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Delhi HC Queries How Media Got Centre's Affidavit Before It Saw It
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma asked how the Centre's counter-affidavit in a same-sex partner medical rights plea reached the press first; the ASG denied government sharing, and Bar & Bench reported the bench recorded the affidavit as not on record.
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India Cites Energy Security as Report Says US House Backed Russia Sanctions Bill
The Indian Express reports a House-passed measure granting up to 100% tariff authority over buyers of Russian oil; India's MEA cites energy security for 1.4 billion people. A differently titled, differently staged Senate bill reported earlier by Livemint remains unreconciled in the captured sources.
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YourStoryUPI MDR: Parliament Told No Charges Planned as Report Describes New Fee
Open source record ↗YourStoryYourStory reports $5B Applied Materials India chip plan; PIB record confirms presence, not terms
Open source record ↗YourStoryNSE Allots ₹6,746 Crore Anchor Book Ahead of IPO Subscription
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Two arXiv Papers Model Launch Pricing and Orbital Computing — Neither Compares Indian Rockets With SpaceX
The captured research addresses launch-market competition and space-based AI compute, but supplies no India-versus-SpaceX cost-per-kilogram comparison. Our draft states only what the papers model.
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Huawei Plans 2027 AI Chip Launches, Touts UnifiedBus Scaling
Rotating chairman David Wang says the Ascend 960DT and 960PR will arrive in 2027, with UnifiedBus technology central to Huawei's larger AI systems.
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YourStory reports $5B Applied Materials India chip plan; PIB record confirms presence, not terms
A single YourStory report says Applied Materials announced a decade-long $5B India plan at SEMICON India 2026, including a 140-acre research park and a doubled R&D workforce by 2035. PIB materials place Applied Materials at the event and at a PM-chaired roundtable held separately at Seva Teerth on 16 September 2026, but do not carry the figures.
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UPI MDR: Parliament Told No Charges Planned as Report Describes New Fee
A Lok Sabha answer says there is presently no proposal to impose UPI transaction charges, while a YourStory report describes a 0.4% merchant discount rate above Rs 2,000 and competing brokerage estimates of what it could yield.
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Fortnite v42.20 Adds Five Lobby Hack Codes: What's Actually Confirmed
A VICE roundup says the September 17 update activated five Admin Panel codes rewarding Sprite Dust, Llama Supply Drops and Extraction Accelerators, while an earlier VICE preview listed codes tied to Cyberpunk and Kingdom Hearts before activation.
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