- Bangalore
Bangalore: Civic body to offer tuitions for poor kids from Aug 15
Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will launch a new project under which it will provide tuitions to poor children studying in the third and fifth standards from August 15 in coordination…
- Bangalore
Battle for Bangalore: BJP, Congress fight it out, AAP exudes confidence
Bengaluru: The political parties in Karnataka have drawn their swords for the battle of Bengaluru. After the intervention of the Supreme Court, decks have been cleared for conducting elections for the 243 wards…
- Middle East
Envoys warn compromises needed in Iran nuke talks
Vienna: Diplomats involved in talks to salvage the stalled Iran nuclear deal in Vienna warned against too many demands being made and not enough compromises. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian said…
- Telangana
Munugode Assembly bypoll to show which way Telangana 2023 is headed
Hyderabad: With a likely three-cornered contest, the by-election to Munugode Assembly seat may indicate the direction in which the wind is blowing in Telangana ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled next year.…
- World
US: Senate Democrats clear first hurdle on healthcare, climate bills
Washington: US Senate Democrats advanced their long-delayed health care, tax and climate bill following months of uncertainty over whether the major legislation could be passed before the November mid-term elections. The Senate voted…
- Afghanistan
Three dead in bomb blast on second day of attacks in Kabul
Kabul: Three persons were killed and seven others were injured in a blast in Kabul’s Pol-e-Sukhta area on Saturday evening, according to Mawlawi Zabihullah, commander of PD6 in Kabul, media reports said. Reports…
- Middle East
Israel says ‘misfire’ by Palestinian militants kills civilians in Gaza
Jerusalem: Israel denied its responsibility for an airstrike that killed civilians, including four children, in Gaza, saying the fatal explosion caused by a failed rocket was launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad…
- Middle East
Palestine: Gaza’s sole power plant shut down due to lack of fuel
Gaza City: The sole power plant in the Gaza Strip has been knocked offline due to a lack of fuel, electricity officials said. As a result, the power supply in the Palestinian territory…
- India
UP: Headmaster asks money for I-Day celebrations, suspended
Hathras: A primary school headmaster in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district has been suspended for allegedly asking students to pay money for the national flag and to celebrate the country’s 75th Independence Day. The…
- World
UNSC to address Gaza airstrikes as death toll reaches 24
Gaza: The UN Security Council (UNSC) is to discuss Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza in a closed doors session in New York on Monday, as the death toll continued to rise, with 24 people…
- Telangana
KCR has no moral courage to face Modi: Bandi Sanjay
Hyderabad: Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Saturday said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has no moral courage to face Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hence he is boycotting the NITI…
- India
Centre asks states with rising COVID cases to ensure effective compliance
New Delhi: Amid rising Covid cases on daily basis, the Centre on Saturday wrote to seven states reporting rising infections, asking them to ensure adequate testing, and promote Covid-appropriate behaviour. In a…
- World
Dick Cheney calls Trump ‘coward’, ‘greatest threat to Republic’
Washington: Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has attacked ex-President Donald Trump, calling him a “coward who lost big” and who poses the “greatest threat to our Republic” in what appears to…
- World
China’s anti-crime campaign targets ‘disloyal’ Uyghurs
Hotan (Xinjiang): Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region used the Chinese government’s 100-day crackdown on criminals and fugitives to target Uyghurs deemed “religious extremists” and “two-faced”, a police officer said, as per…
- World
Biden denounces Wisconsin Gurdwara shooting on its tenth anniversary
New Delhi: US President Joe Biden has denounced the Gurdwara shooting that took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012, on its tenth anniversary. Terming it as the deadliest attack…
