New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) The Congress today welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict on the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue, calling it a "victory for democracy" and a major setback for what it termed the "obstructionist approach" of the Election Commission of India (ECI). Notably, the Supreme Court during the day ruled that persons omitted from the draft rolls could file applications for inclusion online, without the need for physical submission. Importantly, it clarified that an Aadha...Read More
Patna: Launching a scathing attack on RJD and Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said these parties were against the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill as many of their leaders were either in jail or out on bail, while raising concerns over rapidly changing demographic profile of Bihar's border districts."The members of RJD, Congress, and Left parties are opposing this law. They are very angry, and who doesn't know what they are afraid of? Some of these RJD and Congress members ar...Read More
Patna: On the day PM Narendra Modi visited Bihar to inaugurate development projects worth over Rs 13,000 crore, RJD chief Lalu Prasad launched a fierce attack, alleging the BJP leader had come to Gaya to perform the "political farewell" of CM Nitish Kumar. Responding to the remarks, Congress leader Azmi Bari said, "Laluji has his own style of expressing his feelings."Union minister Chirag Paswan condemned the Lalu's remarks. "This is wrong. What kind of language is this? You can raise questions ...Read More
New Delhi: The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, was passed by the Parliament on Thursday, 21 August. "The Online Gaming Bill highlights our commitment towards making India a hub for gaming, innovation and creativity," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. The bill seeks to ban all forms of online money games. The bill, instead, pursues promoting eSports and online social gaming. Since Thursday, several fantasy gaming platforms have stopped operations. The Promoti...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today interacted with the women officers participating in a United Nations Women Military Officers Course (UNWMOC-2025) here and hailed them as torchbearers of change, highlighting the unique insights and approaches they contribute to peacekeeping efforts. Organised by the Centre for United Nations Peacekeeping under the aegis of Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs from August 18-29, the course aims to build professional ca...Read More
NEW DELHI: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court against the nationwide rollout of 20% Ethanol Blended Petrol (E20), claiming that millions of motorists are being forced to use fuel their vehicles are not designed for.The plea, filed by advocate Akshay, has sought directions to the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas to ensure ethanol-free petrol (E0) is made available at all fuel stations across the country.The PIL argues that cars and two-wheelers manufactured ...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (PTI) The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Friday said that it will "endeavour to arrive at mutually agreeable measures" with the Indian Super League (ISL) organisers to enable timely commencement of the event, having got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court to have discussions on the matter. A SC bench of two judges allowed the AIFF and ISL organisers FSDL to start discussions on the Master Rights Agreement (MRA) and try to find a solution so that the upcoming ISL seaso...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (PTI) Online gaming platforms, including Dream11, My11Circle, WinZO, Zupee, and Nazara Technologies-backed PokerBaazi, have halted their real-money online gaming offerings, following the passage of the Online Gaming Bill by Parliament on Thursday. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, seeks a blanket ban on all forms of online money games, while promoting e-sports and online social games. Online fantasy game My11Circle, owned and operated by Play Games24x7...Read More
Bhubaneswar, Aug 22 (PTI) Prem Patnaik, the brother of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik, on Friday came to Bhubaneswar from Delhi and discussed with doctors about the treatment of the former Odisha chief minister. Naveen Patnaik was discharged from a hospital here on Wednesday evening after recovering from dehydration. The leader of the opposition's in the state assembly's office released a video showing Prem discussing with doctors in the presence of Naveen Patnaik and his close...Read More
Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan's 'younger than ever' look at the premiere launch event of Aryan Khan's directorial debut 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood' has sparked speculation about a possible cosmetic surgical procedure. SRK, who played an emcee at the star-studded event held at YRF studios in Mumbai on Wednesday, hogged the limelight with his stunning, transformed appearance. Redditors, who were quick to notice SRK's transformed appearance, started decoding the secret behind the actor's youthful look. ...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (PTI) Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday asserted that she will never be scared and defeated, and continue to struggle for the rights of Delhi, as she resumed official engagements two days after an attack on her. Gupta returned to her "old form" after recovering from the "shock" suffered by her in the past two days and participated in public events, said a statement from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO). Addressing an event in Gandhi Nagar in the trans Yamuna area of the ci...Read More
NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Friday scaled back its order to catch and remove tens of thousands of stray dogs from the capital, after feasibility questions about the sheer scale of the exercise. TEMPORARY VICTORY A stray dog is seen on a street following the verdict that modified an earlier order to relocate canines like it in India's capital New Delhi on Aug. 22, 2025. EPA PHOTO The court earlier this month handed city authorities a deadline of eight weeks to round up all dogs, order...Read More
India and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) star Rinku Singh has shared details of her long-term love story with fiancé, lawyer and politician, Priya Saroj. The middle-order batter said that they first started talking in 2022 when he came across Priya's photo on a fan page. Though he was hesitant to message her on Instagram, he gathered up the courage after seeing Priya like some of his photos. "It started in 2022 during the COVID years when IPL was in Mumbai," Rinku told News24. "I had a fan page t...Read More
Patna/Bhagalpur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' gathered momentum on Friday as it moved through Munger and Bhagalpur, drawing large crowds and sharp political reactions. The yatra, aimed at highlighting alleged irregularities in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, entered its sixth day with colourful displays of alliance flags and enthusiastic supporters lining the streets. Rahul, accompanied by RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, CPI-ML general s...Read More
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday defended the 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill and asserted that jailed ministers cannot hold office. Addressing a public meeting at Dum Dum Central Jail ground, PM Modi lambasted the INDIA bloc parties, including Trinamool Congress, for opposing the bill and shielding corrupt leaders. "We decided to bring in a law that will not allow a corrupt chief minister, or even the Prime Minister, to hold office, if he or she spends 30 days in jail. But ...Read More
Hyderabad: Three government officials were nabbed by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), and bribes worth Rs 1 lakh were recovered from them. On Friday, August 22, the ACB sleuths caught the sub registrar of Vanasthalipuram red-handed when he demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh and accepted Rs 70,000 from the complainant through Ramesh, a typist in a private office. According to the ACB, the accused officer had demanded a bribe for processing the registration of the property of the complaina...Read More
Hyderabad: Veteran actor Raza Murad has lodged an official complaint with Mumbai's Amboli Police Station following a fake social media update announcing his death that went viral. The update, which contained his date of birth and a made-up date of death along with condolence messages, left the actor "tired" as he tried to explain to his friends, colleagues, and fans that he was indeed alive. Speaking to a news agency, Murad expressed his deep distress over the incident. "There are some people w...Read More
Hyderabad: Student leader and PhD scholar at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu), Hyderabad, Talha Mannan has been booked by Aligarh police for raising pro-Palestine slogans during a protest at Aligarh Muslim University on August 4. The FIR, filed on the complaint of Hindu Raksha Dal's Sanjay Arya, accuses Mannan of holding a demonstration near Bab-e-Syed Gate without permission and raising "provocative slogans" with 8-10 others. It states that videos of the protest circulated on socia...Read More
CHENNAI: After surpassing the National Record (NR) in the women's 10m air rifle event earlier this year, Elavenil Valarivan climbed to the top of the podium with a remarkable score of 253.6, setting a new Asian Record and a National Record in the final at the ongoing Asian Shooting Championships in Kazakhstan. "I'm very happy. I believe there will be significant changes in my qualification going forward. However, I would have loved to better my qualification. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoy...Read More
