Kozhikode (Kerala): K Muraleedharan, Congress MP and son of party stalwart and former Kerala chief minister K Karunakaran, on Friday said that his father’s legacy is an “asset” of the grand old party and “would not be handed over to the BJP”. Speaking to reporters after being nominated to represent the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency,…
New Delhi/Bengaluru: Engineer-turned-philanthropist and author Sudha Murty was nominated to Rajya Sabha on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauding her contribution in diverse fields. Murty, 73, the former chairperson of Infosys Foundation, is also renowned for her contribution to Kannada and English literature and is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar,…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Kerala’s Wayanad again, the party announced on Friday as it released its first list of 39 candidates. Congress general secretary K C Venugopal will contest from Alappuzha (Kerala), former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon, Jyotsna Mahant from Korba, Tamradhwaj Sahu…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday greeted citizens on International Women’s Day and urged everyone to work together to remove the remaining hurdles from the path of young women and give them wings. “My greetings to all on Women’s Day! It is an occasion to celebrate Nari Shakti. A society’s progress is measured by…
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved a Rs 10,037-crore new industrial development scheme, UNNATI, for northeast states. The Union Cabinet in a meeting approved the Uttar Poorva Transformative Industrialization Scheme, 2024, here, an official release said . The central sector scheme has been announced for the development of industries and employment generation in the…
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday hiked Dearness Allowance (DA) to 50 per cent of basic pay from the existing rate of 46 per cent effective from January 1 this year, benefitting over 1 crore employees and pensioners ahead of general elections. The Union Cabinet has approved to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance…
New Delhi: The armed forces are well equipped, capable and ready to give a befitting reply if anyone casts an evil eye on India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday against the backdrop of the nearly four-year border row with China in eastern Ladakh and concerns over Chinese military forays into the Indian Ocean….
Bengaluru: BJP, which has plans to win big time in Karnataka in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, may field two of its former Chief Ministers—Basavaraj Bommai and Jagadish Shettar, who come from the dominant Lingayat community, counted by the party as its core vote-base. Giving indications about this, veteran party leader BS Yediyurappa on Thursday…
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir is touching new heights of development and breathing freely after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Thursday. Addressing a public rally, Modi also accused the Congress of misguiding not only the people of Jammu and Kashmir, but the entire nation on Article 370…
New Delhi: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said negotiations are the only means to restore peace in ethnic violence-hit Manipur and returning the state to normalcy will be the Narendra Modi government’s next phase of efforts. Rijiju put the blame for the ongoing ethnic clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities in the northeastern…
