RBA lifts rates to a 15-year high — and rejects Labor’s inflation blame game The Reserve Bank has pushed the cash rate to 4.6 per cent, warning more hikes may be needed, and explicitly pointed to domestic capacity pressures rather than overseas conflict as the key inflation driver. That sharpens the political stakes for Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the Albanese government, with multiple papers framing the decision as a direct rebuttal of Labor’s public messaging and a fresh hit to household budgets. Covered by: Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The West Australian, Herald Sun, The Advertiser. Cost-of-living crunch deepens as economists warn: more pain may be “needed” Beyond the headline hike, the coverage turns to what comes next: analysts argue inflation is proving sticky even as growth weakens, meaning avoiding further rises could require harsher outcomes like higher unemployment and falling property prices. P

Pradesh 24 Gujarati Editor-in-Chief and CEO Rahul Singh has clarified the context behind a video circulating on social media showing VHP leader Jwalit Mehta visiting the channel’s newsroom and presenting trishuls to women television anchors. The video was part of the Hindutva organisation’s Trishul Deeksha project. Singh, in a post on X, said the video was being shared without context and was being falsely linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots. According to Singh, the woman seen in the video is 20-year-old anchor Piya Gadhvi, who was subjected to a coordinated cyberbullying campaign after reporting on self-styled godman and convicted murderer Rampal. Singh said Gadhvi received thousands of abusive calls and that one person allegedly threatened to create and circulate AI-generated nude images of her. He clarified that the trishul was presented in the newsroom after the threats as a symbolic gesture of solidarity with Gadhvi. “You may agree or disagree with the symbol

Journalists in Khatima have urged the Uttarakhand government to expedite the construction of the proposed Press Club building. Led by Khatima Press Club president Hari Narayan Agarwal, a group of journalists submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday, seeking immediate instructions to start the construction. Speaking with Influencing India, Agarwal said, “A plot for the Press Club building has been allotted by the state government. However, construction has not yet started. Hence, we have given a letter to the CM, demanding that the construction be started soon.” Gorakhnath, Mustaqeem Malik, Deepak Phulera, Sunil Saini, Sapan Rai, Paramjit Singh Pamma, and Sundar Bahadur were present.  

Veteran journalist and former editor of The Hindu BusinessLine, Karunakara Kurup, popularly known as NK Kurup, passed away in Kerala on 26 September 2026. He was 72. Kurup began his journalism career with The Economic Times and The Financial Express in Mumbai before joining The Hindu group. He went on to build a distinguished career in business journalism and served as Editor of BusinessLine until his retirement in 2014. 

Tuesday, 29 September 2026 #1  ·  Times City  ·  Investigative City's Slumber After Nirbhaya Wake-Up Call By Abhinav Garg   ·   The Times of India, New Delhi  ·  Page Page 4 An analysis of Delhi High Court's suo motu PIL on women's safety, initiated after the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape, which reveals the proceedings have effectively stalled since December 2023. Court records show 12 subsequent hearings produced no substantive orders, with the PIL unable to proceed due to bench unavailability or scheduling gaps, even as the Supreme Court separately invoked Nirbhaya parallels to take suo motu cognisance of fresh crimes against women. Built on original analysis of court records and an on-record interview with the amicus curiae, this is a genuinely reported accountability piece that exposes an institutional gap — the very mechanism meant to make Delhi safer has quietly gone dormant — timed with

A journalist covering a protest against the Election Commission of India at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on September 25 has alleged that Delhi Police personnel dragged him onto a bus, snatched his microphone and detained him for several hours while he was reporting.   Mohammad Irfan, who was reporting for The Wire, is one of two journalists whose detention the Press Club of India (PCI) raised in a statement the following day. The other was Vedaant Lakhera of Frontline. The PCI said both were wearing their press IDs at the time.   Notably, the protest was organised by civil society groups, student organisations including the All India Students' Association (AISA), and political activists. It followed an Indian Express investigation which alleged that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar bypassed the other two election commissioners and overrode their objections during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.   Speaking to Influencing India,

Less than 1 per cent of media coverage in a 12-month reporting period reflected locally built AI companies as per new research released. It's a statistic InnovationAus publisher Corrie McLeod says she'd like to have been surprised by but wasn't.  “I know Assistant Minister Charlton spoke several months back, and he was talking about buying AI capability. I know a lot of people are looking around, going, where would you do that? And I think Australian companies are doing great things.  “[But] they're not making it into the news cycle, and I think that has become quite evident. It's in smaller circles. But to your everyday Australian and your mainstream reporting, if you're looking at where sovereign AI capabilities is being built, it's not currently in the conversation”.  That statistic was one of two that struck McLeod from the research, released earlier this month. The other, she said, was that unlike the social media ban, which was closely associated with the eSafety