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Assam Rajya Sabha MP Tables Amendment on Brahmaputra Inland Waterway Tariffs
An Assam Rajya Sabha MP tabled amendments to Brahmaputra inland waterway tariffs, seeking lower tolls on agri barges before the winter tea-export window.
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Karnataka Cabinet Clears Bengaluru Metro Pink Line Land Pooling Before Model Code Kicks In
The state cabinet signed off on land pooling for Bengaluru Metro’s Pink Line hours before local election rules freeze new approvals.
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Police Round Up More Than 1,000 People as Cockroach Movement Protests Election Commission in Delhi
Security forces blanketed New Delhi on Saturday, detaining protest leaders and opposition figures before a Cockroach Janta Party rally against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar could reach Jantar Mantar.
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Indian Express Row Fuels Cockroach Street Turnout Under Suspended Mobile Data
Youth-led “Cockroach” demonstrators tested Delhi’s protest ban Saturday as police detained leaders, throttled mobile data near Jantar Mantar, and kept metro gates closed despite a Supreme Court order to keep trains running.
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CJP Supporters Test Regulated Metro Routes as Police Keep Jantar Mantar Permit Denied
Cockroach Janata Party supporters fanned out across regulated Metro corridors on Saturday after Delhi Police denied a Jantar Mantar permit, testing the Supreme Court’s order to keep trains running amid 23,000 deployed personnel.
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Authorities Shut 57 Delhi Metro Stations and Cancel Trains Ahead of Saturday CJP Protest
Delhi Police denied permission for a Cockroach Janta Party rally at Jantar Mantar as the Supreme Court questioned whether closing most of the metro was proportionate.
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INDIA Bloc Sets Friday Parliament-to-Rashtrapati Bhavan Route After Third Rajghat Sit-In
INDIA alliance MPs plan a Friday march from Parliament toward Rashtrapati Bhavan after a third day at Rajghat, demanding the chief election commissioner’s exit and a halt to the special intensive voter revision.
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GST Council Strips Tax Officers of Arrest Powers and Lifts Prosecution Threshold to Five Crore
Finance ministers meeting in New Delhi agreed to end GST officers’ arrest authority and quadruple the prosecution trigger to ₹5 crore while leaving rate tweaks on an annual calendar.
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Odisha Bandh Halts Transport as Opposition Demands Resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar
INDIA bloc parties shut shops and slowed buses statewide while Delhi police opened a new case tied to Wednesday’s Election Commission protests involving Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
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Kerala Power Board Schedules Four-Hour Load Shedding in Ernakulam After Monsoon Line Trip
Kerala State Electricity Board scheduled four-hour rotating outages in Ernakulam district after a monsoon landslide damaged a 110 kV line feeding the industrial belt.
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Five-Storey Building Collapses in Delhi Seemapuri as Rescuers Search for Trapped Residents
A residential block in New Seemapuri pancaked on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least one child and sending eight injured people to hospital while NDRF teams cut through lantern debris to reach those still buried.
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Pansheriya Orders Larvicidal Sweep at Gandhinagar Parade Lodging After Fever Cluster
Gujarat Health Minister Praful Pansheriya ordered intensive fogging and larvicidal sweeps at National Unity Day parade lodging in Gandhinagar after dengue cases appeared among paramilitary personnel rehearsing for the 31 October event.
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Rahul Gandhi Released After Brief Detention During Barricaded March Toward Ashoka Road
INDIA bloc lawmakers were stopped on Parliament Street while marching to the Election Commission, intensifying a confrontation over voter-list revisions that opposition parties say could disenfranchise millions.
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IAF Evacuates First 150 Bangladeshi Nationals From Kashmir Camp Toward Bagdogra Deportation
Jammu and Kashmir officials flew the first 150 of about 600 surveyed Bangladeshi nationals to Bagdogra for handover to border forces, with another 150 scheduled Tuesday as a federal panel tracks demographic change.
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ECI Tells Booth Officers to Re-Enroll Voters Wrongly Dropped After SIR Closures
The Election Commission directed booth-level officers in states that finished the special intensive revision to re-enroll eligible voters dropped from rolls using the standard Form 6.
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Punjab High Court Hands ED Cash-for-Transfers Probe Against Bhagwant Mann to CBI
The Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the CBI to register a criminal case after the Enforcement Directorate accused Bhagwant Mann’s office of running a cash-for-postings racket the state police never acted on.
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Six Assembly and Lok Sabha Bypolls Open Tuesday After Campaigns End Across Four States
Voters in Assam, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry head to polls on Oct. 6 for five assembly seats and the Nagaon Lok Sabha vacancy, in a mid-term test for ruling parties and the opposition INDIA bloc.
