A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) reserved its order on a criminal public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged irregularities in the Lavasa hill station project in Pune district. The PIL, filed by advocate Nanasaheb Vasantrao Jadhav,…
The heads and deputy heads of the local bodies will be elected on December 26 and December 27, the State Election Commission said on Tuesday (December 16). The chairpersons and Mayors of municipalities and corporations, respectively, will be elected at 10.30 a.m. on December 26. Deputy chairpersons of municipalities and Deputy Mayors of Corporations will…
MEXICO CITY — A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a cut of profits. Enraged peasant farmers fed up with paying graft turn on cartel thugs in a bloody showdown. In…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a cold wave alert in six Telangana districts for Wednesday, December 17. Photo: India Meteorological Department The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a cold wave alert in six Telangana districts for Wednesday (December 17, 2025). According to IMDs latest bulletin, cold wave conditions are very likely to…
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is scheduled to meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Jerusalem, Dec 16 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived in Israel on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) on a two-day visit during which he will hold talks with the…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Nitish Kumar government on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) approved the ‘Saat Nishchay-3’ programme to bring Bihar into the category of the most developed States. The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The CM posted on X (formerly…
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy met Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on December 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy met with Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) and presented her the Telangana Rising 2047 Vision Document,…
The Dommasandra Flyover project, initiated in 2020, has been pending and stalled for several years leading to heavy congestion in the area in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J The year 2025 is drawing to a close, but what seem to have no end in sight are Bengaluru’s infrastructure woes. Like every year in…
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks in Lok Sabha during the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on December 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Lok Sabha on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) passed a resolution to refer a bill to set up a 13-member body for regulating higher education institutions to a joint…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A Thane court has acquitted nine persons booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in a 2016 dacoity case, noting their identification was unreliable and the prosecution failed to prove the charges against them. The mandatory requirement of the offence…