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Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar has raised concerns over the distribution of funds through government schemes ahead of elections, warning that such practices could erode public trust in the electoral process. When asked about his views on the Bihar Assembly election results, Mr. Pawar said he had gathered information indicating a decisive role played by women voters. "The polling for the Bihar elections is complete. I spoke to some people afterward. From them, I ...Read More >
Chennai: Alleging that Booth Level Officers (BLOs) of the Election Commission of India (ECI) were not distributing enumeration forms to members of the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), the party's president Vijay alerted his cadre on the issue and urged them to ensure that their names figured in the Electoral Rolls, which was important for them to cast their votes. Waking up 11 days after the ECI launched the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State, Vijay released a video ...Read More >
New Delhi/Patna: The second and final phase of polling in Bihar will take place on Tuesday when the electoral fortunes of 1,302 candidates, including over half a dozen ministers in the Nitish Kumar government, will be sealed. The incumbent ruling alliance has dubbed the ongoing polls as "development versus jungle raj" while the Opposition Mahagathbandhan are campaigning for "parivartan", or change Around 3.70 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise across 122 Assembly seats on Tue ...Read More >
New Delhi/Patna: RJD leader and INDIA bloc CM candidate Tejashwi Yadav on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of indulging in "negative politics" during his poll campaign. Addressing a press conference in Patna, a day before the second and last phase of polling on Tuesday, Mr Yadav said: "The Prime Minister came here for poll campaign, but he indulged in negative politics. I don't know what sort of web series the PM is watching these days. The PM did not talk about major issues like une ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Voters in the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency will go to the polls today in a high-stakes byelection that has become a prestige battle for the Congress, which hopes to wrest the seat from the BRS, while the BJP seeks to make electoral inroads in the city. Polling will be held from 7 am to 6 pm, with 58 candidates in the fray, though the main contest is between the three principal parties. The bypoll was necessitated by the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath. Chief Minister A. Reva ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The powerful explosion in a car near the Red Fort Metro shattered what was 14 years of calm. For a city that has often been at the heart of the country's most terrible terror strikes, the sound of another explosion felt like an unwelcome echo from the past. Delhi's historic markets, monuments and public spaces have, time and again, found themselves on the frontline of violence, each incident etching deep scars in its collective memory. The summer of 1996 was one of the darkest chapt ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed deep concern over a "growing and disturbing trend" of litigants and lawyers making scandalous and scurrilous allegations against judges when court rulings do not go in their favour. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran made the observation while closing contempt proceedings against litigant N Peddi Raju and two lawyers, who were cautioned that such conduct undermines the integrity of the judicial system ...Read More >
Patna: RJD leader and INDIA bloc chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav on Monday criticised the Election Commission of India (ECI) for "not disclosing gender-wise data" of electors who cast their votes in the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls even after four days of the voting. Addressing a press conference here, he claimed that the RJD-helmed opposition coalition will not allow "vote theft or dishonesty.""The EC has not disclosed the gender-wise data of electors who cast their votes on N ...Read More >
ADILABAD: Kerameri police raided an agricultural field on the outskirts of Kota, one of the disputed villages in Parandholi gram panchayat, Kerameri mandal, Komaram Bheem Asifabad district, and seized 28 ganja plants worth ₹2.80 lakh on Friday. The police found that farmer Shivaji Gaikwad, 50, had been cultivating ganja plants in his field. According to Kerameri SI Madhukar, a police team acting on specific information raided the field and discovered that the ganja plants were grown as an inter ...Read More >
