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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.

Indian politics and media obsess over MPs and MLAs. Barely recognise 87,000 city councillors

Councillors must be seen as leaders of our cities who need systematic capacity building so that President Murmu and CM Shinde are not rare exceptions.

On Camera

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.