12+ hour, 28+ min ago   (152+ words) India’s approach to BRICS has to conform to the broader constraints and contradictions that its membership poses — maximising the grouping’s potential without strengthening Beijing’s overall strategic position. Within these constraints, there are still possibilities to keep the grouping relevant. Unlike…...

15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (378+ words) Published - September 14, 2026 05:00 am IST - Chennai After a two-year wait, the cab pick-up plaza at Chennai airport was thrown open for air passengers on Sunday morning. Minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, who inaugurated the facility virtually, said, the plaza…...

1+ day, 24+ min ago   (266+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 08:34 pm IST - HYDERABAD The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has clarified that no meter reader currently working with the board will be removed and that there is no such proposal. HMWS&SB managing director K. Ashok…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (198+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 07:19 pm IST - MANGALURU The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd. (CAMPCO), an inter-state cooperative organisation of arecanut growers of Karnataka and Kerala, has decided to expand its arecanut procurement and sales operations nationwide, according to…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (233+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 06:17 pm IST - MANGALURU With the State government set to hold its first Cabinet meeting in Mangaluru on Friday, the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has appealed to Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar to set up an integrated or…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (300+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 07:20 pm IST - Beijing Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday (September 13, 2026) called on the BRICS countries to “rally the Global South” to ensure that an increasingly volatile international order was “free from double standards”, even as he offered a…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (21+ words) JAC demands ₹50 lakh compensation and jobs for families of deceased HMWSSB outsourcing employees amid concerns over work conditions in Hyderabad...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (408+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 12:10 pm IST - New Delhi Foreign investors pulled out ₹13,138 crore from Indian equities in the first half of September, as heightened global uncertainty pushed crude oil prices higher, while rising U.S. bond yields and a firm dollar weighed on…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (487+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 06:30 am IST - MYSURU The surge in sugar prices ahead of the festive season — starting with Gowri-Ganesha and continuing through Dasara and Deepavali — amid reports of sugarcane being diverted for ethanol production has renewed farmers’ demand for permission to…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (736+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 11:00 am IST - New Delhi Russia imported a record 172,000 tonnes of oil products in August, including gasoline refined from Russian crude at a refinery in India that is partly owned by Russia's Rosneft, as Ukrainian drone strikes disrupted Moscow's…...