New Delhi: Bangladesh’s request for a meeting between its interim government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the upcoming BIMSTEC Summit is under consideration, External Affairs minister S Jaishankar is learnt to have told a Parliamentary panel meeting here on Saturday. At this year’s first meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee…
New Delhi: Delhi saved 269 MW of power, joining hands with other cities of the world by switching off non-essential electrical appliances during Earth Hour on Saturday. The lighting around the India Gate was also switched off to mark Earth Hour. Last year, the city managed to save 206 MW of power during the Earth…
Chennai: Alleging that south India would lose political voice if the NDA government at the Centre carried out delimitation on a population basis, Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday said political parties and leaders of the south must oppose any such move. Addressing the meeting on the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies convened…
Bengaluru: The RSS on Saturday expressed serious concern about the allegedly planned violence, injustice and oppression faced by the Hindu and other minority communities at the hands of radical Islamist elements in Bangladesh after the regime change there. On the second day of the meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), the highest decision-making…
Bhubaneshwar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said that population should not be the only criterion to determine the number of seats in Parliament and sought a detailed discussion with all parties before the commencement of the delimitation process. Addressing the first Joint Action Committee meeting on delimitation convened by Tamil Nadu…
Nagpur: The cost of properties damaged during Nagpur violence will be recovered from rioters and the failure to pay up would lead to the seizure and selling of their properties, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference, Fadnavis said 104 rioters have been identified after analysing videos and footage from…
Chennai: In the first Joint Action Committee meeting of states hosted by Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK over the proposed delimitation of Parliamentary seats by the Centre, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday made it clear that the fight is likely to be taken forward through the legal route also. In the meeting, Kerala Chief…
Nagpur: At least 14 more persons have been arrested in connection with the violence in Nagpur earlier this week, taking the total number of arrests to 105, a senior police official has said. According to the police, 14 persons, including 10 juveniles, were nabbed on Friday. The official said three more FIRs have been registered…
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor slammed the Centre over private members’ business “scrubbed” from the Lok Sabha’s revised list of business on Friday and wondered whether Parliament exists only for the government to pursue its own agenda. Tharoor pointed out that there has been no private members’ business in the Lok Sabha since July…
Chennai: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, state Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud and opposition BRS leader K T Rama Rao on Friday reached Chennai to attend the meeting on delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies, convened by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin. The Telangana CM reached the Tamil Nadu capital Friday night,…
