Bengaluru-based builder booked for cheating

The Kodigehalli police on Sunday registered a cheating case against a city-based builder for allegedly cheating as many as 34 families and making away with lakhs of rupees from them. One of the victims, who filed a complaint, said she had leased the flat situated at a residential complex in Kodigehalli from the builder identified…

Police register FIR after schoolboy abused in Aligarh, forced to urinate on Pakistani flag

Imahe used for representation | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Uttar Pradesh police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against three persons for allegedly forcing a student hailing from the minority community in Aligarh to urinate on the Pakistan flag. It comes against the backdrop of a purported video circulating on social media showing a…

As Union government decides to enumerate caste, Ashwini Vaishnaw insists SECC, State efforts were ‘surveys’ 

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the briefing on Cabinet decisions on April 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar While announcing that the Union Cabinet has decided to enumerate caste in the next Census, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw made it a point to argue that the 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) and caste…

Bomb threat rocks Thiruvananthapuram airport ahead of PM visit

Security forces conducted an extensive combing operation at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport following yet another bomb threat received on Tuesday evening. The threat, which emerged ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to the city, prompted heightened security measures at the airport. The e-mail reportedly claiming responsibility from “Hizbul Mujahideen”, stated that bombs have…

City schools shine in ISC, ICSE exams

Students in city schools put up a good performance in the ISC (Class XII) and ICSE (Class X) examinations, the results of which were declared by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Wednesday. At St. Thomas Residential School, Mukkolakkal, Ria Maria Manoj secured the first spot in the ISC Science stream…

Shivraj Chouhan questions Congress’s track record on caste census

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan. File | Photo Credit: ANI Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Wednesday (April 30, 2025) questioned the Congress party’s record on conducting a caste census, asserting that its leadership – particularly Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi – must first account…