NCR air quality panel tightens winter pollution curbs
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·11d ago
The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) on Tuesday announced tighter restrictions under a revised Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to mitigate air pollution in...
Hundreds of fishermen protest against Secretariat proposal at Foreshore Estate
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·11d ago
Fishermen living in 64 villages from Tiruvallur to Chengalpattu on Tuesday continued to peg their hopes on Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay to withdraw the G.O.
Highly educated professionals are vulnerable to financial cybercrime, finds IIT-Madras study
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·11d ago
A study led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) has found that financial cybercrime victims in India are often highly educated professionals, challenging the...
New pedestrian subway on Chennai - Bengaluru Highway in Vellore will be ready by October, says NHAI
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·11d ago
The new ₹7.5-crore pedestrian subway below the elevated carriageway of Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH-44) near Green Circle, a roundabout, in Vellore town will be ready for public use by...
Jamia PhD scholar suspended for five days for protesting outside ‘designated spot’
The Hinduby Ashna Butani·11d ago
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has suspended a PhD scholar for five days and directed him to explain why “higher punishment” should not be imposed on him for protesting outside the university’s...
Shah launches Barapullah corridor, three other road projects worth ₹1,941 cr. in Delhi
The Hinduby Lavpreet Kaur·11d ago
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday inaugurated four road infrastructure projects worth ₹1,941 crore in Delhi, including the long-pending Barapullah Phase-3 elevated corridor, which is...
Muthanga verdict: whose death counts?
The Hinduby Abhilash Thadathil·11d ago
On July 31, the Principal Sessions Court in Wayanad delivered its verdict in the Muthanga case. The Muthanga agitation was a land occupation from early January to February 19 in 2003 at the...
Mammoth protest at Kittur Chennamma Circle by Sugarcane farmers; Farmers agree for talk at Delhi with Joshi after intervention by MLAs Tenginakai, Patil
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·11d ago
Thousands of sugarcane growers from across Karnataka and neighbouring Maharashtra and Telangana staged a massive protest at Kittur Chennamma Circle in Hubballi on Tuesday, demanding remunerative...
Of those deleted in SIR so far, over 71% in ‘absent, shifted or others’ category
The Hinduby Sreeparna Chakrabarty·11d ago
Out of the nearly 13.3 crore names deleted from electoral rolls across the country so far in the special intensive revision (SIR) process, around 9.5 crore, or over 71%, were marked in the ‘absent...
EC reverts to allowing Form 6 submission without attached declaration in non-SIR States
The Hinduby Sreeparna Chakrabarty·11d ago
In States where the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is not currently ongoing, the Election Commission (EC) has reverted to allowing the online submission of Form 6, which is...
Madras High Court quashes charge sheet against parents of main accused Surjith in Kavin murder case
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·11d ago
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday quashed the charge sheet filed by the CB-CID against Saravanan and Krishnakumari, parents of Surjith, who is the main accused in the Kavin...
Ministers Aadhav Arjuna, C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar urge Madras High Court to dismiss DMK’s defamation case
The Hinduby Mohamed Imranullah S·11d ago
Minister for Public Works and Sports Development Aadhav Arjuna and Minister for Energy Resources and Law C.T.R.
T.N. government proposes memorial for 5 icons on University Union Grounds at Chepet in Chennai, sports teachers object
The Hinduby Saptarshi Bhattacharya·11d ago
The Tamil Nadu government has proposed to establish an integrated memorial complex for five icons — Queen Velu Nachiyar, Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, B.R. Ambedkar, K.
Surveillance is not the only privacy issue
The Hinduby Pankhuri Agarwal·11d ago
In August 2026, the Supreme Court disposed of a public interest litigation on doxxing and deepfakes, asking the Union Ministries to take remedial measures. Earlier in July, A.A.
OpenAI unveils GPT-6.1 Sol and ‘Dots’ AI agents at DevDay
The Hinduby Balasubramanyam C P·11d ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday (September 29, 2026) unveiled GPT-6.1 Sol at the company’s DevDay conference in San Francisco, positioning it as a lower-cost model that delivers “very...
Silver lining: on the Samarkand Chess Olympiad and India
The Hinduby Authors; Contributors·11d ago
When the Indian men finish as the runner-up and the women secure third place in one of the world’s biggest sporting events, it calls for celebration.
State of anticipation: on Jammu and Kashmir and Statehood
The Hinduby Authors; Contributors·11d ago
In a resolution passed on September 28, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly called upon the Government of India for the “immediate and urgent restoration of full Statehood” to the nearly seven-year-old...
Party-appointed BLAs bypass ECI cap for 10 applications a day through its own portal for deletions
The Hinduby Suruchi Kumari·11d ago
Even as the Election Commission’s SIR guidelines cap the number of applications during the claims and objections period that a booth-level agent (BLA) can submit at 10 per day after publication of...
Democracy without choice: how unopposed Maharashtra rural polls silence dissent
The Hinduby Radheshyam Jadhav·11d ago
Amid ongoing debates over the special intensive revision (SIR) drive by the Election Commission, name deletions, and electoral transparency, a quiet disenfranchisement persists at the grassroots...
Drug menace dominates BJP’s poll campaign in Punjab as it cuts across caste, religion, age
The Hinduby Vikas Vasudeva·11d ago
The drug menace in Punjab has stayed at the center stage of political and social attention over the past more than a decade and because it cuts across caste, religion and age, it appears to have...
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