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Delhi Police and security personnel were seen verbally and physically assaulting protesters carrying the national flag, as they forcibly dragged them into detention buses after dark.

More than 130 million voters were deleted during the revision but the Election Commission has denied favouring any party ​and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol.

Youth-led protests over alleged voter-roll manipulation have tapped into wider anger over unemployment, exam leaks and divisive politics, posing the biggest challenge to Modi since he came to power in 2014.

This visit comes as US oligarch Elon Musk described Mukesh Ambani as the “real boss of India” last week.

The collapse at a school in Peshawar killed 32 children aged seven to 14 and a female teacher, prompting calls for a probe and safety audits of educational institutions across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The actor, who holds an Overseas Citizen of India card, was ordered to leave by October 28 over his participation in protests demanding the chief election commissioner’s resignation.

Police are ​investigating the ​cause of the incident, regional police ​officer Subodh Kumar ​told Reuters on Wednesday, giving the tally of those ​rescued.

The IMF this week flagged significant growth and financial stability risks from a potential end of the AI investment boom, ‌growing debt levels and a prolonged Middle East conflict. It forecast global growth at 3.1 percent for 2026.

The arrests could fuel further protests over voter-list revisions that opposition parties say favour Modi’s BJP, allegations rejected by the election commission.

Italian photographer Federico Veronesi’s image, taken in Namibia, highlights the complex ways elephants respond to death.

The 71-year-old pontiff has lung adenocarcinoma, with doctors removing the lower lobe of his right lung in a procedure they said was successful.

Bulgaria stopped short of explicitly accusing Russia of carrying out the attacks but Prime Minister Rumen Radev said their outcome“benefits the Russian Federation”.

It was not clear whether Russia had deliberately avoided targeting energy infrastructure overnight into Tuesday.

The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party and opposition groups accuse the Election Commission of manipulating voter rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, a charge the poll panel denies.

The Election Commission has denied favouring any party and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol.

The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in ​Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given out this year and is worth 12 million Swedish crowns.

The boat, carrying 305 people, capsized near Guhere, north of Obock — a port town in Djibouti — during the night of October 8-9, ​the IOM said, citing survivor accounts.

Opposition parties accuse India’s election authorities of deleting millions of voters from electoral rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, as protests intensify over the controversial revision.

The latest launches follow South Korea’s first public test of a hypersonic missile last week, as Pyongyang steps up weapons tests amid rising tensions and ahead of a potential summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.

Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, but Zelenskiy says Kyiv is awaiting details as Russian strikes continue and Washington presses Ukraine to stop targeting Russian oil refineries.

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