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Opposition leaders lined up on Friday to condemn the detention of Abhijeet Dipke for carrying the national flag. In Lucknow, the Defence Minister said Congress and its allies were using young people to spread anarchy.
The selectors named two one-day squads and a Test squad for the New Zealand tour on Friday. Shubman Gill will leave the ODI series early to prepare for the Tests, and Shreyas Iyer takes over in Mount Maunganui.
About 150 people were held in central Delhi on Friday evening. Central Park stayed locked behind a human chain of police, and small groups with the Tricolour marched round the inner circle before being dispersed.
Brokerages expect profit to rise sharply on strong loan growth. The bigger question is what the Supreme Court's revival of ₹8,415 crore of written-off bonds means for the bank's capital.
On the second day of the Brussels summit, the Ukrainian president said the war will cost €155 billion next year, while EU leaders promised no let-up in sanctions on Russia.
The court called the regulator a 'mere bystander' while risky bonds were sold to ordinary customers. Before it says another word about the AT-1 write-off, the RBI should explain what it saw, and what it will change at bank branches.
The commission froze the party's name and its 'flowers and grass' symbol for last month's bypolls. It will now take up the larger question of which faction owns the Trinamool Congress.
At a day-long review in Phillaur, the Chief Minister told police the Centre was blaming Punjab for problems on its own watch. Hours later, the Home Ministry asked the state for reports on three drug-linked cases.
The fitness chain, which runs 708 centres in 77 cities, can now go ahead with a public issue that also lets Temasek, Accel and co-founder Mukesh Bansal sell shares.
Ethiopia's prime minister promised free elections in the northern region once the new administration, run on directives from Addis Ababa, has restored stability.
Speaking on Women Farmers' Day, the Agriculture Minister also laid foundation stones for 46 rural roads and announced a livelihood pilot for Raisen and Vidisha.
Daily departures from the valley have passed 85,000. The cabinet has approved six months of housing aid for families in Gorkha, Dhading and Baglung, and fuel prices are being held despite Indian Oil's revisions.
Tech Mahindra's board has recommended one free share for every share held, its first bonus issue since 2015. Here is how a bonus works, what happens to the share price, and what shareholders need to watch for.
The Kerala lender's bad loans fell to ten-year lows and its margins widened. Punjab National Bank earned ₹5,532 crore as its bad loans shrank.
More than half the field was still on the course at Delhi Golf Club when play was called off on Friday, after Thursday's storm pushed the schedule back. Om Prakash Chouhan is four off the pace, and a clutch of Indians are hovering around the cut.
The IT company formerly called LTIMindtree grew rupee revenue 13.6%, helped by the weak rupee, but its dollar revenue rose just 1.1% from the previous quarter.
SUVs were overturned when YSRCP MP Midhun Reddy's convoy reached a nomination centre, and cars were set alight in Rayachoti. The TDP and YSRCP blame each other, and police dispute the MP's account.
The BCCI added the 36-year-old seamer to India's squad on Friday and said a call on Arshdeep Singh will be made before Saturday's fifth T20I. Bowling coach Morne Morkel said Bhuvneshwar's experience will steady a young attack.
The US Secretary of State visits India from 17 to 22 October with energy on the agenda, but will not come to Delhi. The MEA says leaders have often been hosted outside the capital.
The currency closed at 94.89 a dollar, about 2% stronger than a week ago. Reserves fell for a fifth straight week as the RBI kept selling dollars to defend it.
The two listed property developers reported their September-quarter numbers on Friday. Oberoi's revenue fell 6% from a year earlier but its profit jumped 40% from the June quarter.
Speaking in Kazan, India's ambassador to Russia also warned Indians against fake job offers that end with recruitment into the Russian army.
Jayapal said she was deeply concerned about what she called a purge of 130 million voters. India's ambassador in Washington called it unacceptable interference.
On his fourth day at Rome's Gemelli hospital after lung cancer surgery, the Pope celebrated Mass for the staff caring for him, and the Vatican released the first picture of him since the operation.
Australia's Durban match-winner expects Scott Boland to play a part in the series, while South Africa's fielding coach Kruger van Wyk called Ryan Rickelton 'a first-choice keeper' before Sunday's second Test in Gqeberha.
Poland scrambled fighters as Russian drones and missiles hit Ukraine's Volyn region overnight, and Sofia formally asked the alliance for aircraft and anti-drone systems.
A video of Labour Secretary Kumar Rajeev Ranjan shouting down a JKAS officer at a review meeting has united Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, and revived the row over who controls the bureaucracy.
Big investors are holding back from the ₹5,012 crore Zetwerk offer, while the much smaller Tonbo Imaging sale is drawing heavy demand from wealthy individuals. Both close on Monday.
The US president said China was racing to catch up with the two biggest nuclear powers and could do so within five years, but gave no details of the talks.
The Bajaj group's mortgage lender earned ₹757 crore in the September quarter. Its assets under management crossed ₹1.58 lakh crore, though bad loans edged up.
The suspended police officer, held since October last year, is the second of seven accused to get bail. His lawyer expects him out after the Durga Puja holidays.
Brussels on Thursday listed nine more companies for helping Russia get round its curbs, four of them from India, the UAE and the Seychelles. An EU listing does not bind India, but it can still shut a company out of European money, ships and markets.
The onion train is due on 18 October. The Centre is releasing buffer stock in the Northeast to keep prices in check before the festive season.
Precious metals extended Thursday's rebound ahead of the festive weekend, while Brent crude eased to about $105.6 a barrel but stayed far above last year's levels.
The State Election Commission has published the electorate for 20 urban local bodies, from the Agartala Municipal Corporation to six nagar panchayats.
The outgoing British High Commissioner leaves New Delhi to become the first woman to head the Foreign Office's civil service, handing over to her deputy Ben Miller.
The Jan Suraaj founder says the Chief Minister's praise of Modi tries to deify him, and asks voters in the legislative council polls to hand the NDA a 'chastisement'.
Booth-level officers have been told to reverify every elector left out of the draft published on 31 August, after complaints that living voters at their own addresses were struck off.
Five ITI clusters, each with a hub and four spokes and an industry partner, were approved under PM-SETU. Total approvals under the scheme now reach ₹3,687 crore.
The case alleges substandard materials and ignored warnings about cracking walls. Every school building in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is to be inspected within three days.
Tech Mahindra, TCS and Infosys led Friday's gains after strong results from the sector. The Nifty closed above 23,000 for the first time this week and foreign funds turned buyers.
The 14th Joint Working Group looked at training, exercises and cyber security. Indian officials visited the cyber training centre set up with Indian help.
India's paddlers won all four of their singles matches in Nagoya on Friday, and Suhas Yathiraj dropped only 19 points in his first badminton group match, two days before the opening ceremony.
A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant issued show-cause notices on the Supreme Court Bar Association's plea but excused both men from appearing in person. "May better sense prevail," the CJI said.
The Jakarta Composite fell more than 11% and trading was halted for half an hour after the index provider said it plans to move Indonesia out of its emerging-markets group.
Jantar Mantar has been struck off the list, Central Park is shut, and prohibitory orders cover Connaught Place. Delhi needs protest sites people can actually reach, rules that are written down, and protesters who keep the peace.
Two couples on motorcycles were fired on near Phaikoh on Thursday evening. Kuki groups blame the NSCN-IM; police say only that suspected militants carried out the attack.
The tournament is due to open in Riyadh on 7 January. With Houthi missiles hitting Saudi airports, the AFC's president said a final call could wait until the end of November.
The journalist says the case is a counterblast to her complaint that ACP Vivek Bhagat sexually harassed her at a protest against the Chief Election Commissioner. The Supreme Court has already barred coercive action against her.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court set aside the Ministry of External Affairs' refusal of political clearance for the Chief Minister's France visit. The Centre had cited threats to his security.
Six researchers from the non-profit METR will get company laptops, office space and internal tools, and Anthropic has given up the right to block what they publish.
Gaza's health ministry says patients who need treatment abroad cannot leave. Israeli strikes killed four people on Thursday as Israel signed a deal for 12 US Apache helicopters.
India's para athletes began competing in Aichi on Friday, and almost every event name carries a code. Those letters and numbers are the heart of para sport: they group athletes by how their impairment affects play, so that skill decides the result.
The 59kg wrestler beat Kazakhstan's Viktoriia Khusainova 7-2 for bronze in Las Vegas. Pujari, from Solapur, won both her bouts by fall and meets Ukraine's Iryna Zablotska for gold.
Reliance Industries broke its silence on Friday after Elon Musk accused Mukesh Ambani of blocking Starlink, saying Jio's own satellite service is waiting on the same government clearances.
Senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia mentioned the application a day after the court refused to act on his oral complaint. The bench said it would examine the matter later this month.
Hours before the CJP's flag protest, traders asked the Supreme Court to step in over the shutdown of Central Park. The bench noted that the Delhi High Court is already hearing a similar case.
Riyadh says 19 people have died in strikes on its airports and accuses Tehran of arming the Houthis. The US Treasury added 26 names to its Iran sanctions list.
India's cyber security agency says autonomous AI agents under testing read business records holding personal data, and that none of the organisations hit noticed on their own.
The Home Minister cited the shooting of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa and a father's suicide in Dirba, and asked who was responsible for Punjab's safety.
