Opposition members protesting SIR in Rajya Sabha blocked by marshals

Opposition members protesting SIR in Rajya Sabha blocked by marshals

Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh conducts proceedings in the House during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Rajya Sabha failed to function on Friday (August 1, 2025), as the Opposition intensified its protest demanding a discussion on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision … Read more

Lions Club members distribute medicines, essentials in old age home

Lions Club members distribute medicines, essentials in old age home

Members of the Lions Club of Vijayawada rural, visited an old age home in Kesarapalli village, Gannavaram mandal and distributed medicines, provisions, and vegetables to the elderly residents. Club president P. Kiran Kumar, secretary Ravi Suresh Babu, treasurer K.S.R.K. Prasad, doctors L. Surendra Babu and D. Suvarna Babu participated in the programmme. Speaking on the … Read more

Man gets death penalty for murdering six members of neighbour’s family in Vizag

Man gets death penalty for murdering six members of neighbour’s family in Vizag

According to judge,  Appala Raju killed six members of a family, including three women and two children, over a personal grudge on April 15, 2021. Representational image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Fourth Additional District and Sessions Court on Friday awarded the death penalty to a 50-year-old man, after convicting him of murdering six … Read more

Jaishankar welcomes European Parliament members’ backing for stronger India-EU ties

Jaishankar welcomes European Parliament members’ backing for stronger India-EU ties

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with Members of the European Parliament, Angelika Niebler, Urmas Paet, Winkler Gyula, Vladimir Prebilič and Pilar del Castillo in Brussels. | Photo Credit: X/@DrSJaishankar via PTI External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has met leaders of the European Parliament and welcomed their support for “stronger” India-European Union relations. Mr. Jaishankar, who … Read more

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