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The MT Kazimah III, a Kuwait-flagged tanker, was hit by a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. India's mission in Oman said it coordinated the rescue of five Indian crew members, all of whom were brought ashore safely with Omani help. The embassy gave no further detail on who fired or how badly the vessel was damaged.
Nayara Energy raised pump prices from early Saturday, taking petrol up Rs 5 a litre and diesel up Rs 3 at its 7,108 outlets, to narrow the gap with international crude and product costs. The private refiner was also the first to pass on the post-conflict oil shock in March; state retailers followed only in May, adding about Rs 7.50 a litre in staggered rounds.
Delhi Police filed at least three FIRs on Saturday over Friday's attempt by students, Opposition leaders and civil society groups to gather at Jantar Mantar and demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Two were registered at Parliament Street and one at Connaught Place under Section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, for disobeying prohibitory orders. No person or organisation has been named.
The UAE's prosecutor general said the co-pilot of Wednesday's flydubai flight to Tel Aviv attacked the captain with a crash axe and tried to seize control, and that the state is treating it as an attempted terrorist act. The co-pilot, named as Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, was restrained by passengers after the aircraft carrying 182 people went into a sharp descent and diverted to Saudi Arabia.
At his pre-Air Force Day press conference, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh said jet numbers were falling and the shortage was hurting, with the force at 30 squadrons against a sanctioned 42 for a two-front war. He put the requirement at 36 to 40 new fighters a year, counting on 24 Tejas Mark 1A from HAL and 12 from a 114-jet Rafale order he expects this fiscal.
A boiler exploded in the early hours of Saturday at Till Healthcare's tablet manufacturing plant in the Sri City special economic zone in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati district, killing at least five night-shift workers and seriously injuring more than ten. The explosion set off a fire inside the unit. State minister Nara Lokesh called the deaths deeply tragic; the cause is still being examined.
A sample of Nestle India low-fat dairy whitener collected from The Lalit hotel in Connaught Place was found substandard and unsafe by a food analyst's laboratory, the food regulator said. Bharat Hotels, which runs The Lalit, has been issued a notice and told to stop selling the product immediately. It may appeal against the analyst's report within the period allowed under the 2006 Act.
The southwest monsoon ended 12.6 per cent below normal, the fourth-weakest since 2001, with east and northeast India 25 per cent short and the south peninsula 24 per cent short. Soil moisture is depleted across large tracts just as farmers prepare to sow winter crops, and the IMD expects a dry October under a strengthening El Nino. Analysts warn of delayed sowing and lower acreage.
Speaking at the Kautilya Economic Conclave, Sanjay Malhotra said banks and NBFCs had healthy balance sheets but that today's resilience was not tomorrow's immunity, and listed five priorities for policymakers. He argued the aim should be a system that keeps providing services under severe stress rather than one that tries to prevent shocks, and flagged risks that are increasingly cross-border and outside the financial sector.
Seven years after the Assam register was published in August 2019, the Registrar General of India told the Supreme Court in a 28 September affidavit that rejection slips have not begun to be issued. The final NRC cannot be notified until the state coordinator finishes a security regime for the data and hands it over. Without a slip, those excluded cannot approach a foreigners tribunal.
Foreign portfolio investors turned net sellers in September after buying Rs 20,200 crore in July and Rs 29,630 crore in August, depository data showed. The reversal came as the Nifty 50 and the Sensex each fell almost 6 per cent. Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said onboarding had already been eased and that further measures were being worked out with the RBI.
Avenue Supermarts reported standalone revenue from operations of Rs 19,206.18 crore for the quarter ended 30 September, against Rs 16,218.79 crore a year earlier and Rs 18,343.49 crore in the June quarter. The Damani-promoted chain ended the quarter with 518 stores, including one in Sanpada that is shut for reconstruction. The filing is a quarterly business update; full results follow later.
Asked at the White House whether Washington would restrict diesel shipments, the president said there would be no export ban, pointing to European commitments to put more fuel into the market. He said he had personally asked Europe to raise supply and predicted crude would fall back to pre-conflict levels once the fighting with Iran ended. US diesel averaged $6.37 a gallon on Friday.
Mallikarjun Kharge said in Kalaburagi that every election in the country was illegal, that Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and all chief ministers held office illegally, and that fresh polls should be held with ballot papers. He alleged EVM misuse and said the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls was riddled with irregularities. The Opposition would keep agitating nationwide, he said.
