Delhi's exam protests have become a dispute over the Election Commission's credibility
Delhi protesters demand the chief election commissioner resign over a purge of more than 130 million names from draft voter lists, Foreign Affairs reports. It judges Modi in no danger of falling, yet calls the protests the most significant challenge to his authority since 2014.
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Hyundai Motor Group pledged $15.5 billion for India through 2032 after Executive Chair Chung Euisun met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The company attached a figure to only one line of it, about $700 million for R&D.
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Delhi police detained scores of protesters and three leaders of the 'Cockroach' youth movement on Saturday to stop a rally against the election chief. The curbs reached past the protest site: 45 metro stations and markets were shut across the city and mobile internet was suspended in the business district.
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Delhi police detained over 2,000 people to stop a protest against India's election chief before a court freed the movement's leaders within a day. For investors, the risk that lasts longer is the dispute behind the protests, over some 130 million names cut from voter rolls, according to Election Commission data reported by NBC News.
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India's Cockroach Janata Party says at least 10,000 people were detained before its Saturday march in Delhi, a figure authorities have not confirmed. The group wants election chief Gyanesh Kumar to resign over the revision of India's voter rolls.
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Indian police detained thousands of 'Cockroach' youth protesters in New Delhi on Saturday to stop a march against the voter-list revision. The Hindu put the count above 3,000, and the closures ordered to get there show how far the government will go to defend a revision the opposition says favours Modi's party.
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buildOne report1 publisher India's 40% export jump to China still depends on Chinese parts
India's exports to China rose 40% from April to August 2026, yet the factories behind them still depend on Chinese components, equipment and raw materials. A company that moves assembly to India keeps buying much of its parts supply from China.
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India's toy tariffs cut Chinese dependence in a sector too small to dent a $112bn deficit
India's 70% toy tariff and quality rules cut toy imports from nearly $300mn in 2020 to $100mn this year. Over the same years its trade deficit with China grew from $44bn to $112bn, and that dependence sits in the components and machinery Indian factories use.
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FlyDubai's Israel-bound jet fell 16,000 feet in about a minute after one pilot stabbed the other, Benjamin Netanyahu said. If his account holds, the defence that failed was the airline's vetting of its own pilots.
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Modi said India has moved past policy and plant construction into commercial chip production. The fresh investment announced at Semicon India 2026 came from two equipment suppliers, Applied Materials and Lam Research.
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China books a record $1.2 trillion surplus. Its exports to America are falling
Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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The bloc's leaders adopted a Middle East paragraph that assigns responsibility to no country, and both Iran and the UAE signed it four months after their foreign ministers could not agree on any text at all.
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Splicing two base years turns India's 10.3 per cent nominal GDP growth into 2.6 per cent
India reported 7.8 per cent real growth for the June quarter on a base year newly moved to 2022-23. The former finance secretary who calls the nominal rate 2.6 per cent gets there by comparing levels across two different bases.
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India's "America plus" keeps the diversification thesis alive on Modi's restraint alone
Tariffs, secondary-sanction threats and White House warmth toward Pakistan and China have not moved New Delhi. What holds the line is a political choice with an expiry clause.
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Three countries broke their exams in one season. Anyone hiring on scores should notice
India's paper leak cost a minister his job, Mexico's top university voided about 58,000 entrance results, and Portugal's marking digitisation failed. The failures rhyme.
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