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The Hindu Iceland's Social Democrats win election, unseating ruling coalition

The snap election was called last month after escalating coalition disagreements and public discontent over migration and energy and housing issues

The Hindu How the police, without a clue at first, solved the Sarika Shah case

On July 18, 1998, the Ethiraj College student and her friend went out to have a juice. A gang came in an autorickshaw and teased her. One of its members jumped on her. She fell and died of head injuries. Subsequently, the State passed a stringent law to curb eve-teasing

The Hindu SC to hear PIL challenging EC's decision to increase voter count per polling booth

Increasing the number of voters from 1,200 to 1,500 would lead to the exclusion of underprivileged groups from the electoral process, says the petitioner’s advocate

The Hindu Inadequate drainage turns the city more vulnerable to floods

The Arasankazhani lake near Chemmancherry-Perumbakkam breached a day after Cyclone Fengal made landfall. The city’s location along the Coromandel Coast, climate change, and inadequate infrastructure have turned the monsoon into an annual ordeal

The Hindu Syrian government loses Aleppo after lightning rebel offensive: monitor

The Observatory said Syrian and Russian aircraft staged deadly strikes on December 1 in support of the government

The Hindu 40 years after Bhopal gas tragedy, Union Carbide’s toxic waste yet to be removed

Plan to dispose of 337 MT of toxic waste yet to be implemented; no plan for 11 lakh tonnes of contaminated soil plus mercury, waste dumps; SC, NGT orders ignored for years as groundwater contamination spreads

The Hindu Bangladesh HC acquits ex-PM Khaleda Zia’s son in 2004 Hasina attack case

The High Court Bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain acquitted all 49 accused and observed that the trial court’s verdict in the cases was “illegal”

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