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Rajya Sabha Listed Bihar Assembly Seat Deletion Bill for Tuesday Introduction
The Rajya Sabha listed a bill to align Bihar’s legislative assembly seat count with population data for introduction Tuesday, reviving opposition demands for caste census linkage before any delimitation exercise.
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Delhi SIR Protesters Smash Police Bus Window and Free Detainees as RAF Deploys Across Capital
A third day of marches against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar turned violent near Jantar Mantar when demonstrators stopped a police bus, broke a window and helped detained activists escape.
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Mumbai Police Book 500 People After Unauthorized SIR Protest at Shivaji Park
An FIR names roughly 500 participants after a Cockroach Janta Party rally spilled onto Dadar roads, as opposition marches in Mumbai and Delhi kept pressure on the Election Commission over voter-roll revision.
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Ekta Nagar Rehearsal Hostel Outbreak Puts Gujarat Administration in Campaign Crosshairs
Opposition leaders attacked Gujarat’s government after dengue hospitalised personnel rehearsing for the 31 October Rashtriya Ekta Diwas parade at Ekta Nagar.
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Neha Bora Calls AISA Back to Jantar Mantar Site Despite Section 163 Clampdown on SIR
All India Students’ Association leader Neha Bora told supporters to regroup at Jantar Mantar on Saturday after Delhi Police removed nearly 1,000 people from the site during a crackdown on protests over the Election Commission’s special intensive revision of voter rolls.
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Four Night-Shift Workers Die in Sri City SEZ Boiler Blast at Andhra Healthcare Plant
A water boiler explosion at a private pharma unit inside the Sri City special economic zone killed four workers on Saturday morning, with Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu ordering officials to support families as police probe the cause.
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Patna Teachers MLC Aspirants Scramble Before Nomination Papers Close on Sixth
Aspirants for Bihar’s legislative council teacher constituencies face a 6 October nomination deadline in an eight-seat biennial cycle that culminates in 23 October polling.
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Modi Releases Hospital Video of Pilot Describing flydubai Attack to Nation From Abu Dhabi Bed
Prime Minister Narendra Modi published a nearly 10-minute clip of Captain Smit Machchhar recounting how he opened the cockpit door while wounded on a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, turning a regional security scare into a moment of national pride.
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Bihar Final Roll Lists 7.42 Crore Voters After 47 Lakh Net Deletions Ahead of Poll Schedule
Bihar’s final electoral roll lists 7.42 crore voters after a net deletion of roughly 47 lakh names, setting the stage for a tight assembly poll schedule.
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Shivakumar Holds Dharna at Karnataka Election Office Over Alleged Mass Voter Deletions
The chief minister refused to leave the state election commission until police register a case over Form 7 applications he says targeted Congress voters.
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Delhi High Court Threatens Contempt as India Releases Jagtar Singh Johal on Bail Order
British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal walked out of a Delhi prison after judges warned the government it would face contempt for keeping him in custody despite a September bail ruling.
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Modi and Trump Speak for First Time Since Law Authorising 100% Tariffs on Russian Oil
The prime minister and U.S. president discussed trade, defence and energy after Washington gained power to impose punitive tariffs on buyers of Russian crude.
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Jaishankar Briefs Parliament Panel on U.S. Russia-Oil Tariffs After Leaders' Phone Exchange
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told a parliamentary committee that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed trade and Russia-linked oil sanctions in their first call since Washington authorised punitive tariffs.
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Ujjain Mosque Committee Removes Platform as Authorities Widen Road for 2028 Simhastha Kumbh
Volunteers dismantled part of the Shahi Mosque after a court declined to halt road widening for the 2028 Simhastha Kumbh, leaving Ujjain tense following tear gas and street clashes earlier in the week.
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Kharge Unveils Save Democracy Marches as INDIA Bloc Unites on Electoral Roll Fight
Nineteen opposition parties backed October rallies and a return to paper ballots after commissioners’ dissent over Special Intensive Revision orders fuelled calls for the chief election commissioner’s exit.
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Shiv Sena UBT Thane Leader Pradeep Purnekar Shot Dead in Maharashtra
Pradeep Purnekar, the Shiv Sena (UBT) division chief in Thane, died after gunmen shot him outside his office on Tuesday night, police said, as investigators reviewed CCTV and set up checkpoints across the city.
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Department of Financial Services Rebuts USTR on RuPay-Only Credit Tap
The Department of Financial Services said NPCI's September 15 circular keeps foreign credit cards off UPI and denies USTR pressure shaped MDR rules.
