- India
Kerala parties seek exemption from voter hearings during SIR
Thiruvananthapuram: Political parties on Saturday requested the Kerala CEO to minimise hearings of voters as part of the SIR of the electoral rolls. The request was raised during a meeting convened by…
- Bangalore
Husband accused in wife’s death dies by suicide in Bengaluru
Nagpur: A Bengaluru man accused of abetting the suicide of his wife ended his life in a hotel in Nagpur on Saturday, while his mother later attempted suicide out of shock at…
- India
Unnao rape case: Police detain activists, Congress leader at Parliament protest
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday detained activist Yogita Bhayana, Congress leader Mumtaz Patel and several other protesters who were staging a sit-in near the Parliament complex to oppose the suspension of…
- India
No new anti-graft measures in VB-G RAM G: LibTech India
New Delhi: The VB-G RAM G Act has no new provisions to mitigate corruption, LibTech India said on Saturday and asserted that technology should not be the sole gateway to employment, wages,…
- India
Bengaluru man kills wife over job argument, arrested
Bengaluru: A man was arrested for allegedly killing his wife following a quarrel over her job, police said on Saturday. The deceased, Ayisha Siddiqi (39), worked as a masseur at a parlour.…
- India
Assam draft rolls show 10.56L voter names deleted ahead of polls
Guwahati: The names of 10.56 lakh voters have been deleted after the Special Revision of electoral rolls in Assam, where assembly polls would be in less than six months. According to the…
- India
NCP (SP) and Ajit Pawar-led NCP fail to agree on alliance for Pune polls
Pune: Talks between the NCP (SP) and the Ajit Pawar-led ruling NCP over a possible alliance for the next month’s Pune civic polls appear to have hit a dead end, with the…
- World
King Charles, Prince William to be deployed on Trump trade charm offensive in 2026
London: Britain’s senior royals are to be deployed as part of a charm offensive with President Donald Trump to get a coveted trade deal with the US over the line in the…
- World
Ajmer Sharif khadims condemn violence against minorities in India, Bangladesh
Jaipur: The Anjuman Khuddam Syedzadgan, representing the khadims (caretakers) of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, on Saturday condemned the purported incidents of violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh and India, calling for peace,…
- India
Digvijaya brings up Modi’s rise from grassroots, sparking CWC flutter
New Delhi: Causing a flutter ahead of the CWC meeting, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday lauded the organisational power of RSS-BJP as he shared Narendra Modi’s old picture and said…
- World
China opens world’s ‘longest’ expressway tunnel in Xinjiang
Beijing: China on Friday opened to traffic a 22.13-km-long tunnel, which it claimed to be the “world’s longest”, in Xinjiang province. The Tianshan Shengli tunnel, which traverses through the central Tianshan Mountains…
- World
WB SIR row: Banerjee seeks count of Bangladeshis, Rohingyas deleted
Kolkata: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said that the Election Commission must come out with the number of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas out of the 58.20 lakh names deleted after the…
- India
Bareilly violence: Mob attacked police, raised beheading slogans, says chargesheet
Bareilly (UP): A mob attacked police teams and raised slogans of “sar tan se juda” (beheading) on the directions of cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan during the September 26 violence in Bareilly,…
- News
Given equal opportunity, women perform as well as or better than men: Rajnath Singh
Valsad: Women have proved that whenever they get equal opportunities, they perform as well as or even better than men, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. After inaugurating the Shrimad Rajchandra…
- World
BNP’s Tarique Rahman enlists as Bangladeshi voter after 17-year exile
Dhaka/New Delhi: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday completed the formalities to enlist himself on Bangladesh’s voter list and obtain a national identity (NID) card, two days after his return from…
