Lok Sabha polls: Siddaramaiah asks if farmers’ conscience will allow them to vote for BJP

March 18, 2024 09:35 pm | Updated 09:35 pm IST - Bengaluru Asking farmers if their conscience would allow them to vote for the BJP that has meted out “injustice” in irrigation projects, drought relief, and in not increasing man days under MGNREGA, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said that …...Read More

Car industry insists 2,000% increase in sales to Azerbaijan has nothing to do with Russia

Britain's car industry has insisted that an unprecedented 2,000% increase in vehicle exports to Azerbaijan has nothing to with Russia and is explained by the fact that the former Soviet state is a "flourishing market in its own right". Sky analysis has found that the British car sector sent another …...Read More

SC order on electoral bonds disclosure does not cover full details from March 2018

March 18, 2024 09:31 pm | Updated 10:31 pm IST - NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on March 18 directed full disclosure of electoral bonds purchased after April 2019, but information about a chunk of poll bonds bought and encashed during the first year of the anonymous political funding scheme …...Read More

Congress objects to Union Jal Shakti Ministry’s claims on Krishna waters

March 18, 2024 09:29 pm | Updated 09:30 pm IST - HYDERABAD Senior Congress leader D. K. Samarasimha Reddy and former MLA Kodanda Reddy demanded that the Brajesh Kumar Tribunal’s decisions on Krishna water sharing be reviewed as there were some discrepancies in the award of water share. Speaking to …...Read More

Lok Sabha polls: Election Commission makes seizures worth over ₹15.53 crore in 24 hours

March 18, 2024 09:21 pm | Updated 09:21 pm IST - Bengaluru The Election Commission has made total seizures worth over ₹15.53 crore in the last 24 hours. With this, the total seizures since March 16 when the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force in Karnataka touched ₹15.89 …...Read More

Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force to use satellite phones

March 18, 2024 09:20 pm | Updated 09:20 pm IST - TIRUPATI Members of the Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force (RSASTF) will soon be using satellite phones in the interior Seshachalam and Lankamalla forests to guard the precious redwood. A training programme was organised here on Monday for the police, …...Read More

Lok Sabha polls: Rumblings in JD(S)-BJP alliance over Kolar seat; HDK says party will contest from three places

March 18, 2024 09:19 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST - Bengaluru The rumblings in the Janata Dal (Secular) and BJP alliance over the Kolar seat and ignoring JD(S) leaders in BJP electoral campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, came to the fore on Monday as JD(S) leaders expressed …...Read More

River Board tells A.P., TS to get prior nod for operations and maintenance works on Nagarjunasagar hydel stations

March 18, 2024 09:18 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST - Hyderabad The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) has permitted the power generation corporations (Gencos) of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana which manage the hydro-electric generation stations at the Nagarjunsagar project to carry out the necessary operations and maintenance works by …...Read More

BSP purposely kept its distance from the ‘money power of big capitalists’, says Mayawati

March 18, 2024 09:18 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST - New Delhi In her first reaction to the electoral bonds scheme that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday pointed out how the revelations over the past week …...Read More

Study reports evidence of ‘missing’ spring in India

March 18, 2024 09:17 pm | Updated 09:18 pm IST - NEW DELHI Indian States have been gradually registering a withdrawal of spring — a period of relatively benign weather between the winter of January and the scorching summers of April, a 50-year analysis of meteorological records suggests. Researchers from …...Read More