5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (222+ words) Only half of Telangana’s police officials have been trained in the new criminal laws introduced via the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). According to data released by the Union government, only 27,747 (52.2%) of the total 53,115 police officers have been trained in the…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1025+ words) The pre-marital counselling programme recently launched in Karnataka by the National Commission for Women (NCW) aims to be progressive, but leaves troubling gaps. It also raises the larger question of actually encouraging open communication before marriage in a society where…...

4+ hour, 43+ min ago   (1462+ words) A headless human skeleton with both hands bound and held against its chest was reportedly found at the Chemmani-Siththupathi mass grave in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, on Saturday, August 8. The discovery came as the excavation crossed 100 days, with 515 sets of human…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (232+ words) Two of the three Augustine brothers, key accused in the 2020 Muttil tree-felling case in Wayanad, surrendered before the Chottanikkara Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Ernakulam on Tuesday, August 11, in a separate cheating case linked to the alleged sale of…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago   (282+ words) Two months after Hyderabad named a road after United States president Donald Trump, the city is set to get south India’s first Trump Towers, a 65-storey luxury residential project in the Kokapet area. The Trump Towers are expected to generate…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago   (456+ words) The Bengaluru Central City Corporation has said actor Prakash Raj’s name was marked as “Shifted” in the electoral roll after a house-to-house verification found that he no longer resided at the address where he was registered as a voter. In a statement,…...

5+ hour, 37+ min ago   (279+ words) Former Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is serving a life sentence after being convicted in a rape case, was allegedly found using a mobile phone inside Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Prison during a surprise search by Central Crime…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago   (377+ words) A 19-year-old engineering student in Coimbatore was allegedly beaten to death by a group of his college mates on Monday, August 10, following allegations that he was involved in an extortion and mobile phone theft incident. Five students have been detained…...

20+ hour, 54+ min ago   (104+ words) In this week’s edition, we uncover why ministers and officials in Karnataka suddenly seem to be visible everywhere, especially on social media. It stems from a directive from CM Shivakumar himself. The Delimitation Bill is back in the news, but…...

20+ hour, 37+ min ago   (213+ words) Prakash Raj, a vocal critic of alleged irregularities in voter rolls, said that he wanted to share a “joke”, and added that he was among 65 lakh voters whose votes had been deleted. Emphasising his connection to the area, the actor…...