The agency filed its chargesheet before a special court in Mumbai, naming Reliance Communications, Reliance ADA Group executives Amitabh Jhunjhunwala and Vishwas Joshi, and P Venugopal, then chief investment officer at LIC. It alleges LIC subscribed to Rs 1,500 crore of RCom debentures in 2012 on serious misrepresentations. The charges include criminal conspiracy, cheating and offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
At the same conclave, Sanjay Malhotra said India backs the technology beneath crypto assets, meaning distributed ledgers and tokenisation, some of it already in use at the central bank and in public-private projects, while staying cautious on cryptocurrencies themselves. His stated worries are the singleness of money, monetary sovereignty and capital flows, which matter more in economies that restrict those flows.
State health officials counted more than 250 locally acquired dengue cases this year, most of them in Hillsborough County around Tampa. That is the highest annual total for any mainland state since at least the 1940s, beating Florida's own 2023 record of just under 200. Local emergencies have been declared in Hillsborough and nearby counties, with mosquito spraying running day and night.
France, holding the rotating presidency, announced the release after a videoconference led by Emmanuel Macron. A frontloaded, substantial tranche of diesel starts within 20 days and the rest flows over four months. It follows a March commitment by IEA members to release 426 million barrels. US diesel hit a record $6.52 a gallon on 22 September and European prices are also at records.
The birds are being freed at Ramdevra in Jaisalmer on 3 October and at Sudasari in the Desert National Park on 4 October, with Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav attending. They were trained in a purpose-built tunnel at the conservation breeding centre to live away from people. The Wildlife Institute of India is supervising; the original plan to release them in Kutch was dropped.
The BC Prosecution Service approved charges on 1 October against Sanket Singla, Sahil, Simranjeet Singh, Harsh and Jagdeep Singh, aged 21 to 24, after an RCMP investigation begun in June 2025 into extortion demands on an auto dealership. Its Surrey and Langley sites were shot at and set on fire. The charges include extortion, arson, firearms trafficking and drug trafficking.
Documents submitted to the Duma show defence spending rising about 26 per cent above last year's forecast for 2027, taking it past a third of all outlays and above healthcare, education and social welfare combined. Education funding is cut and taxes go up. Analysts note actual defence spending is classified and Moscow has repeatedly overshot its own long-term forecasts since 2022.
Apple said new controls will mean an app can be granted Full Disk Access, reaching system files, mail, messages and browsing history, only through very explicit user action, as agents that act on a person's behalf proliferate. OpenAI says more than 35 million people now use its ChatGPT Work and Codex agent tools, up from 10 million in July.
Kpler tanker-tracking data for September shows Iraqi shipments up 238 per cent over August to more than 551,000 barrels a day, Saudi volumes up 56 per cent, Kuwait more than doubled and Qatar back with about 110,000 after sending nothing. Together the Gulf supplied 36.7 per cent of India's crude, up from 26 per cent, as shuttle tankers hand cargoes over in safer waters.
In a letter dated 1 October, the Congress president asked the prime minister to release assistance under the National Disaster Relief Fund and to order fresh ground assessment, citing state estimates of Rs 18,748 crore in crop losses across 19.52 lakh hectares. He said 101 sub-districts are already declared drought-hit and asked that more be added, along with drinking-water measures.
A video that spread on Friday showed Rani Vanvasi, 20, giving birth in public outside the district hospital in Bhadohi on 29 September after she was allegedly refused admission while in labour. Her family and Opposition parties say she was turned away because of her caste. The administration says disciplinary action has been taken against staff found guilty of partial negligence.
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An RTI applicant asked constituency election offices in Indore for the digital records behind more than 1.36 lakh voter deletions between 5 January and 15 October 2022. The replies said records relating to the Garud app and ERO Net had not been maintained. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has now directed the State Information Commission to decide his pending appeal.
Arvind Panagariya told ANI that India had handled the energy side of the West Asia war well and that he saw nothing to fear seriously on food or fertiliser. Domestic fertiliser plants have been restarted and supplies can be bought from other countries, he said. The assessment answers S Jaishankar's warning this week about grain exports and fertiliser production.
The agency's corrective action review board found on Friday that a software issue in 737 Max flight computers is not a safety concern, because pilots keep full control and the cockpit indications are clear. The bug appears when a landing is aborted, dropping the autopilot into simpler pitch control and raising crew workload. Certification of the Max 10 had been held up pending the finding.
