Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working President K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday predicted that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will become irrelevant and inconsequentional, both in Andhra Pradesh and national politics after 2019 elections. He believes other regional parties from Andhra Pradesh might take centre-stage and may have bigger role[Read More…]
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Manish Sisodia alleges encroachment of school land by BJP
New Delhi: Accusing the BJP of encroaching upon a school land for commercial use, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said the party is anti-education and does not want the citizens to be educated. Speaking to the media, Sisodia said there was a school running in the Sarai Khalil[Read More…]
Verdict in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Sajjan Kumar on Dec 17
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday (December 17) will deliver its order on pleas challenging trial court judgement which has acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar but convicted five others in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. The judgement will be delivered by a bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and[Read More…]
Congress pays lip service to farmers, national security punching bag: Modi
New Delhi: In the wake of defeat by the Congress in Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland, with agrarian crisis as a major poll plank against his government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Congress of paying only “lip service” to farmers while ignoring their welfare. Video-interacting with[Read More…]
New Rs 100 notes in lavender colour to be issued by RBI soon
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said it will soon issue Rs 100 denomination bank notes. According to the RBI, the new bank notes will be in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series. The new denomination has motif of ‘RANI KI VAV’ on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural[Read More…]
Kapil Mohan, man behind ‘Old Monk’ dies at 88
Mohan was awarded the Padma Shri in 2010 by the Government of India under the trade and industry category. Brigadier Kapil Mohan, the man who made the notorious brand of dark rum, Old Monk, passed away on January 6 at 88 years old. He was incinerated on January 7. Mohan,[Read More…]
Egypt terror attack claims at least 270 lives; India condemns
India on Friday strongly condemned the terror attack at a mosque in Egypt that claimed at least 270 lives. “Government of India strongly condemns the heinous act of terrorism that has claimed innocent lives in Bir-al-Abed, North Sinai in Egypt today,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted. “In this[Read More…]
Demonetisation was suicide; govt have nothing to say now: Arun Shourie
Former union minister, Arun Shourie has likened demonetisation with suicide and slammed Narendra Modi government over sliding economic growth and increasing job losses. He also called the Modi government as “government of two-and-a-half persons”. “This is a government by ‘ilhaam’ (revelation). The Prime Minister has the ‘ilhaam’ one night that[Read More…]
There is nothing wrong with eating beef, says Arunachal CM
Where the entire nation is engaged in the debate over eating beef or not, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP Leader, Pema Khandu, opposed the Union Government’s decision of putting a ban on cow slaughter on Friday. The Chief Minister told CNN-News 18 that the centre will have to relook[Read More…]