reiterated that the public sector insurer has neither issued nor received any document mentioned in the Washington Post report, which alleges that its decisions to invest in the Adani Group were influenced by external factors.
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October 29, 2025
Hindustan Times Pune
INDIAN STABS 2 TEENS ON U.S. TO GERMANY FLIGHT
A 28-year-old Indian national allegedly stabbed two teens with a metal fork and slapped a co-passenger on board a Chicago to Germany flight, according to American authorities.
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