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Traffic diversions announced in parts of Bengaluru for Muharram procession on June 26

The diversions will be in effect from 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. within the limits of the Ashok Nagar Traffic Police Station

Lobbying for cabinet berths in Karnataka frowned upon by Congress leadership

According to sources, the central leaders are learnt to have told Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar that the Cabinet expansion would be taken up at an appropriate time

Kerala CM releases anthology of essays by former civil servants

The collection features essays by retired IAS, IPS, IFS and IFoS officers, including Shivshankar Menon, Vinod Rai, Amitabh Kant, E.K. Bharat Bhushan, S.M. Vijayanand, T. Balakrishnan, K. Mohandas, Alphons Kannanthanam, K.B. Valsalakumari, B. Sandhya and Brandson Corrie, among others

Flash floods hit six districts in Arunachal; one dead, four missing

Assam government issues high alert in districts downstream of the affected areas in Arunachal Pradesh, while overnight rainfall cuts off West Sikkim district headquarters

Five arrested, FIR registered in Taratala warehouse accident

A special investigation team (SIT) has also constituted to investigate the matter after it was transferred to the Detective Department of Kolkata police

Air India plane strays into Pakistan airspace; DGCA takes action against air traffic controller, crew

DGCA said that after the aircraft commenced approach during radar vectoring, it briefly entered the Pakistan airspace

As FCRA restricts NGOs, Supreme Court had agreed that right to associate is not carte blanche for foreign funds

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2026, source their legality from the Centre’s argument in the Supreme Court that the freedom to form associations do not include a right to receive unbridled foreign funds or to use the money outside ‘permissible activities’

Passport is not a citizenship document: senior MEA official

While travelling abroad, passport attests to your nationality, yet it is not a document of your citizenship, says senior official, responding to a query on using a passport to challenge voter exclusion under SIR

Emergency is the greatest assault on Indian democracy, says Bihar BJP president Sanjay Saraogi

Saraogi said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP remains steadfast in its commitment to democratic values and constitutional principles

State aims at 32% growth in mining sector, says Minister Kollu Ravindra

Government accelerating exploration for gold, beach sand minerals, iron ore, and manganese, he says, adding that gold deposits have been identified in Anantapur and Chittoor districts

Assault on human dignity, says Rahul Gandhi on incident of bonded labour in U.P.

Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Ajay Kumar Lallu said the failed economic policies of the BJP government were responsible for such oppression of the ordinary poor people

Fake forensic report conspiracy: BJP Haryana chief corners Punjab CM Mann, demands immediate resignation

Ms. Gupta alleged that after the video surfaced, the Punjab government and police “exerted all efforts” to prove it fake

Assam couple booked for another birthday celebration on Brahmaputra bridge

Electronic sparklers and firecrackers were used to celebrate the birthday of Surajit Mandal’s wife by allegedly blocking a portion of the bridge

Muharram procession passes off peacefully in Srinagar amid police warning over hoisting flags, pics of terrorists

Shia mourners, including women and children, assembled in Srinagar’s Guru Bazar around 6 a.m. and the procession culminated at Dalgate around 9 a.m.

BJP imposing vegetarianism in Bengal, says Trinamool

It’s an attempt to deprive children of nutrition by denying them eggs with midday meal, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’ Brien says

Anna Hazare warns of mass agitation unless Maharashtra withdraws ‘RTI amendments’

Hazare said that if the government does not scrap the amendments before July 5, he would start a nation-wide agitation

PACOM, the deeper meaning behind a dropped prefix

The U.S.’s reversion from INDOPACOM to PACOM suggests that its regional shifts run deeper than a simple name change

Suspended officer retracts allegations against senior official over Lucknow fire

The suspended Fire Station Second Officer also issued a public apology for an earlier video in which he had accused the Lucknow chief fire officer of lapses linked to the incident

ePlane unveils India’s first full scale eVTOL prototype

270 grams of suspected brown sugar seized from Assam youths in Kochi

Two persons arrested for stealing copper coils from borewells near Jolarpet

Surveillance was increased in farming villages in the region that had more than 350 motor pump sets and borewells to irrigate paddy fields

Symbolism or substance? T.N.’s public health professionals question gold ring scheme

The gold ring may be intended as a celebration of birth, but for many within the public health sector, the more pressing need is investment in the workforce and infrastructure that makes safe deliveries possible, say health officials and doctors

Two arrested after old wall collapse kills man in Jiyaguda