HYDERABAD Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao spoke to officials of the Textiles Ministry on Sunday, and requested them to take a positive decision on problems faced by ginning mills, following increasing pressure from farmers against the new norms in cotton procurement. The new guidelines issued by the Textiles Ministry, particularly in the name of L1...

Veteran Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna was knocked out of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 on Sunday, losing to Mexico’s Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara in the tiebreaks of Round 5 in Goa. With this result, Harikrishna becomes the 23rd Indian elimination, leaving the event’s highest-seeded player, Arjun Erigaisi, as the host nation’s sole representative. Prior...

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday claimed that her party would have won many more seats in the Bihar assembly elections if the polls had been completely free and fair. In a post on X, she congratulated BSP members for ensuring the victory of party candidate Satish Kumar Singh Yadav in the Ramgarh...