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Q2 Results Today Live: Poonawalla Fincorp Q2 profit surges five-fold, Anand Rathi Q2 profit rises 22%, Canara HSBC Life PAT at ₹43 crore

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-09T14:00:58+00:00

Anand Rathi Wealth, Can Fin Homes, Canara Robeco Asset Management Company and Poonawalla Fincorp are among the companies in focus as the September-quarter earnings season progresses. Follow this live blog for the latest results, key financial highlights and stock movements as companies announce their earnings.

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New spate of stabbings, overdoses and fires at Australian immigration detention centres run by ICE-linked US prison firm

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T14:00:34+00:00

Exclusive: Federal government under scrutiny as documents reveal serious security lapses at Melbourne and Villawood immigration detention centresGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA new spate of stabbings, overdoses and drug use in Australia’s immigration detention centres has put the Australian government in likely breach of laws designed to protect staff and detainees, internal documents show.Earlier this year, Guardian Australia revealed catastrophic security failings across Australia’s onshore immigration network since Management and Training Corporation – a US priv

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Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution of Nidal Hasan puts US in poor company

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:55:07+00:00

Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practiceUS politics – live updatesIf the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist Islam who killed 13 people at a military base in Texas, his country will join a motley assembly of lesser powers and rogue actors who have conducted public executions in recent years.Only two countries currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public: Iran and Afghanistan. In 2025, the Taliban authorities carri

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Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:55:07+00:00

Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practiceUS politics – live updatesIf the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist Islam who killed 13 people at a military base in Texas, his country will join a motley assembly of lesser powers and rogue actors who have conducted public executions in recent years.Only two countries currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public: Iran and Afghanistan. In 2025, the Taliban authorities carri

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Democratic Senate candidate responds to anti-trans attacks pushed by Republicans

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:50:03+00:00

Dr Annie Andrews voices opposition to ‘biological men ... in women’s sports’ in response to Republican attacksDr Annie Andrews, a Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina, has responded to persistent efforts by Republicans to make trans athletes in women’s sports a wedge issue in the race.In a restrained direct-to-camera statement, Andrews – a pediatrician – outlined her opposition to “biological men playing in women’s sports”, as her party pushes back against Republican attacks. Continue reading...

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Liquidity surplus: RBI increases minimum daily maintenance of CRR

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-09T13:47:50+00:00

The banking system liquidity is reeling under liquidity surplus emanating from banks’ mobilising FCNR(B) deposits aggregating $133 billion between June 8 and August 31

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India Cancels Trains, Floods Capital with Police to Block Protests

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:46:12+00:00

A planned protest against a sweeping voter roll revision prompted police to order a virtual shutdown of New Delhi, the capital. The country’s highest court intervened.

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"РФ підходить до сценарію, який був реалізований в 1991 році з розпадом СРСР", - фінансист Віталій Шапран

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-10-09T13:39:00+00:00

Кремль погрожує всім своєю "могутністю" та нескінченними ресурсами, але виявляється, що "цар голий", навіть на тлі рекордних цін на нафту. Екс-член Ради НБУ Віталій Шапран розповів УНІАН, що чекає на економіку окупантів у 2027 році.

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Lightsaber Darth Vader used in ‘I am your father’ Star Wars duel up for auction

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:36:05+00:00

Saber is expected to fetch at least $1m and is one of more than two dozen props that will be up for saleA lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the duel where he tells Luke Skywalker “I am your father” is going up for sale at Heritage Auctions next month.The Vader saber, also used in Return of the Jedi, is expected to fetch at least $1m. It is one of more than two dozen lightsaber props that will be up for sale at the auction that spans Star Wars Episodes I through IX and other films and TV shows from the universe George Lucas created. Continue reading...

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States of emergency declared as Hurricane Isaias barrels toward Gulf coast

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:32:08+00:00

Florida, Alabama and Mississippi brace as Isaias strengthens to category 3 and surges up to 7ft expectedIsaias strengthened into a category 3 hurricane on Friday morning as it barreled toward the US Gulf coast, where states of emergency have been declared in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.The hurricane, the first in the Atlantic in what has turned into a very late 2026 season, is expected to cause a “life-threatening storm surge”, officials said. Isaias is forecast to make landfall on Friday night, somewhere along the Alabama-Florida line with surging seas up to 7ft (2.1 meters) and waves as

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Hurricane Isaias barrels toward Gulf coast as category 3 storm

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:32:08+00:00

States of emergency declared in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, where residents prepare for ‘long-duration power outages’Isaias strengthened into a category 3 hurricane on Friday morning as it barreled toward the US Gulf coast, where states of emergency have been declared in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.The hurricane, the first in the Atlantic in what has turned into a very late 2026 season, is expected to cause a “life-threatening storm surge”, officials said. Isaias is forecast to make landfall on Friday night, somewhere along the Alabama-Florida line with surging seas up to 7ft (2.1 m

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EU ‘pulling out all stops’ with minerals projects as it tries to avert China trade war

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:31:04+00:00

Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné says bloc will support 46 strategic projects including lithium and rare earths plantsThe EU is “pulling out all the stops” to fend off an imminent potential trade crisis with China, the industry commissioner, Stéphane Séjourné, has said, as the bloc announced its backing for a string of critical materials projects.Séjourné said on Friday that the EU would support 46 new strategic projects to accelerate supplies of critical raw materials by 2030 across the bloc. Continue reading...

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Fusion CX to raise ₹702 cr via IPO

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-09T13:28:13+00:00

The price band fixed at ₹275-289 per share

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Execution live stream could cause PTSD in viewers, say psychiatrists

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:26:54+00:00

Warning follows Pete Hegseth announcement that firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer will be public• US politics – latest updatesLivestreaming an execution could cause post-traumatic stress disorder in the viewing public, mental health experts have said after the US confirmed plans to broadcast the death by firing squad of a man who shot dead 13 unarmed soldiers.The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said on Thursday that Nidal Hasan, a former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be executed by firing squad on 3 December. Officials later confirmed it would b

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Green MP Siân Berry says opponents of Zionism motion were ‘persuaded’ not to fight it because of byelection – UK politics live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-09T13:26:25+00:00

The MP says that passing the motion has done ‘genuine damage; to the party’s reputationReport: Labour wins Holborn and St Pancras byelectionAnalysis: defeat will disappoint Greens – but there may also be reliefActivists in Camden have suggested the Greens’ decision to back the anti-Zionism motion has cost them votes in the byelection.Councillors for both Labour the Liberal Democrats told the Press Association that voters had informed them they would not be backing the Green party after it passed the motion last weekend calling Zionism racism.It is clear now we will come a close second in this

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