20+ hour, 56+ min ago (442+ words) Published - November 24, 2025 05:35 pm IST - GUWAHATI Comic Con India, the subcontinent's largest pop culture celebration that brings together fans of comics, anime, gaming, movies, cosplay contests, and other interactive activities, proved to be a "considerable hit" in its first exposition beyond the metropolises and "mainland" cities. The multi-city event, organised in Guwahati on November 22 and 23, attracted a few thousand of pop culture enthusiasts. The organisers said the response exceeded expectations in a city where the general gloom after the death of Assamese cultural icon Zubeen Garg was palpable. "Founded in New Delhi in 2011, Comic Con India has been travelling across the country's metropolises and other major urban centres. Our first outing in the northeast, known for its passion for pop culture, especially cosplay, has been strong," Shefali Johnson, the CEO of Comic Con India, told The Hindu. Cosplay, which originated in…...

21+ hour, 15+ min ago (357+ words) Recent excavations at Doddalathur in Chamarajanagar district have revealed new insights into early megalithic burial culture and traditions in southern Karnataka, including unusual layouts and rare engravings on boulders. Doddalathur, located in Hanur taluk and 5 km southwest of Kowdalli, is one of the few surviving megalithic landscapes in the region where a large number of burials remain intact. Although over 40 sites in the belt were first recorded in the 1960s by archaeologist C. Krishnamurthi, the present excavation marks are one of the few systematic investigations of such sites undertaken in Karnataka in recent decades. The field work and excavations were carried out from October 2024 to February 2025, led by Dr. V. Shobha of the Department of Studies in Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Mysore, in collaboration with the Mythic Society, Bengaluru, which is funding the project. According to Dr. Shobha, the excavation exercise…...

19+ hour, 18+ min ago (97+ words) Published - November 24, 2025 07:14 pm IST - Belagavi Belagavi, Ondu Adhyayana, a book on the various facets of Belagavi district, its history and developmental challenges, will be released in Belagavi on Thursday. Retired IAS officer M.G. Hiremath will release the book at the Kannada Sahitya Bhavan at Rani Channamma Circle here at 4 p.m. Veteran writer B.S. Gavimath has edited the book. Physician H.B. Rajashekhar, senior advocate S.M. Kulkarni, V.S. Mali and Gurudevi Huleppanavarmath will speak. Basavaraj Gargi, Ramachandra Katti, Mahesh Guranagoudar and others will be present, said a release....

19+ hour, 20+ min ago (89+ words) Join APSSDC's mega job mela in Rajampeta on November 28, featuring top companies and opportunities for local youth. Several major companies, including Dr Reddy's, Grow EV, PhonePe, Muthoot Finance, Chaturya Skills, TVS Motor, Young India, Apollo, Shriram Insurance and Amara Raja, are expected to participate The fair aims to offer employment opportunities to local youth across various sectors.Interested candidates have been advised to register online at the APSSDC Naipunyam portal and attend the recruitment drive Further details are available through the district help numbers 9603770097, 9502527277 and 8897776368....

16+ hour, 8+ 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…...

11+ hour, 36+ 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…...

53+ 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...

17+ hour, 49+ 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, 38+ min ago (217+ words) Published - November 24, 2025 09:53 am IST - Dehradun Three individuals allegedly involved in fraudulently transporting people to Myanmar through Thailand to commit cybercrimes have been arrested, the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) said. According to the STF, the arrested individuals are among those whose names emerged during the interrogation of nine victims from Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, and Udham Singh Nagar districts, who were recently repatriated from Myanmar. It stated that several Indian youths from various states, including Uttarakhand, who were living illegally in KK Park in Myawaddy town, Myanmar, were repatriated. The nine youths from Uttarakhand were brought here from Delhi and handed over to their families. The STF on Sunday (November 23, 2025) said that during interrogation, it emerged that Indian agents, under an organised scheme, allegedly defrauded these youths of substantial sums of money, sent them abroad using Thai visas, and then illegally infiltrated…...

17+ hour, 47+ 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…...