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Land-for-jobs scam: HC junks Lalu's plea to quash CBI FIR
THE Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by RJD leader Lalu Prasad seeking to quash a CBI FIR in the alleged land-for-jobs scam, along with all proceedings arising from it.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
1.03L cr ‘Green Budget’ to boost infra, edu, health
CHIEF Minister Rekha Gupta presented her government’s second Budget in the Assembly on Tuesday, laying out a roadmap to transform the capital into a modern, inclusive, safe, and environmentally sustainable city.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Road revamp on charts to ease pollution & congestion
THE Delhi government on Tuesday earmarked 25,921 crore for road infrastructure development work in the 2026-27 Budget.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Delhi Sadan, 13 entry gates for tourism master plan
THE tourism sector got an ¢ 412 crore allocation with a provision of %173 crore for art, culture and language.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
NO CLARITY ON ELIGIBLE VOTERS
Ist supplementary list of 29L of 60L adjudicated voters released late Monday, 2 more to come
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
TN pole vaulter Baranica jumps to glory, re-writes national record
THE Kalinga Indoor hall resembled a miniature athletics stadium — shrunk from 400m track to just 200m, from eight lanes to six and even the width is less.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
IAF launches first heli-dropped drone project
WITH warfare moving beyond visual range, drones taking centre stage and helicopter survivability under scrutiny, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has set in motion ‘Vayu Baan’, its first helicopter-dropped drone project, it is learnt.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
HDFC Bank appoints law firms to investigate Atanu Chakraborty issue
HDFC Bank on Tuesday said that it has appointed law firms to investigate and submit a report on the reasons cited by its former part-time Chairman Atanu Chakraborty in his resignation letter last week.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Iran, Israel trade strikes amid mixed signals from the US, deepening war
Fresh wave of airstrikes acrosss Iran; Israel’s commercial hub hit
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Pvt sector growth slips to 3.5-yr low as war impacts demand
PRIVATE sector business activities, as measured by HSBC Flash India PMI Composite Output, fell to a three-and-a-half-year low in March amid a drastic drop in demand and a spike in costs due to the ongoing West Asia conflict.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
MCD gets over ₹11K crore, plans green push, double waste processing centres
THE Delhi government has earmarked ₹11,412 crore for local bodies as part of its push towards a “developed and green Delhi”.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
UCC bill tabled in House amid protests
Exceptions for STs
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
3 ‘activists’ of different hues in triangular contest to claim Ahom capital
Sivasagar holds immense significance in Assam
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
THE SALESMAN DIES AGAIN
T is easier to begin a war than to end one.
3 min |
March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Rape-accused Dayal to miss IPL
YASH Dayal will not be featuring for Royal Challengers in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Budget lacks transparency in expenditure, direction: Oppn
THE Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday questioned the BJP-led Rekha Gupta government over its more than <1 lakh crore Budget, citing a lack of transparency in both the current outlay and last year’s expenditure.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
J&K HOUSE TO TAKE UP BILLS ON JOB QUOTAS
WITH the second leg of the Budget session of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly commencing on March 27, the House is set to take up three private members’ bills—job reservations in highly polluting red category industries, administrative restructuring by adding two more divisions and 16 new districts and resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
PARLIAMENT POISED TO USHER IN A NEW ERA OF NARI SHAKTI
THE Indian Parliament elected in 2029 is poised to mark a decisive turn towards nari shakti, provided the government can translate its legislative intent into broad political consensus—an outcome that now appears within reach.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Assembly gets bomb threat email, nothing found after search
HOURS before the annual Budget presentation by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, the Delhi Assembly received a bomb threat email on Tuesday.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Air strike kills 15 fighters in Iraq’s PMF coalition
AN air strike in Iraq killed 15 members of a former paramilitary coalition, the deadliest attack on the group since the West Asia war began, as missile fire elsewhere killed six Kurdish security personnel.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Need to keep close watch to identify foreigners: RSS
Giving a call to treat all Indians equally, while ensuring special opportunities and employment for the indigenous Hindu population, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat appealed for “ghar vapsi” of those who were once Hindu but had adopted other faiths due to coercion or circumstance.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Lion’s share of Budget goes to education dept
THE Delhi government earmarked 219,326 crore for the education sector in 2026-27, the lion’s share of its budget, with the chief minister announcing a Sainik School in the city for the first time and free bicycles for Class IX girl students.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Kerala’s worrying ‘women missing’ case
RANI Gouri Lakshmi Bai, Dr Mary Punnen Lukose, Ammu Swaminathan, Kuttimalu Amma, Accamma Cherian, Dakshayani Velayudhan, O Aisha Beevi, K R Gouri Amma....
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Mkt takes breather amid signs of war de-escalation
DOMESTIC equity market surged sharply on Tuesday after witnessing a heavy selloff on Monday.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Eye on cleaner commute with ₹200cr for new EV policy, 12K electric buses by '29
THE Delhi government will introduce a new policy to promote electric mobility with an allocation of ₹200 crore.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
HC breather for Jacobite faction as order to take over 6 churches set aside
IN a relief for the Jacobite Church, a division bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday set aside a single judge’s order directing the district collectors of Ernakulam and Palakkad to take possession of six churches caught in the ongoing dispute between the Orthodox and Jacobite factions.
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March 25, 2026
The Morning Standard
Dubey keen to do well for Sunrisers
VIDARBHAS spin-bowling all-rounder Harsh Dubey, who recently won the prestigious BCCI-Lala Amarnath Award for the Best All-Rounder in the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 season, is keen to do well in the IPL 2026 for Hyderabad.
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March 24, 2026
The Morning Standard
Dhurandhar 2 crosses ₹750 crores
ON Day 4 of its release in the theatres, the spy thriller Dhurandhar: The Revenge crossed ₹750 crores in worldwide collections, revealed its makers.
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March 24, 2026
The Morning Standard
Salary cut for not taking care of parents in T’gana
THE Telangana Cabinet on Monday cleared a Bill that proposes to deduct up to 15 per cent of an employee’s salary of both public and private sector employees who fail to take care of their elderly parents.
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March 24, 2026
The Morning Standard
CITY SEES LIGHT RAIN, MORE SHOWERS LIKELY
DELHI witnessed light to moderate rain in the early hours of Monday, following a few days of heavy rainfall in the national capital.
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