BHAGALPUR: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday said that the upcoming elections would be the last for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, expressing confidence that Kumar would not return as CM again. Yadav, along with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, participated in the 'Voter Adhikar Rally' held in Bhagalpur. "This will be the last election of the Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. He will not become the Chief Minister of Bihar again...Do you want an original CM or a duplicate?... We a...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) The Supreme Court today passed significant directions in the Bihar electoral rolls case, making it easier for excluded voters to reclaim their franchise. The bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi ruled that persons omitted from the draft rolls could file applications for inclusion online, without the need for physical submission. Importantly, it clarified that an Aadhaar card alone would be sufficient for filing such claims, besides the 11 other docume...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) A staggering Rs 42.68 crore of taxpayers' money had to be spent on senior advocates, including Abhishek Manu Singhvi and others, to contest as many as 542 "frivolous and false" cases filed against him during the previous UPA regime, said union Minister for Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. Speaking at his residence with Women Journalist Welfare Trust (WJWT), the Minister stressed that such politically motivated litigations not only burden individual public re...Read More
Mumbai, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the latest season of the popular reality show "Bigg Boss" is set to entertain the fans soon, JioHotstar has revealed the house for this season. The house for the show hosted by Salman Khan has been conceptualized by renowned designer Omung Kumar with production designer Vanita Garud. For Season 19, the design of the house has been inspired by the spirit of camping in the wild, invoking the raw simplicity of a cabin in the woods. Wooden textures ground the hou...Read More
Ahmedabad, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) BJP leader Rohan Gupta, on Friday, has supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong stance against terrorism, asserting that India's defence policy under his leadership has drawn a "new line of resolve". Gupta's remarks came after PM Modi declared that "no one will be able to escape by sending terrorists and carrying out attacks in India," citing the success of Operation Sindoor. The BJP leader also praised PM Modi's uncompromising approach towards terrori...Read More
Kolkata: The city's long-awaited East-West Metro finally began its complete 16.6-km run between Sector V and Howrah Maidan on Friday evening, linking Salt Lake, Esplanade, and Howrah through one uninterrupted corridor. For thousands of commuters, the uninterrupted service is now a direct answer to years of battling traffic bottlenecks, delays, and diversions on road routes across the city.For Sourav Dutta, a Bally resident working in Salt Lake, the Metro means he no longer needs to depend on a c...Read More
Mumbai, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Friday joined the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's charges of "vote chori", saying that the party has begun a similar study in Assembly seats in Maharashtra, and identical incidents of duplicate and fake voters, wrong addresses have been discovered in many constituencies. The party said that it will soon be presenting a detailed study of all Assembly seats and approaching the courts as well. P...Read More
Kolkata: The East-West Metro, projected to exceed the age-old Blue Line in ridership within a year or two, completed its first full run between Salt Lake Sector V and Howrah Maidan across the Hooghly on Friday evening. The metro connection, which was in the works for 16 years, also linked two of India's busiest railway stations -- Howrah and Sealdah.The project, conceived in 2008, came to fruition after overcoming two significant hurdles, both at Bowbazar. The first occurred before the start of ...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi today welcomed the revised direction of the Supreme Court on stray dogs and called it a "progressive step" that carefully balances animal welfare with public safety concerns. In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi said, "I welcome the Supreme Court's revised directions on stray dogs, as it marks a progressive step toward balancing animal welfare and public safety. The approach is both compassionate and rooted in scientific reasoning."...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The North Delhi Strikers pulled off a nail-biting 2-run win against East Delhi Riders in a rain-curtailed Women's Delhi Premier League fixture at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Friday. Batting first in a 17-over-per-side contest, the Strikers posted a competitive 118/5. Skipper Ayushi Soni led from the front with a well-compiled 40 off 31 balls, while Laxmi Yadav anchored the innings with an unbeaten 48 off 34, finishing strongly alongside Archana, who chipped in...Read More
Aizawl: In a major haul, the Border Security Force (BSF), with support from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Mizoram Excise and Narcotics department, seized drugs worth Rs 75 crore from Mizoram on Thursday. Eight persons were arrested in this connection. The recovery included huge quantities of Methamphetamine tablets and heroin, the BSF said in a statement on Friday. The BSF launched the special operation based on specific intelligence generated by its intelligence branch. The joint...Read More