News highlights: Singapore's Indian-origin ex-minister Shanmugaratnam wins presidential election

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik flags off the first flight between Bhubaneswar and the newly inaugurated Utkela Airport in Kalahandi district.

UEFA Champions League draw: Manchester United placed with Bayern Munich, Man City given drawn with RB Leipzig

Flood-like situation in the villages of Kusheshwar Asthan and Kiratpur due to rise in the water level of Kamla-Kosi river

Sports Minister Anurag Thakur felicitates FIDE World Cup runner-up Praggnanandhaa

'New chapter in political and economic cooperation': North Macedonia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs on first India visit

Supreme Court sentences life imprisonment to Bihar politician Prabhunath Singh in 1995 double murder case

Amit Shah to launch 'Amrit Kalash Yatra' in New Delhi

BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh arrive at Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court to appear in the sexual harassment case

ISRO scientists visit Tirumala Sri Venkateswara Temple with a miniature model of the Aditya-L1 Mission to offer prayers.

Countdown for Aditya-L1 solar mission begins; to be launched at 11:50 am tomorrow

Farmers in Karnataka's Mandya continue protest demanding the state govt to stop releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu

Karnataka High Court has invalidated the Lok Sabha membership of JDS MP Prajwal Revanna, saying that he had filed a false affidavit to the Election Commission in the 2019 general election. (ANI)

Spain defender Jordi Alba has retired from international football, the Spanish football federation said Friday.

Two persons were electrocuted at Udikeri village in Karnataka after they came in contact with a earthing wire on electricity pole which had come in contact with live wire on Friday. The Deceased were identified as Prabhakar Humbi (60) and his son Manjunath (35). A police case has been registered.

GST collections grow 11 per cent to over Rs 1.59 lakh crore in August: FinMin

Hong Kong issues highest level alert for Super Typhoon Saola.

The Meghalaya government has banned the manufacture, sale and trade of spiked bits used to control horses through pain in their mouths, an official said on Friday. (PTI)

A combo of two photos shows a crater (L) that the Chandrayaan-3 Rover Pragyan encountered on Aug. 27, 2023, and the path (R) retraced by it on the lunar surface, as seen by the navigation camera onboard the Rover.

White House says it has seen some "notable" progress by Ukraine near Zaporizhzhia in the last 72 hours. (Reuters)

CCI approves the merger of Tata SIA Airlines into Air India, and acquisition of certain shareholding by Singapore Airlines in Air India subject to compliance of voluntary commitments offered by the parties.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist, won Singapore's presidential election on Friday, defeating two other Chinese-origin contenders in the country's first contested presidential polls since 2011. (PTI)

Revenue officials of the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) on Friday conducted a raid and sealed 10 shops at Alake Market Complex, which is owned by the MCC.
The owners of the shops were not paying rent to the city corporation for the past several months, even after serving notices. Shop owners owed about Rs 28 lakh to the city corporation in the form of rent. Hence, the MCC has  taken over the shops. Officials said that following the raid, shop owners have come forward to pay the rent.

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