BRS MLC K Kavitha's removal as the honorary president of the Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS) has once again exposed the deep cracks within the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). While she was away in US on a personal visit, the party quietly replaced her with former minister and loyalist Koppula Eashwar. A one-line statement from the BRS said Eashwar was "unanimously elected" at a meeting held at Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters. The move seemed well-planned, but the consequen...Read More
Shillong, Aug 21 (PTI) Drugs worth more than Rs 412 crore have been seized in Meghalaya over the past five years and over a thousand people arrested in connection with trafficking, officials said on Thursday. Superintendent of Police (SP) in-charge of the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) Giri Prasad said between 2020 and 2025, the force and state police seized 400,993 grams of heroin, 12,756 kg of marijuana, 2,79,636 kg of opium, 76 kg of yaba tablets, 14 kg of white crystal meth and 1,24,906 b...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a phone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron focusing on resolution of the conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia. Modi described the conversation as "very good". Macron was among the European leaders who accompanied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his talks with US President Donald Trump this week. "Had a very good conversation with my friend President Macron. Exchanged views on efforts for peacefu...Read More
Mumbai: The city has been lashed by three consecutive days of heavy rain, leaving residents grappling with waterlogged streets, endless traffic snarls and deteriorating road conditions. On Thursday evening, the Western Express Highway (WEH) witnessed massive traffic chaos, particularly on the Vakola bridge stretch between Bandra and Andheri, where vehicles came to a complete standstill for hours. Commuters described the situation as nightmarish, with cars and two-wheelers inching forward at a s...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) India is neither the biggest purchaser of Russian oil nor it has the biggest trade surge with Moscow after 2022, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday, in what appears to be the first clear response by a top government functionary following the US slapping an additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods for buying Russian oil. Jaishankar made the remarks in response to a question at a joint media briefing with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "...Read More
New Delhi: The US Embassy in India has clarified that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) did not fund voter turnout initiatives in India, directly contradicting President Donald Trump's claims of a $21 million allocation. The issue surfaced during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha when CPI(M) MP Dr. John Brittas raised a query about reports suggesting USAID resources were used to influence voter turnout in Indian elections. In response, Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister o...Read More
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it was "impossible" that in a continuing marriage a husband or a wife could say they want to be independent of their partner. If anybody wanted to be independent, they ought not enter matrimony, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan cautioned. The bench added, "We are very clear. No husband or wife can say I want to be independent of the other spouse while our marriage is continuing. That is impossible. Marriage means what, coming toget...Read More
New Delhi: The Union government on Thursday cleared the decks for the India versus Pakistan clash in the upcoming Asia Cup. The arch-rivals are scheduled to play in a group stage game in Dubai on September 14. The development comes amid the opposition by Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leaders, including Aaditya Thakceray, to the scheduled clash between India and Pakistan, following the gruesome terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir and Operation Sindoor. The Ministry of Sports...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Odisha will construct 800 additional cyclone shelters to strengthen disaster preparedness, Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari announced on Thursday. During his visit to New Delhi , Pujari met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and formally placed the demand, citing Odisha's high vulnerability to natural calamities such as cyclones and floods. He presented seven booklets detailing the state's disaster-related needs and sought enhanced central assistance. The minister...Read More
GUWAHATI, Aug. 21: The Dhemaji District and Sessions Court on Thursday sentenced a man to death for brutally murdering Nandita Saikia, a student of Moridhal College in Dhemaji district four years back, after she had rejected his marriage proposal. Nandita, a BA student of Moridhal College, was stabbed with a machete by Rintu Sharma on August 21, 2021. She succumbed to her injuries while undergoing treatment in hospital four days later. Her classmate, Kashmina Dutta who was accompanying her, an...Read More
Dehradun (AsiaNews) - Uttarakhand, a state in northern India on the southern edge of the Himalayas, wants to increase the penalties under its anti-conversion law, raising concerns in the local Church, which fears its misuse against minorities. This is the second amendment to the anti-conversion law, in force since 2018, following the amendment of 2022. The Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2025, increases the penalty for forced conversion to 14 years and, in some cases, 20 year...Read More
Guwahati (Assam) [India], August 21 (ANI): The Assam Cabinet on Thursday announced that no new Aadhaar cards will be issued to individuals above the age of 18, except those belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and tea garden communities, for the next one year, a move aimed at curbing issuance to illegal foreigners. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, addressing a press conference, said the restriction has been enforced to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining Aadhaar c...Read More
Hyderabad: The main opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has begun the process of taking legal action against digital media agencies and certain influencers which it claims is "spreading malicious propaganda" against it via alleged paid defamatory content. The BRS has initiated the process of issuing legal notices to "certain" digital media agencies and influencers who are reportedly publishing content content online against former chief minister (and president) K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and...Read More
NEW DELHI: Satish Golcha, a 1992-batch IPS officer, was appointed the new police commissioner of Delhi on Thursday, a day after Delhi CM Rekha Gupta was attacked at her residence. DG (homeguards) SBK Singh was holding the additonal charge of police chief since the incumbent Sanjay Arora retired on July 31.Considered to be a no-nonsense officer, Golcha was currently serving as Director General (prisons) in Delhi and is credited with restoring peace and normalcy in a jail which had been otherwise ...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): Parliament passed 15 bills during the monsoon session that saw continuous protests from the opposition members over their demand for debate on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, with several legislations passed without debate. Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha were adjourned sine die a day before the scheduled ending of the monsoon session, which commenced on July 21. The Session saw 21 sittings spread over 32 days. Apart from the bills pa...Read More
