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- India
BJP-led Mahayuti set to win 25 out of 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra
Mumbai: Breaking the nearly three-decade-old dominance of the undivided Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, January 16, emerged as the single largest party in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)…
- India
Maharashtra: Gauri Lankesh murder accused wins Jalna civic poll
Jalna: Shrikant J Pangarkar, an accused in the 2017 murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, on Friday, January 16, won as a corporator from the Jalna Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra. Counting of votes…
- Hyderabad
Police arrest suspect for desecrating temple in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: A day after the Mysamma temple at the Puranapul Darwaza area of Hyderabad was desecrated, the city police said that the suspect involved in the incident was arrested on Thursday, January…
- Hyderabad
A damaged temple flexi, graves smashed: What unfolded at Puranapul Darwaza
Hyderabad: A communal clash jolted the city’s Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb on Wednesday night, January 14, after a tattered flexi board and a damaged deity idol were allegedly found inside the Mysamma Temple at…
- Telangana
BRS MLA defection: Speaker dismisses two more disqualification pleas
Hyderabad: Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar on Thursday, January 15, dismissed the petitions to disqualify two BRS MLAs who allegedly shifted loyalties to the ruling Congress. Pronouncing the orders on the…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Two cases filed after Puranapul temple vandalism, violence
Hyderabad: The Kamatipura police booked two cases on Wednesday, January 14, for the vandalism of a temple in Hyderabad’s Puranapul and the subsequent violence, where five people were injured and a religious…
- India
SC to hear ED plea against Mamata Banerjee-I-PAC row today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to hear on Thursday, January 15, a petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleging that its recent simultaneous raid and search operations at the…
- Kashmir
What sect, mobile IMEI, relatives abroad? J&K mosque survey raises fears
Locals raised concerns after the Jammu and Kashmir Police began collecting personal and financial information from those working in mosques as part of an exercise to “gather data.” A four-page form accessed…
- Hyderabad
IAS officer defamation: Hyderabad Police arrest NTV editor, 2 journalists
Hyderabad: The Central Crime Station (CCS) of Hyderabad Police arrested NTV Input Editor and senior journalist Donthu Ramesh and reporters Paripoorna Chary and Sudheer late on Tuesday night, January 13, in connection with…
- India
Maharashtra civic polls: All eyes on Mumbai as voting starts Jan 15
Mumbai: As Maharashtra heads to the elections on Thursday for 29 municipal corporations, the spotlight is on Mumbai, where the BJP-led Mahayuti is locked in a battle with the united Thackeray front…
- Middle East
Death toll from crackdown on protests in Iran jumps to 2,571, say activists
Dubai: The death toll from a crackdown on protests in Iran jumps to at least 2,571, activists said early Wednesday, January 14. The figure came from the US-based Human Rights Activists News…
- World
2026 Iran protests: Trump tells protesters ‘help is on its way’
Washington: President Trump said Tuesday, January 13, he’s cancelled talks with Iranian officials amid a protest crackdown, telling Iranian citizens, “help is on its way.” Trump did not offer any details about…
- India
States to pay heavy compensation for every stray dog-bite incident: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 13, said it will ask states to pay a “heavy compensation” for dog-bite incidents and hold dog feeders accountable as it flagged its concern…
- India
SC split on mandatory sanction to probe govt officials for corruption
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 13, delivered a split verdict on the constitutional validity of a 2018 provision of the anti-graft law, which mandates prior sanction for initiating a…
- Middle East
US slaps 25 pc tariff on countries ‘doing business’ with Iran
The US on Tuesday, January 13, announced that any county doing business with Iran will attract a tariff of 25 per cent, mounting economic pressure on the Islamic republic where the death…
