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No Salary For 2 Years, Karnataka Man Kills Self In Front Of Government Office
- Oct 18, 2025 11:10 am IST
- Reported by: Reethu Rajpurohit
In his suicide note, he said that despite repeatedly requesting settlement of his pending salary and even submitting a resignation due to ill health, officials failed to respond.
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Tension Grips Priyank Kharge's Turf Over Crackdown Ahead Of Proposed RSS March
- Oct 18, 2025 11:08 am IST
- Reported by: Deepak Bopanna
Chittapur, the constituency of Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge, remains tense after municipal officials removed saffron flags and banners put up ahead of a proposed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) tomorrow.
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Less Harmful, But Not Harmless: Delhi Divided Over Green Crackers Ruling
- Oct 18, 2025 11:05 am IST
- Written by: Aastha Ahuja
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 15) allowed bursting green crackers in Delhi between October 20 and 21. With this, the top court tried to strike a balance between the interests of the industry and public health, it said.
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Telangana Bandh Today Over Backward Classes Reservation Issue
- Oct 18, 2025 10:38 am IST
- Reported by: Uma Sudhir
- Edited by: Harshit Sabarwal
The Telangana government announced that it would join the Saturday statewide bandh that protests the judicial intervention on backward classes reservation.
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Karnataka Officer Suspended For Attending RSS Event, BJP Hits Out At Congress
- Oct 18, 2025 10:21 am IST
- Reported by: Deepak Bopanna, Reethu Rajpurohit
- Edited by: Chandrajit Mitra
A panchayat officer in Karnataka has been suspended for attending an event of the BJP's ideological parent, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), days after the state Congress government brought rules to restrict the outfit's activities in public spaces
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2 Pak-Linked Espionage Operatives Jailed In Visakhapatnam Naval Spying Case
- Oct 18, 2025 09:44 am IST
- Reported by: Uma Sudhir
A special National Investigation Agency Court in Visakhapatnam has sentenced two key foreign-linked espionage operatives in the high-profile naval spying case to five and a half years and six years in jail.
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Telangana Tuition Teacher, 60, Jailed For Raping 12-Year-Old Student
- Oct 18, 2025 09:24 am IST
- Reported by: Uma Sudhir
- Edited by: Harshit Sabarwal
A special court in Telangana's Ranga Reddy district on Friday sentenced a 60-year-old tuition teacher to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 5,000 fine for raping a 12-year-old girl who was attending his classes.
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Bihar Assembly Polls: AAP Releases 3rd List Of 28 Candidates
- Oct 18, 2025 09:16 am IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced its third list of 28 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, further intensifying its preparations for the high-stakes contest.
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Yusuf Pathan Visits Bengal's Adina Mosque, BJP Calls It Adinath Temple
- Oct 18, 2025 07:31 am IST
- Reported by: Sreyashi Dey
Trinamool Congress MP and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan posted photos from his visit to the Adina Mosque in West Bengal's Malda.
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Maithili Thakur Files Nomination From Alinagar, Seeks Blessings
- Oct 18, 2025 06:22 am IST
- Asian News International
Folk singer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maithili Thakur expressed deep gratitude and emotion after filing her nomination papers from the Alinagar Assembly constituency for the upcoming Bihar elections.
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What HAL Chief Test Pilot Told NDTV After Flying New LCA Tejas Mark 1A
- Oct 18, 2025 00:23 am IST
- NDTV News Desk
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off the first Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mk1A on Friday at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd's (HAL) facility in Maharashtra's Nashik.
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India To Spend Rs 65,400 Crore On Fighter Jet Engines In Next Decade
- Oct 18, 2025 00:16 am IST
- Reuters
India expects to spend about Rs 65,400 crore to buy engines for fighter aircraft that are under development until 2035, according to estimates shared on Friday by a defence official who leads the efforts to build a home-grown engine.
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IndiGo To Buy 30 More Wide-Body A350-900 Aircraft
- Oct 18, 2025 00:06 am IST
- Press Trust of India
IndiGo on Friday announced a firm order to buy 30 additional A350-900 planes from Airbus as the country's largest airline seeks to have more wide-body aircraft for its international expansion.
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Fight, Then Bomb Threat: Brothers' Ploy To Get Train Seats Goes Horribly Wrong
- Oct 17, 2025 23:56 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Angry at not being able to find a seat in the general compartment of a train, two brothers got into a fight with some of their fellow passengers and then hatched a plan.
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PM Has No Time For Petty Politics: BJP On Tamil Nadu Minister's "Funds Denied" Charge
- Oct 17, 2025 23:49 pm IST
- Reported by: J Sam Daniel Stalin
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu has accused the Union government of "systematic and deliberate discrimination" against the state
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Trump Again Claims India Will Soon Stop Buying Russian Oil
- Oct 17, 2025 23:49 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
US President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his claim that India has "de-escalated" on buying Russian oil, as he met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
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AAP, BJP Spar Over Delhi Winter Action Plan Amid Smog Warnings
- Oct 17, 2025 23:49 pm IST
- Reported by: Ishika Verma
- Edited by: Akash Majumder
As smog warnings loom over Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party have locked horns over the city's air quality and firecracker regulations.
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Pics: Uddhav, Raj Thackeray's Families Come Together For Diwali Event
- Oct 17, 2025 23:17 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
The growing bonhomie between the once estranged Thackeray cousins was on full public display on Friday as the two leaders and their family members came together for a Diwali event.
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Maharashta Student Run Over After Two-Wheeler Falls Due To Potholes
- Oct 17, 2025 23:01 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
A 19-year-old college student was killed after a container truck ran him over when he fell off a two-wheeler on a road riddled with potholes in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district.