Kozhikode (Kerala): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who accompanied his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi to Kerala after her maiden electoral victory, on Saturday urged the party and UDF to pressure the state government to help the Wayanad landslides victims. Rahul, at a joint public meeting along with his sister…
Chennai: Heavy rains accompanied by gusty winds pounded several parts of northern Tamil Nadu on Saturday, affecting normalcy, as cyclonic storm Fengal, expected to make landfall near Puducherry later in the day, continued moving towards the coast. What began as intermittent rainfall in coastal regions on the night of November 29, gradually became steady leading…
Puducherry: Officials here have asked the residents to stay indoors in view of cyclonic storm Fengal’s likely landfall near Puducherry on Saturday afternoon. All schools and colleges here will remain closed on Saturday, they said. The cyclonic storm is likely to make landfall close to Puducherry with wind speeds up to 90 kmph, the India…
Udhagamandalam (Tamil Nadu): The benefits of Central schemes like the PM Awas Yojana were not reaching the tribals, especially the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG), as they were landless, President Droupadi Murmu said on Friday and appealed to states to strive in unison to foster development of these sections. She had told the NITI Aayog…
Bhubaneshwar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Odisha BJP headquarters here on Friday and discussed ways to strengthen the party in the eastern state. Modi spent around two hours at the party office during which he interacted with its leaders and workers. “Went to the @BJP4Odisha HQ and interacted with Party leaders and Karyakartas. We…
Bhubaneshwar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at opposition parties, alleging that they regularly engage in spreading propaganda against the BJP-led central government. Modi, addressing party workers here, also said that the opposition has only one aim, “to somehow capture power by misleading people”. “Those who consider power as their birthright have not…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Shirsat on Friday said if outgoing chief minister Eknath Shinde doesn’t accept the deputy CM’s post, then it will be given to someone from their party. Talking to reporters, Shirsat said Shinde will certainly not go to the Centre as a Union minister. After the Mahayuti alliance’s astounding performance…
Bengaluru: Opposition BJP on Friday condemned the government’s move to make the chief minister the chancellor of the Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) University replacing the governor, terming it as an attempt to pollute the higher education system. State BJP president B Y Vijayendra said this attempt to cut down on the…
Chennai: The deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal is set to intensify into a cyclonic storm within the next three hours, the Regional Meteorological Centre confirmed on Friday. The storm is expected to make landfall between Karaikal and Mahabalipuram, near Puducherry, on Saturday afternoon. S. Balachandran, head of the centre, shared that earlier…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana on Friday administered the oath to the newly elected BJP and RLD MLAs. Voting for the by-elections in nine seats of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly was held on November 20 and the results were declared on November 23. In the by-elections, six MLAs of the BJP and one…
