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Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil, while responding to a supplementary question, said that based on complaints, teams were formed to investigate issues

Finance Minister Balagopal promises a massive 14,500-crore boost to help social security pensioners and fund a series of new community programmes

The small plane was carrying two crew members and 13 passengers, including Digenes Quintero, 36, a member of the House of Representatives for Catatumbo

Addressing a joint sitting of Parliament, President Droupadi Murmu said that during the past almost one-and-a-half years, Vay Vandana cards have been issued to approximately one crore senior citizens

Officials said several victims were believed to have been living on the streets. At least six of the fatalities came early Saturday, as the temperature in the city fell to minus 13 Celsius

RBI study says people above 60 years to be close to 15% of population by 2031

The procession by Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind began in the Rajabazar area of north-central Kolkata and culminated at Esplanade in the central part of the city, covering a distance of about 4.5 km

Renowned Carnatic singer and author, T.M. Krishna at The Hindu Lit Fest 2026 spoke about his latest book, We, The People of India: Decoding a Nations Symbols with Suhrith Parthasarathy. The idea came about seven or eight years ago, when he began singing the unsung verses of Indian national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, and began asking himself What does singing an anthem mean to me? after being deeply moved by it.

Satoshi Yagisawa, in his first international festival appearance, took the stage at The Hindu Lit For Life 2026, in conversation with Rachna Davidar, festival director, to a packed audience of fans who thronged to listen to him speak about the charming world from his books, Days At The Morisaki Bookshop and More Days At The Morisaki Bookshop, both translated by Eric Ozawa.

India said the international rule of law should not be weaponised to question state sovereignty and interfere in the internal affairs of states

The new figures came from the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in multiple rounds of unrest in Iran. The group verifies each death with a network of activists on the ground in Iran.

He said that the government of Karnataka had taken special interest to resolve the issue concerning people displaced by the project and would make honest efforts to provide justice to the affected persons

Steps are now taken to increase the subsidy amount from 5 lakh to 6.25 lakh for general category and from 6.25 lakh to 7 lakh for SC category beneficiaries respectively, the Lt. Governor said.

The State will go to the polls in the next few months, and people must decide whether they want to ''surrender to Bangladeshi Muslims'' or be part of progress and development

My vote, my right basic mantra of democracy, says judge during National Voters Day celebration in Belagavi

Search and rescue efforts were being done in good weather off Basilan province by the Philippine coast guard and navy, along with a fleet of fishing boats

There is a need to build a peoples movement, says the former MLA A.T. Ramaswamy

District electoral officers will now download the list and display it at panchayat bhavans and block offices in West Bengal

Rathan U. Kelkar said in the previous revisions, physical verification was mostly undertaken only when objections were raised. Now, officials are visiting homes and checking records in all cases. Naturally, this caused some initial concern among people, he said.

Former Prime Minister H.D Deve Gowda says he wishes to ensure an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is sanctioned for Hassan, and that both the IIT and Hassan Airport are inaugurated together by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

More than 110 people have already died; every day, three to four people are taking their own lives out of SIR anxiety, says West Bengal CM

Police said an operation is under way in the town of Lake Cargelligo, about 611 km west of Sydney, and urged residents to stay indoors

Had Bengal implemented Ayushman Bharat, only 90 lakh out of its 10 crore people would have qualified to receive the scheme's benefits, leaving the remaining 9.1 crore citizens high and dry, says TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee

Chairperson of Rachnatmak Congress Sandeep Dikshit said the BJP has replaced MGNREGA with a new Act VB-G RAM G with the Congress continuously opposing it

Laxmi Hebbalkar claims to be strengthening Hinduism while other just make empty speeches

The proposed charter seeks to ensure dignity and non-discrimination, privacy and confidentiality of HIV status, access to comprehensive health services, and functional accountability mechanisms across government departments

The Vadhavan port needs to be stopped because it will destroy the livelihood of people in Palghar, especially fisherfolk, the Kisan Sabha said

Over 1.3 crore people have been sent notices to produce documents/file objections on logical discrepancies found against them; petitioners call it heightened profiling

Taking a dig at Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Mr. Shinde said voters had chosen development over emotional issues

A conversation on transforming lived realities into powerful cinema, where memory, identity, and social truth shape stories that resonate far beyond the screen. Mari Selvaraj in conversation with Stalin Rajangam

PM cites poll results for Bihar Assembly, Mumbai local body, and Thiruvananthapuram mayor to claim a national trend; accuses Congress of handing over Assam land to infiltrators, neglecting Kaziranga National Park

The Last Free Naga author Jim Kasom says the central theme of the stories was freedom to practice the Naga way of life, which many mistook for the demand for Naga sovereignty and the political struggle