The Hindu (Mangalore)
Authorities lax in ensuring women’s safety in Delhi: SC
Taking suo motu cognisance of a spate of sexual assault incidents against minors and women in the DelhiNational Capital Region (NCR), the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Delhi Police to immediately identify vulnerable pockets, step up patrolling,...
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EC switches to damage control mode after facing flak over SIR
The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday announced a slew of measures addressing concerns over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across the country, including stopping physical hearings for unmapped voters or those with...
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Congress leads protests seeking CEC’s exit, arrest
The Congress on Friday led nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, accusing him of compromising the integrity of India’s electoral process, with the party’s general secretary (organisation),...
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Polls rigged, CEC should quit immediately: Rahul
Elections in India are being rigged, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar acted as “deshdrohis (traitors)” by destroying the country’s votes, Leader of the Opposition in...
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Opposition calls for CEC’s exit over ‘illegal conduct’
Opposition parties on Wednesday sought the removal of Gyanesh Kumar as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) after an Indian Express expose claimed that two of the three members of the Election Commission (EC), Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, had...
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Cannot penalise refusal to sing National Song, says SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that while a democratically elected government may give shape to the scope and length of the National Song, it cannot violate individual and collective religious freedoms or subject conscientious objectors, who...
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IndiaNew Zealand FTA to come into effect on Oct. 20
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and New Zealand that was ratified on Monday and comes into effect on October 20 aims at doubling bilateral trade to ₹35,000 crore in the “next four to five years”, according to Union Commerce Minister Piyush...
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Tata Sons Board did not meet conditions: Trusts
Tata Trusts, the majority owner of Tata Sons, has challenged the validity of the holding company’s September 17 decision to reappoint N. Chandrasekaran as the chairman of its Board, arguing that its Articles of Association (AoA) require affirmative...
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Developing nations wrongly blamed for emissions: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the responsibility for carbon emissions had often been “wrongly placed” on developing countries. He also claimed that India was the only G20 country to have fulfilled all the commitments it made at the...
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Tulu set to get official language tag in DK, Udupi districts
Fulfilling a longpending demand of the people of coastal Karnataka, the government in its Mangaluru Cabinet meeting on Friday decided to accord the additional official language status of Tulu, widely spoken in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi...
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U.S. clears Russia sanctions Bill; India faces tariff threat
he U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation targeting Russia’s energy sector, individuals and the “shadow fleet” of tankers, including authorising the U.S. President to impose tariffs of up to 100% on India and other countries for...
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Pakistan corvette collides with Indian Navy warship
APakistan Navy corvette collided with a frontline Indian Navy warship after approaching it at high speed and manoeuvring in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner in the North Arabian Sea on Tuesday evening. The incident prompted India to summon...
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Merchants face 0.4% fee on UPI payment above ₹2,000
The National Payments Corporation of India has introduced a charge of 0.4% that most merchants will have to pay banks and payment processors on UPI payments they receive in excess of ₹2,000 per transaction, it said on Tuesday. The charge, or Merchant...
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Putin suggests BRICS grain trade to ght global curbs
Under crippling sanctions by Western powers over the war with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed a new insurance mechanism and a collaborative grain market among BRICS nations for economic growth of the bloc as well as the...
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BRICS countries adopt New Delhi Declaration
India forged a consensus of BRICS countries on Saturday, after Iran and the United Arab Emirates agreed to a last-minute compromise on the language used about the war in West Asia, allowing the 11-member grouping to adopt the New Delhi Declaration at a...
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‘State’s appeal against Cauvery water release to T.N. may come up before SC on Sept. 14’
Minister for Water Resources N. Cheluvarayaswamy has said that the State government’s appeal against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu will come up for hearing before the Supreme Court on September 14. Speaking to reporters in Mandya on...
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SC asks Centre to review NEET-SS cut-o decision
The Supreme Court asked the Union government on Thursday to reconsider its decision not to reduce the cut-o percentile for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Super-specialty (NEET-SS) seats in the current year, while expressing concern about a...
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Hormuz tensions are as Iran, U.S. intensify strikes
Tensions between the United States and Iran ared again on Tuesday night after U.S. forces struck ve Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for what Washington said was Tehran’s attack on its warships near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by ring a...
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Modi hits out at critics as he opens freight corridor
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a dig at the Opposition over the newly inaugurated dedicated freight corridor, saying critics would still complain like a “naraz fufa” (grumpy uncle) and manufacture grievances, while dismissing Congress...
