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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad police took into preventive custody several BJP leaders including State president N Ramachander Rao for trying to stage a protest in front of the office of Director-General of Police (DGP) in Lakdi-ka-Pul here on Thursday. The BJP leaders tried to gather in front of the DGP's office to protest against the shootout incident that occurred at Pocharam on Wednesday night. A gau rakshak Sonu Singh suffered bullet injuries in the incident. He underwent a surgery at a corporat ...Read More >
Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu reviewed the rain situation with officials concerned from Dubai. He asked the Home Minister V Anitha to be alert and take necessary precautions and advised officials to take steps to prevent people from facing any problems. He suggested that steps should be taken to prevent loss of life and property. Revenue, police, municipal and electricity departments should work in coordination, he said, instructing officials to evacuate peop ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Police have arrested three individuals in connection with the shooting of Govrakshak Bidla Prashanth kumar near Pocharam IT Corridor on Hyderabad's outskirts on Thursday. The accused have been identified as Mohammad Ibrahim Qureshi, Hassanbin Mosin, and Kuruva Srinivas, while another accused, Mohammad Haneef Qureshi, remains absconding, according to Rachakonda police.The incident occurred on Wednesday near Yamnampally when Ibrahim and his associates intercepted Sonu Singh's vehicle. S ...Read More >
New Delhi: Four wanted criminals allegedly involved in multiple cases of murder in Bihar were killed in a shootout with a joint team of Delhi Police and Bihar Police in Rohini in the early hours of Thursday, police said.The accused, identified as Ranjan Pathak (25), Bimlesh Mahto alias Bimlesh Sahni (25), Manish Pathak (33) and Aman Thakur (21), all residents of Bihar's Sitamarhi district, were part of the 'Sigma Gang', they said. The encounter, which took place around 2.20 am on Bahadur Shah M ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior Congress leader and former Mumbai president Bhai Jagtap on Wednesday said that the Congress will not ally with Raj Thackeray or even Uddhav Thackeray in the coming civic polls in Mumbai. Mr. Jagtap said almost all Congress workers expressed the same view in a meeting with party's Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala. Mr. Jagtap said, "This is a battle of grassroots workers. I have said that we should contest alone. I am not the only person with this stance in the party; our P ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Suspense continued within the BRS whether its president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will campaign for his party's candidate, Maganti Sunitha, for the upcoming by-election to the Jubillee Hills Assembly seat. Whether or not he will campaign, if so, how, remained unclear, but according to party sources, Chandrashekar Rao could take part in a roadshow towards the end of the camping period for the November 11 byelection. The BRS chief, who is scheduled to meet with th ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Education, IT and Electronics minister Nara Lokesh, on the fourth day of his tour in Australia, held a series of high-level meetings for arriving at or elevating AP's partnership with Australia in education, trade, aquaculture, and sports infrastructure. During a meeting with Griffith University vice president (Global) Marnie Watson at the Gold Coast campus, Lokesh urged the establishment of a Griffith University India Centre in Andhra Pradesh to coordinate research, student exchang ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: A school bus belonging to Delhi Public School (DPS), Nadergul campus, caught fire near the Jalpally-Laxmiguda road in Mailardevpally on Wednesday afternoon. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. According to Chandrayangutta fire officer S. Srikanth, the control room received a distress call at around 2.59 pm. A fire tender was rushed to the spot, and the blaze was extinguished within 20 minutes. However, by then the bus had been completely gutted. Preliminary inquiries revealed t ...Read More >
New Delhi: New details have emerged about the intensity of Operation Sindoor, as the Central government has published in the Gazette of India the citations of Indian Armed Forces personnel who were awarded gallantry medals on Independence Day for their roles in the four-day conflict. The citation for Group Captain Ranjeet Singh Sidhu, Commanding Officer of the Rafale Squadron, who was awarded the Vir Chakra, stated that his squadron was selected for strike missions over predetermined targets in ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said Hyderabad has long been a hub of science and innovation and was now emerging as a global centre for system design. Speaking at the Bioinspired Frontiers 2025 International Conference on Space Economy, Biomimicry and Extraterrestrial Resources on Wednesday, he invited global research institutions, investors and innovators to collaborate with Telangana, assuring world-class infrastructure and a supportive ecosystem under Chief Minister ...Read More >
