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Telangana SIR | BLOs do the heavy lifting; group hearings to be conducted locality wise

With Tamil Nadu CM Vijay opening the Mettur dam, focus turns to longevity of water release

On Tuesday (September 1, 2026), the water level stood at 91.56 ft with the storage being about 54.45 thousand million…

Electoral scenario will change in 2029, NEET abolition will be first voice in Parliament: T.N. Minister Aadhav Arjuna

Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin said the Chennai city police had denied permission for a memorial meeting…

Why is the CISF leaving Visakhapatnam Steel Plant? | Explained

The Home Ministry has cleared the force’s complete disengagement by November 17 and asked it to recover pending dues…

Beyond the coast, discovering Chennai’s fascinating world of fish

Beyond the coast, discovering Chennai’s fascinating world of fish

Positive response to Onam releases revives hopes for Malayalam film industry

With filmmaker A.D. Girish’s Nivin Pauly-starrer Bethlehem Kudumba Unit turning a blockbuster, exhibitors say the…

Why Mollywood is betting big on major Onam releases this year

Audience response to releases lined up for the festival season, including Nahas Hidhayath’s I’m Game, A.D. Gireesh’s…

This Tamil restaurant in Chandigarh refuses to sweeten its sambar

In Chandigarh’s Sector 46, Gunasekaran P, founder of Karthik South Indian Restaurant, has maintained his dedication to…

Kochi Corporation in Keralam to pitch expansion of budget Indira Canteen under Central schemes

First unit was inaugurated on March 14 amid protest from Opposition LDF, which perceived the initiative as an attempt…

Telangana govt, SCR to prepare DPRs for MMTS expansion, future rail corridors around Hyderabad

SCR officials informed the meeting that DPRs for 17 railway projects covering 2,023 km have already been submitted to…

JNU’s Barak Hostel: Built for northeast students but houses only 12% from the region

Twelve years after the Bezbaruah Committee recommended dedicated housing for Northeast students, JNU’s Barak Hostel has…

India’s GDP growth at 7.8% in Q1, slower than last quarter but quicker than last year

The stronger performance in Q1 of this year as compared to last year has been driven by the manufacturing sector as…

Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, English, and Dutch have all found their way into the Madras bashai, a dialect…

Harvesting the Future: Mechanisation, Free Trade, and Policy Changes in Agriculture

The e-book, provides a multi-faceted analysis of India’s agriculture sector’s critical state.

Can India build a strategic fuel system? | Explained

India’s proposed strategic-fuel programme would expand crude, LNG and LPG storage, but building reserves alone will not…

Markets drift lower in early trade amid higher oil prices, fresh U.S.-Iran tensions

The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 121.48 points to 76,835.79 in early trade; the 50-share NSE Nifty dipped 52.6 points…

Kozhikode Aboobacker, composer and noted Mappilapattu veteran, passes away

Composer of over 3,000 songs, ​Aboobacker was widely admired across South India for his prolific contributions to…

Can jurists be appointed as Supreme Court Judges? | Explained

What does the constitutional provision stipulate? What has limited the use of the provision? How have legal academics…

Single-window system for Ganesh mandals in Belagavi

The facility will be open for the mandals between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

74-year-old man from Keralam’s Wayanad conquers Mt. Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe

T.J. Marce, along with four others from Keralam, summited the 5,642-metre (18,510 ft) peak on August 15 following an…

KPSC ‘scam’: CID arrests key middleman, reportedly associated with BJP in Karnataka

The arrest comes amidst Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy targeting Home Minister Priyank Kharge over the alleged scam in…

Why was a ‘peptide party’ banned in Bengaluru? | Explained

The event was called off after doctors raised red flags about the unsupervised distribution of medical compounds,…

The need for political unity in Kashmir

While Kashmir’s right to dignity and respectable federal arrangement is non-negotiable, the way to realising it cannot…

Patient carried on makeshift bamboo stretcher to hospital in Keralam’s Edamalakkudy; fourth incident in a month

40-year-old woman suffering from high fever carried over 7 km through dense forests as lack of proper roads and bridges…

Key posts at govt. medical institutions across T.N. vacant or held by personnel given additional-charge, say doctors

Doctors say this is impeding administrative functioning and affecting timely decision-making relating to patient care

Thousands rally to save Bengaluru’s Lalbagh, oppose tunnel road project

Thousands congregated at Lalbagh Botanical Park in Bengaluru on August 30, 2026 to oppose the Parks Amendment Bill.

Maharashtra draft electoral roll for all 288 Assembly constituencies out; check your name on the voter list

At least 2.08 crore voters of Maharashtra’s pre-SIR electorate have not been included in the draft electoral roll…

Karnataka High Court quashes acquisition of 1,938 acres for KHB’s housing project over proximity to elephant corridor

The High Court of Karnataka has quashed the acquisition of 1,938 acres of land for the Karnataka Housing Board’s…

FIR against TDP MLA for abduction of Bengaluru businessman, family cites land dispute in R.R. Nagar

The businessman and the MLA are involved in a long-standing legal dispute over a 14-acre property at R.R. Nagar

Scholars, experts to explore India’s rich grammatical traditions at CIIL in Mysuru

Sujoy Sarkar, L-JRO, CIIL and programme coordinator, highlighted the importance of creating greater opportunities for…

Illegal trekking, ‘hidden spot’ tourism raise alarm in Karnataka's Western Ghats

Locals fear that the sudden influx of tourists in ecologically fragile areas could cause irreversible damage to…

World must move from endless war to end of war: PM Modi to Putin

PM Modi and Russian President Putin discuss conflicts in Ukraine and the Black Sea region; PM highlights attacks on…

Citing lack of jurisdiction, India rejects Hague court’s Indus Waters Treaty ruling

MEA says India has 'never recognised the existence in law of this illegally-constituted and so-called Court of…

Bihar, Jharkhand sign agreement on sharing Sone River water

Bihar CM says his State has been allocated 5.75 million-acre feet of the river water, and Jharkhand 2 MAF. The two…

Draft voter lists see over 6 crore deletions so far in SIR third phase

The third phase was carried out in 16 States and 3 Union Territories. Draft rolls of all these States have been…

Nepal flash floods updates: Death toll rises to 939, missing people drops to 3,925: disaster authority

China rejects claims linking its massive hydropower projects in Tibet to the August 26 flash flood disaster in Nepal,…