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Hyderabad: Telangana BC welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar has announced that the state government will conduct local body elections by implementing 42 percent reservations for Backward Classes (BC), a decision which has been taken during the cabinet meeting held on Saturday, August 30. To enable it, he said the 50 percent cap on reservations in the Telangana Municipal Laws (Amendment) Act of 2018, and the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act of 2018 will be removed by making amendments to these laws. Addressing media persons at Dr BR Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat on Saturday, Ponnam said that a discussion will be held in…

Hyderabad: A case was registered against an assistant manager of the Insurance and Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for allegedly siphoning off over Rs five crore from the authority. The assistant manager allegedly diverted the amount to his bank accounts and those of his relatives over a period of two years by producing fake invoices of payments to be made to other entities by IRDAI, police said on Saturday. Also ReadTextile employee arrested for embezzlement of Rs 70L, illegal firearms The alleged offence came to light when an entity pointed out that it did not receive the payment,…

Udaipur: BJP MLA from Rajasthan’s Rajsamand Deepti Kiran Maheshwari, her personal assistant and driver were injured in an accident on the Udaipur-Rajsamand Highway here in the district on Saturday, police said. At around 1 am near Amberi in Udaipur, Maheshwari’s car, while coming from Rajsamand, was allegedly hit by a Gujarat-registered vehicle when the latter was taking a turn at a cut, police said. Also ReadRajasthan native murdered by roommate under Chaderghat PS limit Maheshwari sustained rib fractures while her personal assistant Jai and driver Dharmendra were also injured in the accident, the police said, adding that all were admitted…

Patna: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) MP Arun Bharti, on Saturday at a press conference in Patna, claimed his party is preparing to contest all 243 seats in the upcoming Bihar Assembly election. However, he also said that the final decision will depend on a consensus within the NDA. “There should be a respectable agreement between the five constituent parties in the NDA. If there is no equality, it will not be right for the alliance,” he said, rejecting fake news reports that LJP-RV was limiting itself to just 20 seats. Bharti also reiterated his stance from Friday that the…

Mysuru (Karnataka): Pramoda Devi Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family, responding to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state unit Congress President D.K. Shivakumar’s statement that Chamundi Hills is not exclusive to Hindus, asserted that Chamundi Hills indeed belongs to Hindus. She also appealed to stop carrying out politics over Dusshera celebrations. Speaking to reporters in Mysuru on Saturday, Pramoda Devi further stated that the rituals and worship at Chamundi Temple are conducted strictly according to Hindu traditions. “The Chamundi Temple is governed by Hindu rituals,” she said. “Goddess Chamundi is a Hindu deity. She is especially revered by those…

Hyderabad: Crops in thousands of acres of land in Basar village of Mudhole mandal in Nirmal district have been submerged in flood waters due to the Godavari river swelling to dangerous proportions owing to heavy rains in its catchment areas for the past four days. Priests of the Basar Saraswathi temple and villagers performed a ‘Shanti Puja‘ to the local deity, hoping that the flow of the Godavari river will subside and bring relief to the people from the floods of this magnitude which has not occured in the last 40 years. The flood waters entered not only the temple, but…

Hyderabad: Five individuals from a bike theft gang were apprehended by Jagadgirigutta police on Saturday, August 30, and 22 bikes were seized. The accused have been identified as Gollapally Sridhar Lingaiah, 26, Midde Veera Kousik Goud, 21, Katta Manikanta, 20, Guthula Srinivas, 28 and Shaik Nagur Vali, 25. All are natives of Andhra Pradesh except Sridhar, who hails from Telangana’s Jagtial district. The five were apprehended based on a complaint by Gafoor Raja, who stated that on August 24, between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm, his bike was stolen from a wine shop in Jagadgirigutta. Based on his complaint, police…

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T Harish Rao has approached the Telangana High Court seeking the postponement of the discussion in the Telangana Assembly on the Ghose Commission report on the Kaleshwaram project until a final verdict is made. The Siddipet MLA filed an Interlocutory Anticipatory (IA) seeking postponement of the discussion on the report until the final verdict of the High Court in this matter. Interlocutory anticipatory would describe a temporary measure taken in advance of an anticipated event, most commonly exemplified by a court order granting anticipatory bail. The “interlocutory” nature means the court provides this relief provisionally,…

New Delhi: India has become Ukraine’s largest diesel supplier, despite facing a 50 per cent tariff from the US, according to a report on Saturday. The report comes as the US alleges that India is indirectly supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine by buying Russian crude. As per the Ukrainian oil market analytics firm NaftoRynok, India supplied 15.5 per cent of Ukraine’s total diesel imports in July 2025, the highest share from any country. Also ReadModi, Putin discuss Ukraine conflict, strengthen India-Russia ties July saw daily deliveries average 2,700 tonnes, marking it as one of India’s strongest export months this year.…

Ara: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday took a veiled dig at RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, who had recently claimed that the people of India have had “the same DNA for 40,000 years”. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, who joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar on the final day of its third leg, addressed a rally in Ara town. “We have been saying that our fight for social justice is 5,000 years old. But only recently we got to learn that it dates back to 40,000 years,” said Yadav, tongue in cheek. Also ReadBihar:…