02 February 2026
The Income Tax department has conducted searches on entities across seven locations in Bengaluru, Surat, Chandigarh and Mohali, and has unearthed unaccounted investments and bogus expenditures.
In Bengaluru, the search was conducted on DesignBoxed Creative Private Limited — an image consultancy firm reportedly hired by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar to strategise the Congress campaign ahead of the 2023 Assembly polls in the state.
With an eye on UP’s caste equations ahead of the assembly elections to be held in a few months, the ruling BJP Sunday held the first of a series of ‘Samajik Pratinidhi Sammelan’, or meetings for representatives of society, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressing a gathering of the “Prajapati samaj”, an OBC segment associated with the state’s community of potters.
Party leaders told media that the BJP plans to hold 27 such conventions across the state till October 31. These sammelans come at a time when the Opposition SP has been taking out yatras to connect with communities whille the BSP has held conventions aimed at the Brahmin community.
‘Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Prerana Sthal’ was inaugurated at Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam on October 15, 2021, on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India and to commemorate ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
The NSTL is the premier naval research laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). A statue of Dr Kalam was also unveiled by Dr Samir V Kamat, Director General (Naval Systems & Materials), DRDO.
On the occasion, NSTL products Varunastra, Torpedo Advanced Light (TAL) and Maareech decoy are being displayed at the venue.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday (October 15, 2021) launched a scathing attack on his former ally BJP, saying `Hindutva' was facing threat from those who used it to get power and the hunger for power was like "drug addiction".
In a no-holds-barred attack, Thackeray, who is also the Shiv Sena president, virtually sounded the bugle for the civic polls in Mumbai and elsewhere in Maharashtra early next year. Hindutva faced threat not from outsiders but from "neo Hindus" and "those who climbed the ladder of power" using the ideology, he said, adding they will now "adopt the British policy of divide and rule".
"Shiv Sena needs to guard against such designs and work for the unity of Marathi people and Hindus," he said, addressing the annual dussehra rally of the party at the Shanmukhanand Hall here. Maharashtra and the Sena were being targeted because his party broke off its ties with the BJP, he said.
Senior Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra minister Ramdas Kadam has written a letter to party chief Uddhav Thackeray in which he has alleged that party ministers are using their power "to finish off old party leaders", as per sources.
"Some people are using their power as ministers to finish off old party leaders. They should use it for the welfare of people," Ramdas Kadam wrote in his letter, according to sources. He vented his anger against Shiv Sena ministers and claimed they are "working against him" in the letter, as per sources.
Sources told media that Ramdas Kadam wrote the letter on October 6, after his alleged audio clip went viral. In the audio clip, Ramdas Kadam can allegedly be heard speaking against party minister Anil Parab. It has also been claimed that he was in touch with BJP leader Kirit Somaiya during the same period.
