Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu with the Chairman of APEX Investment PSC Khalifa Yousif Al Khouri during a meeting, in UAE. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday highlighted the State’s vast investment potential in petrochemicals, energy, technology, and food processing sectors during the second day of his tour of the... Read More

Former TTD Chairman Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, along with his advocates, attending the S.V. University Campus Police Station in Tirupati on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar Former TTD Chairman Bhumana Karunakar Reddy received notices under Section 35 (3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) from the police at S.V. University Campus Police Station... Read More

Enumerators interacting with a family during the Social and Educational Survey (caste survey), at Nagendra Block, in Bengaluru on October 4, 2025.  | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR The resumption of the Social and Educational Survey being conducted by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes in the State, after Deepavali holidays, was marred by higher... Read More

This frame grab from video shot in October 2016 by Saudi state television shows Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan. | Photo Credit: AP Saudi Arabia appointed a prominent ultraconservative scholar late on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) as the country’s new grand mufti, the kingdom’s top religious scholar. Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, 90, took over... Read More

Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Thursday said that a conference of Urban Development Ministers from all South Indian States will be held in Bengaluru on October 30. The meeting will be chaired by Union Minister for Energy, Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal Khattar.  When asked if Karnataka would seek Central assistance for Bengaluru’s... Read More

On a day when the Opposition INDIA bloc officially declared Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav as its Chief Ministerial face in Bihar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda slammed the Mr. Yadav and his father, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, for their alleged record of “corruption and jungle raj”. In Bihar to... Read More

Kerala Blasters’ CEO Abhik Chatterjee at Kochi. | Photo Credit: P.K. Ajith Kumar The Super Cup kicks off in Goa on Saturday. And that is one of the few certainties about Indian football at the moment, as everyone waits for the clarity about ISL. After skipping the Durand Cup, Kerala Blasters will play at the... Read More

Panathur Main Road in East Bengaluru, which has been closed to vehicular movement for white-topping work, is unlikely to reopen by the scheduled deadline, as civic works have been delayed. The stretch, a key connector between the city centre and the eastern parts, till the outskirts, has remained closed since October 10 for white-topping and... Read More

A 32-year-old advocate who was missing from home for the last two days was found dead on the railway track in Jnanabharati on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Hemanth Kumar V., a resident of J.P. Nagar 6th phase practising law in the city. According to the police, his wife Neha, also an advocate,... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump hit Russia’s two biggest oil companies with sanctions in his latest policy shift on Moscow’s war in Ukraine, prompting global oil prices to rise by 3% on Thursday (October 23, 2025). Mr. Trump also reiterated his claim that India has agreed to “stop” buying oil from Russia and would bring its... Read More