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Metro shut, mobile internet suspended, markets closed: Delhi sealed off ahead of youth protest

Security personnel stand next to barricades ahead of a protest planned by the Cockroach Janta Party near Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Oct 9.

Nepal slashes 12-year wait period to declare missing flood victims dead

More than 5,000 people remain missing - including hundreds of foreign nationals - following a catastrophic flood on Aug 26 that was triggered by a mountain and glacier collapse on the China-Nepal border.

India deploys thousands of police ahead of election reform protest

Police detaining Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during a protest in New Delhi on Oct 7.

From PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?

Neha Bora (centre) at a protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar near Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India, on Oct 4.

India denies bias in satellite internet approvals after Musk’s ‘oligarchs’ jab

Elon Musk had claimed that Starlink was being blocked by “certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people”.

Rahul Gandhi, opposition lawmakers detained again in India over election chief protest

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is detained by police in New Delhi on Oct 7.

Field Notes from Bengaluru

My fight to remain on the voter list in the world’s largest democracy

Voters whose names have been flagged for deletion under the Special Intensive Revision in India wait at a Bengaluru school to get their identification documents verified by election officials.

Indians protest election chief ahead of top court hearing

Protests began on Oct 2 demanding the resignation of Election Commission of India chief Gyanesh Kumar.

India, Pakistan summon top diplomats over border incident

‘Unsafe’ Nestle low-fat dairy whitener sample found at India hotel, says regulator

India’s regulator, in September 2026, said it had found a Nestle baby food sample to be substandard.

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