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Minaret of Indian mosque collapses during controversial demolition
Video shows the moment the minaret of India’s 600-year-old Ujjain mosque collapsed during demolition work.
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India
Video shows the moment the minaret of India’s 600-year-old Ujjain mosque collapsed during demolition work.
Gas & oil
What is CAFE-3 carbon emission framework? What are its proposals for alternative technologies? How does it give automakers an escape route? Why is this seen as a missed opportunity?
Elections
Department of Higher Education has started drafting the concept note for the project that had figured among the key promises included in the manifesto of the United Democratic Front for the 2026 Assembly elections
Elections
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), once one of India’s most powerful political forces and a dominant player in Uttar Pradesh, is now facing an unprecedented decline. With BSP set to lose its last remaining MP in Parliament, questions are being raised about the future of the party founded by Kanshi Ram and led by Mayawati
Outbreaks
Through the story of a dreaded don and a schoolboy who inadvertently crosses his path, Balaji Tharaneetharan takes a warm, nostalgic look at childhood, the selves we lose while playing the roles society forces upon us, and the goodness that survives beneath
India
Split verdict may delay a final pronouncement on the vital question regarding the validity of the 2023 law; application is mentioned before Justice Dipankar Datta, the lead judge on the Bench that delivered the split verdict on September 23, 2026; Justice Datta asks the petitioner-applicant to mention his plea before t
India
The students said they spent several hours every day in the three to four weeks before the competition. While the first week was mostly about recruiting and forming a team, the next three weeks were a complete grind
Pointing out that his own appointment was made by All India Congress Committee, Adoor Prakash says he will convey his dissatisfaction over the developments to Congress leadership
Health
Bill Lee pauses state’s remaining executions for the rest of the year after inmate Christa Pike survives two lethal injectionsTennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injectionsPresident Donald Trump and vice-president JD Vance will both hit the campaign trail on Thursday, but they will
AI
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States revealsAmid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on brittle cha
Iran conflict
Ukraine, Iran, Palestine and Sudan: it has so many problems to confront and fails to do so. Seen up close, it is a study in stasis and declineUN general assembly meetings are not usually riveting occasions. But this year’s encapsulated a world in flux and crisis, an international law and organisation structure that is
Gas & oil
The Berlin Left Party, Greens and SPD are to meet to clarify controversial issues ahead of possible coalition talks. The second fuel tax cut this year has come into force as gas and diesel prices spiral. DW has more.
Elections
Violence erupts during a Youth Congress march towards Statue Junction on Wednesday evening seeking resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. YC, SFI activists blame each other for throwing stones and bottles
Elections
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan rejects the election petition filed by TVK candidate C. Chinthamani who had lost by a margin of 1,492 votes
The boats were caught in April 2026 and have been held captive for over 100 days, they claim; a community leader urges the State government to seek the Centre’s intervention to free the boats
Ukraine
In our news wrap Wednesday, the Federal Reserve's Inspector General found no criminal activity by former Chair Jerome Powell related to the renovation of the central bank's headquarters, Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon will cut the number of its generals and admirals by roughly 20% and Ukraine officials say Ru
Elections
Five weeks before Election Day, Democratic optimism is soaring. But glaring vulnerabilities threaten to undermine the unstoppable blue wave that Democrats believe is coming. Look no further than New Hampshire, where Democratic leaders are sounding the alarm about political challenges that could jeopardize the party's a
Outbreaks
Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor, was advanced out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on a 12 to 11 vote to serve as surgeon general after she was grilled at her confirmation hearing earlier this month about her stance on childhood vaccines.
Gas & oil
Trump recently said he was "very seriously" considering a diesel export ban, despite warnings from the U.S. oil industry that doing so would raise prices.
AI
Gemini 4 Argon is Alphabet's most advanced model yet, with major coding, cybersecurity, and complex professional work improvements.
Outbreaks
Grindr is buying PrEP provider Freddie for $250 million, expanding into healthcare and seeking to make HIV prevention more accessible to its users.
Immigration
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in MichiganThe federal government is charging a Michigan nurse accused of illegally helping an undocumented immigrant, who was being treated in a hospital, escape from immigration officials, court records unsealed this wee
Gaza
The Danish Refugee Council alleges that Israel is employing "a policy of protracted displacement" in Gaza. It says the so-called "Yellow Line" is creeping west toward the coast, preventing many from returning home.
AI
In tonight's edition, Africa's richest man breaks ground on a 16 billion dollar oil refinery in Kenya. Also, at universities across Cameroon, programming is overshadowed with uncertainty amidst an indefinite strike by lecturers. And I speak to Ethiopian-born computer scientist and pioneering AI ethicist Timnit Gebru as