Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla on Friday paid courtesy visits to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Shukla called on the President and Prime Minister for the first time as a courtesy after taking over as Telangana Governor on March 11, a Lok Bhavan media release said. He thanked…
Vijay Rao The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) finds itself, yet again, at a critical inflection point—caught between the promise of reform and the persistence of governance concerns that refuse to fade. Fresh questions have emerged over the Association’s handling of conflict-of-interest norms, particularly in the run-up to its recent elections. A pre-election representation submitted by…
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah released the Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto, or Sankalp Patra, ahead of the assembly polls. Shah said the saffron party’s government in West Bengal would implement a ‘detect. delete and deport’ policy against infiltrators across the state. Shah also announced that the BJP government would implement the Uniform Civil…
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday took oath as a member of Rajya Sabha, marking the end of his two-decade rule in the eastern state and paving the way for a new chief minister. The oath was administered by Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan in his chamber at a brief ceremony….
Madurai (Tamil Nadu): An election flying squad on Friday intercepted and inspected the vehicle of TVK chief Vijay near the Madurai-Sivaganga border. The check occurred while the political leader was travelling from Madurai to Sivaganga by road for his scheduled election campaign ahead of the April 23 assembly polls. According to official sources, the flying…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s electorate grew by over 84 lakh to 13.39 crore after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), according to the final voter list published on Friday. Addressing a press conference at the Lok Bhawan Media Centre here, Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said the SIR exercise was conducted from…
New Delhi: Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court has submitted his resignation to the President on Friday. He was earlier transferred from the Delhi High Court back to Allahabad following a controversy over an alleged cash discovery at his residence. His resignation letter to the President of India reportedly does not mention any…
New Delhi: Experienced Australian Tim White was on Friday named the head coach of India’s junior women’s hockey team by the national federation, replacing Tushar Khandekar, who was with the team since 2023. Hockey India did not specify the reasons for the change nor divulge the duration of White’s contract. White recently served as the…
New Delhi: Space agency ISRO has successfully conducted the second integrated air drop test (IADT-02) for the upcoming Gaganyaan mission at the space station in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. The system is essential to ensure safe recovery of the crew module — the capsule in which astronauts sit during a human flight — during re-entry and…
Thiruvananthapuram: BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said the 2026 Assembly election would be the last contest between three political fronts in Kerala. Speaking to reporters here, Chandrasekhar, who is contesting from the Nemom constituency, said that after the Assembly polls there would be only two political fronts in the state. “On one side,…