Siddharth Luthra told the court the 82-year-old former Keralam chief minister faces possible arrest in the CMRL-Exalogic case. Otherwise the plea will come up on 26 October.
A western disturbance brought thunderstorms on Thursday, pushing the capital's air quality into the satisfactory range on Friday morning and leaving October with nearly three times its normal rain.
Tehran accused Britain of a destructive role and demanded evidence. A German court has meanwhile jailed two men for plotting attacks for Iranian intelligence.
Central Command says more than 19 million barrels of crude moved through in a day. Shipping monitors count only a fraction of pre-war traffic and hundreds of ships still at anchor.
Founded last year by Yogesh Ghaturle, Ashish Daga and Tushar Makkar, Origin has come out of stealth with a robot that sands, primes and finishes walls on building sites.
Thousands marched to demand university funding that Congress approved and the government has not paid, and a federal judge has begun fining the state for every day it delays.
Flipkart's operations improved in the year it moved its holding company back to India, but higher finance costs kept the net loss at ₹8,468 crore.
Stronger exports of goods and services trimmed the gap from a year earlier. A surge in bank capital inflows produced a balance of payments surplus of $45.4 billion for the month.
The two met in Baku on the sidelines of the CICA summit, Beijing's highest-level contact with Israel since the Gaza war began. Wang said opening routes into Gaza came first.
The top-order batter played 73 ODIs, four Tests and 35 T20Is over 12 years, and made a Test hundred against South Africa. She last played for India in 2021.
The National Medical Commission's ethics board has set out guidelines on hair transplantation after a serious infection was reported following a procedure in Kochi.
Chip stocks led a rebound in Tokyo and Seoul on Friday morning, Wall Street ended a three-day losing run and Brent crude slipped. Foreign funds sold heavily in India on Thursday.
India women meet Zimbabwe for the first time in a bilateral series, starting with three T20Is in Raipur. Harmanpreet Kaur, who gave up the captaincy ten days ago, is in the side as a player.
The FRRO told the US citizen and OCI cardholder to leave by 28 October after he joined a Mumbai protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Abhijeet Dipke wants supporters at Central Park at 5 pm on Friday. Delhi Police have told the High Court they will take every measure the law allows, and barricades are already up on the Outer Circle.
The series is level at 2-2 before Saturday night's decider at the Chinnaswamy. India squeezed in a trip to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister, and still have no word on their left-arm seamer.
At least 31 people, 30 of them pupils, died when floors of the Al-Khair school gave way. Questions now turn to how a weak building was registered and allowed to hold classes.
Two share sales that opened on Thursday got very different receptions. Both enter their second day on Friday and close on 19 October.
Ashwani Kumar faces a week of questioning over the Mansa shooting. The activist's family still refuses to cremate him, and Bhagwant Mann meets district police chiefs at Phillaur today.
Friday was polling day for 11 biennial seats and a Bengal bypoll. With no contest anywhere, the BJP takes 10 seats, the SP two, and the BSP loses its last UP member in the House.
From the fortnight starting Friday, banks must keep at least 99% of their required CRR balance with the RBI every day, instead of 90%. The aim is to soak up surplus cash.
From Friday, banks must keep at least 99% of their required cash reserve with the RBI every single day, up from 90%. It sounds technical. It is one of the ways the central bank is trying to make its rate rise bite.
The Indian women's doubles pair beat Indonesia's fifth seeds in Odense, and Tanvi avenged Sindhu's defeat by beating Yvonne Li. Kidambi Srikanth let a lead slip in the decider against Alex Lanier.
On Thursday the Supreme Court refused to restore the 2020 write-off of ₹8,415 crore of YES Bank's AT-1 bonds, and the bank's shares fell as much as 20%. What these bonds are, why they were wiped out, and who gains or loses now.
Mallikarjun Kharge has approved separate urban and rural district committees for Jharkhand's two biggest industrial towns. Sitting district presidents will run both halves for now.
Built by L&T at Kattupalli with over 75% indigenous content, Samarthak is the first major warship built by a private yard to join the Navy.
Graduates and teachers in Pune, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Amravati vote on 23 October. The Shiv Sena leader said the opposition was criticising relief it had asked for.
Punjab has just logged its worst day of farm fires this season. The timing is no accident: a groundwater law, the harvest calendar and the machines used to cut paddy all push burning into a few weeks of autumn.
The Ukrainian president met Mark Rutte, Emmanuel Macron and three prime ministers on Thursday, and is due to address EU leaders on Friday morning as the war on Ukraine's grid intensifies.
The Sensex rallied on Thursday on talk that the war will end soon. India's oil, fertiliser, freight and remittances all run through a region the IMF says will not return to its pre-war path. Policy should assume the strait stays shut for months.
Para badminton, para table tennis and blind football get under way in Aichi on Friday. Suhas Yathiraj, Krishna Nagar, Manasi Joshi and Bhavina Patel are among the first Indians on court.
Twenty-eight children died under a collapsed roof in Peshawar on Thursday. Fifteen months ago seven died the same way in Jhalawar. Audits ordered after a tragedy are not enough; parents should be able to see whether their child's classroom is safe.
The idea would let sanctioned vessels carry oil that is not itself under US sanctions, as record shipping rates and fuel prices weigh on Republicans before the midterms.
Jhon Durán scored twice as Benfica won 4-1 in Lisbon. Sunderland and Bournemouth kept their perfect starts in the Europa League, but Crystal Palace were beaten 3-2.
The constitutional amendment ends the six-days-on, one-day-off schedule without any cut in pay. President Lula has made it a pillar of a re-election race he is narrowly trailing.
About 1,500 Palestinians have been killed since the truce, the UN's acting Middle East envoy said, warning that winter floods could put 950,000 people at risk. Britain and France demanded a halt to the E1 settlement plan.
Opposition blocs back tougher sanctions over the Sea Lion project but balk at a security council chaired by the president and a protocol to shoot down hostile aircraft.
Kyiv's envoy told the OSCE on Thursday that the energy truce must work both ways, as Russian drones injured 52 people across Ukraine and cut power in Volyn.
A global hunger monitor says nearly a third of Afghans are in crisis or worse, with winter set to push the number past 19 million. The UN says women's rights kept eroding over the summer.
The French foreign minister would not say whether the US had cut intelligence sharing with Kyiv, as Ukrainian sources said military Starshield links were working again.
The Trinamool MP condemned the couple's detention at India Gate. Ankita's father has given the Centre 24 hours to put Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor on hold.
The rights commission's annual report on religious freedom says new laws have not stopped attacks on Ahmadis or the abduction of Hindu and Christian girls, and that a minorities commission is yet to be set up.
Brussels added three people and nine companies to its sanctions list on Thursday, including a trader it says supplies Russian-origin crude to India.
The Congress student wing says a woman police officer assaulted its women members and that senior officers refused to register a case. Police have not responded.
Foreign Minister Oana Toiu called the strikes "callous and murderous" as drones also crossed into Romanian airspace and fighter jets were scrambled.
At least five people were killed when missiles struck the seat of Yemen's government. Saudi Arabia said Tehran was encouraging the Houthi escalation, and Pakistan condemned the attacks at the UN.
At the Development Committee in Bangkok, the Finance Minister also asked for a full review of the World Bank's governance indicators, which India has long disputed.
A busy Thursday of September-quarter results brought higher profits at the cable maker, the insurer, the railway financier and the fund house.
Citizen Lab and Confiant say Discover-Tech's ads, seen on more than 120,000 websites, gave surveillance firms including Candiru a way into people's devices. Google has dropped the company.
Lightning and 24 mm of rain halted play for nearly five hours at Delhi Golf Club. Om Prakash Chouhan is two behind the Dane, while Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood opened with 70s.
The seventh seed has not dropped a set in a draw that has lost Sabalenka, Pegula and Muchova. World No. 170 Sonay Kartal dropped only two games against Jasmine Paolini.
Sukhna becomes Chandigarh's first wetland of international importance. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced both additions on Thursday evening.
IT services revenue was stuck at $2.61 billion in the September quarter. The outlook for October to December came in below analysts' estimates, and the US-listed shares fell.
The shuttler from Nabha in Punjab came from a game down to beat Chinese Taipei's Yuan-Syue Jhuang in Cairo and reach the boys' singles semi-finals.
Yashasvi Jaiswal is set to join India A for New Zealand, and new vice-captain Ayush Mhatre has torn a hamstring. Suryansh Shedge and Angkrish Raghuvanshi come in for the second round.
The Pune company reported its 26th straight quarter of revenue growth. Reported profit fell 25.4% as it worked towards closing its purchase of IT services company Nagarro.
A ban first ordered for Ganeshotsav now covers public streets, lanes and footpaths across Maharashtra all year. Sale and manufacture are not affected.
R Venkataramani called their posts on Chief Justice Surya Kant 'prima-facie scandalous'. Wagle has apologised and deleted his post; Raut has not responded.
The CRS-35 capsule latched on to the International Space Station on Thursday evening India time, two days after launch, carrying about 2,860 kg of supplies and research.
The Home Minister praised Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the state police for the 12 October operation, which also covered 703 drug hotspots.
