Outfit he founded advising Jagan Reddy, Prashant Kishor meets rival TDP

Vartha Bharati | 23-12-2023 | 21:09:00 IST

Prasanth Kishor(L), Chandrababu Naidu(R) | File Photo

Amaravati: Election strategist Prasanth Kishor met TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu here on Saturday. However, it was not clear what the agenda was, and it raised eyebrows among political circles in Andhra Pradesh.

Kishor, TDP general secretary Lokesh and three more persons landed at Gannavaram Airport near Vijayawada around 3 pm today in a private jet.

A video of Lokesh and Kishor arriving from the airport and boarding a black SUV went viral.

A source confirmed to PTI that Kishor met opposition leader Naidu at his residence. Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Minister A Rambabu mocked the political rendezvous between Naidu, Lokesh and Kishor.

''When the (building) material itself is defective what can the mason do?'' said Rambabu in a post on 'X', referring to the state of affairs of TDP.

In the run-up to the 2019 Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the southern state, YSRCP chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy hired the services of Kishor, which eventually resulted in his party winning the polls.

However, TDP leaders and cadres launched a tirade against Kishor for teaming up with Reddy back then, but now looks to be taking a different turn.

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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB

07-05-2026 ¦ 07-05-2026 IST

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New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.

The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.

According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.

At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.

In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.

Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.

A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.

The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.

The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.

After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.

The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.

The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.

By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.