Rajasthan has deployed 744 fertiliser inspectors for the rabi sowing season to curb hoarding and black marketing, an emergency army that admits how routinely subsidised urea and DAP leak away from farmers.
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A Zomato warehouse supervisor in Bengaluru told Kannada-speaking workers to learn Hindi or leave in a viral video. After protests and a police petition, he apologised in Kannada, but activists demand removal.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on October 5 ordered the CBI to register an FIR into ED letters alleging cash for transfers and tender manipulation linked to the Chief Minister Office, after Punjab Police failed to act.
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The Kerala High Court set aside BJP councillor R. Sugathan's preventive detention under KAAPA, finding missing and illegible documents and a casual order by the District Magistrate.
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Around 300 INDIA bloc MPs marched from Parliament to the Election Commission on Tuesday demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over the SIR voter-roll revision; leaders were briefly detained.
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Pre-printed Form-7s, unsigned forms and a disputed deletion bid against about 30 Musheerabad electors have put Telangana's SIR under scrutiny. Officials rejected the forms and ordered action on false declarations; an FIR remains unconfirmed.
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Karnataka ASHA workers protested in Karwar, Shivamogga and Hassan demanding Rs 15,000 monthly remuneration and relief from entering SAMASTA health data on their personal phones.
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A rights group has documented at least 125 deaths in sewers, septic tanks and confined spaces across 20 states and Union Territories this year, calling them foreseeable failures of enforcement and mechanisation, not accidents.
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Around 260 opposition MPs and leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained in New Delhi on Tuesday after police stopped the INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over alleged voter-roll deletions.
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Dozens of opposition lawmakers marched from Parliament to the Election Commission headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over a voter-list revision they say strips eligible voters of their rights. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
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Nearly a year after India's blind women won the T20 World Cup, captain Deepika T.C. still waits for the house site she was promised and her teammates for government jobs. Leaders garlanded them; the promises withered.
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On the fifth anniversary of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri killings, farmer unions held candle marches demanding justice. On September 22 the Supreme Court asked Uttar Pradesh to respond to a plea for a more experienced public prosecutor and sought a sealed-cover report on the trial's handling.
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AAP has suspended Maur MLA Sukhveer Singh Maiserkhana, the only Punjab legislator with children in government schools, after his emotional Facebook Live exposed acute teacher shortages in his constituency's schools.
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Punjab will urgently approach the Supreme Court against the High Court order directing the CBI to probe ED allegations that CM Bhagwant Mann's OSD ran a transfer-posting and tender racket, with a report due in two months.
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Hyderabad police have arrested the organiser of the Ganesh procession in which 19-year-old S Badrinath died amid crowd commotion at Ram Nagar crossroads on September 5, a month after a death that exposed the city's festival crowd-safety failures.
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Rahul Gandhi said it was 'established beyond doubt' that CEC Gyanesh Kumar changed voter-registration Form 6 illegally and unilaterally, after the Chief Justice of India clarified the Supreme Court never approved any modified form. The poll panel issued a point-by-point rebuttal.
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All INDIA bloc MPs marched to the Election Commission's Delhi headquarters on October 6, demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's removal over alleged voter-list manipulation. The Congress said it would reach out to the DMK and AAP to join; district-level marches continue till October 8.
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Assistant Commissioner Vivek Bhagat was among 12 officers given temporary charge as Additional DCP on Monday, two days after a woman journalist accused him of sexual assault at a Jantar Mantar protest. After a furious backlash, the Delhi government withheld his order.
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Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde met PM Modi for an hour on Oct 5 over the state's drought, and returned with assurances of central support — but for farmers watching crops fail ahead of Diwali, the question is when relief actually reaches the field.
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Former civil servants and activists tried to serve a 'public impeachment notice' on CEC Gyanesh Kumar over the SIR exercise, but police barricades sealed every road to the Election Commission. They held an emergency press conference instead.
