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BengaluruNovember 25, 2025 08:50 AM IST First published on: Nov 25, 2025 at 08:47 AM IST With a reshuffle of the Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet looking imminent in Karnataka, several Congress legislators, veterans and first-timers alike, have stepped up their efforts to bag a berth, with some landing up in Delhi to make their case. Days after a group of Congress MLAs travelled to the National Capital, senior leader and MLC B K Hariprasad and MLAs H C Balakrishna, Iqbal Hussain, Sharath Bache Gowda, and Nayana Motamma have arrived in Delhi to meet the central leadership. Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar,…

Last week, as the Centre proposed bringing Chandigarh under Article 240 of the Constitution—which would empower the President to frame regulations and legislate directly for the Union Territory—a political hue and cry ensued in Punjab. All political parties, except for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), raised an alarm. This was yet another move by New Delhi to diminish Punjab’s claim over Chandigarh, the city meant to be the state’s “soothing balm”, parties claimed.Even BJP leaders privately raised concerns. According to reports, Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar spoke to Union Home Minister Amit Shah late Saturday, with the Centre beating a hasty retreat after. It “clarified” that the…

In early November, a special court in Delhi initiated proceedings against former Congress MP Jitendra Singh for criminal breach of trust, directing him to appear before it on November 25. The directions came after the son of another former Congress MP from Rajasthan, Prabha Thakur, alleged that Singh had borrowed an M F Husain painting, estimated at over Rs 1 crore, in 2014, stating he wished to show it to his wife, who is a Husain admirer, and possibly purchase it.However, the painting was allegedly never returned. Thakur’s son Rohit Singh Mahiyaria filed a complaint in 2019, and a trial…

After the first two VIP-studded Pran Pratishtha ceremonies, the third and final event at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, to be held Tuesday, will put front and centre the footsoldiers who were part of the mandir movement. Around 10,000 are expected to attend, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.The Sangh imprimatur on the ceremony organised by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, which will mark the hoisting of a ‘Dharma Dhwaj (flag)’ at the temple, is clear. Take Anil Kumar, who was 26 and the president of BJP youth wing…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Tuesday, striking residential buildings and energy infrastructure, according to video footage and local authorities.A residential building in the central Pechersk district and another in Kyiv’s eastern district of Dniprovskyi were badly damaged, Mayor Vitalii Kitschko said.Video footage posted to Telegram showed a large fire spread through multiple floors of the nine-story building in Dniprovskyi. At least four people were injured, the head of Kyiv city administration, Tymor Tkachenko, said.Ukraine’s energy ministry said that energy infrastructure had been hit, without specifying what type or the extent…

The Hunger Games: The Sunrise on the Reaping Official Teaser Trailer The Second Quarter Quell is coming as Lionsgate releases the official teaser trailer for the upcoming sci-fi adventure prequel The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. View trailer below. Taking place 24 years before the first film, a young Haymitch Abernathy is selected to compete in the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell, which occurs every 25 years. For this “special” edition, each district of Panem must send twice the number of tributes to the Capitol, who will fight to the death in Hunger Game…

Thoma Bravo’s RealPage and the justice department reached a settlement agreement in an antitrust case that had accused the company of monopolizing the market for rental property software and fostering a price-fixing conspiracy among residential landlords around the U.S.According to the proposed settlement, which has to be approved by a federal judge in North Carolina, RealPage has agreed to stop enabling the sharing of nonpublic pricing data between competing landlords and to stop using that data to train its artificial intelligence models for determining rental prices.“Competing companies must make independent pricing decisions, and with the rise of algorithmic and artificial…

Summary: A Brown University study shows that AI chatbots marketed for mental health support often violate core ethical principles, even when instructed to use established therapy techniques. AI mental health bots often violate ethical norms, prompting calls for stronger oversight. As increasing numbers of people seek mental health support from ChatGPT and other large language […]

Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Throughout the blockbuster-obsessed 1980s, there were rumblings of a fledgling independent cinema movement, and by the decade’s end, a film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on its way to snagging an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay: Steven Soderbergh’s “sex, lies, and videotape.” Released in 1989, its critical and commercial success heralded the arrival of indie movies into the mainstream. It wasn’t before long that upstart studios like Miramax started jockeying for theater space with the majors. Pretty…

Volcanic eruptions have long fascinated scientists, who have studied them to better predict their behavior and minimize their devastating impact. A new breakthrough, published in Science, challenges previous understanding by identifying a hidden factor in volcanic explosions: shear forces within rising magma. Researchers have discovered that these forces can create gas bubbles earlier than previously thought, potentially leading to calmer eruptions or explosive bursts depending on how they form. Shear Forces in Magma: A Game Changer in Volcanology For decades, scientists believed that gas bubbles in volcanic magma formed primarily when the surrounding pressure dropped as magma ascended. As magma…