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Kerala MLA gets jail for destruction of crucial evidence
IN a major loss of face for the Kerala’s ruling LDF just months before the state assembly elections, its legislator from Thiruvananthapuram and former minister Antony Raju was on Saturday handed a three-year jail sentence by a local court in a 35-year-old evidence-tampering case.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Maduro's rise from union leader to embattled ruler
NICOLAS Maduro, who rose from unionised bus driver to Venezuelan president and oversaw his country's democratic undoing and economic collapse, was captured on Saturday during an attack by US forces on his capital.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Called by the Desert
Fifteen years ago, scrolling late one night, Tokyo resident Mayumi stumbled upon a clip of Kalbelia dance—black skirts flaring, khartal clapping, bodies moving like flames, “I don’t know why, but tears rolled down my cheeks,” she says.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Over 100 nabbed, accounts frozen in passport and visa fraud cases at IGIA in '25
DELHI Police's IGI Airport unit has arrested around 130 people involved in visa and passport fraud cases in 2025.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Teen beaten to death by classmates in Vellore
A 19-year-old student doing his second-year BA at Vellore's Voorhees College was allegedly bludgeoned to death with an iron rod by two of his classmates in a suspected dispute over relationship with a girl.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
RETURNING ROUTES OF THE HILLS
A botanist traded research career to ignite homestay revolution in villages of Uttarakhand, writes Narendra Sethi
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Slavery destroys heritage too: Modi
At opening of Piprahwa Buddhist relics display, PM calls it 'inseparable part of our civilisation '
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Cong multi-phase counter to G-RAM-G to begin on Jan 10
THE Congress on Saturday announced the first phase of nationwide 'MGNREGA Bachao Sangram' (Save MGNREGA campaign ) from January 10 to demand the withdrawal of the VB GRAM-G Act, and restoration of MGNREGA as a rightsbased law, the right to work, and the authority of panchayats.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
TIME FOR A RESOLUTION ON REST
I returned from Uttarakhand when the Char Dham yatra season was coming to an end.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Cong probe team for Indore deaths, BJP ‘mob’ battle it out
STRUCK by the killer diarrhoeal outbreak, the Bhagirathpura locality of Indore, India's cleanest city, turned on Saturday into a battleground between the ruling BJP and opposition Congress.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
US-bound Air India passengers stranded
THE 335 passengers on board AI-173, an Air India Boeing 777 flight from Delhi to San Francisco, faced an unexpected delay on Saturday, leaving them fuming.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Stalin announces Assured Pension Scheme
New scheme to provide pension equal to 50% of employee's last-drawn salary; state government to fully bear cost
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Devyani, SFIL merger: Recipe for growth?
The two Indian franchises of Yum! Brands have joined hands to revive growth, beat competition
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
‘CEC removing names illegally from voter lists’: Abhishek repeats charge
CONTINUING his attack on the Election Commission (EC), Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee alleged on Saturday that the names of eligible voters were being arbitrarily deleted from the electoral rolls during the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) in West Bengal.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
A Peptide-perfect Pout
The winter air always makes its first announcement on the lips.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
TMC Rajya Sabha MP returns to Cong ahead of assembly election
WITH the West Bengal Assembly polls in the offing, Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Noor returned to the Congress on Saturday, saying she wants to carry forward the legacy of her uncle and former party stalwart Ghani Khan Choudhury.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
And the Mountains Echoed
Anuradha Roy’s first non-fiction book explores the slow making of a home in Ranikhet and a life chosen by stillness
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
The Bads of Bollywood
Hindi cinema is discovering that the fastest way to stay relevant isn't to play the hero-but to risk becoming the villain
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Admin targeting students over library surveillance protests, claims JNUSU
THE Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union said Delhi Police served enquiry notices to current and former union office bearers over protests against surveillance measures in the university library.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Military-backed party claims majority as Myanmar announces 1st poll results
MYANMAR's military-appointed election body has begun announcing the winners of the first phase of its three-part general election, saying that the military-backed party has won the majority of seats, as widely expected.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
THE TOP GLOBAL TRENDS & THREATS IN THE NEW YEAR
N 1898, Mark Twain wrote about the telectroscope in his short story 'From the London Times of 1904'.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
PLGA strength down to 66 from 400: T'gana DGP
AS many as 20 CPI (Maoist) underground cadres, including People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion commander Badse Sukka alias Deva and Telangana state committee member Kankanala Raji Reddy alias Venkatesh, surrendered before the Telangana police on Saturday, handing over 48 firearms.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
ED chargesheet filed on Bengal sand smuggling
THE Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the sand smuggling scam in West Bengal, on Saturday submitted a chargesheet to a CBI court at Bichar Bhavan in Salt Lake in connection with the case.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Kerala Inc hits fast lane: Homegrown big guns lining up IPOs worth ₹12k cr
KERALA'S marquee homegrown companies are lining up a fresh wave of initial public offerings (IPOs), in what is shaping up to be a major shot in the arm for the state's business sector.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Hindu businessman dies three days after attack in Bangladesh
A Hindu businessman, who was brutally attacked, hacked and set on fire three days ago, died on Saturday in Bangladesh, reports and minority faith group leader said.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Andaman drone show proposed for Bose jubilee
TO commemorate 'Prakram Diwas', marking the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the Union Culture Ministry has proposed a series of cultural activities, including a mega exhibition and a drone show, to narrate the life and legacy of the legendary freedom fighter on two islets of the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
MSF warns it may halt Gaza operations after Israel ban
BANNED from the Gaza Strip with 36 aid bodies, medical charity Doctors Without Borders said on Saturday it will have to end its operations there in March if Israel does not reverse its decision.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Court orders blocking of piracy websites
THE Delhi HC has ordered the blocking of websites allegedly hosting pirated films and television shows, including Stranger Things, Friends, Batman, The Squid Game, and The Jungle Book.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Pune civic polls put state allies BJP, Pawar in war of words over graft charges
WITH NCP leader and Maharashtra DCM Ajit Pawar accusing the BJP of corruption during its tenure in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) through inflated work orders, the war of words between the two parties has intensified.
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January 04, 2026
The Morning Standard
Allies & rivals voice concern over US military action in Venezuela
World powers split as Israel supports Washington and others warn of sovereignty breach
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