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POLITICS6d agoThe Mecca Pact and Pakistan’s Bid to Become IndispensableFor most of its history, Pakistan’s geopolitical value has risen and fallen with other countries’ emergencies. The Mecca Pact may be its most serious attempt yet to break that cycle. On Aug. 31, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey established a secretariat in Saudi Arabia for the Mecca Defence Agreement. The first secretary-general comes from Pakistan for a three-year term. The agreement builds on the Saudi-Pakistani agreement signed in September 2025, locking a decades-old informal security arrangement into a mutual defense pact. Turkey’s inclusion in August 2026 transformed War on the Rocks
DISASTERBREAKING6d agoFrankfurt-Delhi Air India flight diverted to Jaipur following bomb threatThe Hindu
WORLD6d agoKilling of Parvinder Singh Jhota: Punjab’s drug menace and the questions it raises | ExplainerJhota was shot at a chemist shop in Mansa town and rushed to the local civil hospital, where doctors declared he was brought deadThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoKeralam Assembly: Opposition LDF, ruling UDF trade barbs over power situationMoving an adjournment motion, G.R. Anil of CPI alleges the crisis was ‘artificially created’ with the knowledge of UDF government to pave the way for power sector corporates to enter StateThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoDelhi SIR case: Supreme Court assures to ‘take care of’ EC move to restore deleted voters as fresh votersThe application has asked the court to direct the EC to frame an appropriate mechanism for restoration/inclusion of deleted voters without forcing them to apply as first-time votersThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoTelangana Govt illegally acquiring land for bullet train project without permissions, allege BRS leadersBRS leaders allege that the Telangana government is illegally acquiring land for a bullet train project without proper permissions. This raises concerns about governance and legal processes related to infrastructure development.The Hindu
POLITICS6d agoHC reserves order over IAS Amrapali plea for allocation to Telangana cadreThe High Court has reserved its order regarding an IAS officer's plea for allocation to the Telangana cadre. This is a development in a specific administrative and legal case.The Hindu
BUSINESS6d agoIndia’s trade deficit with China crosses $100 billion in 2026Two-way trade between January and September was up 25.4% to $144.45 billion, while India’s imports from China continued to rise, up 23.3% to $125.19 billionThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoWhy CJI Surya Kant said ‘no’ to Rahul Gandhi’s request to meet? | ExplainedThe refusal was anchored in the ethos of maintaining a neutral distance from the political thicket; the CJI’s letter emphasised that the judiciary cannot blur constitutional linesThe Hindu
DISASTER6d agoTragedy in India: 13 children die after a boat capsizes in the Ganges RiverClarín
HEALTH6d agoAndhra University students attend Heartfulness session on stress management and well-beingStudents learn ways to cope with stress, fear and negative thoughtsThe Hindu
WORLD6d agoThe poet and his patrons: Tamil Nadu’s Ettayapuram honours Subramania BharatiJagaveera Muthu Thanga Kumara Rama Venkateswara Ettappa Naicker Iyen Chaitanya, the zamindar of Ettayapuram, has brought out a book on Subramania Bharati, the national poet who received the patronage of his ancestorsThe Hindu
DISASTERBREAKING6d agoBoat capsized in India: thirteen children diedNOS Buitenland
WORLD6d agoMahatma Gandhi, Hindu and pacifist thinker: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if the world were to last forever"Un eje fundamental del pensamiento de este líder del siglo XX.La importancia de seguir un orden de prioridades.Clarín
POLITICS6d agoWhy did academics and activists sleep in Telangana schools? | ExplainerBudgetary support for education has declined to a single-digit percentage of the State outlay and has remained so over the past decadeThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoSheikh Hasina’s activities in India ‘principal challenge’ in planning Bangladesh PM’s visit: Humaiyun KobirMr. Kobir, Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs, stresses on the importance of ‘strategic autonomy’ for Bangladesh; he says India has to appreciate the ‘challenges of a newly elected government’ in Bangladesh and argues that activities of the exiled leaders of the Awami League will not help IndiaThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoWhy did academics and activists sleep in Telangana schools? | ExplainerBudgetary support for education has declined to a single-digit percentage of the State outlay and has remained so over the past decadeThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoJantar Mantar, the heartland of dissent in Delhi | In picturesFollowing mass agitations demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Delhi Police formally de-notified Jantar Mantar as a designated protest venue on October 12, 2026The Hindu
POLITICS6d ago2 CJP leaders in judicial custody: Dipke slams government, claims it is imposing ‘unofficial emergency’CJP founder accuses PM of crushing dissent with arrests of CJP leaders; says CJP’s intention is the same” as that of INDIA bloc, but it will remain an “independent pressure group; accuses SC of aiding the ECIThe Hindu
SCI & TECH6d agoWhy Keralam has launched India’s first ecosystem Red List assessmentKerala State Biodiversity Board’s Red List Assessment of Ecosystems project aims to transform conservation efforts from isolated species preservation to proactive, landscape-wide managementThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoIndia news: 'Cockroach' leaders sent to judicial custody amid protest crackdownThree of India's Cockroach movement leaders will spend five days in jail over charges of trespassing into what was until recently a designated protest site. In other news, Marco Rubio is set to visit India. DW has more.DW News [en]
POLITICS6d agoMamata’s party files police complaint over alleged ‘knife attack attempt’ on former CM near her homeThere were no reports of any injuries to the former Chief MinisterThe Hindu
BUSINESS6d agoRupee rises 44 paise to 94.92 against U.S. dollar in early tradeThe rupee gained for a fourth straight session, helped by RBI measures to curb speculative trading, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the currency had depreciated “significantly” over the past 18 monthsThe Hindu
POLITICS6d agoChina and India Want Much the Same Things From South AsiaThe two countries have reset bilaterally and internationally. Now it’s time to think regionally.Foreign Policy