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Rahul Gandhi accused CEC Gyanesh Kumar of altering Form 6 'illegally and unilaterally', calling it a 'criminal assault on our democracy', hours after the Supreme Court observed it never approved changes to the form. The ECI rebutted the charge; the Opposition plans an impeachment-motion notice.
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DIG of Prisons M. Somashekhar allegedly sexually exploited a convict's wife in exchange for her husband's parole and release, the woman claimed in a court statement under Section 183 BNSS. Her husband was freed on a forged Supreme Court order.
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The Congress will invite the DMK and AAP to an INDIA bloc rally on November 1 and run a nationwide 'Vote bachao, desh bachao' campaign from October 10 to 20 — with village-level chaupals to follow — to help voters deleted during the SIR get back on the electoral rolls.
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A new study of the RBI's KLEMS database finds that over 25 years, rural farm workers who left agriculture mostly landed in non-productive, informal urban jobs — restaurants, construction, transport — not factories.
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to suspend CEC Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of unilateral decisions during the voter-roll revision, saying it cannot pass orders on newspaper reports alone. But it issued notices and warned that decisions taken without the required unanimity could be recalled.
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Maharashtra has declared drought in 265 of its 358 talukas, nearly three-fourths of the state. The Fadnavis government stayed all farm-loan recoveries and unlocked Rs 6,728 crore under the Employment Guarantee Scheme, but debate has erupted over talukas left off the relief list.
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Fine rice prices have climbed 20-30% to Rs 60-70 a kg in retail, as Telangana's state procurement for its Sanna Biyyam free-rice scheme drains the open market and El Nino fears tighten supplies. RNR and BPT jumped from Rs 2,400 to Rs 3,300 a quintal; traders warn of further rises.
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Karnataka's ASHA workers are protesting for a long-promised honorarium hike and against unpaid digital work via the SAMASTA health app. Slow servers, no phones and withheld pay have turned digitisation into a burden, workers say — the latest flare-up after the January 2025 strike.
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Justice A. Badharudeen asked why PSC members were refusing to cooperate with the Crime Branch probe into unevaluated answer scripts in the State Planning Board recruitment exam, reminding the constitutional body that public employment is the hope of lakhs of young people.
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The Supreme Court has refused to halt the Calcutta High Court's hearing of petitions against the ₹92,000-crore Great Nicobar project, holding that preserving tribal culture is a fundamental right. Over 130 sq km of pristine forest home to the Shompen and Nicobarese is at stake.
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The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has begun a preliminary inquiry into alleged irregularities in the Mundamveli P&T Apartment Complex in Kochi, where 78 families live in flats commissioned in 2024. The Kochi Corporation has already dropped the contractor from a new tender.
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The Kochi unit of the Enforcement Directorate is set to register a money-laundering case over crores of rupees moved abroad for Lionel Messi's proposed Kerala visit — a dream that never materialised and is now described as one of the biggest frauds of the previous government's tenure.
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A minor girl with a disability was allegedly raped at a place of worship in Nellore on Sunday. The accused, a regular cleaning worker, was caught by locals as he tried to leave. The child rights commission has asked officials to ensure her care.
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The Supreme Court will hear a petition seeking judicial directions to the police to allow peaceful protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, reigniting the long fight over the constitutional right to assemble. It comes days after prohibitory orders, barricades and detentions shut down a proposed Gandhi Jayanti demonstration.
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A station house officer in Bihar's Saran district has been suspended after a viral video showed him pointing and waving his service pistol at flood victims during relief distribution at Rewaghat. SSP Roshan Kumar described the conduct as 'gross negligence towards duty, indiscipline and arbitrary behaviour'. Seven engineers have also been suspended over alleged flood-management negligence.
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A division bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain on Monday dismissed petitions pending since 2020 seeking an independent SIT probe into the 2020 north-east Delhi riots and the December 2019 Jamia violence, and rejected pleas for FIRs against political leaders over alleged hate speeches.
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A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant hears two petitions today alleging that CEC Gyanesh Kumar took at least 14 key decisions during the voter-roll revision without the concurrence of the two other Election Commissioners, with one plea seeking his suspension.
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