Mumbai: Activist Manoj Jarange on Tuesday ended his five-day-old hunger strike after the Maharashtra government accepted most of his demands, including granting eligible Maratha Kunbi caste certificates, which will make them eligible for reservation benefits available to OBCs. Jarange accepted a glass of fruit juice offered by senior BJP minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, who heads…
Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP on Tuesday ridiculed the latest episode in the never-ending soap opera of the BRS, where family feuds now double as party discipline. The suspension of K Kavitha — MLC, daughter of party supremo K Chandrashekar Rao, and accused in the Delhi Excise Policy scam — is just the newest act in…
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir’s Power Development Department had restored over 90 per cent of the electricity load within 48 hours of the August 26 torrential rain-triggered calamity that led to massive damage to power infrastructure in the Jammu region, officials said on Tuesday. The record rainfall that caused massive landslides and cloudbursts on August 26…
Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate has initiated a preliminary investigation into the allegations of dubious foreign funding used to fuel communal conspiracies during the ongoing Dharmasthala row in Karnataka, official sources said on Tuesday. The sources told PTI that the agency is gathering facts and documents related to all entities and stakeholders, including some NGOs, who…
Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he was deeply pained by the hurling of abuses at his mother during Congress’ recently concluded ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar, and asserted that although he may forgive RJD and the grand old party but people of the eastern state would never pardon them. In the PM’s…
Thodupuzha (Kerala): A court here has acquitted a college professor in a sexual harassment case filed by his students in 2014. Anand Viswanathan, former Head of the Economics Department at Munnar Government College and then additional chief examiner, was accused of making sexual advances towards girl students who had been caught copying during examinations. The…
Bengaluru: Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister and Congress leader D K Shivakumar on Tuesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its affiliates orchestrated a “smear campaign” against the revered Dharmasthala temple, even as the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) demanded a central probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate (ED). The row…
Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP today strongly condemned Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s remark that “Maoism is an ideology and no one can destroy it,” calling it a blatant distortion of history and a dangerous attempt to glorify left-wing extremism. In a hard-hitting statement, BJP State Chief Spokesperson and Media Chief N.V. Subash said: “Revanth Reddy…
Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi on Tuesday suspended its MLC K Kavitha from the party for her alleged anti-party activities. Kavitha’s father and BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to suspend her with immediate effect, party general secretary T Ravinder Rao and another general secretary (in charge for disciplinary affairs) Soma Bharat Kumar said…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave anticipatory bail to cartoonist Hemant Malviya, who is accused of sharing allegedly objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS workers on social media. Noting that he has apologised on his Facebook and Instagram accounts, a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria gave…
