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After being at loggerheads for nearly two years, governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and the state government arrived at a compromise on Monday thanks to the intervention of the Telangana high court. The state had approached the court over the governor not giving her consent to the upcoming budget, after which a bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N Tukaramji asked the two sides to find an amicable solution.

More than a hundred students from a school in Palnadu fell ill and were hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning.

The highways and railway sectors are likely to get a combined budgetary allocation of over Rs 4 lakh crore, the highest ever. Both the ministries may see 20-30% increase in their allocation considering their track record in spending so far. During the current financial year, the Centre has allocated almost Rs 2 lakh crore for the road transport and highways ministry and going by the current trend of expenditure; the total spending is likely to touch Rs 2.1 lakh crore by March end.

The defacing of Gauri Shankar Mandir in Brampton is not an isolated incident, with at least three similar acts of vandalism recorded in Canada since last July.

A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on the bail plea filed by Shankar Mishra, arrested for urinating on a fellow woman passenger on board an Air India flight in November last year. Additional sessions judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla said Mishra’s act might be disgusting, but the court would go by the law. The order is likely to be pronounced on Tuesday.

Chamoli District Magistrate Himanshu Khurana on Monday suggested three options for the settlement of the displaced people in land subsidence-hit Joshimath, officials said.

Former chairman of Pune-based Seva Vikas Cooperative Bank landed in jail along with five members of his family after they locked themselves inside their flat for a few hours to prevent Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials from searching their flat. They allegedly used the time to destroy evidence.

Oreva Group company Ajanta Monday accepted the Gujarat high court’s directive to calculate compensation payable to the families of the 135 victims in the Morbi suspension footbridge collapse like it’s done for motor vehicle accident claims or follow the Supreme Court’s recompense formula in one such case involving the death of a family’s breadwinner.

A 22-year-old man was sentenced to death on Monday by a special court for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act cases in Vapi of Gujarat’s Valsad district for the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in February 2020. The minor was found hanging at her home and the accused attempted to stage a scene of a suicide.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has filed a request for a six-month visitor visa to stay in the U.S., indicating he may have no immediate intention to return home, where legal issues await

A local court here on Monday sentenced 14 people to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of former Iglas MLA Malkhan Singh and his bodyguard.

A look at the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which has waged an insurgency in the country for 15 years:

India’s annual pre-budget economic survey is likely to peg GDP growth at 6-6.8% for 2023-24, according to a source.

Quantum computing will be at the centre of growth and expansion in India’s ‘techade’ and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision is to create a India-centric tech ecosystem with partners and players around the world, the IT minister said.

American technology companies, including giants like Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet, laid off more than 1,50,000 employees in 2022 and over 40,000 in January of this year alone

Congress leader and former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah has lashed out at the BJP and JD-S saying that those parties have no ideology or rationality.

Close to 100 students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Lakkidi area of Wayanad district of Kerala developed vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain over the last few days,

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has recommended the name of DrRajeev Singh Raghuvanshi as the new Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).

American tech giant Apple could be on track to release a foldable iPad as early as next year, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, reported The Verge, an American technology news website.

The sarpanch of Nandipet along with her husband staged a protest outside Nizamabad Collector’s office on Monday.

The attack happened during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to former tribal areas that border Afghanistan where militancy has been steadily rising

A 13-member central team on Monday started a review of the midday meal scheme in schools in West Bengal, a senior official said.

Disgruntled JD(U) leader Upendra Kushwaha, who recently raised a banner of revolt against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on Monday alleged that his car was pelted with stones in Bhojpur district of the state.

A 31-year-old man was arrested allegedly for sharing on Facebook a morphed screenshot of a tweet made by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

A special court here on Monday awarded the death penalty to a man who was booked for waging war against the government after he assaulted a Uttar Pradesh armed police force’s jawan at the Gorakhnath temple.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is on his maiden trip to Moscow, is aiming to bolster economic and bilateral ties with Russia and seek discounted oil for cash-strapped Pakistan

The pandemic was likely in a “transition point” that continues to need careful management to “mitigate the potential negative consequences”, the WHO added in a statement

Ahead of the start of the Budget Session of Parliament, 26 Bills are currently pending in the Rajya Sabha and 9 in the Lok Sabha for passage, as per the government records.

The Kerala Bar Council on Monday sought an explanation from a leading lawyer in the state, who is, presently, facing allegations of having tried to settle cases at the High Court by bribing judges.

A 22-year-old NEET aspirant allegedly hanged himself in his hostel room under the Kunhari police station area here, police said on Monday.

Billionaire Gautam Adani’s embattled group clutched on to a $400-million investment by Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Co. in its flagship firm’s share sale to restore confidence in the conglomerate.

The actors are just playing characters and not trying to hurt anyone’s sentiments, underlined superstar Shah Rukh Khan, adding that the aim of cinema is to “spread happiness, brotherhood, love, kindness”.

China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades

Russia aims to reach its target of $200 billion worth of trade between the two countries

Rahul Gandhi, who concluded his 135-day-long Bharat Jodo Yatra on Monday, said he went against the advice of security agencies after they warned him of a grenade attack if he walked during last leg of the yatra in Kashmir.

The six parties united against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also pledged to agree on a joint candidate in the crucial vote on February 13

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israel and the Palestinians to exercise restraint amid a spike in violence that has put the region on edge

The apparent threat came in a phone call just ahead of the invasion on February 24, according to a new BBC documentary