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A 35-year-old Dalit man named Amit Balmiki was stabbed to death in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday (February 19, 2025), police said. Balmiki’s body was recovered from Shahdabber village under the jurisdiction of Budhana Police Station, they said. “The body of the victim was sent for a post-mortem examination and an investigation is currently underway. […]

T. Kishen Kumar Reddy has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) for a period of three years. Telangana governor and Chancellor of the university, Jishnu Dev Varma, issued the issued on February 13, 2025. He pursued research in the broad areas of Nanolubricants used in Refrigeration systems, Numerical […]

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann rejected rumours of Arvind Kejriwal taking over as Punjab’s Chief Minister, calling them baseless. He also opposed deportee flights landing in Punjab. Amid speculation of a leadership change in Punjab following the Delhi elections, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has dismissed rumors that AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal will take over as Punjab’s […]

According to guidelines issued by the Andhra Pradesh government, the Muslim employees have been asked to leave their offices or schools early by an hour before closing time on all working days during the Holy month of ‘Ramzan’, from 2nd March to 30th March to perform necessary rituals. Soon after the Telangana government took the […]

Gyanesh Kumar was appointed as the CEC by the President upon the recommendation of the Selection Committee chaired by PM Modi. LoP Rahul Gandhi, however, presented a dissent note during the committee meeting as the law regarding the appointment process is under consideration in the Supreme Court. The newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar […]

Himanta Biswa Sarma (File photo) NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday refuted allegations of a political “witch hunt” over the controversy involving Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi‘s British wife Elizabeth Colburn, and her alleged links to Pakistan’s ISI. Sarma insisted that his actions are driven purely by national security interests, which can […]

Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) termed Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party’s objections to the selection of the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) as “another attempt to create controversy and peddle propaganda” around the appointment. Also Read:Gyanesh Kumar named new Chief Election Commissioner Mr. Gandhi, the Leader of the […]

A man from Kotagiri was arrested by the Nilgiris district police on Monday after he defrauded residents of the district by falsely claiming that he worked for the Kotagiri panchayat and that he could get them government jobs. The scam came to light during the weekly grievances redress meeting held at the district collectorate on […]

The Uttarakhand High Court has questioned a plea challenging the mandatory registration of live-in relationships under the state’s Uniform Civil Code and asked how was it an invasion of privacy when couples were “brazenly” living together without marriage. A division bench of Chief Justice G. Narender and Justice Alok Mehra, while hearing a petition challenging […]

KIIT Nepali student death: A third-year B-Tech student, identified as Prakriti Lamsal from Nepal, was found dead in her hostel room on Sunday on the KIIT campus. KIIT Nepali student death: The Odisha government has constituted a high-level fact-finding committee to probe the death of a Nepali girl student, Prakriti Lamsal, whose body was found in her […]

For more than 170 years, the Indian Railway has been the cheapest and easiest mode of travel for the common man. Indian Railways had made massive arrangements for Maha Kumbh by running more than 13,000 special trains, but all these have proved to be inadequate. The unadulterated enthusiasm among devotees heading towards Maha Kumbh and […]

The controversy surrounding Elizabeth Colburn has become a major political flashpoint in Assam, with the BJP alleging links to Pakistan’s ISI and the Congress dismissing it as an election-driven smear campaign. A major political controversy is unfolding in Assam, with Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi at its centre. His wife, Elizabeth Colburn (now Elizabeth Gogoi), has […]