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The Election Commission told MPs protesting the roll revision to come to its office or leave their complaint with an officer. A referee that sets the venue, the terms and the distance has stopped refereeing and started managing dissent.
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The Bengaluru warehouse row is not a language misunderstanding. It is a test of self-respect at work: no wage should require a worker to surrender their mother tongue to keep a job.
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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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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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Periyar taught that self-respect begins with the right to be counted. Telangana's unsigned forms, rejected after officials checked them, show how a republic can fail through paperwork nobody signed.
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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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When MPs marching to the Election Commission are detained 100 metres from its door, the institution has not defended itself; it has confessed its fear. A voter roll that citizens cannot question is not a register. It is a verdict delivered in advance.
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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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Adani-run Mumbai airport plans to withdraw 265 of 770 weekly international departure slots from October 25, citing Terminal 1 redevelopment. Airlines have rejected the cut, pointing to sold-out winter schedules — and the aviation ministry has been forced to intervene.
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The rupee closed at 96.43 per dollar on Tuesday as the RBI likely sold dollars to slow the slide, traders said. With $77 billion in September hedges and $29 billion in FII outflows this year, the RBI's policy committee — meeting now — is expected to raise rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday.
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As polling continued in Dharapuram and Madurantakam on Tuesday, TVK candidate P Sathyabama alleged a video about her had been distorted, while AIADMK's Banumathi accused the ruling camp of distributing money and gifts and cited a viral video claiming Rs 35 crore was spent in the seat.
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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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Polling is underway in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram bypolls, the first electoral test for the TVK government since April 23. Brisk early voting was reported as defector MLAs Maragatham Kumaravel and P Sathyabama gamble voters will forgive the horse-trading that triggered the contests.
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From the 'save democracy' march on the Election Commission to Ladakh's anniversary of unanswered grief, India is witnessing a season of mutinies against unaccountable power. The street has become the one parliament the powerful cannot adjourn.
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A year after India's blind women lifted the T20 World Cup, the captain still waits for her promised house site and her teammates for jobs. The garlands have wilted, and so have the promises. This is how the Indian state treats its daughters once the cameras leave.
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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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Opinion: five years after an SUV linked to a Union minister's son mowed down farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, the trial cannot even find a competent prosecutor - while in Punjab the CM's aide accused of running a posting racket sat protected for months
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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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One Punjab MLA wept on camera about empty classrooms and was suspended. One CM's aide allegedly ran a transfer-posting racket and is defended. Power attacks truth-tellers and shelters fixers.
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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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Polling reached 35.55% in Madurantakam and 37.28% in Dharapuram by 11 am, but a halted booth in Dharapuram and EVM glitches in Madurantakam disrupted the TVK government's first electoral test, with counting on October 9.
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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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CITU-affiliated Amma Unavagam workers staged a demonstration in Virudhunagar on Monday, demanding regularisation after 12-13 years on daily wages of Rs 250-340, with the collector-fixed Rs 578 wage unpaid six months after it was ordered.
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AIADMK's Edappadi Palaniswami on Monday accused the state government of 'blatant double standards', lightning speed on the Karur stampede probe, but no start a month after the court ordered an SIT into Namakkal's kidney racket. Health Minister Ma Subramanian denies inaction.
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The INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission is not theatre but a symptom: when a constitutional umpire cannot answer who changed Form 6, citizens stop trusting the scoreboard. Institutions rot when accountability dies, and the street becomes the last court.
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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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Polling is under way in six Assembly seats across Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry. In Madurantakam and Dharapuram it is a prestige battle for Vijay's four-month-old TVK — with Stalin's 'Reels CM' jibe and TTV Dhinakaran's 'curse' charge setting the tone. Counting on October 9.
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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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Two sitting Election Commissioners objected 14 times. The Supreme Court said it never approved the modified Form 6. And still the Commission answers every question with repetition as though it were evidence. When the ruled must impeach the referee, the republic is on notice.
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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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A Mumbai suburban collector has ordered 6.75 acres reserved for Mathadi workers' housing back to the state after a housing society cut a developer deal without permission. It is a rare reversal of the city's oldest habit: turning land meant for the poor into profit for the rich.
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A Karnataka prisons DIG stands accused of trading a convict's freedom for his wife's body. If the allegation holds, it exposes the oldest corruption of all: custody converted into currency, and a human being into a commodity.
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