Chennai: The expelled AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam's loyalist and Alangulam MLA P H Manoj Pandian, joined the ruling DMK in the presence Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday. The MLA from Tenkasi district had backed former chief minister Panneerselvam since their expulsion by the AIADMK general council in July 2022. He has been a member of the AIADMK since 1993 and had served as joint secretary of the party's advocates' wing, and he was an MP.Minutes after joining the DMK at Anna Arivalayam, t ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Board of Directors of the Fertiliser Association of India (FAI), in its meeting held on October 31, 2025, elected Mr. S. Sankarasubramanian, Managing Director and CEO of Coromandel International Limited, as Chairman of FAI. Dr. Siba Prasad Mohanty, Managing Director of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd., formerly one of the two Co-Chairmen, will now be the sole Co-Chairman of FAI. Mr. Sankarasubramanian, who is currently Co-Chairman of the FAI Board and Chairman of FAI's Southern R ...Read More >
Saharsa: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday charged the RJD with having stalled development projects in Bihar by putting pressure on the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre to "avenge" its ouster from power in the state in 2005. Addressing a rally in the north Bihar district of Saharsa, Modi also reiterated that the Congress grudgingly agreed to declare Tejashwi Yadav as the INDIA bloc's chief ministerial candidate, after the RJD placed a 'katta' or illegal country-made gun on its head ...Read More >
Hyderabad: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday informed that thunderstorms accompanied with lightning and gusty winds with a speed of 30-40 kmph are likely to occur at isolated places in several districts in the State on Friday. The districts include Adilabad, KomuramBheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Nizamabad, Jagtial, Rajanna Sircilla, Karimnagar, Peddapalli, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mulugu districts of Telangana. The IMD said that light to moderate rain or thundershowers are ...Read More >
Navi Mumbai: Alive in the tournament by a touch of fortune, hosts India will search for a spark of magic reminiscent of skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's legendary knock eight years ago as they take on the mighty Australia in a blockbuster Women's World Cup semifinal here on Thursday.Kaur's 115-ball 171 not out at Derby, England, in 2017 semifinal against Australia was seminal moment which catapulted women's cricket from the footnote to the headlines.A victory over the seven-time world champions would ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, along with IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu, will inaugurate the McDonald's global capability centre (GCC) in Hyderabad on Wednesday, its largest GCC outside the US. The GCC will house global teams across corporate functions such as finance, HR, sourcing, data analytics and AI & technology. The opening is set to further strengthen Hyderabad's position as a major global technology hub. Located in RMZ Nexity in Hitec City, the new office spans four floors an ...Read More >
Bengaluru: TVS Motor Company posts highest ever operating revenue of Rs. 11,905 Crores registering a growth of 29% for the quarter ended September 2025 as against Rs. 9,228 Crores reported in the quarter ended September 2024. The Company posted its highest ever Operating EBITDA of Rs. 1,509 Crores registering a growth of 40% for the quarter ended September 2025 as against EBITDA of Rs. 1,080 Crores in second quarter of 2024-25. Company's operating EBITDA margin improved by 100bps at 12.7% as ag ...Read More >
Kakinada: Cyclone Montha has claimed the life of two persons in the Godavari districts till reports came in around 9 p.m. Gusty winds uprooted trees and electric poles, disrupting power supply and leaving entire areas in darkness. Earlier, officials evacuated 19,305 people to 507 rehabilitation centres in the five districts of Kakinada, Eluru, Konaseema, and East and West Godavari districts. A woman G. Veeraveni (49) died on the spot at Makavanipalem village in Mamidikuduru mandal in East Goda ...Read More >
Hyderabad: As the sun rose over water bodies across Hyderabad on Monday, devotees from northern India gathered on their banks to perform the final rituals of the Chhath Puja, offering prayers to the rising Sun in the traditional 'Usha Arghya' ceremony. The thanksgiving rituals, marking the conclusion of the four-day festival, were observed with great devotion and enthusiasm. Before sunrise, devotees took a holy dip in the water and waited patiently for the first rays of the sun, which are belie ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday said that the state government would allow an increase in ticket prices during the release of major films on the condition that 20 per cent of the profit earned through such hikes is contributed to a welfare fund for cine workers. He said this measure was intended to ensure that technicians, junior artists and daily-wage labourers get a share of the success of high-grossing films instead of the gains being confined to producers and lead actor ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Union minister G. Kishan Reddy on Tuesday said the extension of the nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) scheme for fertiliser manufacturers would ensure surplus supply and price stability for farmers in Telangana. "For the 2025 Kharif season, the state's urea requirement was 9.8 lakh metric tonnes, but the Centre supplied 10.28 lakh tonnes. Of this, 9.79 lakh tonnes have been sold -- 13,000 tonnes more than last year. Even during global crises, Telangana's farmers have never faced a shortag ...Read More >
