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Kerala Congress Unit Deletes CJI Surya Kant Resignation Post After Backlash; SCBA Condemns Remarks

National Desk - October 12, 2026

Kerala Congress deletes its CJI Surya Kant resignation post after backlash. Read SCBA’s response, Congress’s clarification and the dispute’s background.

India’s September Inflation Rises to About 5.5%: How to Read the New CPI Figures

October 12, 2026

El Niño Monitoring Zone Hits 29.70°C: What September’s Ocean Record Means

October 12, 2026

Uttar Pradesh Reports ₹695.18 Crore in Dairy Proposals: What Happens Next?

October 12, 2026

Ranji Trophy: Madhya Pradesh Lead J&K by 135 After Avesh and Aryan Strike

October 12, 2026

Nepal Flash Flood: Over 200 Evacuated and at Least Five Missing as the Budhi Gandaki Sweeps Away Bridges and Hydropower Sites in Gorkha

October 12, 2026

Haze Shuts All Schools in Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Putrajaya on Tuesday as Unhealthy Air Spreads to 23 Areas

October 12, 2026

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Economics Nobel Goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, Whose Models Guide Central Banks From Washington to Mumbai

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Asia Briefing, October 12: India Lead West Indies 2-1, INDIA Bloc Marches to the Supreme Court, Tim Cook Back in China

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October 12, 1999: The Musharraf Coup and Pakistan’s Long History of Military Rule, Emergencies and Governor’s Rule, 1958–2026

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Egypt’s Sisi Ends Asian Tour in Jakarta: Partnership Deals With South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia, and What Cairo Wants From Asia

International Desk -

Pakistan Imposes Emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; PTI Says Chief Minister Sohail Afridi Has Been Arrested

International Desk -

A Ship Hit Almost Every Day: Hormuz in October, as Gulf Oil Exports Recover. What It Means for Asia’s Buyers

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India’s September Inflation Rises to About 5.5%: How to Read the New CPI Figures

October 12, 2026

Hall and Woodford Win 2026 Economics Nobel: Why Expectations Matter for Policy

October 12, 2026

Nepal Flash Flood: Over 200 Evacuated and at Least Five Missing as the Budhi Gandaki Sweeps Away Bridges and Hydropower Sites in Gorkha

October 12, 2026

Haze Shuts All Schools in Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Putrajaya on Tuesday as Unhealthy Air Spreads to 23 Areas

October 12, 2026

IMF and World Bank Meetings Open in Bangkok: The Week’s Agenda, From Tuesday’s World Economic Outlook to Thailand’s ‘Bangkok Blueprint’ on Fraud

October 12, 2026

Economics Nobel Goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, Whose Models Guide Central Banks From Washington to Mumbai

October 12, 2026

History of the CJP: How the Cockroach Janta Party Movement Began, Who Leads It and What Is Known About Its Funding

October 12, 2026

Asia Briefing, October 12: India Lead West Indies 2-1, INDIA Bloc Marches to the Supreme Court, Tim Cook Back in China

October 12, 2026

Asia

El Niño Monitoring Zone Hits 29.70°C: What September’s Ocean Record Means

October 12, 2026

Nepal Flash Flood: Over 200 Evacuated and at Least Five Missing as the Budhi Gandaki Sweeps Away Bridges and Hydropower Sites in Gorkha

October 12, 2026

Haze Shuts All Schools in Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Putrajaya on Tuesday as Unhealthy Air Spreads to 23 Areas

October 12, 2026

IMF and World Bank Meetings Open in Bangkok: The Week’s Agenda, From Tuesday’s World Economic Outlook to Thailand’s ‘Bangkok Blueprint’ on Fraud

October 12, 2026

East Asia

Tim Cook Back in China as Apple Chairman: Guangdong Expansion Pledge and $212 Million Clean Energy Fund, as India’s Share of iPhone Output Keeps...

October 12, 2026

Takaichi Wants the UN’s WWII ‘Enemy State’ Clauses Deleted; China Says They Still Matter. What Articles 53, 77 and 107 Say, and Why Beijing...

