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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia battered Ukraine’s energy facilities with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in its latest heavy bombardment of the country’s power grid, authorities said Thursday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to ask President Donald Trump at a White House meeting for more American-made air defenses and long-range missiles.As he considers Zelenskyy’s push for U.S. missiles, Trump said after Thursday’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that they will meet in Budapest, Hungary to try to bring the war to an end. No date for the meeting has been set.Trump said in a post on…

HyderabadOctober 16, 2025 03:07 PM IST First published on: Oct 16, 2025 at 03:06 PM IST With the crucial Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll days away and amid setbacks from courts over its move to implement 42% reservation for Backward Classes (BCs) in local bodies, a “caste war” has erupted within the Telangana Congress over contract works related to the Medaram Jatara, a biennial tribal festival. Trouble first broke out within the Congress last week after state Forest Minister Konda Surekha, who hails from the Padmasali Backward Class community, accused her Cabinet colleague Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy of “interfering” in the Rs…

The Karnataka Government on Tuesday announced a significant revision in the passing criteria, reducing the minimum marks for SSLC or Class 10 from 35 per cent to 33 per cent, and for II PUC or Class 12 board examinations from 35 per cent to 30 per cent, effective immediately. The decision follows overwhelming public support, with 701 letters in favour of the change versus only eight opposing it, following a 15-day consultation period. “We want to increase the pass percentage and introduce a uniform system aligned with CBSE and other boards,” said Primary and Secondary Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa. Story…

A 31-year-old surgeon was arrested for allegedly killing his wife by giving her a high-dose anaesthetic injection six months ago. On April 24, Kruthika M Reddy, 29, a dermatologist, was declared dead after she was wheeled into Bengaluru’s Cauvery Hospital. While initially her family and the doctors assumed hers was a natural death, her elder sister Nikitha M Reddy, a radiologist, wanted to know the exact cause. It was on her insistence that the hospital sent a Medico Legal Case (MLC) report to the Marathahalli police station, which registered a case related to unnatural death under the relevant sections. Six…

Just a day after sealing a 2-0 series win over the West Indies in the second Test at Arun Jaitley Stadium, the Indian cricket team departed for Australia to begin their white-ball tour starting October 19. Players who didn’t feature in the Tests, including Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, rejoined the squad in Delhi before flying out on the morning of October 15. Newly appointed ODI vice-captain Shreyas Iyer also joined the team and was seen sitting next to Kohli on the team bus. Jab Rohit Met Shubman At the team hotel, newly named ODI captain Shubman Gill greeted Rohit…

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have advanced a powerful yet affordable quantum modeling method known as the truncated Wigner approximation. Their improved version can now solve complex, real-world quantum problems on ordinary laptops. The breakthrough could make high-level quantum simulations faster, cheaper, and widely accessible to scientists everywhere. Quantum Complexity in Reach Imagine peering […]

Bangladesh: Chittagong University suspends poll results amid allegations of voting irregularities Dhaka, Oct 16 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Chittagong University on Thursday suspended the student union election results of two halls following allegations of voting irregularities and post-election unrest, shortly after the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, claimed victory, local media reported. The Shibir-backed candidates won key posts, including vice-president, general secretary, and 22 other positions in the Chittagong University Central Students’ Union election (CUCSU). Election Commission member-secretary AKM Ariful Haque said that the results of Atish Dipankar Srigyan Hall and Suhrawardy Hall at Chittagong University would be…

Defence and security cooperation forms muscle of India-Russia partnership: MP Harsh Vardhan Shringla New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Former Foreign Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Harsh Vardhan Shringla stated on Thursday that Moscow remains New Delhi’s single largest supplier of advanced military systems. He said that defence cooperation has evolved from imports to joint development, co-production, and genuine technology transfers in keeping with India’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat. Addressing an event on India-Russia Strategic Partnerships in New Delhi on Thursday, Shringla said that the resilience to change amid global upheavals, shifting geopolitical orders, is one of the most remarkable features…

Australian unemployment rate rises to 4.5 per cent Canberra, Oct 16 (IANS) Australia’s unemployment rate rose to the highest level in almost four years in September, according to official data published on Thursday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The monthly ABS labour force data said that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 4.5 per cent in September, the highest figure since November 2021. The unemployment rate for August was revised upwards to 4.3 per cent on Thursday from the 4.2 per cent initially reported by the ABS in September, Xinhua News Agency reported. Australia’s central bank, the…

Australia: Police investigating 2 shooting and fire incidents in Sydney’s western suburbs Sydney, Oct 16 (IANS) Sydney police are investigating two shooting and fire incidents that occurred in the city’s western suburbs in the early hours of Thursday. Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a fire in Cabramatta, 26 km west of central Sydney, at around 12:45 a.m. local time on Thursday, Xinhua News Agency reported. On arrival at the scene, officers found a house and vehicle both alight. Both fires were extinguished, but the…