4+ hour, 49+ min ago (460+ words) Updated - November 25, 2025 03:21 pm IST This is the season of joy and what better way to bring it in than getting your shopping list ready. If all things handmade catch your fancy, the upcoming Bengaluru Studio Potters Market is where you should head. This year marks the event's fourth edition that is all set to showcase the creations of 34 artists from across India. Kshitija Mitter, who launched Bengaluru Studio Potters Market with Nalini Thyagarajan in 2016, says 2025 marks a significant evolution for the event. All the artists are showcasing their work for the first time at the annual event and the diversity of work is wider and richer featuring senior wood-firing artists, potters transforming their ceramic ware into painted canvases, etc." From quirky miniatures and Christmas ornaments to ceramic decor and pet portraits, the market brings a unique mix of artists. Kshitija…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago (180+ words) Published - November 25, 2025 01:32 pm IST - HYDERABAD The Enforcement Directorate has carried out searches at eight locations as part of its money laundering investigation into M/s Jayathri Infrastructures India Pvt. Ltd., its managing director Kakarla Srinivas and associated firms. The raids were conducted on the premises of M/s Janapriya Group, M/s Raja Developers and Builders, R K Ramesh, M/s Satya Sai Transport, M/s Sri Gayathri Homes and M/s Siva Sai Constructions. The inquiry began after several FIRs alleged that Jayathri Infrastructures collected nearly "60 crore from home-buyers through deceptive pre-launch offers and delivered neither flats nor refunds. Investigators said the proceeds of crime generated through non delivery of flats were routed through several entities with no genuine business links. Many of these operated from fictitious or residential addresses and acted as conduits to layer investor money through…...

21+ hour, 45+ min ago (229+ words) Published - November 24, 2025 10:24 pm IST - Bengaluru The 14th edition of the Bengaluru Literature Festival (BLF) will be held on December 6 and 7, this time at Freedom Park. This edition will have four stages- three children's venues and a bookstore. It will feature close to 300 international, Indian and city authors and speakers. The festival will open at 9 a.m. with morning music on both days. Entry is free, open to all and registration is recommended, the BLF said. V. Ravichandar, one of the organisers of the BLF, said that the shift in the venue was to ensure a community event was held in a public space. "Moreover, the Freedom Park is in the heart of the city, close to metro stations and bus stands. It has ample paid parking for both two-wheelers and cars," he said. "From a site of silence and surveillance to one of community…...

17+ hour, 13+ min ago (303+ words) Published - November 24, 2025 09:56 pm IST - HYDERABAD Telangana government is committed to growth of startups and in the process of initiating a number of steps to bolster the ecosystem, including a "1,000 crore Fund of Funds, setting up an AI Hub and rolling out Quantum Technology roadmap, IT and Industries Secretary Sanjay Kumar said on Monday. Speaking at the inaugural session of Iconn Summit 2025 organised by the CII Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Startups (CII CIES), the senior official said the Fund of Funds, to be launched in partnership with alternative investment funds, will take startups to the next trajectory. Envisaging a role for startups as Telangana sets course to emerge as a $1 trillion economy by 2030, he said the State government is also planning to launch its Quantum Technology roadmap alongside the National Quantum Mission that the Centre will be unveiling at…...

32+ min ago (219+ words) Updated - November 25, 2025 07:39 pm IST - Thrissur The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters" list is progressing steadily in Thrissur district, with more than 50% of enumeration forms already collected and 35% of them fully digitised. District Election Officer and Collector Arjun Pandian visited the dedicated camp set up for receiving and digitising these forms at Mannuthy on Tuesday. The camp served voters from booths 113, 134, 136 and 137 under Ollukkara village in the Thrissur Assembly constituency. Held at Don Bosco College, Mannuthy, the camp saw students of Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University volunteering for support. Sub-Collector Akhil V. Menon, the Electoral Registration Officer, accompanied the Collector during the visit. As part of the special intensive revision, Booth Level Officers are collecting forms through house visits as well as at dedicated camps, where voters are given assistance to fill out the forms. Submitted forms are digitised…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago (58+ words) Apply for the Telangana Teachers" Eligibility Test by November 29; edit applications until December 1. The last date for submission of applications to appear for the Telangana Teachers" Eligibility Test in January is November 29 According to TG-TET chairperson, a total of 1,26,085 applications, including 79,131 for paper-II, were received as on Monday...

54+ min ago (230+ words) Published - November 25, 2025 07:15 pm IST - Belagavi As many as 38,485 students received their graduate and post-graduate degree certificates during the convocation of the Rani Channamma University in Belagavi on Tuesday. They include 39 gold medal winners, 125 rank holders, 36,642 graduate and 1,843 post-graduate students and 28 doctorates. Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot presented the gold medals and certificates to the students who passed out of the university at an event organised at the Suvarna Soudha. The dignitaries presented Doctor of Letter (honoris casa) degrees to Gandhian activist Shivaji Kagnikar, industrialist and panel member of the national commission for minorities Vinod Doddanavar and police officer Basavaraj Yeligar who has translated some Vachanas of Basavanna into English. The former Chairman of ISRO A.S. Kiran Kumar, Vice-Chancellor C.M. Thyagaraja, Registrar Santosh Kamagouda, Registrar (Evaluation) D.N. Patil, Finance Officer M.A. Sapna, heads of chairs, schools, departments, faculty members, students, parents and others were present. The…...

23+ hour, 26+ min ago (407+ words) The Supreme Court has directed the quashing of all criminal proceedings against the fugitive Sandesara brothers in the Sterling Biotech bank fraud case, provided they deposit "5100 crore as a "full and final payment" to lender banks. "If the petitioners (Sandesara brothers) are ready to deposit the amount as settled in the one-time settlement (OTS), and public money comes back to lender banks, the continuation of the criminal proceedings would not serve any useful purpose," said a Bench headed by J.K. Maheshwari. However, the apex court clarified its directions for quashing the criminal proceedings were based on the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case, and "therefore, they shall not be treated as precedent". The court made it clear that its order quashing the criminal proceedings against the brothers would become operative only on the full and final payment of "5,100 crore on…...

23+ hour, 24+ min ago (486+ words) Published - November 24, 2025 08:45 pm IST - New Delhi With 10 days remaining to complete the enumeration phase of the second round of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India on Monday (November 24, 2025) said more than 47% of the enumeration forms distributed across 12 States and Union Territories have been digitised. Goa has achieved the highest digitisation at 76.89% followed by Rajasthan at 72.20%, while Kerala and Uttar Pradesh have the lowest at 23% and 26.6% respectively. The enumeration phase, which began on November 4, will end on December 4. The draft list will be published on December 9 following which the period for claims and objections will begin. According to the poll body, out of the 51 crore voters being covered in this SIR, enumeration forms of 50,50,24,723, or 99.07%, have been collected and 24,13,75,229 (47.35%) have been digitised. Currently, the SIR is being held in Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago (269+ words) The forest department has also lifted hair samples from the scene of the attack to verify the animal that attacked the victim The forest department has set up 20 camera traps around the site where a woman was attacked and killed by a carnivore in the buffer zone of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) on Monday (November 24, 2025).The 70-year-old victim B Nagi from Mavanallah was herding goats near the Mavanallah River when she was attacked, forest department officials said Preliminary investigations have led them to believe that the attack could have been accidental "We believe the victim had been crouching near the stream, where the animal was hiding within a bamboo thicket when she was attacked The animal could have been stalking the goats and could have mistaken the victim for livestock as she was crouching," said a forest department official…...