- Telangana
Telangana polls: Cong appoints Ramesh Chennithala as senior observer
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday appointed its leader from Kerala Ramesh Chennithala as senior observer for the Telangana assembly election. It also appointed more observers for some Lok Sabha seats in…
- India
Priyanka urges people to avoid voting on religious lines, slams BJP
Dewas: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday targeted the ruling BJP saying the issue of religion is raked up during the elections, and urged people to avoid giving their votes…
- Delhi
Severe category: Delhi’s air quality dips drastically due to stubble burning
New Delhi: Air quality in Delhi and its suburbs dropped to the ‘severe’ category again on Wednesday with smoke from post-harvest paddy straw burning in neighbouring states accounting for over one-third of…
- India
Jaipur blasts: SC says Raj govt’s plea for stay of acquittal verdict ‘unheard of’
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday termed as “unheard of” the Rajasthan government’s plea seeking a stay of the high court verdict acquitting four men who were handed down a death…
- India
Assam Cong MLA Aftabuddin Mollah arrested for making communal statements
Guwahati: Assam Congress MLA Aftabuddin Mollah was on Wednesday arrested for his alleged “hate speech” targeting a community at a public meeting, a senior police official said. The opposition lawmaker was picked…
- Bangalore
Karnataka HC grants bail to Murugha math pontiff in POCSO case
Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday granted bail to Shivamurthy Sharana, the pontiff of the Chitradurga Murugharajendra Bruhan Math who has been in custody since September last year, facing charges…
- India
L K Advani turns 96; PM Modi, Shah and other BJP leaders greet him
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of senior leaders on Wednesday greeted BJP stalwart L K Advani on his birthday and said he is a beacon of integrity and…
- India
BJP MP Dubey says Lokpal has ordered CBI probe against Mahua Moitra
New Delhi: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday said the Lokpal has ordered a CBI probe against TMC MP Mahua Moitra on his complaint of alleged corruption by her. This comes days…
- Telangana
Telangana’s future will suffer in wrong hands, KCR warns voters
Hyderabad: BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday said the pace of development in Telangana would be affected if the state went into the hands of undeserving people. Addressing an election rally…
- Hyderabad
Kaleshwaram project takes center stage in Telangana poll campaign
Hyderabad: From a mock ‘Kaleshwaram ATM’ installed by the Congress to lampoon the family of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over alleged corruption, to visits of high profile leaders, the Kaleshwaram lift…
- Sports
Mohammed Siraj, Shubman Gill top ICC ODI rankings
Dubai: India opener Shubman Gill and pacer Mohammed Siraj on Wednesday grabbed the top positions in the batting and bowling charts respectively in the ICC ODI rankings. While Gill replaced Pakistan skipper…
- India
Bihar: Over 95% people don’t own any vehicle, says caste survey report
Patna: A whopping 95.49 per cent of people of Bihar don’t own any vehicle, while only 3.8 per cent have two-wheelers and a minuscule 0.11 per cent have cars, according to the…
- India
Teen-run sex racket busted, 4 women rescued in Mumbai
Thane: Police have busted a flesh trade racket allegedly run by a 17-year-old girl at a hotel in Navi Mumbai and rescued four women who were forced into prostitution, an official said…
- Hyderabad
Mohammed Azharuddin brushes off AIMIM challenge in Jubilee Hills
Hyderabad: Former cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin, Congress party’s candidate from Jubilee Hills Assembly segment in the city, on Wednesday, said he is not worried about AIMIM putting up a candidate there and exuded…
- India
Earthquake of magnitude 3.2 hits Rupnagar in Punjab
Chandigarh: An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 hit Punjab’s Rupnagar district early Wednesday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NSC). There was no report of casualty or damage to property, officials said.…