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Delhi HC calls for audit of hostels; collapse toll hits 7
The death toll in the collapse of a building housing students in the Satya Niketan area rose to seven on Monday, even as the Delhi High Court expressed deep concern over the safety of students living in similar paying guest (PG) accommodations across...
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India, China hold military talks in Arunachal Pradesh
Amid concerns over con icting territorial claims and military build-up along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian and Chinese Armies held their rst Corps Commander-level meeting in the Eastern Sector on Sunday, marking a signi cant expansion...
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Glacial collapse unlikely to halt China’s plan to build mega dam
Fresh concerns triggered by the devastating glacial collapse along the Nepal-China border are unlikely to sway Beijing’s plans to go ahead with the construction of a mega dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo, or the Brahmaputra river, in a...
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ISRO launches advanced imaging satellite EOS- 05
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday successfully launched its advanced earth observation satellite EOS-05 aboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F17). The GSLV, on its 19th ight, placed the 2,367-kg EOS-05 into...
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Bar Council has no power to punish law students: SC
The Supreme Court on Thursday declared that the Bar Council of India (BCI) and its Chairperson, Manan Kumar Mishra, lack jurisdiction to discipline or penalise law students, rebuking the regulatory body’s attempts to intimidate NALSAR students...
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SC orders oversight of Bar Council’s policy decisions
The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it clear that senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra is serving only as the “pro tem” chairperson of the Bar Council of India (BCI) until fresh elections are held and directed the apex lawyers’ body to consult the...
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Top court quashes FIRs against Gen Z protesters
The Supreme Court, at the urging of the Centre, took a rare and extraordinary step on Tuesday to quash criminal cases registered against Gen Z protesters involved in nationwide stir linked to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) following the NEETUG, 2026...
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Ensure peace, freedom of navigation, PM urges Iran
In the rst top-level meeting between Iran and India since the beginning of the war on Iran in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek and urged him to ensure peace and stability...
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India, Uzbekistan upgrade ties, agree on uranium deal
India and Uzbekistan on Sunday decided to elevate their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership and set a target of $5 billion in annual trade by 2030 following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uzbek President Shavkat...
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Rescue e orts on a war footing in Nepal as disaster toll hits 675
The death toll from Nepal’s devastating ash ood rose to 675 on Saturday, as authorities said rescue operations continued for a fourth day, though hindered by the remoteness of the region. The country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
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Nepal disaster toll rises to 579; nearly 2,000 missing
The death toll in the Nepal ash oods touched 579 on Friday, even as the search for nearly 2,000 missing people continued for the third day after the disaster struck. The Nepal Police said more than 4,500 people had been rescued. Of the 183 Indian...
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Nepal ood toll hits 389; rescue work in top gear
The death toll in the ash ood in Nepal’s Rasuwa district bordering Tibet touched 389 on Thursday, with 910 people still missing. Nepal’s government issued a fresh ood alert after satellite imagery showed that a lake had formed upstream of the...
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157 killed in Nepal ash ood, hundreds missing
At least 157 people were killed and more than 400 people, 133 Indians among them, were missing or out of contact after a massive ash ood in Nepal’s Bhotekoshi River swept through villages in Rasuwa, a district bordering China’s Tibet region, on...
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India, China discuss ways to push border delimitation
India and China on Tuesday said they had discussed advancing talks on delimiting parts of the disputed border, as National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met in Beijing. A statement from the Indian Embassy here said...
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Three newborns killed in Maharashtra hospital re
Three newborns were killed and 36 rescued after a re broke out at the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of the District Women’s Hospital in Amravati, Maharashtra, in the early hours of Monday. The police said the blaze started after a ventilator...
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U.S. MoU best way out of war, says Iran President
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday defended a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States as the best way out of a stalled war while also acknowledging that his country’s citizens face “many problems”. The MoU signed in midJune...
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Cong. alleges bulk voter purge bid in Uttarakhand
Congress leaders in Uttarakhand have alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is accepting and processing unveried bulk applications to delete voters’ names during the claims and objections period of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of...
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Mangaluru to come under SWR’s Mysuru Division from October 1
The Railway Ministry on Friday ordered the transfer of the Mangaluru Railway Region from Southern Railway’s (SR) Palakkad Division to South Western Railway’s (SWR) Mysuru Division. The move fulls the long-standing demand to bring the region under SWR,...
