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The Supreme Court has held that internet access is a fundamental right for every individual, including children, and rejected blanket age-based bans while ordering stronger safeguards against child abuse material.
Nineteen people died and 25 were injured when a rain-triggered crowd surge hit the Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata. Organisers have been detained and a judge-supervised probe announced.
The Centre has widened the list of people who can be appointed census enumerators, bringing private school teachers and staff of banks, PSUs and private companies into the pool for Census 2027.
China has proposed banning the export of 14 technologies and restricting 26 more across AI, biomedicine and solar, including perovskite and tandem solar cell know-how. Exporters must register transfers from now on.
The India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement comes into force on October 20, giving every Indian export duty-free entry into New Zealand while India keeps dairy and key farm goods protected.
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that rules to rein in volatile airfares under the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024 are approved and will be published within two weeks. The next hearing is on November 16.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck deep beneath Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on October 16, with no tsunami or damage reported. Minutes later, Japan issued and withdrew an alert for a non-existent magnitude 9.9 quake.
Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance have rejected the Home Ministry's latest draft on an elected body and Article 371 safeguards, accusing the Centre of backtracking. Talks resume in New Delhi on October 22.
Former IAS officer Divya Mittal has launched a new political party, Jan Neeti Bharat, and says it will contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on a platform of citizen-led policy and public accountability.
Former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, 98, was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Delhi on Friday evening with a chest infection and is being treated in the pulmonary department. Reports say he is stable.
Air India has extended its suspension of all flights to and from Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam until October 20, while IndiGo and Akasa Air have pushed their own Saudi cancellations to as late as October 24.
Sukhna wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh have been designated Ramsar sites, taking India's tally of internationally important wetlands to 103.