The lawyer spoke at a Press Club meeting with the CJP's Abhijeet Dipke, where Prakash Raj accused the poll machinery of quietly erasing Muslim voters through Form 7.
Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Thursday evening that Murugan had left the Council of Ministers with immediate effect, two days after he asked to go back to party work in Tamil Nadu.
The full YES Bank judgment faults the regulator, the bank and the 2020 administrator, and says the ₹8,415 crore write-down was ordered by someone with no power to order it.
Shreyas Iyer and Harmanpreet Kaur handed the Prime Minister signed jerseys at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, where he told the 85-medal contingent it had made the country proud.
The state commission found cameras in several child care institutions wired to staff phones and laptops. It has banned remote access by default and wants compliance reports in 15 days.
The consignment was declared as PU tubes. Officers at the IGI air cargo complex broke open 120 spools to find the cannabis, valued at about ₹52 crore.
Both sides lost late in their ISL openers. Bagan, who skipped their pre-match press conference, face Tomasz Tchórz's Delhi at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Friday.
A compilation filed in an insolvency appeal contained judgments the other side said do not exist. The court dropped costs only because the lead appellant had died.
The National Strategic Trade Command Centre puts DGFT schemes, licences and pending applications on interactive dashboards. The minister wants weekly meetings to clear the SCOMET licence backlog.
Withdrawals for the first phase closed on Thursday, a week before voting. In Jodhpur, three opposition candidates were knocked out because courts had already framed charges against them.
The 2013-batch officer, who quit the service last month, may contest Mirzapur Sadar. Union Minister Anupriya Patel, the local MP, says the voters will answer her.
Shareholders will get one free share for every share they hold, subject to their approval, plus a ₹15 interim dividend. Deal wins topped $1 billion for a fourth straight quarter.
Mohan Yadav will chair a new state-owned company to build industrial hubs from Jabalpur to Indore. The cabinet also approved price-gap payments for soybean farmers.
Palestinian farmers began picking on Thursday after some 300 settler incidents this autumn. With Israel's election on 27 October, they fear the season will be the most violent yet.
The conclave of franchises, broadcasters and state associations was due in Mumbai on Thursday evening. Teams still have until 15 November to name retained players before a December auction in Goa.
NHAI's new policy covers big river bridges, viaducts and spans of 40 metres or more on all new highway projects, and on those where design checks have not yet begun.
The Allahabad High Court wants gram panchayat elections held by mid-January. With the census and the 2027 assembly election in the same window, the state is unlikely to comply without a fight.
The Treasury gave no reason for delisting the brother of acting president Delcy Rodríguez, whose own sanctions were lifted in April as Caracas and Washington drew closer.
Ayodhya's mayor floated the idea at a meeting of UP's city mayors in Lucknow, as civic bodies look for money to cope with crowds of pilgrims. No amount or decision has been announced.
Coach Andrew McDonald says Cameron Green is progressing but has not batted yet. Cooper Connolly's spin is back in the reckoning for the second Test from Sunday.
With prices climbing, dealers must clear stock within 15 days and declare holdings every Friday. Yogi Adityanath says the state has more than 70 lakh quintals in its warehouses.
The interim order takes all fuel-powered boats off Srinagar's best-known lake until further orders, and asks the administration to look at solar and electric engines.
The Taiwanese chipmaker earned NT$763 billion in July to September and expects sales to climb again this quarter, to as much as $54.3 billion.
Ajit Kumar was hit when a lookout riding ahead of the smugglers opened fire near Pawapuri. He died in hospital in Patna, and the gang escaped with the van.
A Palika Bazar vendor wants the CJP's Friday flag gathering stopped. Police cited 15 lakh traders and promised 'all possible measures under the law'.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister spoke after Ankita's parents were detained at their Delhi protest against Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor.
A Singapore-flagged container ship went down after being hit on Tuesday, and a bulk carrier struck in September has also sunk. Pezeshkian said bombs and missiles would not force Iran to surrender.
Revenue came in close to what brokers expected, but higher costs pulled profit below both the June quarter and a year ago.
Private banks led a broad rally in large shares while small and midcaps fell. The rupee gained for a fifth day and closed at 95.05 a dollar.
The MEA said the case adds to growing concern over racist hostility and anti-India hate in the US, and asked American authorities to bring those responsible to justice.
Thursday's bandh over the killing of the anti-drug activist closed markets from Amritsar to Bathinda. His father says there will be no cremation until Bhagwant Mann resigns.
The Rajasthan Chief Minister spent about 20 minutes with the Prime Minister in New Delhi and is due to meet Union Minister Pralhad Joshi this afternoon, ahead of panchayat elections in the state.
The court dismissed Tamil Nadu's appeal and upheld the Madras High Court's ruling striking down a 2024 order that let converts claim Backward Class Muslim certificates.
The second round of the Elite group stage runs from 18 to 21 October. Four teams lead their groups with seven points after innings or ten-wicket wins in round one.
After checking water levels at the Singur and Manjira reservoirs, Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju told officials to put Hyderabad's drinking water first. The state cabinet takes up the issue this evening.
The ₹5,012 crore issue was 12% subscribed by mid-afternoon, with retail investors the keenest. Brokers are split over the company's losses and valuation.
The State Monitoring Cell raided a highway hotel at Boriyavi and a site at Danteli village over the alleged theft of petroleum products and chemicals. Goods and vehicles worth ₹1.72 crore were seized.
The court dismissed appeals by the bank, the RBI and the Centre against a 2023 ruling that quashed the bonds' write-off during the lender's 2020 rescue.
A plea objects to Monday's INDIA bloc march to the court and to a social media post against the Chief Justice. Akhilesh Yadav and others have also been served notice.
Electronics, petroleum products and engineering goods drove the rise, and the trade deficit narrowed to $30.21 billion from $33 billion a year ago.
The Chief Justice said a committee to look into the complaints from the Delhi protests should be made up mostly or wholly of women. The government denied seizing reporters' phones.
The Samajwadi Party chief cited Form 7 objections filed in Lucknow and Sultanpur. Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar asked whether the SP's 2024 win was honest too.
The court issued notice to the Centre and Delhi Police on the petitions over the crackdown on the anti-CEC protests, and appealed to lawyers to stop filing new ones.
Yogi Adityanath seeks a third term, Akhilesh Yadav is betting on his PDA coalition and Mayawati is going it alone. The leaders, the small caste-based parties that tip close seats, and the newcomers who want a share.
The BJP and its allies won 273 seats last time, the Samajwadi Party nearly tripled its tally and the BSP was reduced to a single MLA. How the state's four regions split, and the arithmetic that will decide 2027.
The upper floor of a private school in Afridi Abad gave way during morning classes, crushing the storey below. The victims were aged between seven and 16.
Operating profit hit a record and losses in the digital business halved from the June quarter.
A joint sitting endorsed the takeover a day after both houses backed the emergency. The opposition alliance led by Mehmood Khan Achakzai called off talks with the government.
Notice went to the Election Commission and all three commissioners. The bench tagged the plea with the pending SIR cases and said its notice to one petitioner was provisional.
The Samajwadi Party's state president accused the Chief Minister of breaking the model code to sway the vote for 11 Council seats, and sought house arrest for both deputy chief ministers.
Ryan Rickelton will take the gloves and Kagiso Rabada is fit again as the hosts try to level the series against Australia at St George's Park from Sunday.
Policymakers, military officers and researchers from India and all 11 ASEAN countries met at MP-IDSA for two days to talk maritime security, defence technology and joint production.
Speaking by video link, the Prime Minister inaugurated five projects in Ladakh, including a road over Shinkun La to Himachal Pradesh and a 9 MW hydro plant at Hanu.
Drones set fire to a refinery south-east of Moscow on Thursday, after Russia launched more than 850 drones at Ukraine overnight. Zelenskyy says strikes on Russian oil sites will go on.
The left-arm seamer was hit by a Shamar Joseph bouncer in Hyderabad and is icing his shoulder. India must find a way to stop West Indies' 240-plus totals before Saturday.
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari seized on remarks by Neha Bora, a student leader who has been at the forefront of the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner.
The fund's Middle East director, Jihad Azour, said the Iran war would leave lasting damage. The IMF expects Saudi Arabia's economy to shrink 3.3% this year.
After a convention of teachers and workers in Varanasi, the Chief Minister campaigns in Prayagraj on Thursday. Polling for the Varanasi division seat is on 24 October.
Parliament's spending watchdog was due to take evidence on pre-matric and post-matric scholarships for Scheduled Caste students, based on a CAG audit, as several new committees began their year's work.
Fifty-one stubble fires in a single day took the state's season count to 174, ahead of last year's pace, with Amritsar and Tarn Taran again the hotspots.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang joined the opening by video link and said ties were entering a new stage. The four-lane crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju was finished in 2014.
The 55kg wrestler, a bronze medallist at the last two editions, went down to Georgia's Koba Karumidze in the closing seconds in Las Vegas.
The standing committee led by Bhartruhari Mahtab is examining a bill that would replace the 1959 law governing the Indian Statistical Institute and turn the Kolkata institute into a body corporate.
The lucrative men's exhibition featuring Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic will now be played in Riyadh from 27 to 30 December, its organisers said.
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded park and a man died after falling on a submerged road. Dozens of flights were diverted and classes were called off in six provinces.
