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Basavaprabhu Sri, attached to Davanagere Virakta Mutt, has been chosen as the interim pontiff of the Chitraduga Murugha Mutt in place of rape-accused Lingayat seer, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, sources confirmed on Tuesday.

Earlier on October 14, the NIA had conducted searches at multiple locations including the Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a drone delivery case.

The police apprehended two accused namely Hussain (24) and Chotu (18) into custody in this connection.

A hybrid terrorist belonging to terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), who lobbed a grenade in which two non-local labourers from Uttar Pradesh were killed in Harmen area of South Kashmir's Shopian district, has been arrested, Police said on Tuesday.

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) is part of the world’s largest and most diverse genomic study covering 54 lakh individuals, which has identified 12,222 places in human genome that are associated with human height. The study — ‘A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height’ — was published […]

Hyderabad: Proving its apparent anti-farmer leanings, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is once again at the receiving end of the farmer’s ire in a State ruled by the saffron party itself. The BJP-led Centre, after making Telangana’s paddy farmers suffer by refusing to procure the crop in time earlier this year, is remaining silent even […]

Production of Russia's new Kalashnikov AK-203 assault rifles in India may be launched before year-end, a senior Russian official has said

Hyderabad: Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) on Monday said that there are no minimum qualifying marks for the Group-I preliminary examination, which was conducted across Telangana on Sunday, for getting shortlisted to Mains. The preliminary examination is only a screening test, TSPSC said. “Earlier candidates were shortlisted in 1:50 ratio based on the marks […]

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Justice DY Chandrachud as the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Chandrachud will be sworn in as India’s 50th CJI on November 9. Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, in a tweet, said: “In exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution of India, President appoints Dr. Justice DY Chandrachud, […]

New Delhi: Indian Railways has set a record in scrap sales, with earnings on this count in the first six months of financial year 2022-23 at Rs 2,582 crore, as on September 2022) as compared to Rs 2,003 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal. Earnings from scrap sales in this period are […]

Hyderabad: At a time when the rupee’s value is sinking alarmingly, the Union Finance Minister made comments that gave way to a meme fest online. She said, “I look at it not as rupee sliding but dollar strengthening Nirmala Sitharaman made the statement at the 2022 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and […]

According to some reports, the first case of BF.7 has been detected by the Gujarat Biotechnology Research centre. This new Omicron variant is also considered to be highly infectious and has a greater transmissibility.

Banerjee, while talking to reporters at the Kolkata airport before leaving for a trip to north Bengal, also said she would urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene so that Ganguly is allowed to contest the elections for ICC chief.

"Under PM Kisan the 12th instalment worth of funds Rs 16,000 crore has been sent to farmers across India. Under 'One nation, one fertilizer', farmers will be provided with cheaper & good quality fertilizer," said PM Modi.

Two years ago, Nana Chiloda was a village until it was merged into the Ahmedabad Municipal corporation (AMC). The villagers alleged that the Corporation has failed to provide them with the basic amenities, forcing them to come to the decision.

State BJP President Chandrashekhar Bawankule made the announcement and said its candidate Murji Patel will withdraw his nomination papers on Monday evening -- the last date for withdrawal.

Maneka Gambhir, the sister-in-law of Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday for permission to travel to abroad.

"I have been waiting for long time for this day," she said to waiting reporters after casting her vote in a booth at party headquarters here. She was accompanied by her daughter and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. who also cast her vote here.

In a bizarre incident, a youth in Odisha's Cuttack city was tied to a scooter and dragged on the busy streets over non-payment of borrowed money, police said on Monday.

A warm welcome to Foreign Minister Lemogang Kwape of Botswana on his first official visit to India. The visit will further strengthen our bilateral relations.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a plea by National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) challenging a verdict by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, in which the court allowed a 16-year-old Muslim girl to enter into a valid marriage under the Muslim Personal Law.

The recovery of 1,841 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,40,75,149. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.75 per cent.

The BMW was at 230 KM per hour when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle which crashed into an oncoming container.

Before heading for the CBI office, Sisodia went to his party's headquarters from where he stopped at Rajghat (Mahatma Gandhi's Samadhi). The AAP workers also took out a massive rally to show their solidarity with him.