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Sajjala instructs various wings of the party to identify alternative candidates for every seat

All three regions of the State may receive moderate showers from October 15 to 19, says IMD

The Delhi Police de-notified Jantar Mantar as a designated venue for protests and demonstrations on October 12, 2026, replacing one of the capitals longest-established sites of public dissent with three alternative grounds farther from the seat of power.

U.S. academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize on October 12 for decades of work developing ground-up models currently used by central banks and finance ministries across the world to stabilise economies.

In a representation dated October 10, Junaid P.K., president of the Brigade, alleged that Mr. Rao had created doubts about Mr. Rathees nationality by suggesting that he could be a foreign national.

The stretch covering areas including Athani Junction and Airport Junction has come under heightened surveillance following the car-two-wheeler collision that claimed the lives of three youths on October 11.

The golfer says the experience in Hangzhou helped her in Aichi-Nagoya where she won the individual gold and the team silver; feels that she benefitted by playing on the Ladies European Tour

The judges held there cannot be a reduction of pension just to satiate the pleasure of Executive Officers deciding these issues

The Minister, while participating in an event on a State-level intensified IEC campaign on HIV/AIDS, says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS has been down by half in the State; it has dropped from 0.40% in 2010 to 0.19% in 2023 as a result of sustained and intensive awareness efforts by the State government and NGOs

Justice Joymalya Bagchi questions religious basis for bursting firecrackers; CJI cautions against restrictions which cannot be enforced on the ground, says people should be educated to reject harmful cracker varieties

The case was registered on October 8, based on a complaint by the victim.

The Report Card on the Performance of Information Commissions in India, 2025-26 says the number of appeals and complaints pending on June 30, 2026, in 28 information commissions stood at 3,85,716; in 2025, it was 4,13,972

Justice Nagarathna said the focus should not be limited to disposing of cases. The system must also ensure that children receive education, counselling, medical care and legal assistance while their cases are pending.

Modi will denotify democracy itself, he says after government denotifies Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site

Thousands march with INDIA bloc leaders demanding rollback of SIR and CEC Gyanesh Kumars resignation, a day after students were rounded up, bundled into police buses and detained in far off locations.

Opposition presents a united front amid heavy police deployment but little interruption; Congress says 2.5 lakh people took part in the four-hour-long March for Democracy; most protesters Congress supporters who travelled from across the country

Congress leader claims the CEC has sent him messages, and over 200 officers in government provide information

Detainees report being transported in prison vans, verbally and physically abused, denied water; one group taken to isolated police camp, seated in rows, and systematically beaten by police after their phones were confiscated

Clashes erupted in late September between the federal army and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), who made gains in neighbouring Afar region but are increasingly being pushed back towards the Eritrean border

The investigators recorded the statements of Mr. Arun and IGs N. Kannan and A. Radhika, who were then serving as the Additional Commissioner of Police, South, and the Additional Commissioner of Police, Central Crime Branch, respectively, police sources say

There has been a recent increase in attacks on communities in the two regions, blamed on gangs engaged in kidnapping for ransom and cattle rustling locally referred to as bandits, and on jihadist groups

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, vacated the camps in the Baze area of northern Iraq's Metina region, near the Turkish border

Students have blocked entrances to hundreds of lycees high schools for children 15 to 18 since late September to rail against poor classroom conditions, with squads of riot police deployed and occasionally violent clashes erupting

The Houthis have blocked all exits and carried out several attacks overnight

The Houthi attacks over the weekend marked a sharp escalation in the Yemen war, where Saudi Arabia has long supported the internationally recognised government

Shivraj Singh Chouhan says Congress leadership is directionless; Anurag Thakuraccusesparty of invoking religion for political ends

After floating an advertisement, the department has so far received applications from six persons for the SEC post, said an official. The last date to apply for the post is October 17

Allegations surface that the college has engaged contractual faculty members working at the postgraduate level at ANU instead of employing eligible degree-level teaching faculty to evaluate the answer scripts