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Gunning for glory: Indian shooters set for biggest test of season
DIVYA Deshmukh's World Cup exploits. The Indian women boxers' scintillating ring prowess during the World Championships in Liverpool. Harmanpreet & Co's pathbreaking World Cup win in Mumbai. The recent months have been prosperous in the Indian sporting landscape.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Rahul renews 'vote theft' charge, links it with BJP winning Assembly polls
STEPPING up his attack on 'vote theft 'allegations, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the BJP of indulging in \"wholesale theft\" of elections and charged that Modi has become the PM by \"stealing\" elections.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Left politics must move beyond campuses, says JNUSU president elect
HAILING the recent victory of Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York, newly-elected JNUSU president Aditi Mishra, a PhD scholar at JNU's Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory said the development is an encouraging sign for politics globally, In an interaction with Ifrah Mufti, she says it's time to take the Left movement beyond university campuses and into the larger public sphere. Excerpts:
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Daughter's world cup feat raises hopes of dad
THE World Cup-winning feat of 22-year-old pace sensation Kranti Gaud has not only brought pride to Indian cricket but also revived hope for her suspended father's reinstatement in the police force.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Rajinikanth to be felicitated at IFFI this year
THE 55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will begin in Goa on November 20 with a strong focus on innovation, inclusivity, and international collaboration.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
STORIES ETCHED ON HILLS
Author of the book Giants speaks about his story set in the picturesque Naga hills, woven with folklores, myths, and memories
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Amid Maha pressure, Ajit asks son to surrender 40-acre Pune land
AMID mounting pressure for his resignation over his son's controversial Pune land deal, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday stated that the deal stands cancelled.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Cong proud flagbearer of 'Vande Mataram': Kharge hits back at BJP's swipe
AS the political row over national song, 'Vande Mataram escalates, Congress on Friday hit back at PM Narendra Modi saying Rabindranath Tagore had suggested that the first two stanzas of the song be adopted and it was \"shameful\" of the Prime Minister to accuse the Nobel laureate of harbouring a divisive ideology.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Visually impaired girls’ hostels in all districts soon
THE Delhi government will set up hostels for visually impaired college girls in every district in the capital, said Social Welfare Minister Ravinder Indraj Singh while inspecting the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences in the Najafgarh area.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Mississauga becomes 2nd Canada city to condemn Hinduphobia
THE City Council of Mississauga, the seventh-largest municipality in Canada, has passed a resolution to recognise anti-Hindu hate, in what is being hailed as a landmark victory for Hindu Canadians.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
NMC told to make sure same stipend for interns in govt, pvt med colleges
THE Health Ministry has directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to examine a key provision of internship regulations to ensure that all undergraduate medical internswhether studying in government or private medical colleges-receive the same stipend.
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November 08, 2025
The Morning Standard
Mexico's first woman prez groped, files complaint
WHAT should have been a fiveminute time-saving walk from Mexico's National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a symbol of what Mexican women face every day after a video captured a drunk man groping the country's first woman president.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
On run for 25 yrs, Kerala rape accused lands in police net
IT took some 25 years, but the law finally caught up with Muthukumar. On the run after he allegedly assaulted a minor school girl sexually, the 50-year-old was nabbed by the Vanchiyoor police from Chennai on Wednesday.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Rat droppings in mid-day meal flour
MCD forms enquiry panel to probe workings of kitchen & submit report in seven days
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Take a bow as Sheetal matches the able-bodied
SHEETAL in English translates to ‘cool’, ‘calm’ and even ‘peaceful’. Employing the bow with her leg and string pulled by mouth, she is all of the above while releasing the arrow.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Participating in protests no criminality, says riots accused
ONE of the accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case, Shadab Ahmed, on Thursday told the Supreme Court that mere attendance or coordination at protest gatherings cannot be equated with conspiracy or criminal intent.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
TN youth falls into open pit dug for culvert work and dies, contractor arrested
A 26-year-old man from Tiruppur district died after his twowheeler plunged into an eightfoot-deep pit dug up for the construction of a culvert near Perundurai in Erode district on Wednesday night.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
PM to launch year-long celebrations of 150 years of 'Vande Mataram'
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the yearlong commemoration of the national song \"Vande Mataram\" on Friday in New Delhi, marking 150 years of the iconic composition by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. He will also release a commemorative stamp and coin to mark the occasion.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
COLLABORATION KEY TO CURBING MENACE OF DIGITAL ARRESTS
YBER swindlers continue to be on the prowl across India, ever inventive in their subterfuge. Notwithstanding regular warnings from the Reserve Bank, commercial banks, and law enforcement agencies, legions of citizens fall prey with dispiriting regularity.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
IHCL to build new Taj hotel in Chennai's ECR
TATA SONS-owned Indian Hotels Company Limited on Thursday announced the plans to build a new Taj Hotel on the East Coast Road (ECR) in Chennai. This will be a greenfield project. After Taj Fishermans Cove, this will be the second Taj hotel in the ECR area.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Phansi Ghar row: Assembly summons Kejriwal, Sisodia
THE Delhi Assembly has summoned former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the then Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, exspeaker Ram Niwas Goel and former deputy speaker Rakhi Birla to appear in person before the privileges committee on November 13, following the \"Phansi Ghar\" controversy.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Ahmedabad set to host 2026 T20 WC final
THE BCCI has shortlisted Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata Chennai and Mumbai as the venues for next year's T20 World Cup with the final to be played in Ahmedabad.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Inter-state gang held for tower battery theft
THE Delhi Police has busted an inter-state gang involved in the theft and illegal sale of mobile tower batteries by arresting three of its members, officials said on Thursday. A total of 17 mobile tower batteries and a motorcycle were seized from them, they added.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
PLAY IT BY EAR
Ahead of their Delhi performance, Anirban Ghosh of the Dilli Improvisers Orchestra, India's first free improvisation orchestra, talks about making music without rules and taking experimental sounds to new kinds of listeners
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
ED attaches ₹11 cr assets of Raina and Dhawan in online betting case
IN a major crackdown on celebrity endorsements linked to illegal betting platforms, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth ₹11.14 crore belonging to former cricketers Suresh Raina and Shikhar Dhawan.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Aditi Mishra ushers JNUSU change
Win reaffirms varsity's culture of debate, dissent & inclusivity shaping student politics: AISA
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
ARCHER SHEETAL IS AN INSPIRATION: COACH SHARMA
BY now Sheetal Devi is used to breaking records, being part of history and rewrite scripts her way. She doesn't have hands but is an expert in a sport that usually needs them.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
K'taka govt okays start-up policy, allots over 500cr
The state cabinet on Thursday approved the new Karnataka Startup Policy 2025-2030, which aims to establish up to 25,000 startups, including 10,000 outside Bengaluru, over the next five years.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Courier boy among 3 held for staging iPhones theft
POLICE has cracked a case of fake robbery of latest iPhones and other mobile handsets and arrested four men.
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November 07, 2025
The Morning Standard
Ukraine strikes Russian refinery in Volgograd
UKRAINIAN drones struck a major oil refinery in Russia's Volgograd region for the second time in almost three months, Ukraine's general staff said Thursday. Russian officials did not confirm the attack, although the local governor said drones started a fire at an unspecified industrial facility in the region.
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