Mangaluru: In a sharp rebuttal to allegations levelled by former Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, Assembly Speaker and Mangalore MLA UT Khader on Tuesday termed the charges as false, misleading, and cooked-up claims being spread to tarnish his image and divert public attention from the remarkable development works taking place in the Vidhana Soudha. In a press statement Khader said his tenure as Speaker had been marked by transparency and a commitment to improving facilities for legislators an ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Visitors to the Bio Park in Guruvayur municipality, Thrissur district of Kerala, were recently left stunned. The reason for their shock was a statue of Mahatma Gandhi that, apart from the glasses and walking stick, bore no resemblance to the Father of the Nation. The statue had been under construction in the park for several days, and people eagerly awaited its unveiling. However, when the curtains were drawn back, revealing a face that appeared disfigured, the crowd stood ...Read More >
New Delhi: At least 10 encounters were reported across the city this month, resulting in the arrest of over a dozen criminals and the death of five, including four members of a Bihar-based gang, police said.During the operations, bulletproof jackets came to the rescue of several policemen. "Sustained crackdown reflects the police's ongoing strategy to target organised crime networks and habitual offenders active in the capital and neighbouring states. In many cases, these criminals had a histor ...Read More >
Kochi: Kerala Sports Minister V Abdurahiman on Tuesday said that the sponsor for renovating the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium here, for the Argentina team's football match, was selected in a transparent process based on government orders.The minister's response to reporters came a day after Congress MP Hibi Eden alleged "shady dealings" by the Kerala government in the renovation of the stadium.Abdurahiman said that the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) had a day ago clarified ...Read More >
Patna: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor landed in a controversy on Tuesday when it came to light that he was allegedly registered as a voter in his home state of Bihar as well as adjoining West Bengal. According to official records, Kishor is enrolled as a voter in West Bengal at 121, Kalighat Road, the address of the Trinamool Congress headquarters in Kolkata's Bhabanipur assembly constituency, which is Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's seat, an election in West Bengal sai ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Rain lashed eight southern Odisha districts as cyclone 'Montha' in the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday morning, IMD said. Keeping in view the impending situation, the Odisha government has evacuated people from low-lying areas and also hilly terrain prone to landslides in the eight districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi and Kandhamal and deployed 140 rescue teams (over 5,000 personnel) of NDRF, ODRAF an ...Read More >
New Delhi: Dabang Delhi K.C. sealed their spot in the PKL Season 12 final after a dramatic 6-4 tiebreaker win over Puneri Paltan in Qualifier 1 at the Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium on Monday. The teams were locked 34-34 at full time in a fiercely contested match dominated by defenders. Ashu Malik starred for Delhi with decisive raids, while Saurabh Nandal's crucial tackle in the tiebreaker set up the victory. Despite leading late in the game, Puneri Paltan couldn't hold off Delhi's comeback led by N ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds lashed several districts across Kerala on Monday, causing waterlogging in low-lying areas, officials said. In Alappuzha district, a fisherman died after his boat capsized near the Arthunkal coast following a strong wind. The deceased was identified as Paul Devasia, a native of Arthunkal. ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The death of autorickshaw driver Vijay Kumar has turned out to be a murder committed by his wife over frequent quarrels and her alleged extramarital relationship. The Meerpet police cracked the case after receiving the post-mortem report, which confirmed death by strangulation, and arrested the victim's wife. According to police, the case came to light on October 20, when the deceased's mother, Alampally Sathyamma, a resident of Pragathinagar Colony in Jillelguda, lodged a complaint ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The family members of Sheik Riyaz, who recently died in a police encounter, on Monday complained to the Telangana Human Rights Commission (TGHRC) about alleged harassment and torture by certain police officials. Appearing in person before the commission, Riyaz's mother, wife, and minor children alleged that they were not being allowed to enter their house and were subjected to third-degree methods by the officials concerned. They alleged that the deceased police constable Pramod Kuma ...Read More >
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