Egypt’s Sisi Ends Asian Tour in Jakarta: Partnership Deals With South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia, and What Cairo Wants From Asia

Trump Urged Xi to Talk to Takaichi and Lift Export Curbs on Japan, Report Says; Xi Warned of ‘Japanese Militarism’ Instead

US Tells South Korea to ‘Uphold’ Alliance Standards on Intelligence as Seoul’s Spy Agency and Military Chief Give Different Accounts of the Rift

Southeast Asia

Haze Shuts All Schools in Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Putrajaya on Tuesday as Unhealthy Air Spreads to 23 Areas

October 12, 2026

IMF and World Bank Meetings Open in Bangkok: The Week’s Agenda, From Tuesday’s World Economic Outlook to Thailand’s ‘Bangkok Blueprint’ on Fraud

Haze: Schools in Four Districts of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Shut on Monday, Johor for the Whole Week; Most of Malaysia Reopens

Egypt’s Sisi Ends Asian Tour in Jakarta: Partnership Deals With South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia, and What Cairo Wants From Asia

Bangkok Hosts the IMF and World Bank From Monday as Floods Still Affect 3.16 Million People in Thailand; Anutin Orders Evacuation Plans

South Asia

Nepal Flash Flood: Over 200 Evacuated and at Least Five Missing as the Budhi Gandaki Sweeps Away Bridges and Hydropower Sites in Gorkha

October 12, 2026

October 12, 1999: The Musharraf Coup and Pakistan’s Long History of Military Rule, Emergencies and Governor’s Rule, 1958–2026

Pakistan Imposes Emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; PTI Says Chief Minister Sohail Afridi Has Been Arrested

Pakistan’s Cabinet Meets on Emergency or Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; ‘We Have No Room Left,’ Says Interior Minister as Afridi Vows to Resist

Islamabad Readies Emergency Plan for 12 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Districts, Sources Say; PTI Calls It a Breach of the 18th Amendment as March Halts in...

West Asia

All 22 Indian Crew Rescued From Tanker Off UAE as Ships Burn Near Hormuz: A Week of Attacks and the Toll on Indian Seafarers...

October 12, 2026

A Ship Hit Almost Every Day: Hormuz in October, as Gulf Oil Exports Recover. What It Means for Asia’s Buyers

Saudia Jet Damaged by Fire at Riyadh Airport During Houthi Missile Attack; Nearly 300 Flights Cancelled, Air India, IndiGo and Akasa Halt Riyadh Services

Tanker Hit by Projectiles Off Northern Qatar, Casualties Reported; Iran and Oman Agree Hormuz Route Coordinates

Tanker With 17 Indian Crew Hit Near Strait of Hormuz, 11 Indians Injured; Houthi Missiles Land Near Aden Airport Runway

Central Asia

Artificial Intelligence

Kazakhstan’s Tokayev Backs Trump’s AI Accord as a ‘Washington Model’, Says It Could Become the Core of a UN Treaty

October 4, 2026

Explainers

Takaichi Wants the UN’s WWII ‘Enemy State’ Clauses Deleted; China Says They Still Matter. What Articles 53, 77 and 107 Say, and Why Beijing...

October 12, 2026

IMF and World Bank Meet in Bangkok From Monday: What the Latest Forecast Says About Asia’s Economies, Country by Country

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature; Asia’s Laureates, From Tagore to Han Kang, in One Table

Narendra Modi’s 25 Years in Power: From the October 7, 2001 Oath to a Third Term — Dates, Elections, Decisions and Controversies

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 Goes to Henri Kagan and Japan’s Kenso Soai for Showing How Molecules Become One-Handed

History

History of the CJP: How the Cockroach Janta Party Movement Began, Who Leads It and What Is Known About Its Funding

October 12, 2026

October 12, 1999: The Musharraf Coup and Pakistan’s Long History of Military Rule, Emergencies and Governor’s Rule, 1958–2026

October 11, 2026

India

Kerala Congress Unit Deletes CJI Surya Kant Resignation Post After Backlash; SCBA Condemns Remarks

October 12, 2026

Uttar Pradesh Reports ₹695.18 Crore in Dairy Proposals: What Happens Next?