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1978 ‘industry’ de nition void under new code: SC
Ina verdict in which judges varyingly differed on issues, a nine-member Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday held that a nearly halfcentury-old expansive interpretation of ‘industry’, which previously granted workers stronger labour rights and...
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NTA reforms should have meaningful continuity: SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday emphasised the need for institutionalising reforms within the National Testing Agency (NTA) while indicating that the government must not hop from one committee to the next in search of solutions. The court made it clear...
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Ready to drop FIRs against student protesters, says SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to use an exceptional power under Article 142 of the Constitution to quash rst information reports (FIRs) registered against students who joined the nationwide protests against NEET-UG paper leaks that led to the...
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Soren scraps examinations as protests rock Jharkhand
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday announced the cancellation of the Jharkhand Sta Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level ( JSSC-CGL) examination, 24 days after students and job aspirants began a protest over alleged irregularities...
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Bangladesh sets ‘conditions’ for Rahman’s visit to India
The Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Aairs said on Sunday that ocials from New Delhi and Dhaka have been in talks for “several weeks” for a possible visit to India by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. It also said that the atmosphere of bilateral...
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PM takes note of Gen Z anxieties, warns against ‘intellectual Naxals’
Addressing the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on the 80th Independence Day of India, just days after massive youth protests rocked the capital, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed a seven-point economic reform plan and an outreach to Gen Z...
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India helps China evade tari s, claims U.S. report
India is once again in U.S. crosshairs, this time for allegedly allowing China to evade U.S. taris by routing its exports through the country. The latest allegations are part of a new White House report called ‘The Great Transhipment Scam’. In...
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Goods exports surge 20% as India diversi es trade
Despite the ongoing turmoil in West Asia, India’s merchandise exports saw a growth of nearly 20% in July this year, faster than that of imports, ocial data released on Thursday show. Notably, exports to West Asia itself have recovered, with July’s...
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31-member parliamentary panel to review FCRA Bill
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday adopted a motion referring the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, to a Joint Parliamentary Committee ( JPC), amid a huge uproar by the Opposition, which demanded that the Bill be withdrawn completely as...
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Amid backlash, Centre set to refer FCRA Bill to JPC
Faced with demands to scrap the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, from dierent corners of the country on Tuesday — including a unanimous resolution passed in the Tamil Nadu Assembly and mass protests in the streets of Mizoram’s...
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Protesters march to Jharkhand Assembly; 5 injured in clashes
Thousands of students and job aspirants from across Jharkhand marched towards the State Assembly in Ranchi on Monday, breaking through barbed barricades and reaching the Assembly gates as their indenite strike over alleged irregularities in government...
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Netanyahu rejects Trump’s 15-point proposal for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a U.S.-led Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas, putting distance between himself and U.S. President Donald Trump as he tries to shore up his base ahead of close elections. After more than a week of...
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Over 1.5 cr. names o poll rolls in latest phase of SIR
More than 1.5 crore names have been deleted so far from the existing voter lists in the ongoing third phase of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by the Election Commission. Of the 16 States and three Union Territories...
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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye ink defence deal
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye on Friday signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca committing “collective defence” and “collective deterrence”, at a time when Saudi Arabia is under attack from Yemen’s Houthis and West Asia remains engulfed in the...
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Veeragallu in Arsikere taluk throws light on Vishnuvardhana’s last day
Villagers in Neeragunda, in Arsikere taluk, have stumbled upon a centuries-old veeragallu (hero stone) bearing a Kannada inscription that could resolve long-standing confusion over the date of the death of Vishnuvardhana, the celebrated ruler of the...
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RBI panel keeps repo rate steady at 5.25% Meta apologises for ‘errors in operating platform’ as govt. summons senior ocial
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) voted unanimously on Wednesday to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 5.25%, after a detailed assessment of the evolving...
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Udhayanidhi Stalin held for ‘misogynist’ remarks
Tamil Nadu’s Leader of the Opposition and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin was on Tuesday morning arrested by police following a complaint led by a functionary of the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) who...
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Relief to farmers as KRS level crosses 100-foot mark
In the span of a week, water level in the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir in Mandya district of Karnataka, across river Cauvery, has gone up by nearly 12 feet. On Monday, the water level breached the 100-foot mark against the maximum level of 124.80...
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Cauvery situation slightly better, says Shivakumar
Stating that the water situation in the Cauvery was “slightly better” in view of the rain, Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Sunday reiterated his appeal to the Kannada organisations to withdraw their State-wide bandh plan for August 13. However,...
