Politics

President Murmu hails women's achivements in defence, sports

Recently, 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh conquered the FIDE Women's World Cup 2025, beating her counterpart Koneru Humpy. Divya became just the fourth Indian woman grandmaster and overall the 88th in the nation to clinch that title.

2025-08-14T14:16:41.708846+00:00 IST

26 IAF officers awarded Vayu Sena Medal for Op Sindoor

Moreover, 13 Indian Air Force officers were awarded the distinguished Yudh Sewa Medal for playing an important role in executing attacks and defending their own airspace. The officers include Air Vice Marshal Joseph Suares, AVM Prajual Singh and Air Commodore Ashok Raj Thakur.

2025-08-14T13:13:27.340284+00:00 IST

Ground situation has to be considered for statehood: SC

"You cannot ignore what happened in Pahalgam," said a bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran.

2025-08-14T12:19:17.074998+00:00 IST

Minta Devi's family seeks correction of her details in EC records

"She is 35 years old and not 124 years old. This is not our fault. The one who made the card must have made the mistake. Only they know what happened, how it happened and why it happened," Tej Pratap Singh, Minta Devi's father-in-law, told ANI.

2025-08-14T12:02:53.393938+00:00 IST

Statehood in J-K will be restored at right time: Altaf Thakur

His reaction came after the Supreme Court of India, earlier today, heard the pleas seeking the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and sought the Centre's response on it.

2025-08-14T11:50:56.167354+00:00 IST

Booths were captured under Nehru-Gandhi family tenure: BJP

Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat referred to the media reports, claiming nitric acid was allegedly poured into ballot boxes under former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's tenure, which helped him sway elections in his favour.

2025-08-14T11:21:56.226945+00:00 IST

Gandhi's fresh attack on BJP over "missing" forest rights titles

Referring to a news report published by an English daily, Gandhi flagged the issue of "missing" forest rights titles in government records in Chhattisgarh.

2025-08-14T11:12:09.996431+00:00 IST

CM Yogi slams oppn, calls PDA- 'Family Development Authority'

In his address, the Chief Minister described inclusive and holistic development as the foundation of Uttar Pradesh's and India's growth.

2025-08-14T10:52:27.914886+00:00 IST

“Rahul Gandhi has not read Constitution, has no respect for it”

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday lashed out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over the latter's allegations of "vote theft" by the Election Commission, alleging that the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha has not read the Constitution and has no respect for it.

2025-08-14T08:40:53.732804+00:00 IST

"Congress divided the nation in its greed for power": CM Yogi

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath tore into the Congress on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, calling the 1947 Partition a "dark chapter" born out of appeasement politics that shattered Sanatan Bharat's unity and inflicted deep wounds on the nation, a press release said.

2025-08-14T07:04:23.948778+00:00 IST

Karnataka Dy CM Shivakumar calls BJP MLA 'father of corruption'

"You and your party are the father of corruption. You could not win even a single seat in Ramanagara district, but you are insulting our leader from the minority community," Shivakumar said during a debate on fertilisers in the House.

2025-08-14T00:32:59.338639+00:00 IST

BJP, EC have 'understanding' over voter data access: Pawan Khera

Khera highlighted the disparity in the time taken to obtain similar data, saying it took the Congress four to six months to collect information for one Assembly constituency, while the BJP had secured data for two parliamentary seats almost immediately.

2025-08-13T22:44:18.436331+00:00 IST

"We demand answers on what happened in Bengaluru Central LS"

In the wake of the Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's allegations of "fake votes" against the Election Commission of India (ECI), Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday demanded answers from the EC on what happened in Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency.

2025-08-13T18:11:05.305253+00:00 IST

Rahul Gandhi's lawyer to withdraw "threat to life" application

This comes after Rahul Gandhi raised "strong exception" to the contents of the application filed by his lawyer, Pawar, who told a Pune court that there was a "threat" to the Congress leader's life from the followers of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

2025-08-13T18:06:23.766829+00:00 IST

"After being caught, ECI is running away": Aaditya Thackeray

Thackeray said these cases show that "vote theft" has been happening and accused the Election Commission of evading accountability after being exposed.

2025-08-13T16:26:34.632402+00:00 IST

"No one can force to remove YOUR NAME...": EC fact checks LS LoP

"Electoral rolls are prepared in accordance with law. Any correction, deletion or inclusion in Electoral Roll can always be made as per procedure laid down in law. No one can force to remove YOUR NAME from final Electoral Rolls without following the procedure laid down in law," ECI posted on X.

2025-08-13T16:21:01.344076+00:00 IST

SC observes 11 ID documents better than 7 for Bihar SIR exercise

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said that asking for only one document would be anti-voter, but allowing multiple options benefits electors.

2025-08-13T16:00:10.368088+00:00 IST

KTR challenges DyCM Bhatti Vikramarka

Issuing a direct challenge, KTR dared Bhatti Vikramarka and any minister in his cabinet to visit any village in Telangana and tell the people that all the promises, including the guarantees, have been implemented.

2025-08-13T15:42:40.671158+00:00 IST

Rahul Gandhi met deleted voters from Bihar SIR

A group of voters met the Congress MP and shared how they were declared "dead" by the Election Commission and how their names were removed from the voter list after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

2025-08-13T15:33:57.761283+00:00 IST

"You mention her...don't apologise for it": Pawan Khera

"You mention her as a 124-year-old in voter list and don't apologise for it. We, who are bringing your misdeeds out in the light, should apologise for it? This is a Government which handcuffs the person with whom a crime occurs and makes them apologise. They hug perpetrators," Khera told ANI.

2025-08-13T14:42:38.827466+00:00 IST

Tamil Nadu: Congress, MMK to boycott Governor's Independence Day

MMK President MH Jawahirullah also announced to boycott the reception due to the Governor consistently acting in ways that "undermine the authority of the state government."

2025-08-13T13:28:44.419861+00:00 IST