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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 Pune
4 HINDU MEN HELD OVER GRAFFITI ON TEMPLE WALLS
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested four Hindu men for allegedly writing “I Love Mohammad” on walls of four temples in the Lodha area of Aligarh district in an attempt to create communal tension in the region, officials said.
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October 31, 2025
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WE'RE GOING TOTAL ZOMBIE MODE THIS HALLOWEEN: SUNNY LEONE
Sunny Leone's love for Halloween is no secret and this year, she's taking it to the next level.
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October 31, 2025
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Israeli strikes in Gaza test fragile truce deal
Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas in eastern Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian residents and witnesses said, a day after Israel said it remained committed to a US-backed ceasefire despite launching more lethal bombardments in the territory.
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October 31, 2025
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Russia strikes Ukraine, killing 3
Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight, forcing nationwide power restrictions and Killing three people, including a seven-year-old girl, officials said on Thursday.
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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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Shreyas Iyer shares health update after spleen injury
India's ODI vice-captain Shreyas Iyer has shared a much-awaited health update after sustaining a spleen injury during the third ODI against Australia in Sydney.
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October 31, 2025
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Buddhist scholar brought to life in music and dance
Anew dance production presenting the life story of the Buddhist scholar Kumarajiva (343-413), one of the greatest Sanskrit-to-Chinese translators of Buddhist scriptures, will take to the stage in Shanghai on November 7.
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October 31, 2025
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Jemimah special helps ace record chase
A stunning knock of 127 off 134 balls from Jemimah took India home by five wickets to set up Sunday's final vs South Africa
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October 31, 2025
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Litchfield’s classic becomes a footnote in India’s superb win
Phoebe Litchfield cover driving asa 16-year-old was the first sighting, The clip went viral, which helped the New South Wales batting sensation to speed through the meritorious Australian women's cricket biosphere.
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October 31, 2025
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China now seems closer as flights are resumed
Along-awaited daily direct flight service between New Delhi and Guangzhou will begin in November, the airline IndiGo says, which will boost exchanges between the world’s two most populous countries.
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October 31, 2025
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Hyundai Motor India Q2 profit up 14.3%
Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Thursday reported a 14.3% rise in consolidated net profit to ₹1,572.26 crore in the second quarter ended September 30, 2025, riding on robust exports.
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October 31, 2025
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Hasina moves ICC over 'retaliatory violence'
VIOLENCE AGAINST PARTY OFFICIALS SINCE JULY 2024
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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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Govt to take legal view on SC’s Vodafone Idea order
The Centre will take a legal view on the Supreme Court's order on Vodafone Idea Ltd’s additional gross revenue (AGR) dues before giving any relief to the beleaguered telco, a senior government official said.
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October 31, 2025
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600 MOUs worth ₹12L-cr signed at India Maritime Week 2025: Centre
Over 600 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth ₹12 lakh crore have been signed during the India Maritime Week 2025 in Mumbai, the Union ministry of port, shipping and waterways announced on Thursday.
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October 31, 2025
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Man who steeled an independent nation
India's first home minister and deputy prime minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel first mobilised peasants in Gujarat, then galvanised the freedom movement, and finally laid the foundation of a strong and free nation — for all and of equals
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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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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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'Regime change bid': Cops oppose Khalid, Imam's bail in '20 riots case
The Delhi Police on Thursday strongly opposed the release of student activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and three others booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, arguing before the Supreme Court that the alleged offences involved a deliberate attempt to destabilise the State and therefore warranted “jail and not bail”.
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October 31, 2025
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Green approvals pave way for initial work on Great Nicobar project
Recent approvals issued for the Great Nicobar infrastructure project indicate that preliminary work on the township and the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) will start soon.
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October 31, 2025
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'HC order not following SC judgment is nullity'
In a ruling reinforcing judicial discipline and hierarchy, the Orissa high court has held that any high court order which refuses to follow a Supreme Court ruling or attempts to revive a decision already set aside by the apex court isa “nullity’
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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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'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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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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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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His noble soul remains country’s inner monitor
I have no memories of the great man. As a two-three year old, I was lucky enough to have seen Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel many times. Including on his last birthday, on October 31, 1950, when my parents took me to his home to greet him and join a two-family photo-op. But all those real ‘sightings’ as I would like to think of them, have been wiped off my mind's screens.
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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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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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Smooth sailing presaged in latest growth figures
Country's industrial production shows strong resilience. Ouyang Shijia reports
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