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Siddaramaiah seeks 75% quota for OBCs, Dalits & minorities in jobs, legislature

A day after switching sides from Shiv Sena (UBT) and joining the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, MLC Sachin Ahir was on Wednesday elected unopposed as Deputy Chairman of the Maharashtra Legislative Council after the Maha Vikas Aghadi withdrew its candidate J M Ab

Hours after Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Sachin Ahir filed his nomination as the Mahayuti candidate for the Maharashtra Legislative Council Deputy Chairman s post, the Uddhav Thackeray camp said it would explore legal action against him for defection. Legal experts, ho

Kamal Akhtar, the Samajwadi Party s chief whip in the UP Legislative Assembly, resigned from his post on Tuesday. Akhtar, an MLA from Kanth assembly constituency in Moradabad, stepped down due to reported differences with the party s Moradabad MP Ruchi Veera

The reply came in response to a question raised by Karnataka Legislative Council member H S Gopinath on August 20. Among the 911 illegal immigrants identified, 868 were from Bangladesh, followed by Pakistan (20), Nigeria (13), Sri Lanka (8), Myanmar (1) and Ug

Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar has recently confirmed that she is working on the sequel to the much-loved travel film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. In a recent interaction, Zoya shared that she is waiting for the story to reach a stage where it 'feels correct' before movin

With Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara completing 15 years, filmmaker Zoya Akhtar has revealed that work on a sequel to the beloved film is underway. Buzz around a potential sequel reignited after Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar reunited for a 2025 ad camp

The Congress won the elections to the posts of Legislative Assembly Speaker and Legislative Council Chairman in Karnataka on Friday. While G S Patil was elected Speaker, Saleem Ahmed was elected Legislative Council Chairman

Parliament has passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, after the Rajya Sabha cleared the legislation on Thursday, a day after it was passed by the Lok Sabha.The Bill seeks to boost mineral exploration and development, p

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held a Ludhiana hospital and two doctors liable for allegedly failing to promptly treat a 36-year-old woman for her severe post-procedure pain and numbness and ordered Rs 15 lakh in compensation

Chief Minister DK Shivakumar who returned to Bengaluru after meeting AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi on Sunday night told the media on Monday that he would only allocate portfolios to the 19 ministers for now. AI is powering US GDP: Why India cannot

Hours after the Karnataka BJP petitioned Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot alleging that Congress leaders used goondaism and illegal pressure to force Legislative Council Chairperson Basavaraj Horatti s resignation, Chief Minister D K Shivakumar accused the Opposit

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged political parties to cooperate for smooth House functioning. He emphasised hearing the voice of the people and discussing key bills

Justice Ghuge and Tripathi will be elevated as Chief Justices of the Calcutta and Bombay High Courts, respectively, after the Central government clears their appointments and issues notifications. Justice Ghuge, who served on the Bombay High Court for nearly t

Student leader Ravindra Paswan warned of a massive protest on August 10. He accused the government of trying to divide the ongoing movement

On July 15, 2011, three men who had never quite grown up got on a flight to Spain to find themselves. For a generation exhausted by the weight of societal expectations, arranged marriage pressures, and a 9-to-5 grind, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara looked like proof

The Guggenheim Museum is among the 31 Upper East Side buildings where the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was detected, officials revealed. The museum, at 1071 Fifth Avenue and the owners of 18 other properties have already cleaned and disinfected t

Vice President CP Radhakrishnan on Saturday called upon newly-elected and sitting members of the Bihar legislative assembly to rise above partisan lines and focus on selfless service, declaring that the state s legacy as a cradle of democracy demands nothing l

The legionnaires s disease, a rare and severe form of pneumonia, has been spreading rampantly in parts of United States of America and its outbreak has aggravated concerns over its impacts in a warming climate. At least 28 people reported positive for the bact

MUMBAI: Rahul Narwekar, speaker of the legislative assembly, emerged red-faced after reading out a condolence message on the death of veteran singer Asha Bhosale on Tuesday. In his speech in Marathi, Narwekar, a BJP MLA, referred to Bhosale s father as Deenday

Maharashtra s Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule stated in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday that a probe will be initiated into the Nashik ring road project, being developed for the upcoming Kumbh Mela, to ascertain ascertain if the alignment of the

No team has scored more goals at the 2026 FIFA World Cup than France. No team has had more attempts on target either

Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday held a meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at the latter s official office in the legislative campus. The meeting took place after Pawar attended the high- power committee meeting on

Trinamool Congress MP Saayoni Ghosh and MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, rebels challenging Mamata Banerjee s leadership of the Trinamool Congress, faced go back and chor slogans at Baruipur in West Bengal s South 24 Parganas, where they went to meet the family of an 1

