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It's great to expand your horizons: Divya Dutta on her Telugu debut
Taking up a project in an unfamiliar language can be daunting, but Divya Dutta is happy that she made the leap.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Trump mulls $2 billion CHIPS aid for minerals
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is considering a plan to reallocate at least $2 billion from the CHIPS Act to fund critical minerals projects and boost Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s influence over the strategic sector, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
NATO CHIEF URGES 'ROBUST SECURITY GUARANTEES’ ON VISIT TO UKRAINE
The head of Nato on Friday called for “robust” security guarantees for Ukraine to ensure Russia upholds any potential peace deal and “never again” attempts to invade Ukraine.
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August 23, 2025
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NEW INCOME TAX LAW RATIFIED, TO TAKE EFFECT IN '26
NEW DELHI: The Income-Tax Act, 2025 that received assent of President Droupadi Murmu on ‘Wednesday will come into force on April 1, 2026, a government notification said.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
GST Council's 3-4 Sep meet to discuss reforms
A two-day meeting of the Goods and Services Tax Council will be held on September 3-4 in New Delhi to discuss the three-pillar GST reforms proposed by the centre, including rationalisation of tax rates by eliminating 12% and 28% slabs while retaining the other two -- 5% and 18%, people in the know said.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
HEADMASTER HELD FOR 30 STUDENTS’ SEXUAL HARASSMENT
The headmaster of a government-run residential school was arrested on Friday on charges of sexually harassing 30 girl students.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Made up missing daughter story, says Dharmasthala complainant
A woman whose account of a daughter who went missing in 2003 fuelled the growing controversy in Dharmasthala over allegations of mass burials, sexual assault, and disappearances of women said on Friday that her story was fabricated.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
F’bad: Mother, son arrested for killing father with cooker
A 20-year-old college student and his 39-year-old mother allegedly murdered his father in their upscale Faridabad apartment last month, bludgeoning him with a pressure cooker after a late-night dispute, before wrapping the body in layers of sheets and dumping it in a drain in Surajkund, police said on Friday.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Sebi investor corpus swells, but spending stagnates
The growing fund-spending gap has renewed calls for a shift to outcome- based deployment
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
SC BATS FOR PAY RATIONALISATION FOR CONTRACTUAL PROFESSOR POSTS
The Supreme Court on Friday held that the value a nation places on knowledge is determined by the way it ensures fair remuneration to its educators as it batted in favour of pay rationalisation for contractual assistant professors in Gujarat denied pay revision since 2008.
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
US halts visas for truck drivers after fatal Florida crash
NEW YORK: The US will stop issuing worker visas for commercial truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, the latest in a series of Trump administration moves to clamp down on foreign workers.
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August 23, 2025
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J&K GOVT TO TAKE OVER SCHOOLS RUN BY JAMAAT
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday decided to take over the management of 215 private schools mostly affiliated with Falah-eAam Trust which is part of banned Jamaat-e-Islami.
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August 23, 2025
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UN body declares famine in Gaza
Netanyahu slammed the UN-backed report as “an outright lie”, while the foreign ministry insisted: “There is no famine in Gaza”
3 min |
August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Nanded airport closed as DGCA flags violations
THE DISRUPTIONS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE AIRPORT FOR AT LEAST A WEEK, AN OFFICIAL SAID
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August 23, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
ACC CLEARS REJIG OF 14 SECRETARIES ACROSS MINISTRIES
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Friday cleared a reshuffle of 14 secretary-level postings across various ministries.
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August 23, 2025
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Munir’s ‘dumper’ comments prove Pak’s failure: Rajnath
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday took a swipe at Pakistan army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for likening his country to a “dumper truck full of gravel” that can stymie India, saying his remarks were “a revealing admission” of the neighbouring country’s failure.
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August 23, 2025
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RS approves bill to ban online money gaming
Bill can damage India's digital economy: K'taka IT minister
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Work starts on recreation riverfront plan
Riverfront to be ready in 6 months
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
PWD, NHAI review UER-II; to expedite safety, drain fixes
The Delhi government and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) held a review meeting on the Urban Extension Road (UER)-II on Wednesday to review key infrastructure challenges on the road and accelerate the pace of remaining works related to signages, drainage and service lanes, officials said on Thursday.
2 min |
August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Sanitation campaign in last leg, but projects yet to start
Despite two-thirds of a month-long special sanitation drive being undertaken by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) elapsing and the campaign heading towards its final leg, councillors complained that the tendering process for many of the works planned under the scheme are still under process.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Man abducts infant boy for kin; rescued from Raj
A 32-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a three-month-old baby boy in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat to give the child to a relative who wanted a male heir, police said on Thursday.
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August 22, 2025
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FOUR BENGAL TIGER CUBS IN ZOO HOSPITAL, THREE CRITICAL
Three of the six Bengal tiger cubs born at the Delhi zoo on August 4 have been admitted to the zoo hospital with an infection, officials said Thursday.
1 min |
August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Instagram rolls out Map feature amid safety warnings
Meta-owned Instagram rolled out a new Instagram Map feature earlier this month, pitched as a way to use a “map to see content your friends and favourite creators are posting from cool spots”.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Marred by disruptions over SIR, stormy monsoon session ends
One of the most eventful sessions of Parliament, which witnessed the unexpected exit of former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, ended on Thursday, marred by disruption and the passage of some important pieces of legislation.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
MAN HELD FOR RAPING 10-YR-OLD GIRL IN NARELA
A 30-year-old factory worker was arrested for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl and threatening her in an abandoned building in Narela Industrial Area, outer Delhi, on Wednesday night.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Focus on trade as EAM meets Putin and Lavrov
India and Russia on Thursday explored ways to expand trade in a balanced manner, ensure long-term supplies of key commodities such as fertilisers and sustain energy cooperation, with external affairs minister $ Jaishankar saying bilateral ties were among the steadiest of the world’s major relationships due to geopolitical convergence.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Day after attack on CM, Delhi gets new police commissioner
Satish Golcha, director general (prisons), was appointed Delhi's new police commissioner, according to an official order on Thursday, a day after chief minister Rekha Gupta was attacked during a public hearing inside her residence.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
HC LAWYERS TO STOP WORK OVER ADVOCATE ASSAULT
Lawyers at the Calcutta high court decided to abstain from all judicial work from Friday after an advocate of the court and his son were allegedly assaulted by some policemen near their residence in Bidhannagar city on Wednesday night, people aware of the matter said on Thursday.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
6 DELHI COURTS TO STRIKE OVER LG NOD FOR POLICE VIDEOCONFERENCE
All six district courts in Delhi will abstain from work on August 22 and 23 to protest a notification approved by lieutenant governor VK Saxena allowing police officers to depose from designated police stations through video conferencing.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
TVK will script history in 2026 elections: Vijay
Actor-politician Vijay, who heads the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), on Thursday said the Assembly poll next year will see the TVK scripting a new chapter in Tamil Nadu's political history similar to the achievements of the regional parties in the 1967 and 1977 Assembly elections.
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