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The Supreme Court has dismissed the Andhra Pradesh government's appeal against the High Court order that struck down 34% reservation for Backward Classes in local body elections.
Former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, a South African jurist of Indian Tamil descent, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her lifelong fight to make war crimes and genocide answerable in court.
Railways has cancelled Mail and Express trains due at New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin from 4 am to 2 pm on October 10, and police have sought gate closures at 57 metro stations ahead of the Jantar Mantar protest.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is in Singapore from October 9 to 11 to meet its top leaders and investors such as GIC and Temasek, pitching NIIF and GIFT City.
IMD has kept Mumbai and nine Maharashtra districts under a yellow alert after Santacruz touched 37.6°C, 4.5°C above normal. Relief is likely by the weekend.
Donald Trump says the US will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterms but the port blockade stays. Brent eased to about $103 after his post.
The Kerala High Court has directed the Vigilance bureau to register an FIR in the CMRL-Exalogic case naming Pinarayi Vijayan, daughter Veena and Mohammed Riyas, rejecting the state's preliminary inquiry.
The US Labor Department has suspended eight tech firms, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Microsoft, from the PERM programme that underpins employment-based green cards, a move that hits Indian H-1B workers hardest.
After Houthi missile attacks hit Riyadh and Abha airports, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh has asked Indians in Saudi Arabia to stay alert and indoors when needed, while Air India has paused Riyadh flights till October 10.
NTPC has identified three sites in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha for new nuclear power plants as part of its plan to build 30 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047.
Canadian poet, essayist and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for work that turns ancient Greek texts into strikingly new forms.
The Indian Coast Guard is staging SAREX-2026, its largest national search and rescue drill, off Paradip in Odisha, simulating a passenger plane ditching at sea with 228 people on board.