The Claude maker's agreement with Singapore's digital ministry covers model testing, safety research and incident response, signed during the city-state's cyber week.
Antonio Rüdiger's 89th-minute finish completed a comeback from 3-1 down in Rome. In Manchester, the holders led 3-0 before Erling Haaland's double made him City's top Champions League scorer.
The external affairs minister said India and China still have no agreed border, while Piyush Goyal said India is open to doing business with Beijing on fair terms.
Villagers put out the blaze with fire extinguishers before it spread. Hebrew slogans were sprayed on the walls, and the Israeli army says it has opened an investigation.
The Centre has approved accession to SIOFA, which would let Indian-flagged vessels fish for squid, toothfish and alfonsino on the high seas under the agreement's rules.
The crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju is due to open to traffic on Thursday. China finished its side in 2014, but North Korea left its end incomplete for years.
The External Affairs Minister is in the UAE until Friday for talks and the second Raisina Middle East forum, with Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia hanging over the region.
The chemist accused of shooting the anti-drug activist was caught with the pistol. His shop and part of his house were razed on Wednesday, and the family's bandh call runs until 5 pm today.
DMRC says only 45 of 303 stations were shut on 10 October. Journalists and a lawyer have filed fresh pleas before Thursday's hearing on the detentions.
The $4 million India Championship starts at Delhi Golf Club on Thursday, with defending champion Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy and a new generation of Indian professionals in the field.
Both houses endorsed the emergency on Wednesday, while PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan asked the Peshawar High Court to restore Sohail Afridi's government and order his release.
The killing of Parvinder Jhota in Mansa is a crime that must be punished quickly. It is also a warning. When people believe the state will not act on drug sellers, they act themselves, and the results can be fatal on every side.
Brokers expect modest growth at Wipro and a profit jump of about 30% at Tech Mahindra, whose board will also consider its first bonus issue in 11 years.
In Prayagraj on Thursday, the Chief Minister will begin work on the Padmalok housing scheme at Kasari-Masari and hand keys to 556 families under PM Awas Yojana.
Thirteen children drowned in the Ganga on Tuesday night. Compensation is not a safety policy. The state knows where people cross the river, and it can make those crossings safer before the next flood season.
The exercise in Korla focuses on high-altitude counter-terrorism operations, with drones, long-range sniping and live-force drills on the programme.
President Laura Fernández says the high-security jail marks a tough-on-crime turn after three years of record killings. Peru, Colombia and Brazil are eyeing similar plans.
Denver start-up Intero Biosystems ships millimetre-sized human gut organoids to drugmakers, as US regulators open the door to non-animal testing.
Former president Gustavo Petro led the first day of a nationwide campaign against spending cuts, on the same day Bogotá opened an embassy in Jerusalem.
The GenoMorph platform has picked out about 2,300 candidate edits for the shape of the dodo's skull and face, working from a single surviving genome.
Tracks will be marked fully, partly or not made with generative AI. Deezer says more than half its daily uploads are now AI-generated.
West Indies made 247 for 3 in Hyderabad and beat India by 24 runs to level the five-match series 2-2. The final T20I is at the Chinnaswamy on Saturday.
The former Vice-President, who resigned in July 2025, is on the guest list for Mohan Bhagwat's address in Nagpur on 20 October, the close of the Sangh's centenary year.
Protests over university conditions and fees entered a third day in Tirana, with demonstrators demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation.
The Chief Minister inaugurated the facility in the Patliputra Industrial Area, a project CtrlS first announced in 2024 as a ₹400 crore, 10 MW edge data centre.
At the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi, the Airtel chairman said AI should not be stifled, while OpenAI said Indian firms now want results, not trials.
Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma's council of ministers joined the Union Cabinet and other BJP-led states in marking the milestone, crediting the Prime Minister with progress on water, power and investment.
The broking app's parent earned less than half its revenue from equity derivatives in July to September. BHEL and Canara Bank shares rose on their results.
Chief Minister V D Satheesan's senior citizens' bill makes doctors report suspected abuse, recognises living wills and puts gifts by care-home residents under a magistrate's eye.
The 41st monthly instalment of ₹1,500 went out during Navratri from a tribal village in Umaria district, along with LPG refill money and a list of local projects.
The fifth seeds lost in three games to China's He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu in Odense, and Ayush Shetty and Unnati Hooda also went out in the first round.
Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi joined the couple, who want the BJP leader's appointment held back until the CBI finishes its inquiry into their daughter's murder. Gautam denies any role.
Kyiv says a sudden speed cap on Starlink terminals hobbled its drones as Russian missiles struck the capital for a second night. Zelenskyy called it a big mistake.
Companies working on new chemicals, petrochemicals and materials can now seek long-term funding from the Research, Development and Innovation scheme.
The agency's letter lists 20 kinds of official decisions it wants to examine in the corruption case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman. The state told departments to hand over records by 1 pm on Wednesday.
The forward struck inside a minute and again five minutes into stoppage time to give Punjab a 2-1 win in their ISL opener in New Delhi.
Bar is seeking 3 million shekels and says the prime minister lied about his role on the morning of the Hamas attack. The case lands less than two weeks before Israel votes.
Students and researchers from 19 NLUs will study pending criminal cases in the districts with the heaviest load and propose ways to clear them.
The new terminal, approved at Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai's initiative, will come up on the old cattle market site and take 35 to 40 buses at a time.
Sunday's race will start and finish at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, with minor changes to the half marathon route that organisers say are about runners' safety.
UPI payments to shops have been free for merchants since 2020. A fee on larger payments was due on 15 October and has been put off until after Diwali. How it works, what is exempt and whether customers will feel it.
The 39-year-old man fell ill while already in quarantine. Kenya is the fourth country to record a case linked to Congo's epidemic, the second-largest on record.
Speaking at the launch of the institute's $1 billion fundraising drive, the defence minister urged the forces, DRDO, academia and start-ups to work together on home-grown technology.
The KZN Inland seamer finished with 6 for 26 against Titans in the Pro20 Cup, including four wickets in four balls, though his side still lost by 21 runs.
Small companies worth up to ₹1,000 crore after an IPO would have to list on the SME platform, and the profit bar would rise to an average of ₹3 crore a year.
Jairam Ramesh put three questions to the Home Minister about detections, deletions and deportations. J P Nadda replied that the crores of names flagged in draft rolls were never called infiltrators.
Reliance's digital arm will sell up to 270 million new shares, raising about ₹30,200 crore at the top of the band and valuing the company near ₹10.3 lakh crore.
Two proposed joint ventures at Sisai near Hansi were discussed with Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who has since left on a four-day investment trip to Sweden.
Canada's foreign minister met the Prime Minister and S. Jaishankar on Wednesday. Both sides said they wanted to turn a year of thawing ties into concrete results, starting with a trade pact.
The Pope's physicians say his blood tests and chest X-ray are normal for this stage of recovery. A decision on any further cancer treatment waits on more test results.
The AIMIM chief says election commissioners' internal objections were never placed before the court. Separately, the bench advanced a plea on deleted Delhi voters to 28 October.
Bengal knocked off 89 inside 16 overs to win by nine wickets at Kalyani. Champions Jammu and Kashmir hung on seven down against Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana finished off Himachal.
Police say at least 30 people were lured with promises of well-paid jobs, then handed to the Russian army. Twenty Bangladeshis are confirmed dead.
The NCPCR says child-safety guidelines for social media, gaming and AI platforms will come by December, with age checks and new reporting tools.
Beijing has issued five batches of Chinese names for places in Arunachal Pradesh since 2017. This month India named 28 features in Ladakh, and China called that illegal. What these lists are, what they change on the ground and why both capitals bother.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were sent to Tihar for five days after entering Jantar Mantar with the national flag. Leaders from the Congress, TMC, AAP, DMK and the Left closed ranks behind them.
Record freight costs and long voyages made American barrels less attractive in September, while imports from West Asia rose 67%. Brent stays above $106.
The government and LIC will sell control of the bank to a Fairfax unit at ₹81 a share. The Centre calls it the largest foreign investment yet in India's financial sector.
Police had sought three months of account data from before an alleged road-rage incident. The court called it excessive and barred any use of what was collected.
The attack at Satyabadi followed a viral clip in which the chairperson allegedly called BJP members dogs. Naveen Patnaik said anarchy was crossing its limits in Odisha.
The committee will look at calls for a higher cane price and a higher minimum selling price for sugar, and at how mills weigh cane and measure recovery.
The Cockroach Janta Party founder wants supporters with flags at Central Park on Friday evening to protest the jailing of two of its leaders. On his return from Nagpur, a group booed him at the airport.
The money, routed through the National Sports Development Fund, will pay for academies, coaching, sports science and foreign exposure for boxers after a three-gold Asian Games.
A 9.1% jump in petrol prices drove most of September's rise. The data revives talk of a second Federal Reserve rate increase when policymakers meet on 27-28 October.
Justice V Lakshminarayanan said the state was treating citizens as enemies by refusing processions. The RSS wants to march on 18 October or later dates.
Seven men in an Innova raided the Kanke house of SAMETI director Ramshankar Prasad in the morning. The goods taken were put at about ₹3.5 crore.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said 19,254 workers would get the cash and 50 kg of grain, and that the state is trying to reopen 21 shut gardens in North Bengal.
