Week ending 20 September 2026

The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) conducted a special inspection of industries operating in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, on 15.09.2026, during which 22 industrial units were inspected, 16 were found non-compliant with applicable norms and Statutory Directions and 12 Show Cause Notices (SCNs) were issued.

Current rule-based investigations lack a market view, says BSE: “Whenever you look at any investigation, you pick up a particular transaction and go after the transaction and find out what has gone wrong.

A recent study published in Nature: Human Behaviour found that adolescents who begin using social media at an early age tend to have significantly lower academic performance.

The law is stimulating the development of purpose-built online spaces for children younger than 16 that can support their developmental needs, offering alternatives to mainstream social media.

The longer-term impact could be more significant if “no social media account before age 16” becomes an accepted norm, making it easier for parents and schools to support delayed social media use.

The U.S. government has long warned, in sweeping terms, that the Chinese tech giant Huawei is effectively an arm of the Chinese state that acts with impunity on the global stage, including allegedly violating U.S. sanctions.

Over the last two weeks, U.S. prosecutors have begun to make that case, labeling Huawei a “criminal enterprise,” in what could be a lengthy trial in a New York federal court.

Huawei enacted “a far-reaching criminal scheme extending over twenty years,” according to Department of Justice prosecutor Taylor Stout.

The Hera Space Companion has access to approved operational, scientific and mission knowledge, allowing it to explain the Hera mission as it unfolds, answer questions in real time and guide users through complex topics ranging from asteroid science and planetary defence to spacecraft operations and autonomous navigation.

Because everyone starts from a different level of knowledge, the Companion can adapt explanations while maintaining scientific accuracy and consistency.

Scientists have found signs that this black hole is actively growing, drawing gas inward with its gravitational pull.

What could cause a galaxy to be so out of sync?

If NGC 4698 funneled in gas from an outside source, the newly collected gas could have formed a disc of gas and stars in the galaxy’s centre, at an angle relative to the rest of the disc.

In a move that should surprise zero people but is worth noting nonetheless, three felony charges against a man who destroyed a police officer’s “decoy” 3D-printed Flock camera have been reduced to misdemeanors after the police admitted the fake camera was not worth more than a thousand dollars.

The police eventually caught a man named Evan Meyer, who allegedly knocked one of these decoy cameras off a pole and destroyed it with garden shears.

Apple will allow developers in five European Union countries to replace its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) pop-up with a redesigned, less intrusive version, following a multi-year antitrust investigation by Germany’s federal competition regulator.

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (September 15) directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to verify whether any encroachments exist outside the Gulbarga (Kalaburagi) Fort but within the 100-metre protected area surrounding the historic monument.

Vivekananda was hearing a 2018 public interest litigation (PIL) filed by architect and urban planner Sharan Desai, seeking implementation of the ASI's 1998 order and subsequent directions issued by the Court for removal of illegal constructions within and around the protected monument.

Police said a criminal investigation had been launched.

India’s broadcast self-regulator has penalised Zee News for its coverage of a student protest at Aligarh Muslim University, determining that the channel misrepresented footage to present a communal narrative.

Sikri, fined Zee News Rs 2 lakh on September 11 for its coverage of an August 2025 protest at AMU.

The Authority found that the broadcasts violated the industry’s code of conduct and directed the channel to remove the content from all platforms and confirm compliance in writing within seven days.

The process enables recovery of iron and chloride from spent pickling acid and their conversion into value-added products, including pigment-grade iron oxide and ammonium chloride.

The Allahabad High Court's newly developed "Payment Setu Portal" facilitated the digital settlement of 18,661 traffic challans and collection of ₹83,38,525 during the National Lok Adalat held across Uttar Pradesh on September 12, 2026.

Developed in-house by the High Court, the portal was operationalised simultaneously in district courts across 74 districts of the State.

The platform enables online payment of traffic challans through a dynamic QR code and UPI-based payment system.

The letter cites a recent WPLN and ProPublica investigation that found that juvenile justice facilities run by Tennessee businessman Jason Crews repeatedly failed to report abuse of children and other serious incidents to the state as required.

404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it.

Last year, a ProPublica investigation revealed that the U.S. kept importing generic drugs from foreign factories after inspectors had identified quality and safety lapses at the sites, including leaks, mold and contaminated water.

Current generic drug labels often include only the location of the packager or distributor, which can be thousands of miles away from the actual manufacturer.

Here is the complete record of the investigation, the evidence chain, and a one-liner defense that permanently shuts it down.

Z.ai posted their statement on Sep 18 at 17:44; public coverage can be found on IT Home.

Here are the key highlights of ProPublica’s investigation into the Dominican baseball system.

In Alpharetta, Georgia, for example, WIRED found that records from the city’s Flock cameras were accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, including police departments, colleges, airports, and, inexplicably, the Office of Inspector General for the federal General Services Administration.

The hackers said they were able to access the Android system on the camera and found two partitions—sections of its hard drive, essentially.

Even prepped, Garcia-Roberts was surprised by what he found: For generations, poor parents in the Dominican Republic have shunted their children into an unforgiving juggernaut of baseball academies praying for a chance at a life-altering signing bonus from an MLB team.

Garcia-Roberts also detailed the rapacious industry that had sprung up around these young players and their parents: Trainers and moneylenders, he found, were siphoning away those signing bonuses with predatory, high-interest loans and other, often questionable, claims before they even arrived.

Significantly, Garcia-Roberts found, MLB itself has long known about the often brutal world surrounding its youngest prospects.

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.

Without a high-throughput method of distinguishing tumour-reactive γδ T cells—that is, those with tumour-reactive TCRs (henceforth, TR γδ T cells)—from bystander γδ T cells in the same tumour microenvironment (TME), these uncertainties will remain.

This result suggests that there is an unknown contribution by the adaptive immune system to outcomes.

The application of PreGame to the validation 1 and 2 MM cohorts, and subsequent reactivity screening, substantially increased the number of TR and NTR γδ T cells that could be leveraged for differential expression analyses.

The widespread use of AI models across most fields of research, and the difficulty of tracing the origin of the information used to train models, could put the very notion of scholarly credit into jeopardy, researchers warn.

Assuming that the OpenAI solution is independently confirmed, it remains to be seen how the maths community will choose to apportion credit — and who deserves the US$1-million award offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute for completing one of seven Millennium Prize Problems that it selected at the turn of the century.

The Supreme Court has recently directed the Telangana State Bar Council to provisionally enrol as advocates a batch of applicants whose three-year LL.B. degrees were obtained through the regular mode, but whose enrolment had been withheld on the ground that their preceding educational qualifications (Bachelor's degree) was obtained through open, distance, or correspondence mode.

The applicants (appellants) had completed their school education and thereafter obtained Bachelor's degrees from Dr BR Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, before completing their three-year LL.B courses through the regular mode from BCI-recognised universities.