A proposed new law on artificial intelligence (AI) may focus on classifying modern AI systems and frame graded risk-based regulation, an official told ET. This may result in minimal regulation for low-risk AI such as chatbots, productivity tools, recommendatio

The five day monsoon session of the state assembly and state legislative council will take place from July 20th to July 24 in which several important legislative business including presentation of the first supplementary budget will take place. A notification

Rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators, headed by Ritabrata Banerjee, on Friday occupied the party s multi-storey rented office in Kolkata off the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, saying they represented the original TMC. Mantu Saha, the property owner, did no

The BJP-led Mahayuti is aiming for a clean sweep in the elections to 17 local authorities constituencies of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, with polling held for 12 seats on Thursday. The ruling alliance has already secured five seats unopposed and claims

As a group of rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders flew out to Delhi and huddled together at the residence of a Union Minister, two TMC MPs still in Mamata Banerjee s camp reached Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla s residence and submitted a letter by party general

Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French graphic novelist and filmmaker who passed away on June 3, drew the world s most dangerous girl in her acclaimed memoir, Persepolis (2000): Someone opinionated and...

The discontent within the Mahayuti in Maharashtra over seat sharing in the Legislative Council elections from 17 Local Authority constituencies, scheduled for June 22, may have subsided, but it has exposed tensions in the ruling alliance as its leadership was

MUMBAI: After a week of high-stakes conflict in the ruling Mahayuti, marked by rebellion followed by hectic negotiations to stem dissent, the run-up to the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections hit a dramatic climax on Thursday, the last day for withdrawal

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to grant interim relief to former Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) MLC Viplav Bajoria, whose nomination for the Amravati Local Authorities Constituency election to the Maharashtra Legislative Council was...

Congress leader DK Shivakumar took oath as Karnataka Chief Minister on Wednesday. Shivakumar took oath along with 13 ministers (Source: Photo by PTI) Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Congress chief ministers were i...

For the first time since Ajit Pawar s death on January 28, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is facing a severe internal crisis in Pune district, Maharashtra. A large section of the party s top leadership has revolted over the sudden nomination of Vikram Ka...

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday approved the inclusion of five additional colleges as constituent institutions of the Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Cluster University in Mumbai. The cluster university currently comprises HR College of Commerc...

MUMBAI The legislative council elections, to be held on June 18, is dominated by dynastic politics, with at least seven candidates contesting across 17 constituencies being children of established political leaders. In several cases, fathers have gone against...

The NCP decision to field Vikram Kakade for Pune Legislative Council poll has made top leaders of the party in Pimpri-Chinchwad upset. They argue that if Ajit Pawar was alive such a situation would not have arisen.

After days of negotiations and intense seat-sharing discussions, both the ruling Mahayuti alliance and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Monday filed nominations for elections to 17 Maharashtra Legislative Council seats from local authorities' constitu...

MUMBAI: Soon after alliance partners of the ruling Mahayuti concluded a hard-bargained seat-sharing formula ahead of the legislative council elections on June 18, a fresh wave of rebellion has hit the ground. Local leaders from at least eight constituencies ha...

Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday sidestepped speculation about a possible rapprochement between the Shiv Sena factions led by him and Uddhav Thackeray, saying that only his party was carrying forward the ideology of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray...

Nearly one in every 10 MLAs in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha has asked fewer than five questions during Question Hour since the formation of the Nayab Singh Saini government in October 2024. An analysis by The Indian Express shows that six MLAs did not ask a single...

Several dynasts are reportedly vying for the 10 Bihar MLC seats that are due for biennial elections on June 18. While Health Minister Nishant Kumar, son of former CM Nitish Kumar; and Panchayati Raj Minister Deepak Prakash, son of RLM chief and Rajya Sabha MP...

The Bihar government has issued a fresh letter to former chief minister Rabri Devi to vacate 10, Circular Road, the residence she has been occupying since 2006. Though Rabri Devi, the leader of opposition in the Bihar Legislative Council, was allotted 39, Hard...

As the NCP and BJP in the ruling Mahayuti alliance fight it out to stake claim to the seat to contest the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls from Pune local authority, the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) has jumped into the contest to take on the ruling alliance,...

The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday announced the seat-sharing agreement for the 15 out of 17 Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, with the Congress set to contest the highest eight seats. The Shiv Sena (UBT) has put a claim on the remaining two seats...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah submitted his resignation on Thursday, bringing the protracted dispute over power-sharing in the state to an end (Source: Photo by PTI) After submitting his resignation letter to the Secretary at the Lok Bhavan, K Siddaram...