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CPI(M) MLA Kanathil Jameela dies at 59

Jameela had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kozhikode for a cancer-related illness. She died around 8.45 pm Saturday, party leaders announced.

UP ministers vs civil servants, again: What’s behind Yogi govt’s latest warning to bureaucracy

Lucknow: Politicians and civil servants have always had a tense relationship in Uttar Pradesh, and tensions between the two have now burst into the...

CBI names TMC MLA, 2 councillors in charge sheet for murder of BJP leader Abhijit Sarkar

In second supplementary charge sheet of the 2021 case, the probe agency also named 15 others under IPC Sections related to criminal conspiracy, murder & disappearance of evidence.

ADGP held, MLA under lens in TN for teenager’s abduction after brother’s ‘self-respect’ marriage

Cops say IPS officer Jayaram 'helped by giving his official car to drop abducted boy back to avoid police checking', while MLA Jagan Moorthy allegedly used aides to target family.

Telangana BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath passes away at 63 after heart attack

The MLA from Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad had been admitted to AIG Hospitals on 5 June. He had defeated Congress leader & former cricketer Mohd Azharuddin in the 2023 polls.

Odisha’s first Muslim woman MLA Sofia Firdous calls her win a message of brotherhood

The 32-year-old said the people of Cuttack had proved that religion has no place when the development is key.

‘Candidates have right to privacy, no need to lay life threadbare’ — SC ruling on poll affidavits

In April 2019, Gauhati High Court had set aside Arunachal Independent MLA Karikho Kri for corrupt practice as he failed to declare ownership of three vehicles.

Delhi assembly seeing fewer sittings, fewer issues raised, finds Praja Foundation report

Report by Praja Foundation also points out that quality of issues raised by Delhi's MLAs declined & that 4 MLAs haven't raised single issue in assembly since their election in 2020.

Sirsa MLA Gopal Kanda acquitted of charges in 2012 suicide of air hostess Geetika Sharma

Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday cleared the former Haryana minister who had been accused of harassment in Sharma’s suicide note.

Naxalites fire at Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur MLA Vikram Mandavi’s convoy, no injuries

Naxalites also fired indiscriminately at the vehicle of district panchayat member Parvati Kashyap, who was in the fleet.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.