‘You did purification after my Uttarakhand visit, your religion teaches this?’: Kharge tears into BJP, RSS

Amid the controversy over the rendition of Vande Mataram at an Independence Day event, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday hit out at the BJP and the RSS, calling them “anti-India” and…

73.39 lakh voters dropped in Telangana SIR draft rolls; 92 lakh to get notices

Some 73.39 lakh voters have been deleted from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Telangana as draft rolls were released Monday. Meanwhile, as many as 92 lakh voters will be sent notices,…

‘A large crowd entered the queue’: Witness recounts chaos during Bihar temple stampede

By the time the stampede occurred at 6:40 am, Manmala Devi and her daughter had already been standing in the long queue at the Ashok Dham temple for over an hour, awaiting…

‘Will conduct DSC exam every year’: Amid Andhra protest, Lokesh defends recruitment

Amid protests over alleged irregularities in District Selection Committee (DSC) examinations, being billed as Andhra Pradesh’s “Gen Z protest” by the Opposition, Human Resource Development Minister N Lokesh Naidu on Monday gave…

Jharkhand now cancels JSSC exam, orders ‘comprehensive inquiry’ into errors since 2014

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren on Monday announced that the state Cabinet had decided to cancel the JSSC-CGL examinations, accepting a key demand of the protesting students. “Furthermore, a comprehensive inquiry will be…

Why Ministry of Housing and Urban Affa­irs is a house divided

The Daily Catch-Up: BJP reshuffle, Vijay’s 100 days, CJP protests and more

Dear Reader, Welcome to The Daily Catch-Up, your evening briefing from . Podcast of the day: Everything your health checkup should include Smriti Irani returns to BJP leadership as party reshuffles organisation…

‘NRC before Census’: Students protest, give call for two-day strike in Manipur

The ‘Campaign for Just and Fair Delimitation (JFD) Student Wing’ has announced a two-day general strike in Manipur from midnight on August 17, demanding implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC)…

‘We’re dimagi Naxals’: P Chidambaram, Kejriwal. ‘No, pure Naxals’, BJP snaps

Congress leader P Chidambaram, AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra have hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day remarks on “dimagi Naxals”, with several…

‘Will try to live up to expectations’: Prashant Kishor takes oath as MLA

Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor on Monday took the oath as the MLA of Bankipur at the Bihar Legislative Assembly, calling it “a matter of great honour”. Kishor took the…