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Delimitation will turn out to be 'political demonetisation': Shashi Tharoor in Lok Sabha

Women's reservation, he said, is ready for harvest and can and should be implemented immediately based on existing parliamentary strength

Kerala elections: Kozhikode MP M.K. Raghavan slams Congress leaders’ public spat over CM candidate

Kozhikode MP warns a section of his Congress colleagues that ‘dragging internal leadership disputes into the streets is damaging the party’s reputation and prospects’

YSRCP and TDP spar over Juvvaladinne Fishing Harbour visit in SPSR Nellore district

YSRCP and TDP leaders trade barbs in separate press conferences after Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s visit to Juvvaladinne Fishing Harbour

Representation of southern States will not go down, a misconception is being spread: Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah says “a major narrative is being built... a misconception is being spread” that the southern States will lose seats in the Lok Sabha due to delimitation

Income Tax raids rock poll bound West Bengal

The raids triggered not only sharp political reactions from the Trinamool Congress but party workers gathered near the sites where the raids were held and raised slogans against the BJP

NGT seeks pre-1950 maps of Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar from Telangana govt

Nitish Kumar plans to groom his son Nishant before giving him big responsibility

Not allowing Nishant Kumar to be a part of Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary’s Cabinet is the larger political plan of former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

Kerala dental student death: Case against InstaPay loan app for alleged harassment and intimidation

FIR states agents of the app repeatedly contacted and threatened Nithin Raj for loan repayment, subjecting him to sustained mental harassment and intimidation

Inside Andhra’s millet push that is turning women into entrepreneurs

Across Andhra Pradesh, a government initiative is building women-led millet enterprises that link farms, kitchens and local markets into viable livelihoods

Prime Minister, Vice-President pay tribute to Chandra Shekhar on birth anniversary

PM Modi recalled his personal interactions with the former Prime Minister and also urged young Indians to learn more about the leader’s work

Hottest place in Karnataka on April 16: Yadgir records 41.8° celsius, extreme heat forces people to stay indoors for hours

Yadgir recorded a maximum temperature of 41.8 degree Celsius on April 16

AP Congress leader Shivaji opposes Delimitation Bill 2026, says it hurts southern States

Congress leader Kolanukonda Shivaji opposes the Delimitation Bill, 2026, saying it will hurt southern States including Andhra Pradesh

Indian Oil ramps up LPG supply by 300% in Bengaluru as shortage hits again

The ongoing West Asia conflict has impacted private Auto LPG Dispensing Stations (ALDS), which account for nearly 80% of the market in Bengaluru and across Karnataka

On the Sabarimala temple entry case

As a Supreme Court Bench examines the broader implications of its 2018 Sabarimala ruling, the case prompts a look into the evolution of the essential religious practice doctrine, role of the State and the judiciary in religious reform, and the arguments over whether Ayyappa followers qualify as a religious denomination

Parliament special sitting LIVE: Lok Sabha to vote today on three bills to amend the women’s quota law

PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah on Thursday, April 16, told the Lok Sabha that the Bills to amend the women’s reservation law and a fresh delimitation exercise will keep current proportional representation of southern States intact.

U.S. President Trump greets T.S. Sandhu on appointment as Delhi Lt Governor

Taranjit Singh Sandhu was appointed as the Delhi Lieutenant Governor on March 5

Assembly Elections 2026 LIVE: ECI begins EVM-VVPAT commissioning for Tamil Nadu and West Bengal phase-1 polls

The commissioning began in the presence of the candidates or their authorised representatives as well as General Observers, according to the release

Mining push meets tribal resistance

Tribal villagers and the administration are at loggerheads over bauxite mining at the Sijimali hill, which straddles Rayagada and Kalahandi districts in south Odisha. Tension has gripped the region ever since attempts were made to lay a road to a bauxite block. On April 7, police fired tear gas shells to disperse protesting villagers and several personnel were injured in the counter-attack. Satyasundar Barik explains why it is not an isolated incident

TCS Nashik case: Plea in Supreme Court seeks directions to declare forced religious conversion as 'terrorist act'

The petition filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay contended that deceitful religious conversion is not only a serious threat to sovereignty, secularism, democracy and liberty but also a menace to fraternity, dignity, unity and national integration

12 lakh people in Telangana opt for ‘No Caste’ in SEEEPC Survey-2024

Of them, 43.3% reported possessing caste certificates

Madhya Pradesh authorities deploy force at illegal sand mining locations; take preventive measures

Morena SP Samir Sourabh said that 50% personnel from the SAF company have been deployed at Rajghat, which he described as the most crucial location related to illegal sand mining

Allahabad High Court declines to quash FIR against schoolgirls booked under U.P.’s anti-conversion Act

In her complaint to the police, the complainant described an incident in December 2025 when she was allegedly forced to wear the veil and later taken to a restaurant by the accused girls

Billionaire Anil Agrawal named in Sakti power plant explosion FIR

On April 14, a tube carrying high-pressure steam from the boiler to the turbine exploded at Vedanta’s power plant in Singhitarai village killing 20 and injuring 16.