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#CycloneArnab | More than 60 trains were cancelled as a precautionary measure as gusts of up to 150 km per hour were expected. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

Libby de Liberdade is a broad-brush portrait, rather than a rigorous exploration of an eventful life. The film’s focus – and its trump card – is the filmmakers’ interactions with Lobo Sardesai, who looks and behaves like she hasn’t crossed 80. scroll.in/reel/1096663... By Nandini Ramnath

During the hearing on Tuesday, advocate Tanvir Ahmed Mir, appearing for the journalist, said that the complaint by Bhagat was “nothing but a retaliated and revengeful action”. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

Citizens are not solely responsible for maintaining peace; the state must also make reasonable arrangements for peaceful assemblies and justify restrictions. scroll.in/article/1096... Preventive proceedings can impose burdens with no conviction for a crime. By Shubham Kumar

The British justified their plunder by calculating the value of goods from their homes much higher than items appropriated from Indians. scroll.in/article/1096... They believed that they were doing the “right thing”, Nandini Nayar writes.

Karnataka SIR: Nearly 1 crore names deleted from final voter list The electors in the state reduced to 4.5 crore from 5.5 crore before the exercise began, a decrease of 17.9%. scroll.in/latest/10966...

Scroll Adda with #NehaBora Catch the AISA national president in conversation with Shoaib Daniyal, only on Scroll’s YouTube channel. Coming soon. Stay tuned!

Amy Coleman, an executive vice-president and chief people officer at Microsoft, said that the voluntary exit offer reflected the company’s efforts to adapt to changing business needs. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

"To depict animals via photographs is not simply to document them – it is to open a doorway into something older than memory, larger than logic. Animals have always been more than their biology." scroll.in/article/1096... An excerpt by Raghu Rai. Harper Collins India #bookexcerpt

#WestBengal | The voters against whom the appeals were filed were already on the electoral rolls and were entitled to vote in the Assembly elections, the poll panel said. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966... #SIR

The titles have been selected based on their sales across #Crossword Bookstores. The winners will be announced in December 2026. Check the list here: scroll.in/article/1096...

According to the 2011 census, India had around 2.68 crore disabled individuals. Over 8.6 lakh people have applied for and are waiting for their IDs. scroll.in/article/1096... Data suggests that around 1.15 crore people still haven't even applied for their UDID number. Sneha reports

Madabhushi Madan Gopal, chairperson of the institute’s board of governors, said, “This is retracted last night and action is initiated on those who played this mischief, I assure such things will not happen again in IISER Pune." scroll.in/latest/10966... #UmarKhalid

The court directed social media platforms to remove or disable access to the video at each URL listed in Adani Enterprises’ petition. They were also directed to disable reposts, quote posts, shares, and other engagements. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

The modified rules allow flex-fuel vehicles to run on E100 alongside E85, which contains 85% ethanol and 15% petrol. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

"There is simply no comparison to the way Afghan women know themselves. They don’t have the luxury of flipping the page or changing the channel and seeing themselves as multidimensional and singular, not symbolic of half a country’s population," says Nadia Hashmi. scroll.in/article/1096...

Students alleged that they were not being allowed to bring food or water inside, while police personnel made repeated announcements over loudspeakers asking students to vacate the campus and nearby areas. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966... #Jamia #JamiaProtest

What happens when a video of yourself is recorded with Meta glasses and shared on Instagram without your consent? Can you take it down? Here's a man's account of a similar ordeal. Raghav Kakkar reports #Watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=KaQ-j

As a country, we have become better at measuring public problems. The harder task is ensuring that the institutions expected to solve them have the staff, money, infrastructure and authority to do so, Kabeer Arora ✍️ Read Here: scroll.in/article/1096...

“Pre-existing voters misrepresenting themselves as fresh voters is an offence and liable for prosecution,” the petitioner’s advocate said. scroll.in/latest/10966... In response, Chief Justice Surya Kant said: “Do not worry. Nobody will be prosecuted.”

"The book places major emphasis on Wajid Ali Shah and his struggle with the British. I don’t want to dismiss that entirely, but the begam is treated as little more than a secondary character in her own book," writes Pragya Mittal. Read full #bookreview: scroll.in/article/1096...

Most Form 7 applications were filed by election officials after the claims and objections period ended, with more than 60,000 forms being filled between September 24 and October 22. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

"It was in his fasts that Gandhi’s Hindu religiosity came to the fore with his own very distinct surcharge, lifting the act above the formulaic abstinence from food to a formidable socio-political demarche. And yet remaining very personal, very intimate." An excerpt from Gandhi’s Hinduism.