Coach Shukri Conrad called the 214-run defeat in Durban neither a calamity nor a catastrophe. Pat Cummins says Australia may change their side too, with Cameron Green expected back.
IT and consumer stocks rose, but drugmakers lost ₹25,169 crore in market value. The rupee firmed for a fourth day to close near 95.16 a dollar.
This week the IMF raised its growth forecast for India to 7%. A week earlier the RBI said 7.1%. How the Fund's flagship report is put together, why two careful forecasters rarely land on exactly the same figure and what the numbers are used for.
The committee set up by the Home Ministry in May is asking governments, institutions and individuals to send data on population shifts and settlement patterns.
President Ajay Singh's order accuses Kumar of committing the federation to an unauthorised broadcast contract, ignoring an inquiry and trying to move a no-confidence motion against him.
Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh launched the centre and an emergency repair truck for the Chandrawal supply project, which covers about a tenth of the city.
Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma stay first and second in the ICC rankings. In Tests, Matt Renshaw has jumped 147 places after his Durban double.
A UN-run corridor for fertiliser ships could start within 10 days if Iran and the US agree, said Under-Secretary-General Jorge Moreira da Silva. Without it, the next planting season is at risk.
It is the second time this year the party has thrown him out. A March expulsion was revoked; this one follows a show-cause notice in September.
IT Minister Priyank Kharge told GCC leaders in Bengaluru the state would help them find the right departments, procedures and approvals for social projects.
The Commission said it could not trace the 2023 recording at the centre of a Karnataka seat decided by a recount. The court warned it would draw an adverse inference.
Mandeep Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas and Nilakanta Sharma were reported to be playing their last games for India at the Asian Champions Trophy. Players say nobody told them.
The district judge rejected pleas for leniency in the killing of merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput, whose body was sealed in a cement-filled drum in March 2025.
Megan Schutt took 4 for 16 with five maidens, and Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland shared a 137-run stand as Australia won the final ODI by eight wickets.
Fuel, food and factory goods all got dearer. Crude oil and gas prices at the wholesale level were 57% higher than a year ago, and the print beat what economists had expected.
The Dutch maker of lithography machines expects sales of €44 billion to €45 billion this year, and says even a 30% capacity increase will fall short in 2027 and 2028.
The productivity-linked bonus will cost ₹2,009.61 crore. Loco pilots, guards, station masters and track maintainers can get up to ₹17,951 each.
Meta has brought its AI-powered 'Your Algorithm' tool from Instagram to Facebook, so people can ask for more or less of a topic in Feed and Reels.
Chairing the first meeting of the SANKALP Society, the Chief Minister told police to trace the source of every seizure and to stop chemists selling narcotic pills.
Tankers are being hit almost daily in and around the strait, and Brent crude is back above $106 a barrel. Why a narrow channel off Iran matters so much to India, why pump prices have risen far less than crude, and what could change that.
Kiren Rijiju and Himanta Biswa Sarma seized on a short video from Monday's INDIA bloc march. DK Shivakumar said Gandhi was only worried about his safety.
The low-income group flats come with a 25% discount under the DDA Housing Investment Scheme 2026. Booking opens at noon on 20 October.
Police fired tear gas and live rounds into the air in Khyber district. In Islamabad, Shehbaz Sharif lined up his allies, and Sohail Afridi's brother asked the Peshawar High Court to find him.
Apple can also question OpenAI's chief hardware officer under oath, but a California court turned down its wider requests for OpenAI's hardware research.
Patil and two supporters are accused of trying to strike 198 Muslim voters off the rolls during the SIR. The court cited an earlier order in similar cases and will hear the matter on 29 October.
Jhota was livestreaming an argument over alleged drug sales when the shopkeeper opened fire. Mansa shut down, the BJP is protesting across Punjab today and a bandh has been called for Thursday.
A small fire broke out at the Aramco office but nobody was hurt, Saudi Arabia said. The coalition says it is hitting the Houthis' fuel depots and energy terminals across northern Yemen.
The boat overturned on Tuesday evening near Rampur Shyamchand village in Vaishali district. Divers searched the swollen river through the night as families waited on the bank.
Retail inflation is 5.54%. Wholesale inflation was 9.92% in August and is expected to cross 10% when the September figure comes out at noon today. What each index measures, why the gap is so wide and who should care.
Federal prosecutors say a product team member planted the device behind a television at OpenAI's San Francisco office. The FBI calls protecting the company's technology a counter-intelligence priority.
Those charged include former senator Julian Gallo and three members of the rebels' last secretariat. The tribunal faces a proposed budget cut from allies of the new president.
The old Section 144 has a new number. Cases over this month's Delhi protests have been filed for breaking orders under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Who can issue such an order, how long it lasts and how it can be challenged.
The Deputy Chief Minister's NCP panel beat a BJP-backed rival and a Sharad Pawar-camp slate in the first big cooperative contest since Ajit Pawar's death.
The chatbot company, once valued at more than $1 billion, has chosen a court-supervised sale. Its chief executive says the platform will be wound down if no other bid comes in.
Twenty-two people landed in Kingston under a deal signed in June that the government says it cannot publish. The opposition wants it debated in public.
Two Indian sailors are missing and three Indian-crewed tankers have been hit in three days. Consent is not enough of a policy. The government owes crews hard guarantees, and it should use its standing in both Tehran and Washington.
Helix Carbon says its electrolyser turns a furnace's carbon dioxide back into carbon monoxide, replacing a third of the coke and saving about $14 per tonne of iron.
Duane Davis, 63, is the only person ever charged over the 1996 Las Vegas shooting. He told the court he would appeal.
Every regional group put up exactly as many candidates as it had seats, for the second year running. Human Rights Watch says the vote makes a mockery of the word election.
Regulators say the second-largest US bank failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions on time, including flows linked to Chinese laundering networks.
The former Fox News host faces reported allegations over a $100,000 credit card bill and favours for a Greek company. She denies them and says her loyalty to Trump is unchanged.
The Vatican says the 90-minute operation at Rome's Gemelli hospital went without complications. Audiences are cancelled until 20 October and a November tour of South America is in doubt.
The Iraqi champions struck twice in three minutes after half-time and held on with ten men, leaving East Bengal with one point from two AFC Champions League Two games.
The former Chief Minister calls the videos defamatory and politically motivated. The BJP says his own party has abandoned him, while H D Kumaraswamy wants a CBI inquiry.
The two prime ministers spoke on Tuesday as Canada's foreign minister Anita Anand arrived in New Delhi, with a trade agreement targeted for the end of the year.
In his first remarks on the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner, the Home Minister said the Congress should look at its own record instead of blaming the SIR. Jairam Ramesh hit back within hours.
Opening the North East Bankers' Conclave in Aizawl, the DoNER minister called for state-wise credit targets and a credit-risk framework suited to community-owned land.
Selling in the first nine months is nearly double last year's full-year total, as high US yields, the AI trade abroad, costly oil and a weak rupee draw money away.
A Division Bench reserved orders on appeals by the former Chief Minister, his daughter Veena T and her husband P A Mohamed Riyas in the CMRL-Exalogic case.
PV Sindhu let a one-game lead slip against Germany's Yvonne Li in Odense, while third seed Chou Tien Chen beat Lakshya Sen in three games.
Trinamool MP Dola Sen says the woman lunged at the former Chief Minister with a knife on Tuesday evening. Kolkata Police say she was held on the spot.
Dilshan Madushanka is recalled and Lahiru Udara left out of the 15-man squad for two Tests in Rawalpindi and Lahore in November.
Opposition parties, student groups and activists met a day after the Supreme Court march. They gave no dates but said the campaign would go on until Gyanesh Kumar quits.
Online shoppers spent about ₹24,000 crore in two days, much of it from smaller towns. That is good news. But the same week brought 5.54% retail inflation and onions at double last year's price. Policy should be guided by the second number, not the first.
Every issue would need a monitoring agency reporting straight to the exchanges, and companies that stonewall it could face ₹50,000 fines and frozen promoter holdings.
More than 160 houses in DLF phases and other licensed colonies have been sealed for commercial use. The court has paused further action until it hears the case on 3 November.
Jacob Bethell, Jofra Archer and Phil Salt return as Harry Brook leads 16-man squads for three ODIs and five T20Is in November and December.
The four quit and joined the TVK on the same day in May. The court found the resignations genuine but told the Speaker to finish disqualification cases against them within two months.
The FSB says the Hokkaido Shimbun journalist was collecting information on Russia's defence for Japanese intelligence. He faces up to 20 years in prison, and Tokyo is trying to confirm the detention.
The blocks, covering 1,632 sq km, hold polymetallic nodules and crusts with nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. Bids are due by 28 December.
President Paul Kagame announced the agreement in Kigali on Tuesday. The race, to be called the Formula 1 African Grand Prix, is expected from the early 2030s.
Barricades and central forces held the Rajabazar to Park Circus march at its starting point. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had said it would not be allowed to move a single step.
On a visit to the NCPCR, the Women and Child Development Minister also asked the commission to finalise social media guidelines for tech companies and clear all pending files by 31 December.
