MLA appeals to people to vote for Sagar Khandre

April 12, 2024 10:44 pm | Updated 10:44 pm IST - KALABURAGI Reiterating that the Congress is fighting to save democracy and the Constitution, Aland MLA B.R. Patil has urged the people to vote for the Congress and support INDI Alliance to preserve the idea of India by rejecting divisive …...Read More

Angela Rayner says she will 'step down' if she is found to have committed a crime

Angela Rayner has said she will "do the right thing and step down" if she is found to have committed a crime in the police investigation into her former living arrangements. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed earlier today that it was re-examining claims the deputy Labour leader may have broken …...Read More

‘Positive development’, says India after Taliban restores property rights of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs

April 12, 2024 10:40 pm | Updated 10:59 pm IST - NEW DELHI India has welcomed the Taliban’s initiative to restore property to the minority Sikhs and Hindus of Afghanistan. In a bid to cleanse Afghanistan’s major cities of property mafia, the ‘Justice Ministry’ of the Taliban administration in Kabul …...Read More

PM Modi supported demand to make Tamil official language of Madras High Court: Judge

April 12, 2024 10:33 pm | Updated 10:33 pm IST - CHENNAI Prime Minister Narendra Modi had supported the demand for making Tamil as the official language of the Madras High Court when he served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2013, said Justice G. Jayachandran of the Madras …...Read More

With the arrest of two elusive kingpins, has the Thirthahalli module been neutralised?

April 12, 2024 10:32 pm | Updated 10:32 pm IST - Bengaluru In the last four years, the module that came to be called the Thirthahalli Module, is alleged to have carried out two IED blasts in Karnataka — the cooker blast in 2022 in Mangaluru and the blast at …...Read More

Outer Manipur: for Kuki-Zo outreach, parties hold-off campaigning, start talks with apex tribe bodies

April 12, 2024 10:32 pm | Updated 10:45 pm IST - Kangpokpi/Churachandpur With large sections of Outer Manipur dominated by Kuki-Zo people set to vote on April 19 along with the Inner Manipur constituency, political parties are now creating backchannels to start talks with leaders of apex tribe bodies and …...Read More

Adivasi identity, defections and national issues resonate as Madhya Pradesh’s tribal belt gears up for Phase 1

April 12, 2024 10:23 pm | Updated 10:23 pm IST - BHOPAL It is now less than a week before the first phase of Lok Sabha election and like the rest of the country, campaigning has reached its peak in Madhya Pradesh where six seats will go to the polls …...Read More

Expenditure observers appointed for Belagavi, Chikkodi

April 12, 2024 10:20 pm | Updated 10:20 pm IST - Belagavi The Election Commission of India has appointed expenditure observers for the two Lok Sabha seats in Belagavi district. Senior Indian Revenue Service officers N. Mohan Krishna (Ph: 8971311395) and Ankit Tiwari (Ph: 8904901395) have been appointed for Chikkodi …...Read More

IISc researchers design novel hydrogel to remove microplastics from water

April 12, 2024 10:18 pm | Updated 10:19 pm IST - Bengaluru Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have designed a sustainable hydrogel to remove microplastics from water. According to IISc, microplastics pose a great threat to human health as these tiny plastic debris can enter our bodies …...Read More

Lakshadweep goes to polls in the wake of a tsunami of unpopular reforms

April 12, 2024 10:17 pm | Updated 10:37 pm IST - KOCHI In the tiny Lok Sabha constituency of Lakshadweep, a Union Territory comprising a group of islands in the Arabian Sea, elections have usually been low-key affairs with little to attract any national attention. Those laidback days are gone; …...Read More