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Indian-American Democrats Win Big in the 2026 US Mid-term Elections
Across states, Indian-American candidates featured prominently in the November 3 elections, even as Republican Mahesh Ganorkar and Vivek Ramaswamy suffered defeats.
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The AI Boom's Bill Won't Stop at Shareholders
The dot-com crash mostly hurt investors. An AI correction, built on borrowed money, could hurt a lot more people, writes @iPravinKaushal.
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A Good Day for Democracy – in the United States, and Beyond
Harish Khare writes
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Belatedly, US voters seem to have realised that Trump has coarsened the country’s cultural and social capital. They have revolted. The aftershocks of this revolt will be heard beyond the American shores, writes Harish Khare.
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Former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi on Why the Election Commission Must Be Independent teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/2BlLOeLbN…
Period Within Which Person to Be Produced Before Magistrate Starts From Detention Not Arrest: Supreme Court
The bench held that there cannot be any temporary suspension of a fundamental right.
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Four Questions as All Three ECs Go Missing From Poll-Bound States
‘Where are the three Election Commissioners?’ is not a rhetorical question.
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Maharashtra: Over 97% Flagged Voters Complete SIR Verification as Deadline Extended to Nov 25
Among those with logical discrepancies, 97.94% have cleared verification. Of the 5.98 million unmapped electors, 96.35% have done so.
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US Treasury Issues Sanctions Against Indian Couple And Their 'Criminal Network' For Transporting Iran Oil
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For Second Consecutive Year, No Indian University in Top 50 QS Asia Rankings
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All six of India's highest-ranked universities slipped, the newly-released rankings have revealed. While the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, dropped to 79th from 64th, IIT Bombay fell to 83rd from 71st.
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Kani Home: A New Cultural Space in Kashmir Navigates Political Pressures and the Need for Artistic Freedom
@Akhbarwoul reports
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Rather than waiting for established cultural infrastructure to expand, Mir Ishfaq has attempted to create an alternative space from the ground up, reports @Akhbarwoul.
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SC Rejects Petition Seeking Mandatory Rotation of SC/ST Reservations For Assembly and Parliament Seats
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Justice Bagchi also disagreed with the contentions with the logic that the majority community in a constituency will anyway get elected, and hence SC reservation is unnecessary in a constituency with high SC population.
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'Judicial Accountability Without Independence is Subordination': Kapil Sibal at CJAR Event
@KapilSibal highlighted that the judiciary 'possesses neither the purse nor the sword. Its authority rests on public faith'.
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Abdul El-Sayed’s father-in-law Tayeb Jukaku – who moved to the US from India and now lives there – also underlined that the victory is significant since the Michigan voters saw “past the otherness that was created about his personality”. | @tamanna_naseer
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