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This is the same party which came to power making tall claims about an education revolution. Today, teachers are on the streets raising their demands and facing police action, says BJP MP Tarun Chugh
From a film without dialogue to a dwarf protagonist and four characters played by a single actor with an appetite for the unconventional and an instinct for experimentation, Singeetham Srinivasa Rao and Kamal Haasan formed a rare creative partnership that repeatedly turned the impossible into enduring cinema
1.6 lakh crore revenue achieved on average between 2022-25 against estimates of 2 lakh crore
Andhra Pradesh aims for full housing coverage by 2029; a pilot of 177 houses with 3D-printed walls begins at Burripalem
A purported video of the incident that has surfaced online shows a woman hanging on to the bonnet of a car that is trying to move away
Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute
Rajya Sabha MP and BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi terms the lack of a statement from the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha on the incident as, the Gandhi familys silent support to terrorism
The change in district secretary during an interim organisational review is unusual; the move follows the partys setbacks in the Assembly and local-body elections in Palakkad, traditionally a strong district for the CPI(M)
Followers of Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, an expelled BJP MLA, had filed objections under Form 7, allegedly using fudged death certificates to delete the names of several voters
Satheesan accused the CPI(M) of borrowing a page from the Sangh Parivar playbook by playing dog-whistle politics aimed at appeasing the right-wing Hindu nationalist base by disparaging minority communities
Extended meeting on October 6 and 7 will take decisions aimed at strengthening CPI(M)s organisational capabilities and expanding its mass influence
A purported video of CPI(M) councillor demanding 10 lakh from Sanju, a native of Thirumala, to resolve issues concerning a plot he purchased in the ward, had begun circulating two days ago
Elections to 12 Rajya Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal will be held on October 16.
The new zone has secured sanctions for the Visakhapatnam yard remodelling and the Guntakal-Ballari quadrupling, fitted Kavach on about 100 locomotives and opened three Amrit Bharat stations
Already, over 13 crore voters have been obliterated. This has been done under existing laws, using government agencies. But we should realise that these are not just numbers. They are human beings with rights. Their legal lives have been ended by SIR said Prakash Raj
BJP Telangana president N. Ramchander Rao said decisions to delete voters names follow field-level verification, and criticised Congress and AIMIMs allegations against the Election Commission
Justice N. Ramesh said the long period of judicial custody will not outweigh the bar imposed on granting bail under Section 37 of the NDPS Act
While the investigation continues, preliminary details about the incident have highlighted several major security lapses
Diljit Dosanjh is bringing his Aura World Tour to seven Indian cities across November and December, with the India leg beginning in Delhi-NCR on November 1
The 50 MW/100 MWh BESS alongside phase II of the solar park will complement the five BESS projects already under development by the KSEB to tap the surge in Keralams solar power capacity
The West Bengal government has constituted a high-level committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai to examine a draft Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for the State
Congress leader Sachin Pilot alleged the SIR is being used to selectively delete voters, as he also criticised the Rajasthan governments drought response and the AAP government in Punjab
The last repo rate hike was in February 2023, when the RBI raised the rate by 0.25% to 6.50%
In India, where e-commerce, automated consumer services, and AI adoption are all expanding rapidly, the legal dispute between Amazon.com and Perplexity AI offers a useful, if also imperfect, template to think about platform governance and intermediary liability
Commenting on India-Russia ties, Mr. Jaishankar said, For us, Russia and Soviet Union before that, was a country that stood by us in many ways when our security, when our territorial integrity was under threat, and at a time when you know much of the world preferred backing a military regime next to us
BJP State president Nainar Nagenthran alleged a journalists phone was taken and videos forcibly deleted after he filmed Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam functionaries at Dharapuram in Tiruppur district
According to party functionaries present at the venue, an argument broke out after Anshuman Singh, who is seeking an SP ticket from the Gorakhpur Rural Assembly constituency for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, arrived at the packed hall with his supporters and sought seating space
More than 17,000 athletes and officials, a bigger number than the Olympics, descended on Nagoya and Aichi prefecture for the continents premier sporting spectacular
The Roads and Buildings Minister inspects the new RDO office, drainage works and a bypass road, and lays the foundation for a shed at the Dastagiri Swamy Dargah with his own funds
Another search operation is underway at Chigli Keya village in Udhampur, the officials said
The forums said the integration was meant to facilitate the development of the entire 300-odd-km coastal railway network and not to trouble people in other parts of coastal Karnataka
As Indian cinema grieves the passing of Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, we remember the legendary filmmaker through the enduring brilliance of his 1990 masterpiece, Michael Madana Kama Rajan
The proposed academy would be a centre for learning calligraphy and preserving the sanctity of the art form
New research is showing that fungi are protected from antifungals by genetic mutations as well as by making more copies of protective genes, and it seems the idea of dousing fungal pathogens with antifungals is nearing its end
Sukhveer Singh Maiserkhana, the partys MLA from Bathindas Maur constituency, was suspended after alleging a shortage of teachers in government schools in his constituency
Gyanesh Kumar, the current Chief Election Commissioner, was Public Works Secretary in the Keralam during the Malaysian engineers death in Kuala Lumpur in November 2006.
If our enemies again choose the path of military confrontation, our response will be stronger than before, and we will defend ourselves with even more force, Mr. Araghchi said at a gathering of foreign ambassadors
The event witnessed Malladi Suribabu receiving the Sathguru Thyagaraja Hamsadhwani Award, followed by a concert featuring three generations of musicians from the family.
DMK president M.K. Stalin accuses the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam of purchasing MLAs to protect its government, campaigning for the Madurantakam and Dharapuram byelections
The event was conducted in four categories, with male and female winners in each category receiving trophies and cash prizes ranging from 3,000 to 15,000

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