News Today Live Updates: Get the latest news updates from India and all around the world. Stay updated with breaking news today.Top News Headlines of October 26, 2025 | With the final exit of the MiG-21s last month bringing down the IAF fighter squadron strength to 29 as against the sanctioned 42, there’s a push within the government to go ahead with the programme to upgrade the Sukhoi Su-30MKI fleet, the backbone of the IAF, officials aware of the latest discussions have told The Sunday Express. The Su-30MKI upgrade programme, also referred to as the Super Sukhoi programme, is a major midlife upgrade programme which can increase the service life of the multirole fighter by another 20 years.
The government is likely to increase print media advertisement rates by 26% after the Model Code of Conduct for the Bihar Assembly elections is lifted next month, according to a source in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Government advertisement rates for television will also be revised later, it is learnt. The decision comes at a time when conventional media is undergoing changes, a source said, adding that the government seeks to support the print media particularly to prevent job losses.
Even as they arrested Prashant Bankar, one of the two individuals allegedly involved in the case related to the suicide of a 29-year-old doctor at a government-run hospital in Phaltan, on Saturday, the Satara police, which had come under the scanner, said they were probing only the rape allegations and not those related to police pressuring the doctor to “falsify” medical certificates. According to PTI, police sub-inspector (PSI) Gopal Badane, an accused in the case, was arrested on Saturday evening, hours after a co-accused had been nabbed.
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