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The menstrual cups will be offered to older students, from class 9-12, alongside sanitary pads, from the next academic year. With this move, Karnataka is the first Indian state to endorse menstrual cups through a state-wide scheme.

Decode found that several creators defending the now-stayed Supreme Court order were managed by the same influencer agency and misrepresented key aspects of the judgment.

Himalayan states witness an average of 132 avalanches every year, with Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand reporting the most. Experts warn climate change is increasing snowfall intensity, raising avalanche risks across fragile mountain regions and threatening lives, infrastructure, and the environment.

As AR Rahman faces backlash over remarks on prejudice, the Maa Tujhe Salaam composer is pushed to defend his patriotism, exposing how nationalism, media outrage and memory collide in India.

The Indian Express’s Soumyarendra Barik spent a day each as a delivery worker for Zomato, Blinkit and Swiggy, completing 23 deliveries and earning Rs 782 or Rs 34/hour. That’s the cost of India’s convenience economy: long, punishing hours for precarious earnings

Between 2003-2020, India’s cities warmed twice as fast as rural areas. Satellite data documents exactly why.

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Hello! As you might have seen on the news, delivery workers across the country are planning to strike on the 31st of December for better work conditions and a cease to the exploitative, dangerous, and honestly unnecessary 10 minute delivery model. (www.ndtv.com/india-news/gig-workers-zepto-blinkit-instamart-swiggy-zomato-delivery-workers-strike-survey-highlights-low-wages-other-challenges-10034260/amp/1)

The acceptance that this is just how things are now is worrying. That temperatures will rise, water will run out, air will choke us—and we will simply adjust.

Fire damages two coaches of Tatanagar-Ernakulam express train in Andhra Pradesh; no casualties reported, investigation ongoing.

Indian startups like TuluAI, Aakhor AI, and KashmiriGPT take on tech giants OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity by focusing on regional languages.

A tragic collision between a truck and a bus in Karnataka leaves over 11 feared dead and many injured.

A confidential Income Tax report cited systematic bureaucratic corruption in UP in 2022, with senior bureaucrat Navneet Sehgal at the top of the pyramid. Little public action is known but Sehgal insists the matter has been closed since then.

The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday inducted its first indigenously designed and built Pollution Control Vessel (PCV) ‘Samudra Pratap’, officials said.

The affected list includes the Spanish film Beef, which focuses on the journey of a rising rap singer and has no connection to its title.

Angry fans attending Lionel Messi’s tour of India ripped up seats and threw items towards the pitch after his appearance at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium.

The IMF’s rating reflects serious methodological shortcomings that hamper effective economic monitoring.

In a strong display of citizen-led environmental activism, hundreds of Pune residents assembled near the Balgandharva Bus Stop at the Sambhaji Garden footpath on Jangli Maharaj Road on Sunday evening, expressing solidarity with Nashik residents fighting to protect Tapovan — a historic forest threatened by proposed infrastructure for the 2027 Kumbh Mela. Nearly 1,800 mature trees are at risk due to development planned under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.

Concerns rise over the draft Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, as protests emerge from students and academics fearing loss of autonomy.

A fire at a crowded Goa nightclub kills at least 23, highlighting serious fire safety violations and emergency response challenges.

Over 300 activists in India petition for the abolition of polygamy, advocating for women’s rights and legal equality.

India’s government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location tracking that is always activated for better surveillance

Just nine Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEOs) owed Indian banks over ₹58,000 crore in principal and interest. To date, banks have recovered just over ₹19,000 crore — roughly 33% of the total dues.

On Wednesday, the Indian telecom ministry said Sanchar Saathi, an anti-theft and cybersecurity protection app, would remain voluntary, and that smartphone makers would no longer be required to preload it on devices they sell.

TNM’s investigation into the booming trade of leaked theatre CCTV clips took us through anonymous Telegram channels, fake profiles, and payment groups. We traced dozens of these videos back to three Kerala theatres.

Delhi has 38 air quality monitors, but their placement leaves out 65% of the national capital without reliable air quality estimates.

The November 28 order, seen by Reuters, gives major smartphone companies 90 days to ensure that the government’s Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones, with a provision that users cannot disable it.

Lok Sabha approves election of two members to IISc Bengaluru Council, enhancing governance and strategic development of the premier institution.

The Department of Telecommunications has told these apps that within the next 90 days, they must make sure their services work only when the correct SIM card is in the phone. If you remove that SIM, the app should stop working. This is known as SIM binding.

