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The India Decade. The main stories at 09:05.
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Startups. IIT Madras deep-tech fund raises ₹450 crore in first close, backs rocket and quantum startups. The IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I, unveiled at the IIT Madras alumni conference Sangam 2026 in Bengaluru, has already put ₹55 crore into four startups and is aiming for ₹1,000 crore.
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Also this hour. Human interest. Telangana neurosurgeon charred to death after car hits highway divider. Dr Kasakurti Jagadish was trapped inside his burning vehicle on the Suryapet-Khammam highway, while a separate hit-and-run in Hyderabad killed a three-year-old boy.
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Society. Senior political journalist Payal Mehta dies at 46. The CNN-News18 assistant editor was widely respected across party lines for her tireless coverage of Parliament and national politics.
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Politics. Chiltern Railways becomes sixth operator taken into public ownership. The transition brings promises of more services and seats, but a union dispute over driver-only trains threatens to disrupt the rollout.
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Turning to Society. Society. Converse pulls sneaker advertisement after critics liken imagery to KKK and lynching. The footwear brand apologised and removed the image promoting its new Chuck 70 X shoe after a wave of online outrage.
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AI. AI labs pivot to reasoning models as traditional scaling hits limits. The industry is shifting from massive training runs to 'inference-time compute', changing how models solve complex problems.
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Justice. Three killed and one critically injured after speeding BMW plunges off Mumbai Coastal Road. A BMW travelling at high speed lost control near Lotus Jetty early Sunday, fell about 75 feet and killed three students, leaving a fourth passenger critically injured.
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And finally. Politics. White House bars three major news outlets in escalation of press battle. Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico had their security passes deactivated and confiscated at the gates on Saturday morning.
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