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For 3 childhood friends, Chorbagan Durga Puja was 1st outing without family. Only one survived stampede

+TFP Sagrika Kissu - October 20, 2026

Tania Biswas, Barnali Haldar and Shreya Haldar had gone pandal-hopping when tragedy struck in the form of a stampede at Chorbagan Durga Puja. Tania, Barnali were among 19 killed.

Air Chief Marshal AP Singh flies his last sortie with his first flying instructor

Snehesh Alex Philip - October 20, 2026

‘Dog, lion & dead body’: DMK councillor booked over defamatory remarks against CM Vijay; slugfest in TN

Shweta Tripathi - October 20, 2026

BP still high despite medication? India has no data to show how many have resistant hypertension

Sneha Richhariya - October 20, 2026

Delhi Ramlila’s cockroach effigy was revamped overnight. Organisers wanted a ‘realistic’ design

Himanshi Aggarwal - October 20, 2026

Bollywood is shaking with fear. Not everyone is as lucky as Tiger Shroff

Shobhaa De - October 20, 2026

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Kashmiri Pandit translates Mann Ki Baat in Valley. His Persian-script novels can’t travel

Sagrika Kissu - October 20, 2026

3D brains, petabytes of data & a COVID-era bet: Inside IIT Madras’ push to map entire human brain

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DU to JNU, central univs struggle to upgrade despite growing grants, funding. Where’s the bottleneck?

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‘Dog, lion & dead body’: DMK councillor booked over defamatory remarks against CM Vijay; slugfest in TN

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For 3 childhood friends, Chorbagan Durga Puja was 1st outing without family. Only one survived stampede

+TFP Sagrika Kissu - October 20, 2026

BP still high despite medication? India has no data to show how many have resistant hypertension

Sneha Richhariya - October 20, 2026

India’s iPhone boom won’t make it the next China

Andy Mukherjee - October 20, 2026

‘Western storm’ seeking to destabilise regimes, India prime target—RSS chief Bhagwat in Dussehra speech

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Entertainment

Mika Singh defends Daler Mehndi. ‘If you see him drinking, I’ll quit singing’

Harsh Tiwari - October 20, 2026

The controversy began when Daler Mehndi was interrupted mid-performance by Uttarakhand Cabinet minister Subodh Uniyal, who accused him of performing after consuming alcohol.