Chennai: The DMK has elected former Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin as the legislature party leader in the House. Party sources said on Sunday that former DMK minister and senior leader K N Nehru has been chosen as the deputy legislature party leader. In addition, former DMK minister E V Velu has been elected as…
Hyderabad: Emphasising that the Centre is trying to shield people from the adverse impact of war, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for measures by citizens to overcome the challenges and to help the country. Addressing a rally organised by Telangana BJP here, he said, due to the war, prices of petrol and fertilizer…
Guwahati: Leaders of the NDA on Sunday met Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya, and staked claim to form the government in the state led by Chief Minister-elect Himanta Biswa Sarma. This will be the third successive NDA government in Assam, with the saffron party-led administration first assuming power in 2016, which was headed by Union…
Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the Congress, accusing it of “failing” to provide good governance due to the internal power struggles in Karnataka, and “betraying” people. It has become a “parasite party” today, he charged. He said that a “saffron sun” was rising from Bengaluru amid the BJP’s expanding political influence across…
Guwahati: Himanta Biswa Sarma was elected as the leader of the BJP-led NDA in the Assam assembly on Sunday, paving the way for him to become the chief minister for the second consecutive term in the state, Union minister J P Nadda said. Eight BJP legislators proposed the name of Sarma as its legislature party…
Chennai: TVK founder Vijay, immediately after taking over as the Chief Minister on Sunday, signed papers allowing 200 units of free electricity for domestic consumers, for setting up a special force for women’s safety and also for anti-drug trafficking units across the state. In his maiden address at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here after…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated TVK chief C Joseph Vijay on taking oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, and said the central government will keep working with the state government to improve the lives of people. TVK chief and its Legislature Party Leader Vijay was sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief…
Kolkata: As dusk settled over Metiabruz in southwest Kolkata on May 9, television screens inside crowded restaurants replayed visuals of Suvendu Adhikari taking oath as West Bengal’s first BJP chief minister, a moment that until recently would have seemed politically unimaginable in a state shaped for decades by anti-BJP sentiment. In many Muslim neighbourhoods across…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister D Sudhakar died in the early hours of Sunday after a prolonged illness, a medical bulletin said. He was 66. The planning and statistics minister breathed his last at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences here. He had been undergoing treatment for a lung infection for the past two months. “Honourable Minister…
Jammu: The 100-day ‘drug-free J-K campaign’ has achieved significant success across the Union Territory, leading to the arrest of 646 persons in 614 FIRs related to drug peddling and seizure of more than 260 kg of narcotic substances, officials said. They added that the campaign also led to the attachment and demolition of properties worth…