A 10-year evaluation of air pollution across India’s metropolitan hubs has revealed not a single major Indian city recorded “good” air quality even once between 2015 and November 2025.

Recent media reports highlight how consumers are routinely asked for their phone numbers at billing. Concerns have been raised about privacy and misuse.

Finance Ministry and RBI are creating a portal to simplify claiming unclaimed assets for citizens, enhancing transparency and convenience.

Short-haul flights between Mumbai and Pune are under fresh fire, this time not for convenience or time saved, but for their deeply harmful impact on the environment. Former Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) chairman Shrikant Vaidya recently condemned such flights, calling them “climate disasters.” According to him, the greenhouse-gas emissions from a single Mumbai–Pune flight are almost four times higher than taking a train on the same route.

Delhi mandates 50% workforce in offices to combat high pollution, requiring remaining staff to work from home.

ISRO chairman V. Narayanan has offered the Indian Railways access to the “spare transponder capacity” on existing communication satellites to strengthen its signalling and communication systems.

The Congress has castigated the Election Commission and the BJP for the deaths of BLOs, but poll officials insist there is no link with SIR.

Tejas fighter jet crashes at Dubai Air Show, resulting in the tragic death of the pilot during a demonstration flight.

SC to deliver advisory opinion on Presidential Reference regarding timelines for State bill approvals; read comprehensive reports by The Hindu

The city has leapt through Swachh Sarvekshan rankings. But there’s a paradox in the numbers.

Accidental blast in Jammu and Kashmir police station. Follow The Hindu LIVE updates: The blast kills several people and injuring many others

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Newslaundry visited the blast site and the hospital where casualties were brought in.

When women athletes attract similar attention as men, the response often shifts.

India faced severe climate impacts in 2024, with record heat exposure costing 247 billion labor hours and air pollution causing 1.7 million deaths in 2022. | Latest News India

Soil Deficiency: 64% of Indian soils lack nitrogen, 48.5% low in organic carbon, says CSE report. Calls for improved soil health monitoring.

The rupee traded almost flat at 88.78 in the early session on Friday (October 10, 2025), hovering near all-time lows against the U.S. dollar due to a stronger greenback in the overseas markets.

With the exponential rise of artificial intelligence (AI) across all fields, the Delhi government has decided to integrate AI into school education. The government school teachers in the Capital will receive training in AI-mediated classrooms between October 8 and 31, according to a recent circular from the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT).

Amid futile attempts by Sangh Parivar leaders to infuse anti-Muslim ideologies in Telangana, another political contestation began in August in the name of ‘Marwadi Go Back’.

Uttar Pradesh accounted for the highest number of cases under the Act at 7,151, followed by Bihar (3,665) and Karnataka (2,322).

At 1,087 cases, India recorded a 26.7 percent rise in reported incidents of false/fake news and rumours as compared to the 858 cases in 2022, according to the Crime in India 2023 report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). 

On September 23, as Kolkata was preparing for West Bengal’s biggest annual festival, Durga Puja, it encountered roughly 12% of the city’s average annual rainfall in just six hours. From midnight to dawn, it rained 234.2 mm causing severe waterlogging that the city had not experienced in almost four decades. Kolkata is used to cyclonic storms bringing the city to a standstill with fallen trees and electric poles. This time however, there was no cyclone. The rain mostly stopped around 8.30 a.m. Yet, water alone paused civic life — from flight operations to railway and bus services. This cloudburst-like situation, where rain falls heavily in a short period, is new to the city located in the world’s largest deltaic landscape, the Bengal delta. Kolkata was unprepared. Informal settlements, ground floors and basements of houses, high rises and hospitals were all flooded with drainage water or overflow from waterbodies. People were stranded in multi-storey apartments without electricity or an operational elevator for hours. Damaged cars, motorbikes, and vans were left in the middle of roads. Loose, live wires created safety hazards. Items from grocery and garments to electronics and electrical goods worth millions of rupees were damaged in stores and markets. Thousands of books got drenched in the heritage book market of the College Street area. At Netaji Nagar in the southern part of the city, a bicycler lost balance while navigating through a flooded road. He fell on an electric pole and was instantly electrocuted. Fearing electrified water, none dared…

Heavy rain is likely in parts of southern West Bengal on Bijoya Dashami on Thursday due to a low-pressure area, the IMD said.