Three Ranji Trophy matches were over inside three days. KL Rahul fell for one in Karnataka's second innings, and Delhi go into the last day at Kalyani still 88 runs behind Bengal.
Beijing objected on Tuesday to the peaks, passes and lakes India put on the Survey of India map this month, some of them in Aksai Chin. New Delhi called Ladakh integral and inalienable.
Malaysia's Firefly has extended its suspension of Singapore flights through Wednesday, and schools in parts of Malaysia remain shut. Malaysia wants ASEAN to treat haze as a disaster.
ADR says Section 16 of the 2023 law puts the CEC and election commissioners beyond the reach of courts for life. It was added late and passed without debate, the petition says.
The fee on larger shop payments was due to start on 15 October. It will now begin on a date to be notified after the festival, a delay of weeks rather than months.
The State Meteorological Centre expects wet weather from Wednesday to Friday, with hail likely in places and temperatures set to drop by up to 4°C.
At its first meeting as a statutory body, the Maritime State Development Council asked coastal states to draw up master plans for their smaller ports and notify new rules within three months.
A court in Fujian said the Wei family gang ran fraud, drugs and gambling worth more than $1.8 billion from northern Myanmar, and killed at least two Chinese nationals.
South Africa lost their last four wickets for five runs at Kingsmead and were all out for 206. Matt Renshaw was player of the match, and Temba Bavuma has lost a Test as captain for the first time.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Bhupender Yadav told state agriculture ministers that machines must work in fields, not on paper, as most of the paddy harvest is still to come.
People taking GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro were four times as likely to report nails lifting from the nail bed, dermatologists told a congress in Europe.
At the bloc's first meeting of home ministers, chaired by Amit Shah, the seven members approved a convention against human trafficking and plans on drugs, illicit money and disasters.
The insurer's protection and annuity business grew strongly in the first half, but the stock gave up its early gains and stayed close to its 52-week low.
Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel will carry the flag in Aichi-Nagoya, where India will compete in 11 sports after tight quotas and a late selection process cut the team.
The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting wrote to the Prime Minister saying he wants to return to the grassroots ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha election.
The India opener made 360 runs in seven T20Is in September, including a maiden international hundred in the Asian Games semi-final against Bangladesh.
Detention and contempt cases over the Delhi protests were put off to Thursday as a judge was unwell. The Chief Justice said police would have to explain the journalists' allegations.
The UNDP and Oxford's poverty initiative count 1.2 billion people as multidimensionally poor. In South Asia, Pakistan's rate of 38.3% is more than twice India's and Bangladesh's.
Harmanpreet Singh will lead the defending champions in Jalandhar and Mohali, with goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak back and two young players added.
India's biggest carmaker has lost a third of its market value this year and fell even as the wider market rallied, with brokers warning the post-GST sales boost is fading.
Gill beat Abhishek Sharma and Sikandar Raza to the September award, his fifth, after 333 runs in two ODIs against West Indies.
Telangana's Deputy Chief Minister set a 15-day deadline for compassionate appointments and offered a way back for workers dismissed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A second ship, the Ukrainian-owned Chelsea 3, was hit by three drones in the same overnight attack. Bulgaria has summoned Russia's ambassador, the second such sinking off its coast in a week.
A landslide blocked the Budhi Gandaki river before dawn on Sunday, and the flood that followed swept away bridges, trails and more than 200 homes. The army's rescue effort went into a third day.
The Army Sports Institute coach, who has trained national record holders Gulveer Singh and Sawan Barwal, faces a charge of complicity in another person's doping violation.
The J&K Waqf Board, chaired by BJP leader Darakshan Andrabi, wants a committee to set shared themes for sermons in mosques it controls. The Chief Minister called it interference in religious affairs.
HCLTech's results set off the IT sector's best day in 17 months, and the Finance Minister's remarks on capital gains tax lifted the market in the final hour. The rupee firmed to 95.28.
A BJP worker says calling the Prime Minister a 'Commander-in-Thief' defamed party members. The Bombay High Court had refused to quash the case in September.
The RSS-affiliated group's Ashwani Mahajan says Starlink's satellite laser links could route Indian internet traffic beyond the reach of lawful monitoring.
First-year student Aditya Kumar died on Saturday. His classmates, protesting for a third day, want the director removed and say help came too late.
The Fund reversed its July downgrade, citing resilient domestic demand and services, while flagging oil, a prolonged war in West Asia and a possible AI investment correction as risks.
A Delhi magistrate's court remanded the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders for five days on Wednesday, a day after they climbed the locked gate of the de-notified protest site.
The court will hear pleas on Thursday over Monday night's gathering in its premises. Police sources now count four FIRs over the march, and a separate contempt plea targets Congress leaders.
The AIMIM chief told Muslim voters in Uttar Pradesh that backing the Samajwadi Party had cost them, and said the 2027 contest would be "99 vs 1".
Assam's Chief Minister said he would fight on ballot papers if the Congress governments in Keralam, Karnataka and Telangana quit first. Telangana's Chief Minister, in Delhi for the protest, said SIR was being used against opposition voters.
Odisha's Chief Minister reviewed plans to remake the temple town, from a new airport and wider roads to a Jagannath interpretation centre, and warned officials against delay.
Raj Thackeray's party also wants the SIR scrapped in Maharashtra and a return to ballot papers. Mumbai Police have booked Aaditya and Amit Thackeray over Sunday's protest at Shivaji Park.
The Chief Minister told the Assembly the LDF left behind huge dues to employees and pensioners. His predecessor's Finance Minister says the money and the process were already in place.
Om Prakash Mathur shifts from Sikkim to Keralam. Sudha Yadav goes to Karnataka, Dhal Singh Bisen to Uttarakhand, Braj Mohan Ram to Odisha and Dushyant Gautam to Sikkim.
Ram Pukar Sinha is contesting the Saran teachers' seat in the Bihar Legislative Council as an independent against the JD(U)'s Anand Pushkar. Three of the party's four MLAs attended his nomination.
The year-round centre in Lahaul and Spiti will study how thin air and extreme cold affect soldiers and the people who live in the Himalaya.
Yogi Adityanath, Anurag Thakur, Devendra Fadnavis and Himanta Biswa Sarma accused the opposition of attacking constitutional institutions as the INDIA bloc marched towards the Supreme Court.
The Cochin Shipyard-built craft, with over 80% indigenous content, is designed to hunt submarines in coastal and shallow waters.
Secretary Devajit Saikia called reports of a venue shift for the 13 December series opener inaccurate and said no such decision had been taken.
JNU dismissed the Inner Manipur MP from his professorship after 11 students complained of harassment, and police have filed an FIR. He denies the charges and calls it a witch hunt.
A special NIA court found a strong suspicion that Inderpal Singh Gaba took part in an unlawful activity, but dropped a charge of insulting the national flag. His lawyer will appeal.
Mumbai bowled Chandigarh out for 78 and enforced the follow-on at the Wankhede. In Rajkot, Ravindra Jadeja turned an overnight 72 into a century on day two of the new season.
At the first trade committee meeting since the India-UK trade agreement took effect, the two governments agreed to track how much business actually uses it.
Leading 2-1, Shreyas Iyer's side need one more win on Wednesday. The squad has a new look since selection, and the New Zealand tour is eight days away.
Mohammed Yusuf Ali died after Saturday's missile attack on King Khalid International Airport, in which two of his sons were also hurt. Three Indians remain in intensive care.
Mohsen Rezaei and India's National Security Adviser discussed the regional situation and bilateral ties, Iran's embassy said, days after three tankers with Indian sailors were struck.
The USA left-arm seamer, who took the league's first five-wicket haul, moves from UP Warriorz at her ₹10 lakh fee ahead of the auction in Kochi on 28 October.
Matt Renshaw followed his 190 with 82 and a first Test wicket. South Africa ended day four on 102 for 4, needing 319 more on the final day at Kingsmead.
Rahul Gandhi and 10 other opposition leaders want the voter roll revision stopped, its records opened up and its deletions audited. Here is what they are asking, on what legal grounds, and what the Election Commission says.
Onions, garlic and silver pushed prices up at the fastest pace of the year. Economists now expect the RBI to raise rates again in December, which would reach home loans within months.
Missiles from Yemen have hit Saudi airports four times in a week, killing at least 20 people, one of them from Hyderabad. Who is firing, why now, and what it means for Indians in the Gulf.
A committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi approved final eligibility certificates for projects expected to create about 8,178 jobs across eight districts.
Opening a mountain development summit, the Chief Minister blamed careless hill cutting for landslides and argued against abrupt limits on tourists at Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg.
Meeting on the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar, Pushkar Singh Dhami's cabinet also cleared a new fire services bill and a second Jan Vishwas bill for the Assembly.
The input subsidy for crop losses went straight into bank accounts at an event in Gorakhpur. The Chief Minister said about ₹1,000 crore has gone to disaster-hit farmers and residents this monsoon.
Vivek Bhimanwar will stay away until a five-member panel headed by retired judge Dilip Bhosale finishes its inquiry. The government says cases against protesting students will be dropped.
Mirra Andreeva is the youngest woman to make her top-three debut in 21 years. In Wuhan, world No. 217 Shi Han beat Alexandra Eala for her first win over a top-20 player.
