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The Hindu Mumbai Police arrest sanitation worker for molesting minor girl

Sanitation worker identified as Rajendra Tusabar molested the 12-year-old girl while she was going home from her tuition class

The Hindu Spain’s Ambassador to India discusses AI’s influence on governance, importance of urban planning

Noting that an ignorant attitude towards utilizing technological advancements can hinder a country’s development, Mr. March expressed concern over the lack of adequate urban planning in rapidly growing cities like Bengaluru

The Hindu It’s 200 years since brave Rani Channamma fought the British at Kittur

The two battles of Kittur of 1824, led by Rani Channamma, were among the earliest armed battles against the British East India Company in south India, after the Anglo-Mysuru wars fought by Tipu Sultan

The Hindu Review of R. Kannan’s The DMK Years: In the Dravidian age

Taking stock of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, in its 75th year, warts and all

The Hindu Prayaag Akbar’s new novel, Mother India, plunges into pressing, contemporary matters

The author was in Bengaluru recently to launch the book and discuss its nuances with poet and novelist Jeet Thayil

The Hindu Watering Hyderabad’s dried-up dreams

Since its inception in July this year, the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency, simply known as HYDRAA, has been making headlines for its ruthless bulldozing of unauthorised structures raised on the city’s water bodies. With unflinching support from Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, this newly-constituted body has challenged powerful figures accused of encroachments. Swathi Vadlamudi tracks HYDRAA’s high-profile actions and examines the critical need for urban lake protection

The Hindu What role does CSTT play in standardising technical terms?

What is the ‘Shabd’ glossary platform? How many terms are available on the portal?

The Hindu From the margins to the mainstream: how films are elevating marginalised voices

Dalit cinema is emerging as a powerful force, shifting the focus from elite-centric narratives to the stories of marginalised communities; they not only highlight the struggles and aspirations of oppressed groups but also offer mainstream appeal, paving the way for greater inclusivity in Indian cinema

The Hindu U.S. backs 2 permanent seats for African nations on the UN Security Council

However, Thomas-Greenfield later said Washington opposes giving veto power to the African countries that would hold the two permanent seats because the veto makes the Security Council’s work “dysfunctional”

The Hindu OpenAI launches new ‘Strawberry’ series of AI models

Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Thursday it was launching its "Strawberry" series of AI models designed to spend more time processing answers

The Hindu Anand and Sasikaran to Gukesh and Pragg: India’s rise at the Chess Olympiad

The current team in the Open event in Budapest is India’s strongest ever and second only to the U.S. in ELO ratings

The Hindu Savitri Jindal, India’s richest woman, to contest Haryana elections as an Independent after BJP snub

Ms. Jindal had aspired for a BJP ticket to contest the polls from Hisar but the party renominated sitting MLA and State Minister Kamal Gupta from the seat

The Hindu Gas leak at chemical factory in Thane’s Ambernath

The incident occurred while a chemical company was venting gas in the Ambernath and gas spread throughout the area

The Hindu Competitive sloganeering whipped up frenzy before communal violence erupted in Nagamangala, says FIR

People in the procession raised slogans in front of a mosque for sometime, which was then met with counter-sloganeering