New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the Union Cabinet’s approval of the Phase 2 of the Chennai Metro Rail project will help in easing traffic and improving sustainability and economic growth. He said on X, “Boosting ‘Ease of Living’ in a vibrant city! I congratulate the people of Chennai and Tamil…
Tirupati: Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on Thursday said the Laddu adulteration issue is just a tip of the iceberg and there are many more decisions taken during the previous regime that have to be investigated. Addressing a rally here, he said he was not blaming the YSRCP chief YS jagan Mohan Reddy…
MP Rabindranath Telangana politics has once again made headlines for all the wrong reasons. In a shocking turn of events, Telangana Minister Konda Surekha’s inflammatory comments on the personal lives of Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya have brought the spotlight back on the depths to which political rhetoric has sunk in the state. Her…
Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP leader Harshvardhan Patil met NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Thursday, amid growing buzz that he is joining the Pawar-led party ahead of the state assembly elections. Patil told PTI that he met Pawar at the latter’s Silver Oaks residence in south Mumbai. “Pawar urged me to join his party…
Chandigarh: South Haryana will play a big role in the BJP’s return to power in the state for the third consecutive term following the October 5 Assembly polls, claimed Krishan Kumar, the party’s candidate from Bawal in Rewari district, on Thursday. Kumar (55), who took voluntary retirement from his position as the director of health…
Jashpur: Members of the Christian community on Thursday formed a 130-kilometre long human chain in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district seeking an FIR against BJP MLA Raymuni Bhagat for her allegedly objectionable remarks on Jesus Christ and conversions. The demonstrators linked hands from Pathalgaon to Lodum along Katni-Gumla highway peacefully against Jashpur MLA Bhagat, said Christian Adivasi…
Hyderabad: Telugu superstar Nagarjuna on Thursday filed a defamation case against Telangana Minister Konda Surekha over her comments blaming opposition BRS leader K T Rama Rao for the divorce of actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya. Prabhu and Chaitanya have criticised the minister for dragging their name in politics, saying their divorce was a…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said that dissident MLA P V Anvar has joined the attempts by some groups to characterise the CPI(M) and the LDF as part of both “majority and minority communalism” in the state. Vijayan said that Anvar was now targeting the CPI(M), LDF and the Left government and…
Mumbai: No stranger to the physical toll of weight management during a competition, six-time world champion boxer M C Mary Kom Thursday waded into the debate surrounding wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s Olympic heartbreak for being 100gm over, saying that to be within the prescribed limit is an individual responsibility. The 42-year-old mother of four, who was…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will address the third Kautilya Economic Conclave, which will discuss various issues including job creation, green economy, artificial intelligence and public policy design. This years’ conclave will focus on several themes, including reforming the international financial architecture, financing the green transition, geo-economic fragmentation and the implications for…