Patna: After days of squabbling that left them pitted against one another in five assembly constituencies of poll-bound Bihar, the Congress and the RJD on Wednesday tried to mend fences and put up a cohesive fight against the formidable ruling NDA. Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, apparently under instructions from the party's top leadership, flew down to hold talks with RJD president Lalu Prasad and his son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav.Accompanied by AICC Bihar in-charge Krishna Allava ...Read More >
MEDAK: Leaders and activists from the ruling Congress and Opposition BJP are showing keen interest in joining the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) across several districts of Telangana. Ahead of the upcoming local body elections in rural and urban areas, large-scale inductions are being witnessed, particularly in the undivided Medak and Nizamabad districts. Most of these joinings are taking place under the leadership of former minister and BRS MLA T. Harish Rao. With elections due for gram panchaya ...Read More >
NELLORE: AP Municipal Administration minister Ponguru Narayana met on Wednesday the family of Tirumalashetty Lakshminaidu, who had been brutally murdered at Darakanipadu village in Gudluru mandal of Prakasam district on October 2. Narayana assured Lakshminaidu family full support and promised strict action to prevent such incidents in the future. At a meeting held at the Roads and Buildings Guest House in Nellore, the minister handed over financial assistance of ₹5 lakh each to Lakshminaidu's ...Read More >
Warangal: An official from the Road Transport Authority (RTA) in Warangal district was defrauded of ₹10 lakh by an unidentified person who impersonated an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officer and threatened him with arrest on false corruption charges. According to Station House Officer (SHO) Bollam Ramesh, the fraudster, identifying herself as "Nisha" and claiming to be an ACB deputy superintendent of police, called the RTA official and pressured him to transfer money through online payment to ...Read More >
Chennai: In online space, the annual September-October period of the festive season sees a peak in demand. While the seasonality is highest in electronics and mobiles, it is lowest in grocery. As per a study by RedSeer, mobiles and electronics exhibit the highest levels of seasonality, making them the riskiest to manage operationally. Mobiles have the most dramatic swing, with a Seasonality Index Difference of 1.7 between the highest and the lowest month. Electronics follows closely with a dif ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a bid to curb user harm from AI-generated deepfakes and synthetically produced content, the IT Ministry has proposed draft amendments to IT rules that mandate labelling and prominent markers to ensure users can distinguish synthetic and authentic content and mooted greater accountability for major social media platforms. With the increasing availability of generative AI tools and the resulting proliferation of synthetically generated information (deepfakes), the potential for misu ...Read More >
New Delhi: The pipping ceremony of Olympic gold medallist and Lt. Colonel (Honorary) Neeraj Chopra was held on Wednesday in New Delhi, marking another significant milestone in his decorated career. The ceremony was attended by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Upendra Dwivedi. According to The Gazette of India, the appointment took effect on April 16. Neeraj joined the Indian Army as a junior commissioned officer in the rank of Naib Subedar on August 2 ...Read More >
Amaravati/Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu began a three-day tour of UAE on Wednesday to woo investments and invite industrialists to the forthcoming CII Partnership Summit in Vizag on November 14 and 15, an official source said. Chief minister left Amaravati for Hyderabad on Wednesday morning and took off for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from there. "The Chief Minister embarked on a three-day visit to UAE," said a press release.The southern state is inviting indus ...Read More >
Kolkata: Contradictory positions taken by two advisors, holding ministerial positions, in the interim government in Bangladesh about the cancellation of 10 Indo-Bangladesh agreements, triggered confusion in diplomatic circles of both the countries. On Sunday, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, who is adviser on local government, rural development and co-operatives of the Bangladesh interim government, in a post on Facebook provided a list of 10 agreements that he called 'cancelled.' He wrote, "A disc ...Read More >
New Delhi: The continued unhygienic state of washrooms in court complexes across the country constitutes a persistent violation of the fundamental rights and the right to dignity of all users, including judges, advocates, litigants and staff, according to status report filed on behalf of different High Courts before the Supreme Court. The apex court was informed that the poor condition of washrooms, even in High Courts in metropolitan cities, was not an isolated incident but showed a systemic a ...Read More >