Noel Tata said the trusts have agreed to put Rs 250 crore into an undergraduate university with IIM Bangalore, which has started with a first batch of 80 students, and another Rs 250 crore three years later. He said the bigger need is primary education, because children who miss academic foundations in the early years rarely catch up.
MIAL, part of Adani Airport Holdings, has told 46 airlines to drop a third of their international departure slots at Terminal 2 from 11.59 pm on 25 October, the start of the winter schedule. The 770 weekly overseas services fall by 265. The freed slots go to domestic flights displaced when Terminal 1 closes for redevelopment, which begins in January 2027.
Prosecutors say Greg Lui, 38, who owns Earthmade Computer in City of Industry, bought export-controlled servers holding US-made high-end GPUs and routed them through Malaysia and Singapore, where no licence was needed, before re-export to China. The three-count indictment covers 2023 and 2024 and alleges false paperwork named permitted destinations while Lui knew the end users were Chinese.
Neelkanth Mishra, a World Bank Group executive director and UIDAI chairperson, said two of the four channels through which geopolitics hits economies, fuel and finance, are already working. Fuel prices have risen and global demand growth has come off; the IEA's September report forecasts world oil demand falling 2.5 million barrels a day in 2026. India is better placed than many developed economies but imports both crude and savings.
Nasscom president Rajesh Nambiar said the industry spent 15 to 20 years trying to break the link between revenue and headcount, through products and assets, and never managed it while contracts were billed on time and materials. AI has done it instead, by raising productivity so firms grow revenue without adding people at the same pace, which was not the reason anyone wanted it.
K Muraleedharan said on Saturday that reports of shortages were a media creation and that government hospitals hold sufficient stock, inviting reporters to ask any superintendent. He alleged pharmaceutical company representatives were behind the claims and that sections of the media amplified them. The denial follows days of reporting on supply gaps at state-run facilities in Kerala.
With grazing land dry and green fodder gone, farmers in drought-hit Latur are harvesting their cash crop to keep animals alive. Narayan Gude, who farms seven acres and keeps seven buffaloes and two cows, needs about half a tonne of cane a day and says milk yields have fallen to 10 to 12 litres. Maharashtra has declared drought in 265 of 358 talukas.
Amit Shah said on X that Singh, who had taken Turkish citizenship under the false identity Navab Virk, was tracked by Indian agencies and handed over. He is accused of smuggling heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan and is now in jail here. The home minister called the deportation a historic milestone and repeated a target of dismantling narco-cartels by December 2029.
A woman in her late twenties who worked at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute told doctors she had broken a test tube of live bacteria while taking samples. She was admitted to a hospital in Shelekhov on Tuesday with severe pneumonia, ventilated, and died on Thursday. Close to 200 contacts are isolated and the hospital is quarantined. Officials first described only a dangerous infection.
OpenAI's agents breached Hugging Face and government sites, Anthropic's Claude got into four companies' systems, and Google's Gemini hacked three in security experiments; Axios reports the makers are investigating tens of thousands of agent incidents. A technology law scholar argues the coverage calling this going rogue is wrong: computer science has long described how such systems are kept bounded.
The National Leprosy Eradication Programme's annual report puts child cases 91.6 per cent above its target of 2,000 for the year, with 37 children already showing Grade-2 disability when diagnosed. The WHO treats new child cases as the marker of recent transmission. India's strategic plan aims to interrupt transmission district by district by 2027 and projects 1,000 child cases next year.
At Harvard's Kennedy forum, the former Google chief executive described an engineer at one of his startups who defines the specification at 7 pm, writes a function that judges the output, starts the run and goes to bed; the work finishes around 4 am. Schmidt said the same output would once have taken ten programmers six months at Google.
Forest officials inspecting the Karka area of the Udanti Sitanadi reserve found over 2,000 mature sal, bija and tendu trees with bark stripped to cut off nutrients, which kills them slowly. Satellite images suggest villagers relocated in the 1980s for a dam have been returning for two decades and have cleared about 30,000 trees for cultivation in ten years. Karka sits on an elephant corridor.
