2 October 2026

When rescued, they were reportedly found being paid meagre wages and made to work seven days a week, facing physical and verbal abuse while living in hazardous and unsanitary conditions.

Maharashtra’s Women Farmer’s Empowerment Act 2026 is a powerful example of what can happen when political will and a clear understanding of why empowering women matters, writes the author of this commentary.

Under the Act, women engaged in agriculture or allied activities will formally be recognised as farmers, even when they do not own the land.

On October 2, Maharashtra is set to begin issuing the Women Farmers Certificates (WFCs) under the newly enacted Women Farmer’s Empowerment Act 2026.

The Delhi High Court (HC) on September 17 issued notice to Google and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on whether a creator can challenge the termination of his YouTube channel through a writ petition at all.

MediaNama has accessed the petition, which was filed on September 12.

Shaban Alam, a creator from Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh, challenges the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) order of July 15, which declined to interfere with Google’s termination of his channel, ‘Indian Reality Show’, on July 1.

There are now at least five lines of investigation being followed by counter-terrorism police, from the suspects being petrol smugglers to alleged Iran proxies seeking to blow up a US airbase.

Looking across a swathe of golden oat grass to the Apple House, it seems almost inconceivable that the M25 and M1 motorways are just beyond the treeline.

Each sphere is a fanfare of tiny trumpets, their flared funnels marked with brown stripes.

While the adults invite attention with their black and white striped antennae and connexivum (edge of the abdomen), and reddish-brown forewing bases and pronotum (a hardened plate covering the front of the body), the young bugs’ markings shield them from sight.

During the build and packaging process, normaliz's built-in test was found to get stuck in a loop that it could not exit, causing the packaging to time out.

If you are an Android user, you may have noticed it already: Google has begun allowing rival, third-party app stores to be distributed through the Google Play Store.

Specifically at issue were Google's restrictions on the distribution of alternate app stores through the Play Store, restrictions on app developers who have little practical choice but to distribute their apps through the Play Store, and Google’s rules governing in-app payments and the fees associated with them.

CISA added CVE-2026-86950, affecting Apple Multiple Products, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Apple iOS, macOS, and iPadOS contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in CoreGraphics that may lead to arbitrary code execution.

The catalog lists today as the due date for the required action.

Individual-level data, including single-nucleus count matrices, are available to approved researchers.

September was a month of milestones and discoveries.

The Lisp family of programming languages is infamous for their parenthesis-heavy syntax.

Many people, myself included, find this syntax more difficult to read than the notation of languages like Python, Java or C.

The perceived unreadability of Lisp is significant enough that multiple attempts have been made to create new notations to aid Lisp’s adoption.

The changes that have been publicly announced do not go far enough.

In the presence of His Excellency Dr. William Samoei Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya, DP World and Kenya-based GulfCap Africa signed an agreement for the development of the Mombasa Industrial Park, which is planned as a 222-hectare Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

The agreement builds on the partnership announced by DP World and GulfCap Africa in early August.

The tripartite agreement between DP World, Country Government of Mombasa and GulfCap demonstrates what is possible when government creates the right environment for business.