Bengaluru: Citing the Supreme Court’s rulings in two maintenance cases, the Karnataka high court has directed a BHEL employee to pay Rs 15,000 per month as maintenance to his wife from the date of application till her lifetime. The husband is now required to pay the arrears from March 2016 within two months.The couple, both…
More than 4.85 crore people cast their vote in the 2026 state assembly election. But there was a time in Tamil Nadu, nearly 1,000 years ago, when 30 ward representatives were choosen in an annual election.The Uthiramerur elections (920 CE), as documented in Chola-period inscriptions, show that a different form of democracy existed at the…
Kharagpur Sadar Election Result: Dilip Ghosh leads BJP with 14,110-vote margin In Kharagpur Sadar, West Bengal, BJP’s Dilip Ghosh is currently leading the count with 50,000 votes to his name. The 61-year-old, who carries 28 criminal cases on his declaration, is holding a margin of 14,110 votes over TMC’s Pradip Sarkar, who has so far…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu appears to be witnessing a dramatic political churn as counting trends from the 2026 Assembly elections point towards a breakthrough performance by the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, led by actor-turned-politician Joseph Vijay. Early leads across multiple constituencies suggest that the party, making its electoral debut, is not just competing but potentially reshaping…
New Zealand woman says cops came looking for her because of her ‘Welcome to New India’ FB post. Renee-Rose Schwenke, a New Zealand woman, has claimed that police came knocking on her door, accusing her of a racist attitude after she posted a photo on Facebook with a caption reading: ‘Welcome to New India’. It…
Long before Farah Khan became one of Bollywood’s most celebrated choreographers and filmmakers, her family’s story was one of extraordinary loss, not once, but twice over. Farah grew up in poverty after her father, filmmaker Kamran Khan, lost everything gambling on his 1971 film ‘Aisa Bhi Hota Hai’. But a lesser-known chapter of her family…
UPCISB recruitment 2026: The Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Institutional Service Board (UPCISB) has invited applications for various posts in district cooperative banks across the state. Interested and eligible candidates can apply online through the official website before the last date, which is May 15, 2026.As per the official notification, the recruitment drive aims to fill a…
Bowling from wheelchair mom fuels cricketer’s success LUCKNOW: At a time when teenage prodigies are grabbing headlines with their cricketing skills, a quieter story is taking shape in the narrow lanes of Saharanpur, far from the glare of stadium lights.The journey of Arnav, who played a key role in helping in the cricket world is…
Bengaluru: Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium has launched a new sky show that retraces one of humanity’s longest-running space missions, the journey of Nasa’s twin Voyager spacecraft that continue travelling beyond the solar system nearly five decades after launch.Titled “Voyager – The Never-Ending Journey”, the 33-minute programme opened to the public on April 30 and combines a…
Stalin lost from Kolathur to TVK’s V S Babu by 8,795 votes. Photo by B A Raju CHENNAI: Just before the election campaign drew to a close, two DMK functionaries from Kolathur constituency said they were targeting not just a victory, but a huge victory with a margin of more than 75,000 votes. They reasoned…