World No. 39 Zizou Bergs beat Carlos Alcaraz 7-5, 7-6(4). The result guarantees Alexander Zverev will be the first German to finish a year as world No. 1.
Aprilia machines filled the top four at the Indonesian Grand Prix. Jorge Martin's third place puts him two points clear of Marc Márquez with five rounds left.
Oil rose about 2% overnight as the Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia revived supply fears, while chip stocks dragged the Nasdaq lower and US bond yields stayed near 24-year highs.
Trade, energy, security and people-to-people ties are on the agenda as Anand starts a four-day trip to India and the UAE. It will be her 11th meeting with Jaishankar since September 2025.
Beijing froze the ministers' assets in China and barred them from entry, calling them pawns of Taipei. Taiwan called the move absurd, as its military watched a week of Chinese live-fire drills along the coast.
Villagers had been protesting for days against the crusher's restart. Police have detained suspects for questioning, and Congress leaders want a fair probe.
Prices in India eased on Monday and remain well below this year's peak, even as money keeps flowing into gold-backed funds around the world.
The Guards said the ship had switched off its transponders and ignored warnings. Hours later, a container ship was reported struck by an unknown projectile in the same waterway.
The Bar, two journalists' groups and a Rajya Sabha MP have filed fresh petitions. The Chief Justice said lawyers may join peaceful protests and listed the matters for Tuesday.
The qualifier beat seventh seed Celia Cerviño Ruiz 6-4, 6-2 in the ITF W35 final in Lagos, without dropping a set all week, and also took the doubles title.
The army says Afghan Taliban posts opened fire to cover militants crossing into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The clash came as the province was placed under emergency rule.
The CRS-35 cargo capsule launched from Florida on Tuesday afternoon India time and is due to reach the International Space Station on Thursday evening with 2,860 kg of supplies and science.
With about six months left on the current bailout, the President said any new programme would have to put growth first. He warned that the Middle East war could push the fuel import bill to about $6 billion this year.
A Sudanese rights group blames Egyptian jets for Saturday's strike on a mining camp in a disputed border area. Cairo has not commented officially, and army chief Burhan has set up a committee of inquiry.
A student is believed to have picked up an unexploded cluster bomblet near the Lebanon border and put it in his bag. Israel has halted school trips along the northern border.
Erling Haaland, Jérémy Doku and Rayan Cherki scored after Ryan Gravenberch's red card. City have won all six league games under Enzo Maresca and lead Arsenal by three points.
The 24-year-old edged Germany's Christian Reitz by half a point in the men's 10m air pistol final for his first senior World Cup gold, in his debut in the event.
Fuel and power prices have been rising at more than 20% a year at the factory gate, and economists expect the headline wholesale rate to break into double digits.
Mexico's president said talks with Washington are making progress but there is no final deal, and that the US has chosen to negotiate with Mexico and Canada separately.
The grocery group behind Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Food Lion and Stop & Shop shut down systems to contain a security breach. Stores stay open, but online orders and loyalty schemes have stopped.
The storm skirted the Jalisco resorts around Puerto Vallarta instead of striking them head-on. Forecasters say it could regain strength and come ashore later this week.
A two-week restraining order stops the government running ads featuring the president that were paid for with $20 million of Homeland Security money, weeks before the midterm elections.
Filmed at his old Edmonton school, the prime minister's video came a week before Alberta votes on whether to start the legal process towards a binding separation referendum.
The third-generation in-house accelerator will become the main engine behind Copilot and other Microsoft AI products from 2027, the company says.
The vote meets a key Hungarian condition. EU ministers are expected to open two more negotiating chapters for Ukraine and Moldova in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
A review of three decades of climate fingerprint research rebuts a US government report used to scrap America's legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases.
Security officials said threats against Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz had a high probability of being carried out. No foreign link has been confirmed.
The first cohort under the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund will back companies turning lab research into products, as deep-tech funding nearly triples.
The chipmaker is backing an open specification for how AI data centres are laid out, cooled and powered, as rack power heads towards a megawatt.
The defence electro-optics maker opens its public issue on 15 October, a test of investor appetite for Indian defence technology.
The Mumbai-based lender's loans grew 42% and bad loans fell to 1.02%, as capital from its new Dubai parent and lower card stress lifted earnings.
Shoppers placed 8-9 crore orders on Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho and other platforms, with two in three coming from smaller towns and rural areas, according to Redseer.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs the plot near the air base used by American bombers was almost certainly directed by the IRGC. Iran's ambassador has been summoned and two Iranians sanctioned.
The Keralam Congress reacted on X to Chief Justice Surya Kant's remark that the Delhi protests were a law and order matter. The post was later taken down, and the BJP called it an attack on the judiciary.
The two American economists showed how the everyday choices of households and firms add up to booms and slumps, and how well-timed policy can soften both.
The Noida-based IT services company raised the lower end of its growth forecast for the year and declared a ₹12 dividend, as revenue from advanced AI work rose 78%.
Delegations from across the BRICS group showed off their indigenous sports in Ahmedabad on Monday, as Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya proposed a shared record of games at risk of being forgotten.
Soldiers, sailors and airmen won 27 of India's 85 medals in Japan. The Defence Minister met them in New Delhi on Monday and told them to aim higher at the 2028 Olympics.
Food inflation climbed to 7.74%, and prices rose faster in villages than in cities. Economists now expect the RBI to raise rates again in December.
The energy minister told an oil congress in Riyadh the kingdom had been tested, as the capital's main airport stayed closed and the Houthis said Saudi jets had bombed Sanaa.
The fund house grew revenue 16% as equity assets rose, but profit fell from the June quarter after a sharp drop in other income.
The Chief Justice said the court would not hurt religious sentiments and favoured awareness over bans. Suggestions go to the air quality commission and the case returns on 15 October.
The Bengaluru manufacturing company has enlarged both its fresh issue and the share sale by early backers, and seeks a valuation of about ₹25,583 crore.
Prices could fall by 20% to 70%, the government says. The bench pressed it on why the cap stops at cancer medicines when stents and saline lines carry huge mark-ups too.
A public interest petition says people can write any caste on the census form. The bench wants the Solicitor General to explain the procedure and whether certificates are verified.
The Bihar SIR judgment came before the new voter form existed, the bench said. It issued notice on a petition alleging the CEC took decisions without his two colleagues.
In a blog post, the Microsoft chief set out seven principles for deploying advanced AI, from tamper-proof records of every action to a human who can stop a model mid-task.
The lawyers had sought a CBI probe, alleging they were beaten at the Bar Council of India's office. The court asked for a team led by a DCP-rank officer instead.
The Kenyan ran 2:01:09 to pull clear of defending champion Jacob Kiplimo. Hawi Feysa outkicked Sharon Lokedi in 2:13:33, and Catherine Debrunner set a wheelchair world record.
Ranked 54th and back from an elbow injury that dropped her to No. 160, the Olympic champion won 7-5, 6-4 in Beijing for her first title in nearly two years.
The boat was carrying 305 people towards Yemen when it went down near Obock. All 82 survivors are Ethiopian, and 84 people are still missing.
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan's motion, backed by the Left and opposed by the BJP's three MLAs, cites the SIR and wants the Chief Justice on the panel that picks election commissioners.
One missile flew more than 900 km before falling into the sea. Japan is checking whether it followed an irregular path, and Seoul called the launches a breach of UN resolutions.
The RBI's weekend measures lifted the rupee 93 paise to close at 95.78 a dollar, but rising bond yields, foreign selling and a slide in FMCG and bank shares pulled stocks lower.
The court refused to stay the CBI case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman, Bhagwant Mann's officer on special duty, but said no coercive steps may be taken while it hears the Punjab government's appeal.
India made 223 in Indore and held West Indies to 209 for 7 to win the third T20I by 14 runs, two days after losing a 250-run total in Ranchi.
Tehran's security chief said Washington had accepted only some of Iran's seven conditions. Houthi missiles hit Riyadh's airport again, and tanker attacks went on.
Menno Koch scored at both ends as Bengaluru FC beat Sporting Club Delhi 3-2 in the opener. Churchill Brothers beat Mumbai City, and NorthEast United stunned Mohun Bagan 1-0.
Police confirmed on Monday that ousted Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and the assembly speaker are in preventive custody. The PTI's long march for Khan's release fizzled out at Swabi.
Zelenskyy said Kyiv would honour a mutual pause, but Russian drones struck Kyiv and a Kharkiv power plant. The Kremlin said only that contacts were ongoing.
Max Verstappen led from pole for his first Singapore Grand Prix win at the 10th attempt. Kimi Antonelli's third place leaves him 102 points clear with Austin next.
Paying users get GPT-6 Sol and free users a lighter model, Luna. A new 'Intelligent UI' lets ChatGPT reply with diagrams, maps and small working tools instead of only text.
The IceCube observatory, buried in a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, caught the first high-energy neutrinos from beyond the solar system and traced some of them to distant galaxies.
The government says all three licensed satellite internet companies, Jio's included, are at the same stage. Elon Musk has asked whether Mukesh Ambani is 'the real boss of India'.
The Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority will draw up a national transport master plan and vet every central infrastructure project of ₹500 crore or more.
Police halted the opposition march on Bhagwan Dass Road, short of the Supreme Court. Rahul Gandhi and 10 other leaders filed a writ petition against the Election Commission and its three commissioners.