Lung cancer caused 98,687 deaths in India in 2024, 10.9 per cent of all cancer deaths, up from 75,031 in 2022 when it ranked fourth. New cases rose from 81,748 to about 1.12 lakh over the same period. The government's screening programme at primary health centres covers breast, oral and cervical cancer only, so most patients still arrive at a late stage.
A bug has left a small number of recent iPhone 18 Pro Max upgraders on the US carrier without cellular service, unable to call, text or use data except over Wi-Fi. Apple has pushed a carrier settings update and released iOS 27.0.1 to stop it spreading, and says affected devices will be replaced. The $1,299 phone went on sale two weeks ago.
Tuhin Kanta Pandey said the regulator is examining position limits for non-agricultural contracts to add liquidity and depth without weakening risk controls, and that guidelines will follow. He said mandatory physical settlement from day one can hold back some agricultural contracts, and favoured a phased approach. Sebi is also taking up GST frictions faced by participants who deliver commodities through exchanges.
Swami Sarvapriyananda said the company first approached him for an online interview, clarifying it was not for a job, then invited him to its headquarters, where an AI system booked his flight and hotel. He signed a non-disclosure agreement and referred publicly only to internal names he heard there. Videos of him recounting the visit have spread widely in India.
The party named the former India hockey captain and three-term Jalandhar Cantonment MLA to head its Punjab unit, months before assembly elections due early next year. Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, in the post since April 2022, resigned after meeting Rahul Gandhi. Sachin Pilot consulted state leaders first. Pargat, a Jat Sikh, was picked over Vijay Inder Singla, and the chief ministerial question stays open.
Thousands had gathered in the Australian city on Saturday to send off the Newcastle Knights before Sunday's grand final when an 18-year-old supporter, revving and driving erratically, lost control and hit the crowd. Ten people were injured, including three young children; a five-year-old girl and a 67-year-old man are critical. The driver has been taken into custody.
The 2026 El Nino began in May and has now run five full months, still short of its peak, when its effect on global weather is usually weaker. Even so it suppressed India's June to September monsoon. Maps of sea surface temperatures and rainfall anomalies show warmer central and eastern Pacific water drawing cloud formation away from the western Pacific.
Pre-leased capacity in India rose to about 1.2 gigawatts by June 2026 from around 550 megawatts a year earlier, a Cushman and Wakefield report published on 23 August found. Hyperscalers and large companies are committing to halls before they are ready because AI and cloud demand is outrunning new supply. Consumer AI use and smartphone growth are driving it.
A UNODC and government report found the area under mostly illegal alluvial gold production grew 4.5 per cent in 2025, a third straight year of expansion, with 75 per cent of it illegal and only 21 per cent holding permits. Sixty-one per cent of the increase was on Afro-Colombian land, and mining was detected in 30 indigenous reserves and nearly half the country's departments.
The girl was admitted to NIMS Medicity in Neyyattinkara with persistent abdominal pain and vomiting. Ultrasound and CT scans showed severe intestinal obstruction and an endoscopy confirmed a mass of hair in the stomach and small intestine, removed in a complex operation led by paediatric surgeon Biju I G Nair. She has recovered and been discharged. Trichobezoars form when a child swallows pulled-out hair.
A Nature Astronomy study from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen finds at least 75 per cent of Earth's mass came from two young protoplanets that themselves grew by sweeping up pebbles, with planetesimals contributing up to the rest. Mars is the mirror image: roughly 75 per cent planetesimals and a quarter pebble accretion, from the same cloud 4.5 billion years ago.
Food and nutrition companies are turning to fermented yeast protein to widen their range as whey supply stays tight, industry executives in Bengaluru said. Whey protein powder now costs more than Rs 4,500 a kilogram, against about Rs 1,000 in 2023. The shift also serves buyers looking for alternatives to dairy-based supplements rather than only those priced out of them.
Researchers at the Innovative Genomics Institute screened about 2.3 million protein structures with AI-assisted analysis and found VIPR, a viral system that recognises DNA using a previously unknown gapped coding strategy rather than reading the genetic code in strict three-letter units. Two linked papers in Science in September describe it as a clue to the origins of Class 1 CRISPR systems.
Chief minister Rekha Gupta reviewed work at Okhla and laid foundation stones for new processing facilities at Okhla, Ghazipur and Singhola. She said 100 acres have been cleared across the three sites in 18 months, much of it now planted, and that nearly all legacy waste at Okhla predating January 2025 has been processed. The sites take 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes of fresh waste daily.
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