New Delhi: India on Tuesday evening announced the upgradation of its three-year-old "technical mission" in the Afghan capital Kabul to a full-fledged embassy with "immediate effect". The intent had initially been announced after talks between external affairs minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar and his Afghan counterpart and senior Taliban regime leader Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi here 11 days ago. It may be be noted that while India appears to be steadily inching towards full diplomatic recognition of ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Congress high command has reportedly warned Minister Konda Surekha and her family over their recent conduct, following internal turmoil in the party triggered by the removal of her Officer on Special Duty (OSD), N. Sumanth. Acting on the directive of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Surekha and her husband Konda Murali, met Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday evening to explain controversial remarks made by their daughter Sushmita against the Chief Minister, his adv ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll witnessed an unprecedented rush of nominations on Tuesday, with the total number of candidates expected to cross the 200-mark on the final day of filing. Hundreds of independent aspirants were still in queue at 10 pm on Tuesday, waiting at the returning officer's office in Shaikpet to submit their papers, turning the nomination process into a protest platform to highlight a range of public grievances. Scrutiny of the papers is slated for Wednesday an ...Read More >
Mumbai: Former MLA Bachchu Kadu has ignited a controversy with his provocative remarks urging farmers to kill MLAs instead of resorting to suicide. The statement has drawn strong criticism with Maharashtra minister Sanjay Shirsat urging Kadu to stop inciting farmers. Kadu's remarks came during a farmers' conference in Paturda village in the Buldhana district, where he 'advised' them to target legislators instead of committing suicide, including targeting legislators. Kadu, who heads the Prahar ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu would be in the UAE on a three-day visit to invite global industry giants for the CII partnership summit in Visakhapatnam on November 14 and 15 and seek investments to the state. Naidu would take off from Hyderabad to Dubai in the morning. He would participate in one-on-one meetings, visit the Dubai Future Museum and partnership summit road show in Dubai. On Thursday, he would visit YAS island and participate in a business roundtable meeting. On ...Read More >
NIZAMABAD: Director General of Police (DGP) B. Shivadhar Reddy on Tuesday said that around 65 Maoists from Telangana were still underground, including nearly 40 who hold leadership positions. He appealed to them to surrender and assured that there would be no harassment from the police once they returned to the mainstream. Shivadhar Reddy said Maoists could approach the police through mediapersons, revenue officials or elected representatives to facilitate their surrender. The DGP was speaking ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: Elaborate security arrangements have been made in the state capital ahead of President Droupadi Murmu's arrival in Kerala on Tuesday for a four-day official visit. Traffic restrictions and regulations will be in place throughout the city from 3 pm onwards along the route the President will take from the airport, sources said.Murmu will reach the state in the evening and on Wednesday will visit the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in Pathanamthitta district for 'darshan' and ...Read More >
New Delhi: A day after Diwali, the national capital woke up to a thick layer of smog as the air quality deteriorated to the 'Very Poor' category on Tuesday morning, with most monitoring stations flashing red on the pollution map. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi's overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 350 as of 8 am. The worst-affected areas were Bawana (AQI 423), Jahangirpuri (407), and Wazirpur (408), all falling under the 'Severe' category. Other key locatio ...Read More >
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan and shared Diwali greetings. The President of India in a social media post said, "Prime Minister Shri@narendramodicalled on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan and shared Diwali greetings." Earlier today, President Droupadi Murmu extended Diwali greetings to the nation. Sharing an X post, President Murmu wrote, "On the auspicious occasion of Diwali, I extend my heartfelt greetings and be ...Read More >
NAVI MUMBAI: Chamari Athapaththu won the toss as Sri Lanka opted to bat against Bangladesh in the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. Both teams have two points each, and the winner will stay in contention for a place in the semifinals. Bangladesh has never beaten Sri Lanka in women's ODIs. Defending champions Australia, England and South Africa have already sealed their semifinal spots, with the final place up for grabs. Bangladesh has two points from one win in five games -- it beat Pakistan ea ...Read More >
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