The Week

Siddaramaiah, who believes that political leaders should regularly address the press and is no stranger to long press conferences, attended his last presser as the longest-serving chief minister of Karnataka on Thursday. Flanked by D.K. Shivakumar on his right and G. Parameshwara on his left, with other party leaders and ministers standing in the background, Siddaramaiah addressed reporters at the conference hall of his home office, Krishna, on Kumara Krupa Road in Bengaluru. He came straight fr

The South West Monsoon, which was initially expected to arrive in Kerala on Tuesday, will likely be further delayed, according to weather experts. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the monsoon will arrive in Kerala only by June 3. The initial prediction was that the monsoon could start in Kerala before June 1, as the powerful push-pull atmospheric mechanism that propels the phenomenon is currently active. While the Mascarene High, the high-pressure zone that forms in the so

Amid allegations of gold theft at the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa Temple, another major Kerala shrine has come under scrutiny in a similar controversy. A report submitted by DGP Ravada A. Chandrasekhar to the Home Department has flagged suspected gold theft and security lapses at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram. According to Manorama News , the DGP report claimed that nearly 78 grams of gold bars and coins offered by devotees to the temple have gone missing over the past few m

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah agreed to step down on Tuesday night following marathon discussions with the Congress high command in Delhi, according to media reports. Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar is the frontrunner for the top post, although the party has not yet announced a final decision on the leadership change. According to a report by The New Indian Express , Siddaramaiah has sought an appointment with Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot at Raj Bhavan on Thursday at 2 pm. He is a

The internal rift and the churning within the AIADMK continued on Tuesday with Ambasamudram MLA Esaki Subbaiah tendering his resignation to the assembly speaker, only to join the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) in the evening. Subbaiahs resignation has taken the total count to four even as five other MLAs from the opposite camp moved back to the parent body controlled by its leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS). Subbaiah is the fourth MLA to resign, thus bringing down the partys strength i

The Indian Meteorological Department had predicted that the monsoon would begin in Kerala around May 26. However, weak winds and hot weather conditions on Tuesday have raised uncertainty over rain arriving in the rest of the country by June 1. The department had said that conditions were favourable for monsoon onset only in some parts of the Arabian Sea. The south-west monsoon is expected to enter he state now only between June 5 and 10. The reported delay is in the wake of El Nios impact. The m

Twisha Sharma, the 33-year-old woman who died by hanging in Bhopal just five months into her marriage, reportedly had planned to meet her brother on May 15. Sharma, however, was found dead on May 12. An official who spoke to Hindustan Times said that Sharma was planning to travel to Ajmer. She was scheduled to travel to Ajmer on May 15, where her brother, Major Harshit Sharma, is posted. We are examining why she took such an extreme step despite having travel plans, the official said. Her family

In a shocking incident, a former sarpanch and Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader was found murdered in Yerkaram village in Suryapet district in Telangana. According to police officials, Chintalapati Madhu was attacked by three assailants who killed him. He was also dismembered into three parts. The remains were packed into three separate gunny bags and dumped onto a nearby SRSP canal before the accused fled the scene. The horrific murder came to light after residents found the suspicious bags in the