Rahul Gandhi acquitted in 2018 defamation case over remarks about Amit Shah scroll.in/latest/10966... The Congress leader’s statement that the home minister was a ‘murder accused’ was not defamatory, the court held.

‘My intention was for this serious issue to reach the public, and that objective has been achieved,’ the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief said. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

As we descend into a crisis of cognitive sovereignty, regulation is necessary but limited, and cannot cover the granularity at which this crisis needs to be addressed. scroll.in/article/1095... The true threat of memory editing occurs at the human side of the loop, Asma R Shora writes.

#Odisha | Randall Sequeira and Laxman Naik were arrested on October 16 in connection with an April clash during protests against Vedanta’s proposed Sijimali bauxite mine. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

Meta claims its smart glasses include tools that let the public know when they are being recorded. However, people who are recorded often say otherwise. youtube.com/shorts/PL3YN... Raghav Kakkar reports Watch full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaQ-...

An important point would be a greater presence of major foreign tech platforms in the country. scroll.in/article/1096... These companies would certainly find more room to operate and face fewer obstacles in the Brazilian market if Flávio Bolsonaro wins, Dawisson Belém Lopes writes

“The electoral registration officer of the concerned constituency is the statutory authority responsible for the preparation and revision of electoral roll of that constituency,” the Election Commission said. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

October 2026 has showed why ground reporting matters. Your support helps our reporters on the ground to document events as they unfold. The challenges are real, but so is the need for independent journalism. Support our reporting: scroll.in/reporting-fund

Across Maharashtra, officials seized approximately 43.5 tonnes of food stock, while 719.2 litres of milk and ghee were seized or destroyed. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

Folk culture in the way that the Kumauni people have inherited it, lies at the heart of this festival. ALF aims to make a sincere effort to bring every such story to the centre stage. scroll.in/article/1096... Vasudha Pant & Tanuja Bahuguna write

"The powerful story of painting’s self-reinvention in the face of a threatening technological change, for Rathore, holds the promise of humanity’s best shot at saving itself in a world where Artificial Intelligence is likely to eliminate humanity." scroll.in/article/1096... By Saikat Majumdar

Reacting to his expulsion on Sunday, Anant Singh said that he had “no regrets” and claimed that the JD(U) would not win even “10 seats” in future elections. He also said he would not join another party and would instead float his own. scroll.in/latest/10966...

Anti-minority violence paved way for BJP to win in Gujarat in 2002. scroll.in/article/1096... But what was not allowed to happen was the dilution of integrity towards “democratic institutions, (which) mean free and fair elections and not merely a ritual to be gone through periodically”.

Stations is strongest, most empathetic in its interpretation of love. What begins as a childhood infatuation develops into a worshipful search of one’s self and roots, and the great burdens one willingly bears to preserve them. scroll.in/article/1096... ✍️Sayari Debnath #sundaybookrecommendation

“If this is how we are going to appoint judges,” Kaul wrote that he told Chandrachud, “you may as well consult and appoint yourself. Chief Justices used to appoint judges before the Collegium was created. You may do it that way. I cannot be party to such a decision.” scroll.in/latest/10966...

Maharashtra also challenged changes made by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India in March to the turnover limits determining whether food businesses require registration, a state licence or a central licence. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

Today on Scroll: - Flashback: When CEC Lyngdoh refused BJP demand for early Gujarat poll until voter roll was updated - Why are protesters looking at 1942 to explain 2026? - Translation has several different relationships with time. AI does not get any of them More ⤵️

On Saturday, the Kargil Democratic Alliance warned of protests and shutdowns if the home ministry failed to implement the governance framework it said had been agreed upon at a May 22 meeting. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

#NehaBora said that she will not sign the bond as “it's in contradiction to democratic right to dissent”. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

"An Adivasi’s individual existence is deeply intertwined with the community, nature & the surrounding world; thus, the personal realm moves in unison with the land, forests, rivers, mountains & the life of the people," Jacinta Kerketta tells Francis Ekka. Read more: scroll.in/article/1096...

Since October 12, five students have been on a hunger strike to demand restoration of student union. scroll.in/latest/10966... On October 17, student organisations alleged that “more than 100” security guards had entered the protest site and “manhandled” the students on hunger strike.

Tensions between the two states arose again in 2021, when Andhra Pradesh held panchayat polls in Kotia. Following this, Odisha filed a contempt petition in 2022. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10966...

In early 1960s, India enjoyed better diplomatic relations with Pyongyang than with Seoul. In 1970, a CPI(M) delegation even received red-carpet treatment in North Korea. scroll.in/magazine/109... While it was courting India, it also maintained good relations with Pakistan. By Ajay Kamalakaran.