Chandigarh, Aug 21 (PTI) The last rites of a 19-year-old teacher whose body was found in a field in Haryana's Bhiwani more than a week ago and whose death will be probed by the CBI, were held in the district on Thursday. Manisha had gone missing on August 11 after leaving her school, purportedly to enquire about admission at a nursing college. Her body was found in a field in Bhiwani on August 13. On Thursday morning, her last rites were conducted with a large number of people in her native vi...Read More
Patna, Aug 21 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Bihar on Friday when he is scheduled to inaugurate development projects worth more than Rs 13,000 crore, including a bridge over the river Ganges, besides addressing a rally. The PM's programmes will be held at a time Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' is underway in the state. Assembly elections are due in the state this year. During his nearly four-hour-long tour of Bihar, the PM will undertake whistle stop visits ...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) The Congress on Thursday claimed the bills proposing the removal of the prime minister, chief ministers, and ministers under arrest for 30 days on serious charges were a "WMD -- weapon of mass distraction". It claimed the bills were aimed at diverting attention from "vote chori", a strong opposition candidate for the vice presidential polls and the problems in the India-US ties. Congress general secretary in-charge, communications, Jairam Ramesh, said the BJP's "anti-co...Read More
New Delhi: Fatima Nafees, mother of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, has vowed to continue her fight for justice after a Delhi court accepted the CBI's closure report in June, eight years after his disappearance, Maktoob Media reported. Speaking at a public meeting organised by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) at the Constitution Club on Wednesday, Fatima delivered an emotional address: "As long as I am alive, I will keep speaking out about what happened to my son. I don...Read More
New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Satish Golcha has been appointed the new Commissioner of Delhi Police, following the attack on Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday. In its order issued on Thursday, the Home Ministry has said that Satish Golcha, who holds the post of Director General (Prisons), Delhi, is taking over from SBK Singh, who had been appointed as Acting Commissioner of Police on August 1. A man from Gujarat, identified as Sakriya Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai (41), allegedly attacked CM Gup...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): The Central government on Thursday appointed senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Satish Golcha as the new Delhi Police Commissioner. Golcha, a 1992-batch officer of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory cadre), is currently serving as Director General (Prisons), Delhi. He will assume charge as the city's top cop with immediate effect and continue in the post until further orders. Also Read | Jaipur Shocker: Woman Suffering Fro...Read More
Agartala: Tipra Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarma has urged the BJP's Janajati Morcha in Tripura to initiate talks on common concerns, setting aside party rivalries to work for the "larger good of society." The Tipra Motha Party, which emerged as a dominant force after winning the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections, has often been viewed as a strong challenger to the BJP in the state's tribal belt. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and sho...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prominent US economist Jeffrey Sachs on Thursday strongly criticised President Donald Trump's decision to impose steep punitive tariffs on India, calling it one of the worst blunders in American foreign policy. In an interview on the Breaking Points show with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, Sachs said Trump's tariffs were "not a strategy, but sabotage." He warned that the move, instead of giving the US leverage, ended up pushing India closer to other emerging...Read More
Chennai: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president and actor C. Joseph Vijay on Thursday declared that the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election would be a straight contest between his party and the ruling DMK. Addressing a massive gathering at TVK's second State-level conference at Parapathi in Madurai district, Vijay said the BJP was his ideological enemy while the DMK was his political opponent. Thousands of TVK cadres and fans had assembled at the venue since Wednesday night, and Vijay arrived ...Read More
Bhopal, Aug 21 (PTI) Police authorities in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations that Congress MLA Arif Masood was running a college on the basis of forged documents to obtain recognition for his institution. The SIT will be headed by Sanjeev Shami, Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Telecom. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Chhindwara Range Kalyan Chakravarty and Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Training Nimisha...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the Centre's response on a plea against a notification increasing the limit of non-medical faculty for MBBS students for Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Pharmacology. A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued notice to the Centre on the plea, which claimed the regulations were diluting the standards of medical education. The petition sought the judicial intervention ...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed disappointment at the absence of normal proceedings in Parliament's Monsoon session leading to the passage of several bills amid the Opposition's protests, and said bright and young MPs of the Congress do not get to participate in discussions due to the "insecurity" of its leadership. Sources said Modi made these remarks at the customary informal meeting of leaders from different parties in Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's o...Read More
Hyderabad, Aug 21 (PTI) The Telangana High Court on Thursday adjourned to August 22 the hearing on petitions filed by BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao and former minister T Harish Rao seeking to quash the report of the Justice (Retd) P C Ghose Commission of Inquiry on the Kaleshwaram project. The judicial commission, appointed by the Telangana government to probe the project, held former chief minister Chandrasekhar Rao "directly and vicariously" accountable for the "irregularities" in its con...Read More
Moradabad: After the controversy over Muslim-owned restaurants and dhabas using Hindu names during the Kanwar Yatra, a fresh dispute has emerged in Moradabad, where band troupes run by Muslims were found operating under the names of Hindu deities. The matter reached Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath through a complaint on the CM portal, prompting district police to step in. On Tuesday, SP City Kumar Ranvijay Singh summoned several band operators and directed them to immediately remove names linked...Read More
New Delhi: In a significant development days after Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was attacked by a man at a public programme, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has appointed senior IPS officer Satish Golcha as the 26th Commissioner of Delhi Police. Satish Golcha is a 1992-batch IPS officer who will replace SBK Singh who took up additional charge as Commissioner on July 31. Here are all the details you need to know on who is the new Commissioner of Delhi Police. Senior IPS officer Satish Gol...Read More