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‘Who is US blackmailing,’ asks Rahul Gandhi after Puri-Epstein photo, Rubio visit

In February, Union minister Hardeep Puri said he met convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a few times, but those meetings had nothing to do with his crimes.

12:25 22/10/2026

Uttarakhand ends Friday off for madrasas, orders Sunday as weekly holiday

The Congress alleged that the BJP government was resorting to ‘politics of polarisation and communalism’ ahead of the Assembly elections.

12:23 22/10/2026

The Conversation FR

Qu’est-ce qu’une forêt ? Pourquoi cette question est bien plus complexe qu’il n’y paraît

Il existe au moins 1 000 définitions du mot « forêt ». Définir ce qu’est une forêt demeure très important. Cela permet de savoir ce que l’on promeut sur le plan économique, écol…

12:21 22/10/2026

EC removes officials, orders UP voter list check as Congress alleges irregularities in 16,000 names

One alleged discrepancy involved over 13,000 names being replaced with those of other people in Pilibhit Sadar.

12:18 22/10/2026

Jail terms for child sexual abuse in Hong Kong ‘far below’ maximum, NGO finds, as binding sentencing guidelines urged

Researchers have urged Hong Kong authorities to establish binding sentencing guidelines for perpetrators of child sexual abuse, saying that most jail terms are too low to reflec…

12:00 22/10/2026

ProPublica

Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service

The post Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service appeared first on ProPublica.

11:53 22/10/2026

Protest photos by Priyanka Gandhi’s son taken down by Bikaner House cultural centre in Delhi

Raihan Vadra claimed that the Rajasthan government-run venue also asked him to remove two photos of the national flag, but he refused.

11:28 22/10/2026

Reporterre

Incendie de la mairie de Limoges : la gauche et les écologistes cloués au pilori médiatique

L'arrestation d'un militant écologiste après l'incendie de la mairie de Limoges a lancé un engrenage politicomédiatique de la droite et l'extrême droite. Sans preuve et en dépit…

11:15 22/10/2026

The Fight for Educational Equality Is Also a Fight for a Just Supreme Court

Janai Nelson The court has severely weakened our ability to make an education system that fulfills the promise of Brown. The post The Fight for Educational Equality Is Also…

11:00 22/10/2026

ProPublica

Sexual Assaults on Campus No Longer Scrutinized as Closely Under Trump’s Education Department

The post Sexual Assaults on Campus No Longer Scrutinized as Closely Under Trump’s Education Department appeared first on ProPublica.

11:00 22/10/2026

The Fall of “Scientific American”

Emmet Fraizer When the Trump administration objected to the magazine's political coverage, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain. The post The Fall o…

11:00 22/10/2026

How to Stop Trump’s Coup

Paul Loeb, Jungmin Choi South Korea’s lessons for the US midterms. The post How to Stop Trump’s Coup appeared first on The Nation.

11:00 22/10/2026

Could Mississippi Really Send a Democrat to the Senate?

Sasha Abramsky The answer, amazingly, is yes. The post Could Mississippi Really Send a Democrat to the Senate? appeared first on The Nation.

10:45 22/10/2026

The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream

From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist dug up a century of evidence that shows ho…

10:40 22/10/2026

Fossil fuels are hiding all over your house. We built a model home to show how.

Tour our miniature dream house to see how oil and gas became part of everyday products.

10:30 22/10/2026

Soaring oil prices underscore the need to help poor countries adopt renewables

Without central planning or public resources, people in developing countries are pursuing an ad hoc energy transition.

10:15 22/10/2026

California just showed how home batteries will radically remake the grid

Large batteries are helping homeowners keep the lights on during power outages. But they're also sending juice back to the system for others to use.

10:01 22/10/2026

‘Akka’ trailer: Keerthy Suresh, Radhika Apte in a show about female gangsters on the warpath

Dharmaraj Shetty’s Hindi series also stars Tanvi Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar and Anshumaan Pushkar. Out on Netflix on October 30.

10:00 22/10/2026

UPI is a popular mode of payment, but it is still limited by gender disparities and online scams

An excerpt from ‘Cashless Nation: How UPI Changed Everything’, by Santanu Paul and B Sambamurthy.