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Kant Bench Schedules Quo Warranto Matter on Multi-Member Election Commission Powers
Chief Justice Surya Kant agreed to list next week a petition alleging Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar acted alone on roll revisions and other steps despite objections from fellow commissioners.
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Power Ministry Clears Coal Rakes for Konkan Gencos Ahead of Navratri Load
The power ministry cleared extra coal rakes for Konkan thermal plants serving Mumbai and Pune ahead of Navratri, when evening load from lighting and cooling typically spikes.
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Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Adopts Statehood Resolution as BJP Walks Out
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s resolution demanding urgent restoration of full statehood passed Monday after BJP legislators walked out, escalating a fight over Article 370 and assembly procedure.
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ECI Dissident Memorandum Triggers Monday Source-Code Review of SIR Voter Application
The Election Commission scheduled an independent source-code review of its Special Intensive Revision application after a dissenting commissioner’s memorandum questioned automated voter-roll notices sent to millions of households.
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Jaishankar Tells UN India Will Exercise Right to Defend Itself Against Terrorism
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar used India's UN General Assembly address to reject any normalization of cross-border terror, a day after Pakistan's prime minister raised Kashmir and the 2025 conflict.
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Yavatmal and Jalgaon Lead Maharashtra's 265-Taluka Drought List After September Government Resolution
Maharashtra's September 26 government resolution declares drought in 265 of 358 talukas, with Yavatmal and Jalgaon carrying the heaviest block of listed talukas — and starting the survey, compensation and water-supply clocks that follow a scarcity order.
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Indian Express Dissent Drives Election Panel to Audit Voter-Roll Software on Saturday
ECI orders a committee-led review of voter-roll software after an Indian Express report details repeated dissent over exclusions; opposition alleges BJP benefit, and flagged voters now face door-to-door verification.
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Sharif Tells UN Any Indus Water Diversion Would Be Treated as Act of War Against Pakistan
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif told the UN General Assembly that diverting or holding back Pakistan's Indus share would be treated as an act of war, lifting a treaty-compliance dispute onto the security track as India keeps the 1960 agreement in abeyance.
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Police Use Water Cannons and Detentions as Congress Demands Election Chief Kumar Quit Over Roll Revision
Congress workers were detained and water cannons used as the party demanded Chief Election Commissioner Kumar quit over electoral roll revision, turning a procedural calendar into a political confrontation.
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Mahua Moitra Files Police Complaint Against CEC Gyanesh Kumar Over Delhi SIR Roll Process
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra filed a police complaint at Parliament Street on September 24 against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging voter-roll manipulation in Delhi’s special intensive revision, citing Indian Express reporting on fellow commissioners’ objections to Form 6 changes and IT centralisation.
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Thackeray Demands CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s Removal and Fresh Polls in Three States
Uddhav Thackeray demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s removal and jail terms at Matoshree on September 23, called for ballot-paper repolls in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, and cited voter-list disputes after an Indian Express report on objections by fellow commissioners.
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Election Commissioners Log 14 Objections to Form 6 Roll Changes as Opposition Urges CEC Removal
An Indian Express investigation shows Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded at least 14 formal objections to voter-roll steps they called illegal, sparking opposition demands for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s removal hours after the panel insisted decisions were unanimous.
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Jaishankar Presses Rubio on Russian Oil Sanctions Risk as UNGA Sidelines Intensify
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on UNGA sidelines Wednesday that India’s interests must be weighed under the new Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, which can authorize up to 100 percent tariffs on major Russian oil buyers after President Trump signed it September 18.
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GST Council Meets in Delhi as Centre and States Spar Over Rate Rationalisation Timetable
The GST Council met in Delhi Tuesday without agreeing a rate rationalisation timetable as producing states demanded compensation clarity and the Centre pressed to merge 12% and 18% slabs before the next compensation cess deadline.
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Supreme Court Says Delhi Voter-Revision Notices Look Machine-Generated, Affecting 3.3 Million Electors
India’s Supreme Court told the Election Commission on Tuesday that notices sent to more than 3.3 million Delhi electors during a special intensive revision appear “machine-generated” and may lack the individualized scrutiny the law requires.
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Parliamentary Panel Urges Faster EV Charger Permits in Delhi-NCR Industrial Estates
A parliamentary panel told ministries to cut EV charger permitting below 45 days in Delhi-NCR industrial estates, citing lost shift hours while DISCOMs and fire officials serially clear the same sites.
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Meghalaya District Councils Schedule Shillong Peak-Hour Power Ration Rosters Before Assembly Winter Session
Meghalaya’s district councils published Shillong peak-hour power ration rosters before the winter Assembly session, separating RDSS upgrade shutdowns from evening load caps as MeECL fields anger over unannounced cuts in the hill city.