The Bharatiya Janata Party’s performance in the 2026 byelections in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat was quite disappointing after it lost the Bankipur seat to Jan Suraaj’s Prashant Kishor and the Datia constituency to the Congress, while managing to retain Manjalpur.
Fresh tensions have surfaced in the Karnataka Congress after the Cabinet expansion on Monday, as 19 got ministerial berths. Two Congress MLAs with ministerial berth aspirations have offered resignations while CM D K Shivakumar looks to pacify them.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday suffered a massive setback in byelections across Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat, losing the Bankipur and Datia constituencies to Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishore and the Congress, respectively. The biggest setback for the party was losing Bankipur, a seat that was considered to be a fortress of BJP national president Nitin Nabin.
After a relatively quiet June and July at the box office, theatres are gearing up for a busy August. Several highly anticipated films across Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Hollywood cinema are lined up for release between August 7 and August 28.
The Indian team is all set to take on Sri Lanka in a two-game Test series starting from August 15. Ahead of the series, the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) came forward and announced the departure of the Indian team’s fielding coach T Dilip.
Based on her complaint, an FIR has been registered at Mumbai’s Goregaon Police Station, and an investigation is currently underway. The FIR, lodged on July 31, names her husband, Abhineet Vidyanand Kaushik, his mother, Urmila Kaushik, and his sister, Kirti Kaushik. Aditi has often been in the spotlight for her personal life and is now making headlines over the domestic violence case.
Curtains were drawn on the Commonwealth Games 2026 as Glasgow bid adieu to the quadrennial event. The Glasgow Games witnessed 74 nations and territories participating in the event, with the sports truncated to 10 from 19 in the 2022 Birmingham Games.
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) will back the students who are protesting in Jharkhand over the alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC), the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) and other recruitment examinations across the state, said the movement’s founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday.
Seven killed in suicide bombing during peace rally in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A clash erupted at Pappu Yadav’s residence in Delhi on Sunday when he was addressing a press conference, with the independent MP alleging that it was a plot to ‘assassinate’ him. The development follows a major row that erupted after Yadav and other opposition MPs performed a skit inside the Parliament premises, targeting the Centre over Ram Temple donation theft case.