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8 killed as heavy rain lashes Kerala
Eight people died in rain-related incidents in Kerala as a spell of intense rain battered the State from Friday night into Saturday, triggering landslips, ash oods, and widespread destruction, particularly in hilly regions. This comes barely a month...
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Four-storey building collapse leaves 10 dead in Maharashtra
At least 10 people were killed and three injured after a four-storey residential building, declared “dangerous” by the civic body in September 2020 and undergoing illegal repairs, collapsed in Bhiwandi city in Maharashtra late on Thursday...
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‘Judge in her own cause’: HC castigates judicial ocer for ‘abusing power’
In a rare instance, the High Court of Karnataka made scathing remarks against a judicial o¥cer for acting as “a judge in her own cause” by adjudicating the proceedings on a criminal case, which was initiated against three persons on her personal...
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SC restricts ‘retrospective’ environmental clearances
he Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed, with prospective eect, a 2021 O¡ce Memorandum (OM) granting ex post facto environmental clearances to infrastructure projects, holding that the Union government cannot substantially alter protective environmental...
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Centre says no timeline for Namma Metro Red Line and approval depends on appraisal, resources
The Union government has said that it cannot specify any timeline for approving Namma Metro’s Phase 3A (Red Line) project connecting Sarjapur and Hebbal, stating that the proposal is still undergoing detailed appraisal and that its sanction will depend...
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CJP warns of fresh protests over govt.’s ‘promise breach’
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Monday warned of fresh protests, accusing the Centre of violating its assurance that no punitive action would be taken against protesters. “We are observing a complete breach of the agreement regarding no police...
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Nilekani to lead high-powered task force on exam reforms: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced the constitution of a highpowered task force, to be headed by former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani, to recommend steps to make the country’s examination system leak-proof and technology-driven. The...
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Dharmendra Pradhan quits; CJP calls o stir
As the student protests over paper leaks spread across dierent States and snowballed into a major political crisis for the Narendra Modi government, Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the Education Minister on Saturday, prompting the Cockroach Janta Party...
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SC agrees to hear pleas alleging police excesses at CJP’s march
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Monday two freshly instituted petitions alleging police excesses during the July 20 crackdown on student protesters in the national capital. The development came hours after Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...
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Criminal cases booked against 249 guest lecturers who submitted fake doctorate certicates
The Department of Collegiate Education has ordered the registration of criminal cases against 249 teachers who got placed as guest faculty in government rst grade colleges by submitting fake/invalid PhD certicates in the year 202526. Even as the...
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Delhi HC seeks govt. response on police actions during CJP march
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and the Delhi Police to respond to a batch of public interest litigation (PIL) petitions alleging that the police used excessive force against students and other protesters during the Parliament march...
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Congress leaders detained after dharna at PM’s house
The principal Opposition party, the Congress, on Tuesday took the leadership of the anti-government agitation protesting against the spate of paper leaks and seeking education reform, with the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi,...
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Several hurt in crackdown on CJP Parliament march
Several people were injured here on Monday when the police cracked down on a Parliament march called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan even as the government reached out to the...
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11 killed in J&K as heavy rain triggers ash oods
Eleven people were killed and 10 went missing in ash oods triggered by heavy rain in Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, ocials said. Nine deaths were reported from Poonch and two from Rajouri. Initial assessment suggested...
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Police move Wangchuk to hospital on Day 21 of fast
Activist Sonam Wangchuk was whisked away by police from the Jantar Mantar protest site on Saturday morning, in a setback for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led protest demanding resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Mr....
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SC opposes use of SIR data for non-poll tasks
The Supreme Court stated on Friday that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is only linked to elections as a petition said the West Bengal government is using SIR data to delete names from schemes ensuring food security, women’s welfare and Backward...
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Contract for Bengaluru’s tunnel road project subject to outcome of petitions: Karnataka HC
The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday directed that any contract entered into by the State government or its agencies, with third parties for the proposed tunnel road project, will be subject to the outcome of the hearing on three Public Interest...
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Citizenship decisions must be ‘fair, reasoned’, says SC
The Supreme Court on Monday held that the determination of citizenship and foreigner status must be undertaken through a “fair, lawful, and reasoned” process, as it set aside a batch of 27 Gauhati High Court judgments declaring the appellants to be...
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Iran attacks West Asian nations after U.S. strikes
The U.S. attacked Iran early on Sunday over an Iranian strike on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that left one Indian sailor missing. Iran responded with attacks on several countries in West Asia, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, and...
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