Morning Digest: 17.66 lakh names struck off from Odisha’s final electoral roll; Trump praises Mamdani after New York meeting, and more

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Those excluded from the draft roll included 8,32,544 who were found dead, 8,08,205 who had shifted out of their booths, 1,58,118 duplicate entries and 1,99, 249 who were absent. File. | Photo Credit: PTI

Odisha’s final electoral roll published on Monday (September 21, 2026) has 3,16,32,754 voters, a decrease of 17,66,837 from the pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) figure , according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).

U.S. President Donald Trump heaped praise Monday (September 21, 2026) on New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the pair set aside their political differences to discuss immigration enforcement and a multi-billion dollar housing project.

U.S. President Donald ‌Trump spoke by phone with ​Yemeni President Rashad ⁠al-Alimi on Sunday (September 20, 2026), four people familiar with the matter said, discussing the ‌advances of the Iran-backed Houthis around a vital ‌global waterway.

Skydance-owned Paramount reached a settlement on Monday (September 21, 2026) with a group of state attorneys general that had sued to challenge the company’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery, effectively paving the way for the mega merger to move forward, a person familiar with the matter told the AP.

​A 65-year-old Rwandan man has ‌been charged with genocide-related offences allegedly committed ⁠during the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi killings, British prosecutors said on ‌Monday (September 21, 2026).

The Supreme Court on Monday (September 21, 2026) ordered a fresh investigation into the 2012 brutal rape and murder of a 17-year-old near the bathing ghat on the outskirts of Dharmasthala in Karnataka while expressing shock at the botched-up probe into the incident.

The Supreme Court in a judgment on Monday (September 21, 2026) held that an arrested person kept in the dark about the grounds of arrest and without access to a lawyer was entitled to immediate release.

The Supreme Court on Monday (September 21, 2026) asked the Tamil Nadu government to explore whether suitable alternative land was acceptable in lieu of government land allegedly encroached upon by SASTRA University in Thanjavur.

Two Class 10 students, a girl and a boy, returning from a coaching class, were allegedly groped and harassed by a group of men in Bihar’s Jamui district on Saturday (September 19, 2026). A video of the incident went viral on social media on Monday (September 21, 2026), prodding the police to register an FIR and arrest three people.

Namibian cheetah Gaurav died in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park on Monday (September 21, 2026) evening while undergoing treatment, an official said. Ten-year-old Gaurav was rescued from the wild on September 12 after he was observed to be weak and dull.

Five bodies were recovered from the Kottapuzha River at T.K. Colony near Amarambalam, Nilambur, where a flash flood swept away visitors on Sunday (September 20, 2026) evening. Search operations continued throughout Monday (September 21, 2026) for Sajitha, a resident of T.K.