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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested a key accused in the murder of Praveen Nettaru, a Karnataka BJP Yuva Morcha leader, upon his arrival at Kerala’s Kannur International Airport from Qatar. The arrested, identified as Abdul Rahaman, had been absconding for the past two years after Nettaru was hacked to death with sharp weapons by members of the Popular Front of India (PFI), a proscribed outfit, on July 26, 2022, in the Dakshina Kannada district. Investigations had revealed that Abdul Rahaman had, on the directions of PFI leadership, voluntarily harboured the main assailants and others involved in the…

The meeting between farmers opposing the Karnataka Government’s plan to acquire 1,777 acres in the Bengaluru Rural district for a defence and aerospace park and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru ended inconclusively Friday. During the meeting, several farmer unions, including the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, and actor-turned-politician Prakash Raj, are said to have urged Siddaramaiah to cancel the land acquisition notification issued by the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), but no decision was reached. According to sources privy to the meeting, Siddaramaiah has called for another round of talks, scheduled…

“This is a demo or test using safety drivers—it’s not an [autonomous vehicle] deployment,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous vehicles. “Tesla is splashing around in the kiddie pool and everyone is asking where it’s going to place in the Olympic swim competition.”Bloopers and SensorsTesla has kept quiet about many of the particulars of its technology. And it’s hard to reach definite conclusions about its tech from social media posts uploaded by riders. But some of those posts appear to show less-than-smooth rides. In one video, a robotaxi attempting to…

CBS Based on a series of crime novels from author Jeffrey Deaver, “Tracker” debuted on CBS as a weekly procedural in 2024 and is currently on its second season, with a third on the way. The show follows the exploits of Colter Shaw (played by Justin Hartley, who once starred in an “Aquaman” spin-off that never made it to air), a survivalist and expert tracker who crisscrosses the country fighting for justice any way he can. Typically, this means aiding law enforcement with missing persons cases that have the authorities…

Over the past week, several BJP leaders have spoken about revisiting the inclusion of the word “secular” in the Preamble to the Constitution during the Emergency, pointing out that the words “socialist” and “secular” were not part of the original founding document. This has brought to the fore the question of whether these words should continue to remain in the Preamble, a question first raised by RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale last week. In the past decade, this debate has prominently come up twice, with the Opposition accusing the government of trying to omit the words from the Preamble. The…

Days after Shaktisinh Gohil resigned as the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president owning moral responsibility for the party’s defeat in the recent Visavadar and Kadi Assembly bypolls, a slew of the party’s Patidar faces have demanded that a leader from their community be named the new GPCC chief.At least 28 Patidar leaders from the Congress, including several former MLAs and MPs, met at a farmhouse in Ahmedabad on July 1, following which ex-MP Virji Thummar wrote to Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, over their demand. The meeting concluded that as the Congress has…

SrinagarJul 4, 2025 08:00 IST First published on: Jul 4, 2025 at 08:00 IST Share For the Congress, when one problem is resolved, another seemingly crops up in short order. As soon as the differences in the Karnataka unit appear to have been put to rest for the time being, the Congress’s Jammu and Kashmir unit has a full-blown rebellion on its hands. And not for the first time.A section of J&K Congress has rebelled against J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra for allegedly sidelining senior leaders, several of whom are pushing back and want him to…

As per the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls ordered by the Election Commission ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls, residents of Bihar whose names did not figure in the 2003 electoral rolls must provide one of 11 documents notified by the EC to prove their “citizenship”. This story plays out in village after village in the state, from Nitish’s turf Harnaut in Nalanda district, to RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s Raghopur in Vaishali. The Raghopur Assembly seat is currently represented by Lalu’s son and senior RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav. Story continues below this ad In the next 20 days…

An Aadhaar card, a voter card and an MNREGS job card. For Meghan Manjhi, a 37-year-old labourer, the three “sarkari kaagaz (official documents)” largely define his life. But now, the resident of Kalyan Bigha, the native village of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, must look for more.As per the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls ordered by the Election Commission ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls, residents of the state such as Manjhi whose names did not figure in the 2003 electoral rolls must provide one of 11 documents notified by the EC to prove their “citizenship”. None of the…

When the RSS general secretary says that the words “secular” and “socialist” in the Preamble to the Constitution should be reviewed, it is more than a casual call for a debate, for the Sangh is measured in its utterances.Dattatreya Hosabale’s comment last week is not the first time the issue has come up. BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha moved a Private Member’s Bill in 2020, and others have petitioned the courts. The Supreme Court examined the matter, and in 2024, a two-judge Bench led by then Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna upheld the insertion of “socialist” and…