Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday launched a seaplane demo flight from Prakasam Barrage in Vijayawada to Srisailam in Nandyal district. The CM participated in the demo flight by boarding it at Punnami Ghat by Krishna River in Vijayawada. Within an hour after launching the demo flight, he landed on water…
Ranchi: Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi for promising of caste census if Congress is voted to power, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday accused the party of misleading people and wondered why it did not carry out the exercise when the grand old party ruled the country. Addressing an election rally in Jharkhand’s Khunti, Singh…
Chhatrapati Sambhajingar: “Vote Jihad” should be countered by “Dharma-Buddha” of the vote, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here on Saturday as he campaigned for the November 20 assembly elections. The BJP leader was speaking at a rally in support of Mahayuti coalition candidates Atul Save (Aurangabad East), Sanjay Shirsat (Aurangabad West) and Pradip…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Saturday said Justice Michael D’ Cunha Commission of Inquiry that investigated alleged irregularities in the purchase of equipment and medicines during the Covid-19 has recommended prosecution of then BJP Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and former minister B Sriramulu. It is clear that there was a “loot”…
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday asserted that a nationwide caste survey and the lifting of the Supreme Court’s “arbitrary ceiling” of 50 per cent on reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes are central to its vision for the country. Congress general secretary in charge, of communications, Jairam Ramesh said in a…
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on Saturday said that drugs have emerged as a menace in the state and called for a special focus to curb drug mafia. Pinning the blame for this menace on the erstwhile YSRCP regime, he emphasised that a special focus is needed to curb ganja (marijuana) cultivation…
Akola: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that wherever a Congress government is formed, that state becomes the ATM (Automated Teller Machine) of the party’s ‘shahi parivar’. “We won’t let Maharashtra become the ATM of Congress,” Modi said, addressing a campaign rally in Akola for the November 20 state assembly elections. “I challenge the…
Washington: The priorities of President-elect Donald Trump are border, terrorists, bringing home hostages, and ending the forever wars, said Kash Patel, an Indian-American lawyer in an interview. “He is the only president in modern history not to start a new one. If the initial indications after the election are any indication of how it’s going…
Kolkata: Three coaches of the Secunderabad-Shalimar Superfast Express derailed near Howrah in West Bengal around 5.30 am on Saturday, South Eastern Railway officials said. “The weekly special train derailed at Nalpur, about 40 km from Kolkata. No casualties or injuries have been reported so far,” they said. A parcel van was among the derailed coaches….
New Delhi: Chimpanzees perform difficult tasks better when they have a human audience, a new study has suggested. Researchers from Kyoto University, Japan, said the audience effect — where one’s behaviour changes if they think someone is watching them — is considered unique to human societies, in which reputation plays a huge role. While chimps…
