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“The RTC should ensure newer routes are updated as soon as they’re launched”

The first big takeaway for the BJP is that the results of the MLC election demonstrate the 2024 Lok Sabha results may not be a fluke, when the SP, with 37 seats, brought down the BJP’s handsome tallies of 71 seats in 2014 and 62 seats in 2019 to 33 seats in 2024

The revisions follow requests from the Chief Electoral Officers of the concerned States

Congress hits the BJP where it hurts the most. Its only victory is in the RSS HQ and BJP’s traditional stronghold of Nagpur, Sharad Pawar’s party shines with a 100% strike rate; MVA wins all three Graduates’ constituencies; Mahayuti wins both Teachers’ constituencies

BJP BLAs submit nearly 68% of Form 7s seeking deletions as ‘objector’ in Mustafabad, all against Muslim electors citing ‘absent/permanently shifted’ or ‘death’

As part of his campaign for the party Mayor nominee J.B. Srinivas and other corporator candidates, senior TDP leader Ajay Pratap is presenting saplings to the public, with the twin requests to cast their vote in favour of his party candidate and to plant the sapling at their residential premises

The old debate on reservation in jobs for locals is resurfacing at a time when employment in the IT sector and elsewhere have become hard to find and the threat of Artificial Intelligence taking away jobs looms large. Sharath S. Srivatsa looks at multiple angles of the debate...

During the entire Legislative Council election, Lalan Singh did not even campaign in support of Neeraj, but rather gave moral support to Anant Singh, who was campaigning against Neeraj

Anantnag is the third major district with a sizable number of lawyers in J&K after Jammu and Srinagar

Indranil Sen served as the tourism and culture minister during the Mamata Banerjee era

As the region is rich in mineral resources, including bauxite, manganese, graphite and even gold, the Andhra Pradesh government is aggressively competing to win over the local tribal population, alleged Odisha Congress president Bhakta Charan Das

A doctor serving Odisha’s tribal heartland was arrested for allegedly supporting the resistance against bauxite mining. His name, along with those of other activists, did not figure in the FIR, but the police arrested them under a category of unnamed ‘others’. Satyasundar Barik speaks to Adivasi and Dalit communities, which allege the police are using the legal process for intimidation

However, State Public Prosecutor R. John Sathyan denies the allegation and says the police were actually invited into the office but they did not arrest the accused inside the lawyer’s office

Justice N. Ramesh poses the question after expressing shock over a 19-year-old college student having consumed liquor at a bar attached to a hotel reportedly run by the college management

State government “lagging” in the implementation of the scheme, says High Court. The scheme provides for threat assessment, protection measures, constitution of competent authorities and witness protection cells, periodic review, and a witness protection fund

Speaking to The Hindu, an official said that the gun culture has emerged as a “crucial segment” in the probe and that the matter had been brought up with senior police officers

No sky lanterns allowed without formal permission from the fire department, says DGP West Bengal 

The Commission took suo motu cognisance of the incident based on media reports and observed that the contents of the news report, if true, “raise serious issues of violation of human rights”

YouTuber Khader Karippodi is an accused in a case involving the alleged attempt to murder Abdul Ahad, a native of Uduma and an expatriate