Nuapada, 15/10: In a major development, BJP fields Jay Dholkia, son of late Rajendra Dholkia from Nuapada assembly constituency. Previously, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (October 11, 2025) received a major boost with the joining of Jay Dholakia, son of late minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Rajendra Dholkia, whose demise necessitated the…
New Delhi, 15/10: The Supreme Court on Wednesday relaxed ban on bursting of green firecrackers in the Delhi-NCR region during Diwali and allowed it with certain conditions. The apex court allowed the sale of green crackers from October 15 to October 21, 2025 and allowed the sales from the designated locations.
Thiruvananthapuram, 14/10: Kerala general education minister V Sivankutty has directed a Christian school in Kochi to allow students to wear hijab in school. The minister made a social media post in this regard on Tuesday evening close on the heels of the parents of the student reportedly agreeing to adhere to the school’s uniform norms….
Haryana 14/10: The case involving the death of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar last week in Haryana has gotten even murkier as another death by suicide of a policeman was reported on Tuesday. Speculations are rife over the death of one Sandeep Kumar, posted as an assistant sub-inspector in Rohtak’s cyber cell. Sandeep reportedly made…
New Delhi, 14/10: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised India’s growth forecast by 0.2 percentage points to 6.6 per cent for the 2025/26 fiscal year as the country’s strong growth momentum is seen offsetting the impact of high US tariffs on Indian goods. India’s GDP grew at an unexpectedly higher pace of 7.8per cent…
Patna, 14/10: The BJP on Tuesday released the first list of its candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections. The polls will be held in two phases — November 6 and 11 — and the results will be out on November 14. The ruling NDA on Sunday came out with its seat-sharing formula for the elections…
New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Kanakvardhan Singhdeo met Shaktikanta Das. Deputy Chief Minister KV Singhdeo, who was on a visit to Delhi, met the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Shaktikanta Das. According to reports, the meeting was a courtesy call, Deputy Chief Minister KV Singhdeo mentioned in his X handle. Dr. Arabinda K Padhee, Principal Secretary, Odisha…
Patna, 14/10: Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad gave away the party ticket to several candidates until his son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav, early on Tuesday, pointed out that the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, helmed in Bihar by the RJD, was yet to announce a seat seat-sharing formula for the Assembly election formally. A stampede-like situation…
New Delhi, 14/10: The I.N.D.I.A. bloc on Monday struggled to bridge the divide over seat sharing in Bihar with RJD and Congress refusing to find a common ground despite a couple of rounds of negotiations involving top leaders from both sides. RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav held meetings with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in the evening…
Stockholm, 13/10: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given…
