Author: Rahul M

Bengaluru: Chief minister Siddaramaiah took on the role of a city bus conductor Monday, issuing pink tickets to mark the Shakti scheme crossing the 500-crore ridership milestone. He was joined by his deputy DK Shivakumar, transport minister Ramalinga Reddy, other cabinet colleagues and chief secretary Shalini Rajneesh on the occasion.As part of the event, the chief minister felicitated a woman passenger, Latha P, a resident of Chamarajpet who works in a bag factory, and gifted Ilkal sarees to nearly 30 commuters, including elderly citizens and students. Members of Odala Dhwani, a self-help group that has benefited from the scheme, also…

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) have appointed former India pacer Varun Aaron as their new bowling coach ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season. The 35-year-old will replace former New Zealand left-arm pacer James Franklin in the role.  The 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL) champions SRH announced the news of Varun’s appointment on social media and welcomed the former India pacer to the coaching staff.  “A fiery addition to our coaching staff! Welcome Varun Aaron as our new bowling coach,” SRH wrote on X, formerly Twitter on Monday. Notably, this is the first time Varun will be working in a…

The inauguration of Karnataka’s longest–and India’s second largest–cable-stayed bridge by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday was marred by a war of words between him and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who skipped the event in Shivamogga.Constructed at a cost of Rs 423.15 crore, the extradosed cable stay-cum-balanced cantilever bridge is 177 m long and has approach roads from both sides. It connects several villages in Sagar and Hosanagara taluks of Shivamogga district and the popular Sigandur Chowdeshwari temple located in Sagar taluk. The row erupted a day ahead of the inauguration of the bridge, with Siddaramaiah…

KolkataJul 14, 2025 19:57 IST First published on: Jul 14, 2025 at 19:57 IST Share As part of the gubernatorial reshuffle undertaken by the Centre Monday, senior West Bengal BJP leader Ashim Kumar Ghosh, 81, has been appointed as the new Governor of Haryana. Ghosh is succeeding Bandaru Dattatreya, who has been serving as the Haryana Governor since July 2021. A former professor, Ghosh served as the Bengal BJP president from 1999 to 2002. He taught political science in Kolkata’s Maharaja Srischandra College for more than three decades. After being named the Haryana Governor, Ghosh said, “It’s a big responsibility.…

LONDON (AP) — All four people aboard a a small plane that crashed shortly after taking off from London Southend Airport are dead, police said Monday.Essex Police said that work is continuing to formally identify the victims of Sunday’s crash, none of whom are British.The Beechcraft B200 Super King Air operated by Dutch firm Zeusch Aviation had flown from Athens, Greece to Pula in Croatia on Sunday before heading to Southend. It was due to return to its home base of Lelystad, in the Netherlands, on Sunday evening. The 12-meter (39-foot) turboprop plane came down moments after takeoff and burst…

Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge Monday said he was being held responsible for someone else’s mistake, and everyone accused of wrongdoing in the state was considered his aide. He made this remark after photos of him, his father and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge with Lingaraj Kanni, a Congress worker from Kalaburagi who was arrested in Kalyan city, were shared on social media on Sunday. The Maharashtra Police arrested Kanni along with three others last month under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act for allegedly supplying 120 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup. Story continues below this ad…

Thiruvananthapuram: At a rally in the run-up to the 2016 Assembly polls, Prime Minister Modi held up the hand of the BJP candidate from Kannur’s Koothuparambu constituency, C. Sadanandan Master, highlighting the ‘brutality committed by the communists’ in the State. Nearly a decade later, Sadanandan’s nomination to Rajya Sabha is a reminder of Kerala’s long history of political violence and revenge murders, most of which involve the CPIM and the BJP. Sadanandan, a former SFI member, was attacked by several men in January 1994, years after he left the communist party for the RSS. Sadanandan lost both his legs in…

JammuJul 14, 2025 19:00 IST First published on: Jul 14, 2025 at 19:00 IST Share Former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta was appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh on Monday. He replaced Brigadier (retd) B D Mishra, who had been serving as Lt Governor since 2023. No stranger to J&K politics, Gupta has a long association with the RSS, having joined the organisation as a minor. Like many in the RSS, he too was jailed during the Emergency. Gupta was the secretary of the Punjab wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) between 1978-79 and headed the…

BERLIN (AP) — Arachnophobes beware: Customs officials on Monday released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young tarantulas found inside plastic containers that had been hidden in chocolate spongecake boxes shipped to an airport in western Germany. Customs officials found the shipment at Cologne Bonn airport in a package that had arrived from Vietnam, tipped off by a “noticeable smell” that didn’t resemble the expected aroma of the 7 kilograms (about 15 pounds) of the confectionery treats, Cologne customs office spokesman Jens Ahland said. “My colleagues at the airport are regularly surprised by the contents of prohibited packages from…

As the Opposition hit the streets of Bihar last week to protest against the electoral roll revision in the state and attempted to enforce a bandh, an awkward situation unfolded.Video clips from the march against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) showed security officials physically stopping the Independent MP from Purnia, Pappu Yadav, from boarding the vehicle carrying Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, state LoP Tejashwi Yadav, and other leaders of the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance). While there were videos of Gandhi’s party colleague Kanhaiya Kumar also facing a similar treatment — allegedly not to ruffle Tejashwi — Pappu…