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Puducherry: Cracks have become apparent in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Puducherry, with BJP MLAs voicing frustration over what they term is “over centralised” functioning of the All India NR Congress, in power in the Union Territory. The regional party, led by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, is part of the BJP-led NDA.While the BJP has not confronted its ally publicly, simmering differences within the coalition have widened enough for multiple MLAs to acknowledge that there is a problem. Among the discontented BJP legislators is Kamaraj Nagar MLA A. Johnkumar. Show Full Article Speaking to ThePrint, he said he has…

Nearly 10 years after the death of a Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula by suicide at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka has come up with a Bill named after him in order to curb caste-based discrimination and harassment in the public and private colleges and universities in the state.The Siddaramaiah government is likely to table the Bill in the state Legislature during its winter session to be held during 8-19 December. The legislation is being brought following a nudge from top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The Bill, called The Karnataka Rohith Vemula (Prevention of…

Vivien Killilea/Getty Images Director Michael Bay is behind too many blockbusters to count. From ’90s action favorites like “Armageddon” and “The Rock” to live-action adaptations of’ classic cartoons like “Transformers,” Bay has done it all. Yet, despite his successes, there’s one movie in his filmography just as relentless, but doesn’t get the recognition it should: The 2022 thriller “Ambulance,” which has now arrived on Netflix. “Ambulance” sees Academy Award-nominee Jake Gyllenhaal as Danny Sharp, a former Marine facing a bitter dilemma when his wife needs expensive life-saving surgery that he cannot…

On 26th November, two West Virginia National Guard, a man and a woman, who had been deployed to the nation’s capital were shot in the afternoon, only blocks from the White House, on the day before Thanksgiving. According to Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel, they were admitted to the hospital in severe condition. The accused has been identified as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal from Afghanistan. He seemed to have acted alone and specifically targeted the victims, however, his past and motivation are under probe by federal authorities. He might have even shouted “Allahu Akbar” during…

A cryptic social media post by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar Thursday added fresh fuel to the ongoing tussle over the chief ministerial berth in the state. Shivakumar’s post came amidst an intensified debate over an apparent ‘power-sharing agreement’ between him and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, which entailed the CM forfeiting his post for the DyCM after two and a half years at the top. Though Siddaramaiah has maintained in the past that he will remain the CM for the full term, he recently put the onus on the Congress high command to clear the air about the issue.…

Researchers are investigating hole mobility in compressively strained germanium on silicon to improve the performance of next-generation electronics. Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have set a new record by creating and measuring the highest “hole mobility” ever observed in a material that works with standard silicon technology. […]

With the Assam government on November 25 tabling the Tribhuvan Prasad Tewary Commission and T U Mehta Commission reports on the 1983 Nellie massacre, the Himanta Biswa Sarma government seems to be preparing the ground for a frontal attack on the Congress over its “failure” to stop undocumented migration from Bangladesh. Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia of the Congress has alleged the reports were placed in the Assembly to further “communalise the prevailing situation” in the state. The Nellie massacre of February 18, 1983, was the most violent flashpoint of the Assam agitation against undocumented migration from Bangladesh, taking…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom The Election Commission has announced that arrangements for the upcoming municipal council and nagar panchayat elections in Maharashtra are complete, with around 13,355 polling stations set up across the state. A total of 13,726 control units and 27,452 ballot units have been allocated for the EVM-based polling. Polling and Counting Schedule Elections for members of 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats, 288 bodies in all, along with direct elections for council presidents, will be held on December 2. Voting will take place from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM.…

In the Karnataka case involving a bid to illegally delete voter names, the system to bypass transmission of One Time Passwords to real phone numbers, while registering for online services of the Election Commission, was created using “virtual SIM cards” from a US-based website, SMSAlert.An SIT of the Karnataka CID, which is probing the attempts at deletion of names of 5,994 voters in the Aland Assembly constituency in Kalaburagi in the 2022-23 period, has found this. The use of the services of SMSAlert, which has a domain name registered in Delaware, was uncovered following the arrest of Bapi Adya, 27,…

The Ganga’s journey from Bihar into West Bengal is not merely the movement of a river; it is the movement of a political tide. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked this symbolic imagery on the day of the Bihar results, he was not indulging in a poetic flourish. He was signalling a deliberate and long-prepared shift of political energy from Bihar to Bengal, a current that has been flowing eastward well before votes were even cast in Patna. For the BJP, Bihar’s mandate of 202 of 243 seats for the NDA was not an end but a beginning. It provided…