The court said the 2019 law breached the 50% ceiling without exceptional reasons. Withheld posts must go to open-category candidates within three months, and both BJP and Congress plan to fight on.
New regulations replace the 2018 framework. Wrongful gains will be recovered separately from the settlement amount, and firms get 90 days instead of 60 to apply after a show-cause notice.
It is the third extension for the MPs who left the TMC for the NCPI in June. The Supreme Court has asked the Speaker to decide the case quickly but has set no deadline.
India's largest IT company grew revenue 0.5% in constant currency in July-September. HCLTech reports today, and Wipro and Tech Mahindra on Thursday.
A seafarers' union has named the two men and demanded an urgent update. They were among 22 Indians on two tankers hit on Sunday; India has condemned the attacks and called for de-escalation.
The CJP must keep its marches peaceful. The state must stop treating them as a threat. And the Election Commission must answer the question at the heart of them.
The Ministry of Steel's draft would replace the 2017 policy. It plans for nearly three times today's capacity, triple the coking coal and a 39% cut in emissions per tonne.
From 16 October banks will have less room to dip below their cash reserve requirement on any single day. The RBI is also selling ₹25,000 crore of government bonds on 13 October.
No Indian was among the dead in Saturday's attack on Riyadh's main airport, the third there in a week. The embassy has told Indians in Saudi Arabia to stay alert and indoors as needed.
The UN Human Rights Office had asked India to release people arbitrarily detained at Saturday's protest against the Chief Election Commissioner. India called the concern unwarranted interference.
If revised rolls are not out when polls are notified, the existing rolls apply, the court said. In Bengal, about 1.70 lakh appeals by deleted voters are pending before Kolkata and Howrah civic polls.
The MLAs voted for the TVK government against their party's whip and were later pardoned by the AIADMK. The court said a House member must pursue such cases, and left the law open.
On his first Tamil Nadu visit since the TVK government took office, the Prime Minister launched projects worth over ₹13,000 crore. Vijay used the stage to list what the state wants from the Centre.
A satirical online page started in mid-May 2026 is now one of the most visible youth protest movements in India. Where the name came from, who runs it and why it is marching against the Chief Election Commissioner.
Police held thousands, by most counts, as they blocked a march against CEC Gyanesh Kumar on 10 October. At a Sunday sitting, the court said peaceful protesters cannot be held except by law.
A selection committee led by the Prime Minister picks the CEC under a 2023 law now before a Constitution Bench. Removal needs the same process as a Supreme Court judge.
What the SIR is, why names are being left off draft rolls, and the forms to use if yours is missing or wrong.
How Lok Sabha seats are shared among states, why the numbers have been frozen since 1976, and what the government's April 2026 attempt to change them would have done.
The Congress leader and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister met for about an hour at Vijay's home. Neither side has said what was discussed, and Gandhi went on to attack the Centre at a student event.
The court said total reservation could not cross 50% without proper data and ordered polls within six weeks. Chief Minister Naidu now promises 34% of NDA tickets to BC candidates instead.
A three-member Commission that says its members disagree in the normal course should let voters see those disagreements, as the RBI and the courts already do.
Manipur, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh complete their terms between March and May 2027. The census count in four of them has been brought forward to December, ahead of the polls.
The Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act, 2026 came into force on 25 August after a Home Ministry notification. It changes the state's name in the First Schedule of the Constitution.
The Indian Express reported two Election Commissioners objected at least 14 times to SIR decisions. The ECI says differing views are routine and its decisions were unanimous.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's rule applies from 1 September. Letters to the Centre are to go in Bengali and Hindi. Opposition parties welcomed the aim but questioned how it will work.
Maharashtra lost the most names and Delhi the largest share. The Election Commission says these are not final deletions; opposition parties allege disenfranchisement.
The US Labor Department has frozen new and pending PERM filings from eight companies. India objected to Vice President JD Vance's description of foreign workers as 'indentured servants'.
The BJP won Nagaon, Nandigram and Rejinagar, TVK held both Tamil Nadu seats and AINRC took Thattanchavady in the 6 October bypolls, counted on 9 October.
The Election Commission rejected the claim and shared a link to the note on 5 October, and PIB Fact Check called it fake. LokVox has not yet opened the page itself.
Sitharaman says more concessions will be hard for both sides. A new US law lets the President tax Russian oil buyers at up to 100%, but no such tariff has been imposed.
The law was changed and only UPI payments up to ₹2,000 kept statutory protection. A merchant fee above that starts on 15 October, but users are not charged directly.
India does buy ethanol from the US, but the E20 target dates to a 2021 roadmap and US shipments are far below the figures Kejriwal cited.
NPCI's framework puts the new fee on merchants and keeps person-to-person transfers free. Above ₹2,000, though, that rests on NPCI's rules, not the law.
The image carries markers of OpenAI's tools and shows Ebrahim Raisi, who died in May 2024. A BJP spokesperson posted it and later deleted it.
In the full Pune speech of 22 August, Gandhi attributed the remarks to Mohan Bhagwat and Manohar Lal Khattar and criticised them. The viral clip cuts the attribution.
The Monsoon Session met for 19 days and passed 11 Bills, most without a single speech. Both sides of the House helped bring this about, and both can fix it.
India's data regulator has existed in law for nearly 11 months without a single member. The government should name them this year, so the Board is ready well before May 2027.
House listing was scheduled to wrap up by September. Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa and most of Uttarakhand will be counted from 1 December, ahead of the rest of India.
The population count asks 40 questions, from age and religion to Aadhaar, bank accounts and caste. Here is what to expect, when, and what remains unclear.
The second phase of India's data protection rules begins next month. The regulator meant to oversee it still has no chairperson or members, five months after the government invited applications.
The Bill would let a government authority take over foreign-funded assets of NGOs that lose their FCRA licence, and cut the maximum jail term. A joint committee is studying it.
The Centre's deficit for April-August was ₹7.10 lakh crore. Weak excise collections after the fuel duty cut and higher subsidies are squeezing the 4.3% target.
The 57th Council meeting left the 5% and 18% slabs alone and focused on enforcement, refunds and registration. Most changes need law amendments or notifications first.
Since September 2025, most goods and services fall into a 5% or 18% slab, with 40% for a short list of sin and luxury goods. Here is how the system works as of October 2026.
Six stages take a Bill from a minister's desk to the statute book. Here is what happens at each, and where Money Bills, joint sittings and private members fit in.
India moved its national accounts to a 2022-23 base in February 2026. Here is how the growth number is put together, and why past figures shifted.
Since February 2026, India's retail inflation figure comes from a new Consumer Price Index with base year 2024. The basket is bigger, food counts for less and some prices are now collected online.
MLAs, not voters, choose Rajya Sabha members, using ranked ballots that they must show to their party. All 12 seats due in October were filled unopposed.
Services and investment led the first quarter of 2026-27. It is also the first Q1 reading on the new GDP series with base year 2022-23.
Ten states have final rules and the rest have drafts, the Labour Secretary says. Nearly 11 months after the codes took effect, many of their provisions still depend on state rules.
Nearly 11 months after the codes took effect, a worker cannot easily find out which rules apply in their own state. A public tracker and dated state timetables would fix that.
The Lok Sabha worked 15% of its scheduled time by PRS's count and 19% by the government's. Nine of the 11 Bills it passed had no speaker but the minister.
The Centre announces minimum support prices for 22 crops, but government buying is concentrated in a few crops and a few states. Here is how the system works.
Two Bills to hold Lok Sabha and assembly elections together have been with a joint committee since December 2024. Its report is now due in the Winter Session.
Much of Parliament's detailed scrutiny happens in small committees that meet behind closed doors. Here is how they differ, and which ones are at work now.
Census 2027 will record every Indian's caste for the first time since 1931. The Registrar General should commit now to a release date, a published coding method and full tables.
Wheat's support price moves to ₹2,610, a rise of under 1%. Pulses and oilseeds get larger increases, which the Centre says will encourage crop diversification.
The Monetary Policy Committee voted 6-0 for the increase and changed its stance to calibrated tightening, saying rate cuts are off the table in the near term.
Food prices pushed CPI inflation up from 4.45% in July, with rural inflation well above urban. September data on the new 2024-base series is due on 12 October.
The RBI will meet the full daily dollar needs of three state-run oil companies from 12 October and has tightened rules on currency hedging, after reserves fell for four straight weeks.
The Tenth Schedule punishes MPs and MLAs who switch sides, but a merger of two-thirds is allowed and the Speaker decides. 2026 has tested both rules.
The gap between what the Centre spends and what it earns decides how much it must borrow. For 2026-27 the target is ₹16.96 lakh crore, or 4.3% of GDP.
Four codes replaced 29 central labour laws in November 2025. Here is what they promise workers, what they ask of employers, and why so much still depends on the states.
A small rate increase now is cheaper than a large one later. The government's job is to make sure its own accounts do not add to the price pressure the RBI is trying to contain.
The RBI's main policy rate moved up to 5.50% in October 2026. Here is how a decision in Mumbai finds its way into your home loan instalment.
India's data protection law lets you see, correct and erase your data and complain if it is misused. Most of it takes effect in May 2027, and the regulator is not yet staffed.
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