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Chief minister D K Shivakumar has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to send a Central team to the state to assess what he described as an emerging drought

Senior YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and former Andhra Pradesh minister Mudragada Padmanabham, who spearheaded the Kapu reservation movement for more than three decades, died on Tuesday evening while undergoing treatment for kidney-related

A merger formula was almost finalised and about to be announced when NCP chief Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash on January 28

The Congress on Tuesday accused Maharashtra’s BJP-led Mahayuti government of “cheating” millions of women under the Ladki Bahin Yojana, citing a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that found around 6

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War underscored the country’s resolve to meet any threat to its territory, identity or honour with full might

A 35-year-old man, his wife and their two young sons were found dead on railway tracks at Singarayakonda railway station in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district on Tuesday, a day after police named him the prime accused in the murder of his brother-in

The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday decided to table the draft Uniform Civil Code (UCC) bill at a special cabinet meeting in Jagdishpura on July 19, a day after the high-level committee constituted for drafting the code submitted its final

The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the validity of continuing with the two-child norm for contesting panchayat and other local body elections, observing that the policy, conceived to curb population growth, may have outlived its purpose in light

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday extended the timeline for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Andhra Pradesh and Haryana, while retaining July 31 as the date for publication of the draft

A 35-year-old repeat offender lodged in the Nagercoil sub-jail in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari district died on Monday, triggering protests by his family, who alleged he was tortured in police custody