Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday welcomed the Central government’s announcement that caste survey would be included in the next census and said the decision will further accelerate the development in the country. Leader of the opposition in the state assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, described the Centre’s decision as the victory of socialists and…
Bagalkote (Karnataka): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday insisted that the Centre should conduct a socio-economic survey as the caste census alone will not suffice. In a major decision, the Centre on Wednesday announced that caste enumeration will be included in the forthcoming census exercise in a ‘transparent’ manner. Opposition parties, including the Congress, have…
Hyderabad: The Telangana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday strongly ridiculed Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s claim that the caste survey conducted by his government served as a “template” for the Union Government’s caste census. The party dismissed the assertion as laughable, unscientific, and politically motivated. Responding to Revanth Reddy’s remarks, BJP’s…
New Delhi: Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor and Aamir Khan, as well as cricket players Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah, have invested in power transmission firm Karamtara Engineering’s pre-IPO round. Karamtara Engineering is a backward-integrated manufacturer of products for the renewable energy and transmission lines sectors. It offers a diverse product portfolio, which enables it to…
Kancheepuram (Tamil Nadu): Rig Vedic scholar from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh Sri Satya Chandrashekarendra Saraswathi Shankaracharya was anointed as the junior pontiff of the ancient Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam at a grand religious ceremony here on Wednesday. The 25-year-old acharya, known as Ganesha Sharma Dravid before his initiation into sanyasa as per the tradition at the Kanchi…
Amaravati: April 30, Andhra Pradesh opposition leader and YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is scheduled to visit the kin of victims of the Simhachalam temple wall collapse tragedy on Wednesday. Seven people were crushed to death in the wee hours of Wednesday when a rain-soaked wall collapsed at the Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy…
Thane: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday backed the Congress’ demand for a special session of Parliament to discuss the Pahalgam terror attack and said this would send out the message that the country is united. Addressing a press conference after attending the consecration ceremony at a ‘Tulja Bhavani’ temple here, Pawar called the…
Kolkata: The faint smell of something burning was the only warning before chaos broke out in a narrow lane in Kolkata’s Burrabazar area Tuesday evening, when a raging fire turned a six-storey low-budget hotel into a furnace of smoke, panic, and death. By Wednesday dawn, the air in Mechhuapatti still reeked of soot and grief….
The answer to the title’s question seems to be yes if we go by what follows. A 3-col. story in today’s Indian Express drew my attention to pen this piece. The news goes like this. An elderly couple, Sayamma and Gangaram, living in Raykur village in Nizamabad district, were regularly visiting a court in Bodhan…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that each time Pakistan dared to ”challenge India’s unity and integrity”, Indian soldiers courageously rose to the occasion and defeated the enemy to uphold the country’s pride. His comment comes at a time when Pakistani troops engaged in unprovoked firing along the Line of Control…
