New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday greeted people on the formation day of Maharashtra and Gujarat. He tweeted, “Best wishes on Maharashtra Day. The state is blessed with a great culture and hardworking people who have enriched national progress across different sectors. I pray for the continued progress of Maharashtra in the years to…
Jamkhandi (K’taka): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Sunday referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about verbal abuse, saying one has to take such attacks in their stride in public life and asked him to learn from Rahul Gandhi, who “is ready to take a bullet for the sake of the country”. Targeting the Congress…
New Delhi: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday lauded an order of the Supreme Court allowing a judicial services aspirant suffering from writer’s cramp to get a scribe to write his preliminary examination for the recruitment of civil judges in Uttarakhand. The interim order was issued by a bench led by Chief Justice of India…
Madikeri (Karnataka): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday described the scenic beauty of Coorg in Karnataka as “stunning” and said the BJP government in the state will prioritise promoting and conserving such places blessed by nature. Shah visited the hill station on Saturday during the ongoing campaigning for the May 10 assembly elections in the…
Mysuru (K’taka): Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a mega roadshow in Mysuru, winding up his whirlwind two-day campaign tour of Karnataka during which he addressed six public rallies. In what appeared to be a rerun of sorts of the popular ‘Jambu Savari’ witnessed on the last day of the annual Mysuru Dasara, the Prime Minister’s roadshow…
Chennai: The unique aspect of the Prime Minister’s radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ was that there is no reference to politics and it is connected with the common people who are doing incredible things in their own field, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi said here on Sunday. At the event to mark the 100th episode…
Kolar/Channapatna/Beluru (K’taka): Coming down heavily on the Congress on the issue of corruption, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the grand old party had always been associated with “85 per cent commission”, and its “shahi parivar” (royal family) was out on bail in connection with scams worth thousands of crores of rupees. Addressing three rallies…
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday sidestepped a query about the possibility of contesting the next year’s Lok Sabha poll from his pocket borough Nalanda. The JD (U) supreme leader was an MP from the seat until he resigned in 2005 to assume the highest seat of power in the state. His party, nonetheless,…
Gonda (UP): Embattled WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Sunday praised Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav for not associating himself with the ongoing protest by top wrestlers of the country, saying Yadav was “standing with the truth”. Singh is in the eye of a storm after the grapplers levelled sexual harassment…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday slammed the makers of ‘The Kerala Story’ film, saying they were taking up the Sangh Parivar propaganda of projecting the state as a centre of religious extremism by raising the issue of ‘love jihad’ — a concept rejected by the courts, probe agencies and even the Union Home…
