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The police in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district arrested a 21-year-old man Wednesday for allegedly killing his 18-year-old girlfriend who was found dead in a semi-burnt condition with torn clothes beside the Bengaluru-Davangere stretch of National Highway 48 Tuesday. The deceased was the daughter of a Dalit couple from the Hiriyur region, and a first-year Bachelor of Arts student at the government college in Chitradurga. She was living in a hostel for Scheduled Casts/Scheduled Tribes students in Chitradurga town. The accused has been identified as Chethan K, 21, who often came near the hostel and had been seeing her for over a…

Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka secured India’s first senior gold medal at the Asian Shooting Championships 2025, winning the top prize in the men’s skeet event in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. Naruka scored 57 out of a possible 60 points in a competitive final clash against Kuwait’s Mansour Al-Rashidi, a former Asian Games champion, who managed 56. The bronze medal went to Qatar’s Ali Ahmed Al-Ishaq, who shot 43, as per Olympics.com. This is also Naruka’s first-ever individual gold at Asian Championships, as in the last edition held at Kuwait, he had to stay content with a silver. Interestingly, back then,…

The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh has formed an independent 15-member “Economic Advisory Group” along the lines of the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).This team was constituted on June 18 and will be in place until June 2027, even as Uttar Pradesh is slated for the Assembly elections in February-March 2027. Sources said the team’s goal is to help UP reach the “one trillion dollar economy mark” and “showcase a transformed economy” before the completion of Adityanath’s second term as the CM. With experts from different sectors, the team is expected to improve coordination between…

The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) against senior officers of State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB), among other accused, over alleged fraud worth over Rs 78 crore. The order was passed on July 23 by a Single Bench of Justice M G Uma in connection with a case filed by Prashanth Hegde, managing director of Metal Closures, which was involved in the manufacturing of packaging materials, in 2015. Several accused in the case had approached the High Court to quash the chargesheet filed by the…

Billed by the Thackeray cousins as the testing of waters for an alliance between their parties for the coming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, the BEST credit society results that came in Wednesday instead proved a rude shock.Despite Uddhav and Raj joining forces for the first time in two decades, their Shiv Sena (UBT)-Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) combine, which contested the polls under the “Utkarsh” panel, failed to win even one of the 19 seats it contested. Worse for the Thackerays, the voter base of the election was largely Marathi speakers, seen to be a core support base of the…

Liverpool star forward Mohamed Salah has been named the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Player of the Year for 2025, becoming the first footballer to win the prestigious award three times. The Egyptian previously won the honour in 2018 and 2022. Salah’s Record-Breaking Season Since joining Liverpool in 2017, Salah has consistently delivered match-winning performances, and last season was no different. The 33-year-old finished as the Premier League’s top scorer with 29 goals and also topped the assists chart with 18. His brilliance guided Liverpool to the league title, as they finished 10 points ahead of Arsenal. This stunning campaign also…

New Delhi: As the race for the Vice President’s post begins to heat up, the BJP has launched a scathing attack on the INDIA bloc’s nominee former Supreme Court judge Justice (retd) B. Sudershan Reddy, accusing him of compromising national security, supporting Naxal insurgency and sympathising with anti-national elements. Justice Reddy, who served as a Supreme Court judge until his retirement in 2011, has come under harsh BJP criticism even before he and NDA nominee CP Radhakrishnan formally launch their campaign for the September 9 vice presidential poll.  In a series of statements and social media posts, senior BJP leaders…

Deputy CM DK Shivakumar has revealed that the government is preparing a DPR to extend Bengaluru’s Namma Metro Yellow Line to Attibele, boosting connectivity for the city’s southern outskirts.Bengaluru’s ever-growing metro map may soon stretch deeper into the city’s southern belt, with the state government actively considering an extension of the Namma Metro Yellow Line to Attibele.Also Read:Bengaluru’s treated wastewater still unusable, while Singapore turns sewage into drinking waterDeputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, responding during Question Hour in the Karnataka Assembly, revealed that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) has already been commissioned to study the feasibility of taking the…

The winds of change continue to sweep through Indian cricket. With the team in the middle of a major transition, leadership roles across formats are being reshaped. While Shubman Gill appeared to be the obvious choice for an all-format captaincy, fresh reports suggest that the BCCI is considering middle-order batter Shreyas Iyer as the next leader of the ODI side. BCCI Considering Iyer as Long-Term Option According to a report in Dainik Jagran, the selectors and board officials see Iyer as a strong candidate to guide India in ODIs, potentially until the 2027 World Cup. Although no official decision has…

A DAY after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced Rs 5,000 monthly aid and other sops for migrant workers returning to the state, Governor C V Ananda Bose in an unusual move recommended his own initiatives for migrants and sent a proposal in this regard to the state as well as the Centre.As the Trinamool Congress government plays on Bengali sentiments, raising incidents of ill-treatment of migrants from the state in the Centre’s push against “Bangladeshis”, the fact that Bose has joined the issue is significant. West Bengal is headed for Assembly elections in early 2026 and is expected…