Chennai: Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi alleged it was tragic that ‘deserving poor villagers’ of Nagapattinam district in the state were not able to get the benefit of the PM Awas Yojana due to ‘administrative apathy.’ Ravi, who visited Nagappattinam district in the Cauvery delta region of the state on January 28, alleged in…
New Delhi/Ranchi: An Enforcement Directorate team on Monday visited the Delhi residence of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to question him in connection with a money laundering investigation in an alleged land fraud case and camped there for over 13 hours. Official sources claimed Soren was “missing” and could not be contacted by the federal…
New Delhi: Union Minister of State Shantanu Thakur has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be implemented across the country in a week. “Today I am giving a guarantee that CAA will be implemented in Bengal and other states of India in the next seven days,” Thakur said while addressing a public gathering…
Hyderabad: Six members of a family, including two children, died in a road accident in Nalgonda district of Telangana, police said on Monday. The mishap occurred when the family members were returning to their village in the district in a car late Sunday night after a visit to temples in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Tragedy struck…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Andhra Pradesh government’s plea challenging the anticipatory bail granted to TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the Amaravati Inner Ring Road (IRR) scam case. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta dismissed the state’s appeal challenging the high court’s January 10 order giving relief to…
New Delhi: The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is likely to gain around six seats in the Rajya Sabha after the February 27 elections to fill up 56 vacancies, with the JD(U) and the NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar having joined the ruling coalition. The Election Commission on Monday announced elections to the 56…
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu’s nominal Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is estimated to expand to around USD 2.6 trillion by 2047-48, from USD 294 billion last fiscal, but the state will need to allocate capital expenditure of USD 111 billion to realise this potential growth, according to a report by CREDAI and Knight Frank. Real…
New Delhi: Every year spent in school or university improves our life expectancy, while not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking, according to the first systematic study directly linking education to gains in longevity. Using evidence from industrialised countries such as the UK and US as well as developing countries such…
Thiruvananthapuram: The ruling CPI(M) in Kerala issued a pointed reminder to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Monday that his role is that of the head of state, and it is inappropriate of him to adopt the demeanor of a “street goon”. The party characterised Khan’s recent wayside sit-in against the SFI’s black flag protest as…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said it is crucial to instill resilience in children to help them cope with pressures and asserted that parents and teachers should collectively address challenges faced by students. Interacting with students, parents and teachers during his annual Pariksha Pe Charcha programme, the prime minister advised parents against…
