Kochi: Even as decks are cleared for the coronation of Sachin Pilot as the next Chief Minister of Rajasthan, supporters of the present Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot are divided on the matter. Even as Gehlot is a formidable candidate for the post of party presidentship, the presence of Shashi Tharoor and Maneesh Tiwari has made …
Kochi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has claimed that the PFI had plotted against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Patna in July and planned to target some key people and places in Uttar Pradesh, media reports said. The outfit had organised a training camp to launch an attack during Prime Minister’s visit to Patna, the ED …
Kochi: Popular Front of India (PFI) has called a hartal from dawn to dusk in Kerala protesting against national wide raids and arrest of PFIleaders across the country by central agencies and police. At least 100 leaders of the Islamic outfit were reportedly arrested during the raid carried out by NIA, ED and police of …
Kochi: The SNC Lavalin case has been postponed to another day as the three-member constitutional bench headed by the Chief Justice could not consider the case as it was preoccupied with another important case today. The case was fifth in the list of the cases to be considered. The bench headed by the Chief Justice …
Kochi: Karnataka today rejected all the three rail projects suggested by Kerala citing environmental reasons. The Kanhangad-Kaniyur and Thalassery-Mangaluru railway projects were rejected as they were not beneficial to Karnataka and also they would cause harm to ecology, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told reporters in Bengaluru after his meeting with Kerala Chief Minister. Kerala …
Kochi: A total of 1,200 gifts received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be sold to the public through e-auction in connection with his 72nd birthday, media reports said. The Ministry of Culture began the auction through web portal http://pmmementos.gov.in on Saturday and will conclude on October 2, the reports said. A statue of Lord Ganesha, …
Kochi: Endangered Asiatic cheetahs are back in India after a gap of seven decades from 1952 when they were declared extinct. Prime Minister Narendra Modi released three of the eight big cats imported from Namibia in Africa into Kuno National Park near Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh coinciding with his 72nd birthday today, media reports said. …
Kochi: Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) floated by former Congress Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh will merge with the BJP on September 19 in Delhi. He and a few MLAs will join the party in the presence of BJP president J P Nadda. Singh had recently met the Prime minister and Home Minister. Capt Singh had …
Kochi: A video of a stray dog intruding into the sanitised zone of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in New Delhi is becoming viral. The security driving it away and the dog continuing to loiter in the vicinity of the Chief Minister is worth watching. At a time when Kerala is groping in the dark …
Kochi: In a major blow to the Congress, eight Congress MLAs in Goa joined the BJP on Wednesday bringing down the strength of Congress to three in the assembly. There were eleven Congress members in the Goa assembly. The defectors included former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, leader of Opposition Micheal Lobo, wife Delilah Lobo, Kedar …
Kochi: In a blow to Kerala legislator K T Jaleel, a Delhi court has directed the police to register a case against him for his controversial remarks on Kashmir. The court gave the direction while hearing a petition filed by one G S Mani whose complaint against the former state minister Jaleel was pending unattended …
Kochi: Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that Jammu and Kashmir has little chance of getting special status back. He said some parties were “misleading people” by offering false promises of fetching back the Special Status which was scrapped by the Parliament three years back. Addressing a public meeting in Baramulla in North …
Kochi: The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, MP, is arming the BJP to fire new salvos at him with the latest being his meeting with a controversial Christian priest George Ponnaiah whose remarks have helped the saffron party to trigger a new controversy. The video of Rahul meeting with George is …
Kochi: Ahead of divestment in Container Corporation of India, the Centre has cleareda revised railway leasing policy that would facilitate it to rent out its land for a longer period for storing cargo at budget rate. This is likely to help integrated development of infrastructure and creation of more cargo terminals that would help the …
Kochi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offered tributes to his father and late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur near Chennai before flagging off the Bharat Jodo Yatra at Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu today. Rahul, who was the president of the party, will lead the 3,570 kms to Kashmir with the message to strengthen the country’s …
Kochi: Kerala with 15.3 percent topped in possession of drugs for personal consumption while Arunachal Pradesh stood second with 14.2 percent and Punjab third with 13.8 third during the year 2021, as per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Punjab topped the list of crime under the NDPS Act with 32.8 per cent, Himachal Pradesh …
Kochi: The murder of BJP leader Sonali Phogat is getting murkier each day as a drug peddler has been arrested while the owner of the Curlis Club where she was given drugs is under surveillance, media reports said. Her personal assistant Sudhir Sagwan and his friend Sukhwinder Wasi who were arrested, were produced before a …
Kochi: Senior Congress Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad quit from the primary membership of the party today. Azad, who had assumed key positions in the party in Jammu and Kashmir, had resigned from those posts on August 16. The 71 year old Azad, who is a former Union Minister, was not happy in the party and …
Kochi: Three Indian Air Force (IAF) officials were terminated for accidentally firing missiles to Pakistan on March 9, media reports said. The action was taken on the basis of a high level probe conducted by the IAF into the firing of medium range cruise missile BrahMos to the neighbouring country, the reports said. The incident …
Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on the 75th Independence day from the 17th century Red Fort today. He spoke about what the citizens should do for the future development of the country which included striving to end misogyny and fight corruption and nepotism. Modi said India can become a developed economy in …
