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‘No role in free speech on campuses’, NALSAR alumni condemns BCI vilifying students
SC grants interim stay on Madras HC order cancelling government jobs for Karur stampede victims’ families

Congress MLA Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy lashes out at Revanth government, vows to fight corruption
Kerala HC asks state to mediate in Orthodox-Jacobite dispute in case of law and order issues
Sabarimala temple to open on 16 August for Chinga Masa pooja

Caste appears in Census 2027 questionnaire; a first since Independence
Bar Council of India backtracks, hands CJP an accidental win; CJI Surya Kant lambasts directive
Weather update: Forecast for Southern cities on 14 August
BCI walks back order barring NALSAR graduates’ enrolment over opposition to CJI as convocation chief guest
Modi, Shah finally turn up in Lok Sabha only for Speaker to adjourn sine die in under four minutes
L&T to build India’s largest single-cluster AI factory in Chennai
Explained: Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill and how it threatens states’ fiscal autonomy
‘Are you succumbing to corporate pressure?’: Supreme Court raps FSSAI over food warning labels
Raichur tea seller arrested over suspected terror link
Karnataka HC clarifies: Police can freeze bank accounts under Section 106 without invoking Section 107
Ammachi’s Cascade Frog among three new species discovered; named after Kerala social worker Padmini Varkey
SIT finds that AP Group 1 selection was not vitiated
Weather update: Forecast for Southern cities on 13 August
Karnataka bans gutkha, pan masala containing tobacco or nicotine for one year
FCRA Amendment Bill referred to 31 member JPC for detailed scrutiny; Opposition seeks withdrawal
BRS puts 10 questions to Telangana government over Tesseract land allotment; Minister Sridhar Babu defends process
‘What is the point in going?’: Amit Shah justifies absence from Parliament, blames Opposition protests
TN Assembly passes resolution against proposed delimitation, urges Centre to freeze LS seats at 543
Six, including 5 women from Karnataka, killed in tanker-autorickshaw smash in Telangana
CCB finds 10 mobile phones in Bengaluru central jail, 1 in Prajwal Revanna’s barrack
Weather update: Forecast for Southern cities on 12 August
After raids on eateries uncover rotten meat, reused oil, Karnataka issues stricter food safety norms
Newslaundry says it is POSH compliant, ICC acted on four sexual harassment complaints since 2017
Cauvery water sharing row: Karnataka directed to release 12,000 cusecs daily to Tamil Nadu
ED raids properties linked to former YSRCP MLA Malla Vijaya Prasad in multi-crore scam case

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Danam Nagender — Disqualified, but still in the race: The Danam Nagender paradox

Supreme court of India — Cauvery water row: SC seeks Karnataka’s response to Tamil Nadu’s shortfall plea

Paneer — FSSAI moves to ban ‘analogue paneer’, orders products to drop ‘paneer’ label from analogue item

Stock market Lok Sabha elections — Sensex, Nifty slide on intense selloff, banking and financial stocks hit

Three-day strike from September 28: Banks to open on Sunday, salaries may come early

Rahul Gandhi — PM Modi, Amit Shah will be investigated; Gyanesh Kumar should turn approver: Rahul Gandhi

Priyanka seeks Chief Election Commissioner’s prosecution for ‘treason’; CJP gives him two days to resign

CJP leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Sourav Das and Asutosh Ranka addressing a press conference. — ‘Gyanesh Kumar is the biggest anti-national’: CJP warns of nationwide protests if CEC does not resign within 48 hours

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Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan — CMRL-Exalogic case goes beyond Pinarayi: LDF, UDF names on ‘beneficiary’ list; BJP cries ‘fixed match’

How Telangana’s great distraction can land it in trouble

Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) president G.K. Vasan. — TMC(M) announces support for TVK in Madurantakam, Dharapuram bypolls

Groups such as Buddhists and Jains showed lower prevalence rates at 31.6 percent and 43.1 percent for men and women, respectively. — In India, generic competition slashes semaglutide prices after patent expiry, sales jump nearly sevenfold

Tamil Nadu police — Veeramani POCSO case: Chennai Police summon three officers over closure of earlier probe

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu — AP’s new social media influencer policy: Same strategy, different government?

Pecking away at credibility

Sexual assault — Veeramani POCSO case: Chennai court defers bail pleas of co-accused Shanthi and Mahendra Simhan