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Govt further tightens rules for gold imports
Days after sharply raising import duty on gold, the government has tightened rules governing imports of the precious metal for export-linked manufacturing after value addition, including capping imports under advance authorization at 100 kilograms.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
₹30K-CR PROJECTS ACROSS SIX STATES GET UCF FUNDING
Projects worth nearly ₹30,000 crore for more than 30 cities across six states have already secured financing commitments under the Centre's flagship Urban Challenge Fund (UCF), during the first Apex Committee meeting held earlier this week, Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) chairman and managing director Sanjay Kulshrestha said on Thursday.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
West Bengal and the politics of memory
The ongoing post-mortem of the Bengal election results has brought out two key factors that played a decisive role— Hindu consolidation and anti-incumbency.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
US plans to drop fraud case against Adani, say reports
US authorities are moving to resolve the fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, according to people familiar with the matter, and end a criminal case that's hung over Asia’s richest person for more than a year.
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May 15, 2026
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A small big win for democracy
Congress high command bows to public pressure to pick VD Satheesan as Kerala CM
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Pak conducts test-firing of Fatah-4 cruise missile
Pakistan on Thursday successfully test-fired indigenously developed Fatah-4 ground-launched cruise missile capable of engaging long-range targets with high precision, the army said.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
NTA's ₹448.21-crore surplus in spotlight
The National Testing Agency accumulated a surplus of ₹448.21 crore from examination fees collected over its first five years of operation — funds that experts, aspirants and a parliamentary panel say could have been used to plug the security gaps now in focus as the agency scrapped NEET-UG 2026 and left 2.275 million students waiting for a re-examination date.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘Heat, humidity to hit players at World Cup’
Around 25% of all FIFA World Cup games are likely to be played in conditions of 26°C Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) or higher — a heat index that includes temperature and humidity, a new analysis has said.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
At Brics meet, Jaishankar flags concerns over Iran crisis, unilateral coercive steps
India on Thursday highlighted concerns related to the West Asia conflict, including disruptions to energy supplies and the security of the Strait of Hormuz at a crucial Brics meeting, even as it urged members of the bloc to stand against the increasing use of unilateral coercive measures and sanctions.
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May 15, 2026
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India watching Lanka’s offer to investors over airport at strategic site
India is keeping a close watch on the Sri Lankan government’s move offering an airport near the southern city of Hambantota to foreign investors, given the facility's strategic location and proximity to a Chinese-controlled port, people familiar with the matter said.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Boeing 737 MAX victim's family awarded $49.5mn
A US jury awarded $49.5 million in damages on Wednesday to the family of a 24-year-old American who perished in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
HC recalls relief given to Varadarajan citing ‘suppression’ of facts
The Delhi high court on Thursday recalled its earlier order setting aside the Centre’s refusal to grant an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card to the Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan, taking exception to his alleged suppression of the fact that another court had barred him from travelling abroad without prior permission.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
IT firms shift to fixed, outcome-based pricing as AI rises
India’s largest information technology (IT) services companies including Infosys Ltd and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp are getting more work contracts based on fixed prices and outcomes as the use of AI-driven automation tools increases.
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May 15, 2026
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IAF dy chief to review C295 project in Gujarat
Deputy Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal AK Bharti will on Friday review the progress of the C295 transport aircraft programme as the Indian Air Force (IAF) gears up to receive the first Made-in-India aircraft in the next few months, officials aware of the matter said on Thursday.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Punjab Kings sink deeper as they lose their fifth successive match
Punjab Kings had begun with a bang. Five losses in a row at the business end of the tournament later, they could very well find themselves stranded, in the race to the playoffs with CSK and RR, closely behind.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
NEET paper leak traced back to NTA insider, CBI tells court; 2 more held
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told a Delhi court on Thursday that the NEET-UG 2026 question paper leak traces back to a source inside the National Testing Agency (NTA)— a claim the court recorded in its order noting that Shubham Khairnar had obtained the paper from a Pune-based person who had in turn obtained it from his “NTA source”.
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May 15, 2026
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SC flags concerns on executive veto
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May 15, 2026
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Both AIADMK factions approach speaker to disqualify ‘rebel MLAs’
Rival factions of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Thursday submitted petitions to Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker JCD Prabhakar seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs after the party split over extending support to the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).
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May 15, 2026
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No saffron shawls will be permitted in schools: K’taka
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said saffron shawls would not be permitted in educational institutions, even as his government moved to withdraw a 2022 order introduced by the previous BJP administration that effectively barred hijabs inside classrooms.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘I landed nearly 80 ft away in a maize field’
In one of the most shocking incidents reported from Bareilly district's Bhamora region, an e-rickshaw driver was allegedly lifted nearly 80 feet into the air along with a tin shed before crashing into a water-logged maize field, suffering serious injuries.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
FMCG firms begin price hikes as input costs rise
Consumer goods makers are raising prices and bracing for weak demand as commodity inflation spreads across fuel, packaging and food inputs.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Singapore Airlines profit drops 57% in FY26 on Air India losses
Singapore Airlines Group on Thursday reported a 57.4% decline in net profit at SGD 1.184 billion in the fiscal year ended March 2026, mainly due to the absence of a prior-year one-off accounting gain related to the Vistara merger, and Air India losses.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
King Kohli's classic solution to nailing the perfect chase
The 37-year-old keeps excelling by bending the T20 format toward his strengths
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
SOYEZ SUCCEEDS SREEJESH AS INDIAN JUNIOR HOCKEY COACH
A day after PR Sreejesh lambasted Hockey India (HI) for not renewing his contract, the national sports federation (NSF) appointed his successor, naming Frenchman Frederic Soyez as the new chief coach of the Indian junior men’s team on Thursday.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
ED to attach Iqbal Mirchi's assets in Dubai and Mumbai
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is preparing to attach properties in Mumbai's Worli area and Dubai linked to deceased narcotics trafficker Iqbal Mirchi and his family — an action valued at several hundreds of crores — under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA), a legal route that allows confiscation before a trial concludes.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
SC bench reserves Sabarimala verdict
A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the continued centrality of the “essential religious practices” (ERP) doctrine in adjudicating faith-based disputes, observing during the concluding hearing in the Sabarimala reference that the test could become “elitist” by privileging some religious practices over others.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
'India-UAE trade broad-based, not driven solely by gold imports'
Bilateral trade between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been broad-based and not driven solely by gold imports, the commerce and industry ministry said on Thursday, while clarifying that concessional-duty gold imports under the India-UAE free trade agreement are capped by quotas and have remained below permitted levels.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Women to get ₹1K soon, says TN CM
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Thursday said the government would soon credit ₹1,000 into the bank accounts of 13.2 million women beneficiaries under the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai scheme.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
2 HELD IN ASSAM FOR ILLEGALLY COLLECTING DATA
Two people from Mizoram have been arrested in Assam’s Cachar district for allegedly collecting facial and biometric data of local residents in the name of an American multinational company without proper authorisation, officials said on Thursday.
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May 15, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
38 held hostage after killings yet to be freed; shutdown in parts of Manipur
More than 38 civilians of both Tangkhul Naga and Kuki communities are still held hostage by different groups following the killing of three church leaders in an ambush on Wednesday by armed miscreants, Manipur home minister Govindas Konthoujam said on Thursday.
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