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Telangana: Officials break open strongroom of Dharmapuri Assembly segment
Hyderabad: Officials in Telangana’s Jagtial district on Sunday broke open the strongroom of Dharmapuri Assembly constituency on the direction of the Telangana High Court, which is hearing a petition for re-counting of…
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Internet services restored, curfew relaxed in violence-hit Sambalpur
Sambalpur: The Odisha government on Sunday lifted a curfew during daytime and withdrew a ban on internet services in Sambalpur city which had recently witnessed violence during Hanuman Jayanti celebrations, an official…
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AP: Student injured as lover pour boiling oil on her in Eluru
Amaravati: A student of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, was critically injured after her boyfriend allegedly poured boiling oil on the girl’s hands and legs after confining…
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UK: Story behind Buckingham Palace forgoing the Kohinoor
London: Buckingham Palace would have been conscious about the potential for controversy around the colonial era Kohinoor diamond claimed by India and averted it becoming a side story of King Charles III…
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Caste Census demon haunts Maha BJP ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Mumbai: The clamour for a caste-based Census has once again come to haunt the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre, which is treating the sensitive issue with kid-gloves, with the…
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Hyderabad: CBI grills Kadapa MP’s father in Viveka murder case for 5th day
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continued questioning Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy’s father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy and their follower Uday Kumar Reddy for a fifth day on Sunday in former…
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TSRTC to appoint ‘Village Bus Officers’ across Telangana
Hyderabad: The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) has decided to introduce an innovative program to bring public transportation closer to the public. It has chosen to hire bus officers in villages…
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Eyeing national role, KCR pushes for caste census but not Bihar model
Hyderabad: While Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has been supporting the demand for caste-based census, its government in Telangana may come under pressure from the backward classes (BCs) to conduct a survey in…
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Karnataka: BJP govt dropped 182 hate crime FIRs between July 2019- April 2023
The BJP government in Karnataka issued seven separate orders to drop the prosecution in 385 criminal cases, including 182 cases of hate speech, cow vigilantism, and communal violence, over a four-year period…
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Karnataka: B L Santhosh draws the ire of state bigwigs for BJP’s experiments
Bengaluru: Political circles here are abuzz with BJP national general secretary (organization) B.L. Santhosh’s role in the saffron party’s new experiment in Karnataka ahead of the assembly polls. The BJP’s decision to…
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Karnataka: SDPI fields Ismail Shafi Bellare, accused in BJP leader’s murder
Bengaluru: The move by the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) to field Ismail Shafi Bellare, accused in the murder of BJP Yuva Morcha leader Praveen Kumar Nettaru, and Riyaz Farangipet as…
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Why this man has not slept since the night Atiq was killed
Prayagraj: Ramakant Dubey, an official of the Prayagraj-based Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), has not slept peacefully since April 15, the day gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother…
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No tickets for Muslims from BJP, so why are they upset with Congress?
Bengaluru: Muslims in Karnataka, who comprise a significant group in terms of numbers, are feeling the heat of polarisation politics. The community, which has backed the Congress since Independence, is now tilting…
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Bodies of two missing Indian students recovered from US lake
New York: Bodies of two Indiana University students from India who went missing at a lake last week, have been recovered after a massive search that was hampered by severe weather conditions,…
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North Karnataka: Friends-turned-foes make it tough for BJP
Bengaluru: The BJP is going to face a litmus test in the 2023 state assembly elections in the north Karnataka region considered its bastion. Fingers are crossed over how the people of…
