Category: Events

DK Shivakumar BENGALURU: With the leadership tussle settled and D K Shivakumar expected to assume office as the new CM, the Congress high command has now turned its attention to the more challenging task of cabinet formation and selecting a new Congress president amid growing pressure from senior leaders and caste groups demanding representation.The prospect...

If all goes according to plan, Shivakumar will replace Siddaramaiah, marking Karnataka’s first leadership handover in 17 years. BENGALURU: The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) will meet in Bengaluru Saturday evening to formally elect deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar as its new leader after governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot formally accepted chief minister Siddaramaiah’s resignation. If all...

Driver killed after wall crashes on auto in Bengaluru BENGALURU: Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds on Friday evening turned fatal for an autorickshaw driver after a compound wall of a private club collapsed on his vehicle in west Bengaluru. According to the preliminary investigation by Vijayanagar police, Shivaboraiah, a resident of Gangondanahalli, had parked...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday flagged a “worrying trend” of women misusing laws on dowry harassment, domestic violence and Pocso by filing frivolous and vexatious complaint against husband and in-laws. The court said genuine cases were getting overshadowed and obscured by the “overwhelming” number of false cases filed by spouses as an “arm-twisting” method...

Nearly two years after a foiled ISIS-linked terror plot nearly turned a Taylor Swift concert into a massacre, justice has finally arrived. An Austrian court sentenced 21-year-old Beran A. to 15 years in prison on Thursday for planning to attack Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Vienna, and the verdict lands at a particularly charged moment,...

A US federal judge on Friday ordered the removal of President Donald Trump‘s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and blocked plans to temporarily close the venue for a yearslong renovation, ruling that the institution’s board exceeded its legal authority on both counts.US District Judge Christopher Cooper directed officials to remove within...

FILE (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Hundreds of University of California faculty members have signed an open letter urging the UC regents and faculty leaders to restore standardized testing requirements for Math and Science applicants. The letter cites an alarming drop in Math skills since the tests were abandoned. The UC system stopped accepting SAT and...

Novak Djokovic of Serbia (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva) French Open 2026 delivered another massive shock as Novak Djokovic was knocked out in dramatic fashion in Paris. Teenager Joao Fonseca stunned Djokovic in a marathon five-set battle on Friday. Earlier on Thursday, Sinner’s title hopes collapsed after he struggled physically in extreme heat conditions.Brazil’s 19-year-old sensation...

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed by his friend in Khoda Colony over an argument on Thursday evening GHAZIABAD: A 17-year-old boy was stabbed by his friend in Khoda Colony over an argument on Thursday evening. The teenager, Surya Pratap, succumbed to injuries on Friday afternoon at the hospital.The exact motive behind the “multiple stabbing” will...

Gujarat Titans’ Sai Sudharsan (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Shubman Gill opened up on Sai Sudharsan’s strange back-to-back hit-wicket dismissals in Gujarat Titans’ massive Qualifier 2 win over Rajasthan Royals, admitting that even he had never witnessed anything quite like it before.After producing a record-breaking century to guide GT into the IPL 2026 final, Gill opened up...