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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
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Case for controlling India’s digital future
One tweet from Washington could silence a billion Indian voices. New Delhi needs to look beyond WhatsApp and Meta
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October 31, 2025
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
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
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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
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PM launches projects worth ₹1.2K-cr in Guj
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for projects worth ₹1,220 crore near the Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar in Narmada district of Gujarat.
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October 31, 2025
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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
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Patel at 150: A life in service of the nation
When India gained independence on August 15, 1947, the British left behind a fractured subcontinent that included more than 560 princely states. Without geographical unity, its hard-won freedom would have been hollow. With vision, determination, and an unyielding will, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first deputy prime minister and home minister, forged these scattered principalities into a single nation, giving independent India its shape and strength. However, the efforts of this great unifier did not receive the recognition he deserved.
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October 31, 2025
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562 provinces to 14 units: The colossal task of uniting India
“Today we think of the integration of the states only in terms of the consolidation of the country, but few pause to consider the toils and anxieties that had to be undergone till, step by step, the edifice of a consolidated India was enshrined in the Constitution,” VP Menon wrote in his classic The Story of Integration of Indian States in 1955.
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October 31, 2025
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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
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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
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'Looking at diverse sources to meet India's energy security'
India said on Thursday its crude oil procurement is guided by the objective of securing “affordable energy from diverse sources” to ensure energy security, amid indications that refiners are gradually reducing the uptake of subsidised Russian energy and eyeing greater imports of oil and gas from the US.
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October 31, 2025
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'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
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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
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NHAI's cost of toll collection down 56% to ₹2,674 cr in FY25
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), on Thursday said the cost of toll collection at public-funded toll plazas has been reduced by ₹2,062 crore in the last financial year, marking a 56% drop compared to the previous year.
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October 31, 2025
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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
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HC seeks explanation on CRPF’s tattoo rules
The Delhi high court has asked the Centre to explain the reasoning behind its guidelines that disqualify candidates with tattoos on their right forearm from recruitment into the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
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October 31, 2025
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Govt: AI to be taught in school from class 3
The Union education ministry on Thursday announced that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will become part of the school curriculum from Class 3 onwards, starting from the 2026-27 academic session.
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October 31, 2025
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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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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
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India make final with record chase
Jemimah Rodrigues’s unbeaten 127 helped India chase 339 in the semi-final against Australia in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.
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October 31, 2025
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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
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'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
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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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October 31, 2025
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Rahul challenges PM to deny US role in India-Pak ceasefire
Members of the opposition Grand Alliance held rallies across several areas in Bihar, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the alliance’s chief ministerial candidate RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav addressing voters in the run up to assembly polls.
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October 31, 2025
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New US immigration rule: No auto extn of work 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
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Trump, Xi may declare trade truce after chaos
Donald Trump and Xi Jinpingare set to finalise a detente as they meet on Thursday in South Korea, putting the world’s biggest trade fight on hold —at least for now.
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October 30, 2025
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President meets IAF pilot who Pak claimed to have captured
Just before she undertook a sortie in a Rafale fighter jet on Wednesday, President Droupadi Murmu posed with Squadron leader Shivangi Singh —the Indian Air Force pilot who Pakistan claimed to have captured after her Rafale jet was allegedly shot down during Operation Sindoor.
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October 30, 2025
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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
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Odisha iron ore mining cap will hurt India’s growth: Govt to SC
Putting a cap on iron ore mining in Odisha will impede India's growth trajectory and sabotage the dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the Central and Odisha governments told the Supreme Court which is examining a petition on imposing a cap on extraction, similar to the ones it imposed in Karnataka and Goa in the interest of intergenerational equity in preserving natural resources.
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October 30, 2025
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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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