09:47 22/10/2026

Reporterre

« Je n'ai rien pris, rien cassé, rien volé » : après le 17 octobre, des tribunaux impitoyables

Alors que le gouvernement a été dépassé par la mobilisation du 17 octobre, le garde des Sceaux a voulu une réponse judiciaire « ferme » à l'égard de contestataires accusés de vo…

09:20 22/10/2026

Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman 2026 announces shortlists in fiction, nonfiction, debut categories

The winners will be announced on December 2, 2026.

09:00 22/10/2026

Tai Po fire: Independent committee submits final report on Wang Fuk Court blaze to Hong Kong leader

An independent committee investigating last year’s Tai Po fire has submitted its final report to the city’s leader, detailing the causes of the deadly blaze and recommending whi…

08:53 22/10/2026

The Electronic Intifada

Israa was a friend for life

Israa and I grew up planning our futures together. I never imagined I would have to live mine without her.

08:00 22/10/2026

Reporterre

Thomas Brail : « Critiquez ces jeunes masqués, mais vous découvrirez peut-être que ce sont vos enfants »

« Avec le recul, je pense qu'on est en train de gagner » : dans ce grand entretien, le militant Thomas Brail, connu pour se percher dans les arbres pour les protéger, analyse le…

07:46 22/10/2026

Hong Kong rejects 93 non-local worker applications under tighter F&B hiring rules

Hong Kong authorities have rejected 93 applications to employ non-locals as cooks, waiters, and cleaners since the government tightened a vetting mechanism in June, labour chief…

07:30 22/10/2026

Médiacités

Le directeur du centre hospitalier départemental de Vendée écarté ?

Olivier Servaire-Lorenzet fait depuis plusieurs mois face à une fronde inédite des personnels de santé et des élus vendéens. Selon les informations de Mediacités, le haut-foncti…

07:22 22/10/2026

India asks citizens in France to exercise caution amid unrest

Demonstrations demanding education reforms have snowballed into wider protests in the European country.

05:53 22/10/2026

What’s holding up Washington’s $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan?

Taiwan has been waiting months for US President Donald Trump to approve a $14 billion sale of weapons and equipment, which the island democracy would use to fend off a potential…

05:30 22/10/2026

In Modi’s India, only ‘good’ OCIs are welcome

Just as they are expected to be ‘ideal’ immigrants in their adopted countries, the diaspora must also be unquestioning and uncritical of India.

05:00 22/10/2026

From the memoir: How religious orthodoxy and poverty shaped freedom fighter TSS Rajan’s childhood

An excerpt from ‘Waves of Memory’, translated from the Tamil by N Kalyan Raman.

04:08 22/10/2026

Hong Kong Star Ferry fares to rise by up to HK$1.80 from January

Hong Kong has approved fare hikes that will see Star Ferry passengers pay as much as HK$1.80 more per trip starting from January next year. Under a proposal approved by the Exec…

03:50 22/10/2026

‘Aadi Anant’ trailer: Comedy starring Ashok Saraf, Sankarshan Karhade explores the generation gap

Mahesh Limaye’s Marathi film also stars Sakhee Gokhale, Aarav Aeer, Yogesh Shirsat, Vaidehi Parshurami and Shrirang Godbole. Out in cinemas on November 12.

03:02 22/10/2026

Taiwan charges five over plot to run over comedian who joked about Xi Jinping

Five people in Taiwan were charged on Wednesday for allegedly attacking a Taiwanese stand-up comedian after he criticised the Chinese Communist Party, prosecutors said. Taiwan h…

02:43 22/10/2026

The Conversation

A critical flaw affecting 70% of all websites has the cybersecurity world panicked

Millions of websites and online tools have relied on the PHP language for decades – but newly disclosed bugs could let hackers easily take them over.

01:56 22/10/2026

Global Voices

Protest as a pillar of democracy

This spotlight is, then, a form of protest in its own right: a way of reasserting that protest is legitimate, important for democracy, and everywhere.

01:41 22/10/2026

CIPER Chile

SII detecta más de US$3.200 millones en el exterior sin declarar; gobierno rebaja 56 condenas por delitos sexuales contra menores, y Hermosilla solicita por segunda vez inhabilidad de fiscal

La entrada SII detecta más de US$3.200 millones en el exterior sin declarar; gobierno rebaja 56 condenas por delitos sexuales contra menores, y Hermosilla solicita por segunda v…

01:30 22/10/2026