Akali Dal to pick new chief amid challenges to its authority from rebel members

Akali Dal to pick new chief amid challenges to its authority from rebel members

Rebel leaders of Shiromani Akaki Dal (SAD), who have been expelled from the party including Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Prem Singh Chandumajra, Gurpartap Singh Wadala seen at the event to observe the 39th death anniversary of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal at Longowal town in Punjab’s Sangrur district, on August 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR … Read more

PM Modi meets members of Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup-winning side on visit to island nation

PM Modi meets members of Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup-winning side on visit to island nation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with members of the 1996 Sri Lankan cricket team, in Colombo on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ANI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (April 5, 2025) interacted with members of the 1996 World Cup-winning Sri Lankan cricket team and said the triumph captured the imagination of countless sports lovers. PM … Read more

GBA provision to appoint ward committee members draws citizens’ ire

GBA provision to appoint ward committee members draws citizens’ ire

V. Ravichandar, Bengaluru Restructuring Committee member, says allowing GBA to nominate ward committee members is against the spirit of the 74th Amendment relating to decentralisation. | Photo Credit: file photo In what may contradict the spirit of decentralisation and the 74th Amendment to the Constitution, the Greater Bengaluru Governance (GBG) Bill 2024 has proposed granting … Read more

Former soldier killed; two family members injured in militant attack in Kashmir’s Kulgam

Former soldier killed; two family members injured in militant attack in Kashmir’s Kulgam

A retired Army man was killed and his family members, including wife and daughter, were injured in a suspected militant attack in south Kashmir’s Kulgam on Monday (February 3, 2025.) Preliminary reports suggested that the retired soldier Manzoor Ahmad and his family members were fired upon by gunmen in Behibagh area of Kulgam. Officials said … Read more

SC notice to M.P. govt. in suspicious death of Dalit woman, murders of two family members

SC notice to M.P. govt. in suspicious death of Dalit woman, murders of two family members

A general view of the Supreme Court of India. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 22, 2025) issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government seeking its response on a petition demanding a CBI or SIT investigation into the death of a 20-year-old Dalit woman and alleged murders of … Read more

Case against SRS members for conducting rifle training in Belagavi

Case against SRS members for conducting rifle training in Belagavi

Sri Ram Sena chief Pramod Mutalik | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI Police in Karnataka have registered a case against 12 Sri Ram Sene (SRS) activists on the charge of conducting rifle training in a village in Bagalkot in the last week of December. According to the complaint, SRS activists held a rifle training camp on … Read more

Kunnathunad panchayat president ousted by own party members

Kunnathunad panchayat president ousted by own party members

Kunnathunad panchayat president Neethamol M.V. was voted out of office on October 15 (Tuesday) in a no-confidence motion piloted by members of her own party, Twenty20. She was accused by the party of “violating the terms of her oath of office, serious breaking of laws, criminal conspiracy, corruption, misuse of power, and dereliction of duty.” … Read more

ERCMPU to give 10% of its share value to members

ERCMPU to give 10% of its share value to members

Milma’s Ernakulam Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (ERCMPU) will give away 10% of the value of its shares to its members as dividend, it was decided at the union’s general body meeting that was convened to divide profits for 2023-24. ERCMPU chairman M.T. Jayan said the cooperative societies in the four districts of Ernakulam, Thrissur, … Read more

One dead, 10 BBA members injured in road accident in Rajasthan

One dead, 10 BBA members injured in road accident in Rajasthan

G. Jyothsna (55), wife of Bar Council member, Sunkara Rajendra Prasad, died and ten advocates suffered injuries in a road accident near Jaipur in the early hours on Tuesday (October 8, 2024). About 75 advocates of the Bezawada Bar Association (BBA) were on an education tour to Rajasthan from October 2 to 9. The mishap … Read more

Coast Guard brings detained Iranian fishing boat with six Tamil crew members to Kochi

Coast Guard brings detained Iranian fishing boat with six Tamil crew members to Kochi

The Iranian fishing vessel, which was intercepted by the Coast Guard off the Kerala coast, was subsequently brought to Kochi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Coast Guard detained an Iranian fishing vessel with six fishermen from Kanyakumari on board west of Beypore in north Kerala on Sunday. The vessel was subsequently brought to Kochi … Read more