October 12, 2026

Ranji Trophy: Madhya Pradesh Lead J&K by 135 After Avesh and Aryan Strike

October 12, 2026

India’s September Inflation Rises to About 5.5%: How to Read the New CPI Figures

October 12, 2026

History of the CJP: How the Cockroach Janta Party Movement Began, Who Leads It and What Is Known About Its Funding

October 12, 2026

INDIA Bloc’s ‘Chalo Dilli’ March Stopped Near Supreme Court; Rahul Gandhi and Kharge File Writ Petition Against Election Commission

October 12, 2026

World

El Niño Monitoring Zone Hits 29.70°C: What September’s Ocean Record Means

October 12, 2026

Hall and Woodford Win 2026 Economics Nobel: Why Expectations Matter for Policy

October 12, 2026

Economics Nobel Goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, Whose Models Guide Central Banks From Washington to Mumbai

October 12, 2026

Asia Briefing, October 12: India Lead West Indies 2-1, INDIA Bloc Marches to the Supreme Court, Tim Cook Back in China

October 12, 2026

Business

Uttar Pradesh Reports ₹695.18 Crore in Dairy Proposals: What Happens Next?

October 12, 2026

India’s September Inflation Rises to About 5.5%: How to Read the New CPI Figures

Hall and Woodford Win 2026 Economics Nobel: Why Expectations Matter for Policy

IMF and World Bank Meetings Open in Bangkok: The Week’s Agenda, From Tuesday’s World Economic Outlook to Thailand’s ‘Bangkok Blueprint’ on Fraud

Economics Nobel Goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, Whose Models Guide Central Banks From Washington to Mumbai

Technology

Tim Cook Back in China as Apple Chairman: Guangdong Expansion Pledge and $212 Million Clean Energy Fund, as India’s Share of iPhone Output Keeps...

October 12, 2026

Kazakhstan’s Tokayev Backs Trump’s AI Accord as a ‘Washington Model’, Says It Could Become the Core of a UN Treaty

US FTC Confirms Investigation Into OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Firms Over Risks From AI Agents

OpenAI Launches ‘Dots’ Always-On Agents and Cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay, Days After Shelving Astra Upgrade

OpenAI Scraps Release of GPT-6.1 Astra After the Model Failed Its Own Safety Tests

Sports

Ranji Trophy: Madhya Pradesh Lead J&K by 135 After Avesh and Aryan Strike

October 12, 2026

India Beat West Indies by 14 Runs in Indore to Lead T20I Series 2-1: Abhishek Sharma’s 18-Ball Fifty and Arshdeep’s Three Wickets Hold Off...

2036 Olympics: India Among Seven Countries in IOC Talks as Ahmedabad Takes On Doha, Istanbul and Munich

Asian Games Close in Nagoya: China Tops the Table With 169 Golds, Teenagers Steal the Show and Organisers Apologise for Chaos

Sachin Tendulkar vs Virat Kohli: How the Two Great Century-Makers Compare After Kohli’s 86th Hundred

Politics

Kerala Congress Unit Deletes CJI Surya Kant Resignation Post After Backlash; SCBA Condemns Remarks

October 12, 2026

INDIA Bloc’s ‘Chalo Dilli’ March Stopped Near Supreme Court; Rahul Gandhi and Kharge File Writ Petition Against Election Commission

CJP Case: Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notices to Home Secretary, Delhi Police Chief and DMRC Head Over Metro and Train Shutdown; Dipke, Das and...

Pakistan Imposes Emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; PTI Says Chief Minister Sohail Afridi Has Been Arrested

Pakistan’s Cabinet Meets on Emergency or Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; ‘We Have No Room Left,’ Says Interior Minister as Afridi Vows to Resist

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Kazakhstan’s Tokayev Backs Trump’s AI Accord as a ‘Washington Model’, Says It Could Become the Core of a UN Treaty

October 4, 2026

US FTC Confirms Investigation Into OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Firms Over Risks From AI Agents

OpenAI Launches ‘Dots’ Always-On Agents and Cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay, Days After Shelving Astra Upgrade

OpenAI Scraps Release of GPT-6.1 Astra After the Model Failed Its Own Safety Tests

Dell Raises FY27 Revenue Outlook to $192 Billion as AI Server Demand Surges

USA

Judge Orders Woman Accused of Spying on Taiwan President Lai’s Son for China Held Until Trial, Citing Flight Risk

October 8, 2026

FBI Arrests California Realtor Accused of Spying on Taiwan President Lai’s Son for China; Bail Hearing Set for Wednesday

US 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 5.34%, Highest Since 2002, as Global Bond Sell-Off Deepens

US Sends Third Aircraft Carrier and 9,000 More Troops Toward Iran as Trump Rejects Tehran’s Hormuz Offer

US Plans H-4 EAD Work Permit Rule Change: What H-1B Families Need to Know