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Guwahati: Assam police on Monday re-arrested Independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani soon after a court in Kokrajhar district granted bail to him, six days after he was arrested by Assam police in connection with an “objectionable” tweet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The police from Barpeta district arrested Mevani again, but refused to disclose in […]
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Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the idea of ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ is to bridge distances between different parts of the country. Addressing a mammoth rally at Palli Gram Panchayat in Samba district, Modi said, “The day is not far away when the Devi of Kanyakumari will meet Vaishno Devi with […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao has once again lashed out at Narendra Modi-led Central government for discrimination against Telangana. “Of Gujarat, By Gujarat, For Gujarat & To Gujarat – New definition of Modemocracy,” he tweeted on Friday reacting to the Prime Minister announcing an electric locomotive engine project for Gujarat. […]
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Hyderabad: At a time, when the State Government had already set up over 530 paddy procurement centres, union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy said the Telangana Government was yet to commence procurement. Despite the Central Government agreeing to State Government’s requests on paddy procurement, the TRS Government has not procured stocks from farmers, the union […]
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India’s expenditure on healthcare accounts for just over 1.17% of the GDP, one of the lowest in the world. It also has one of the lowest health workforce in the world. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the gaps in the country’s healthcare infrastructure and should ideally serve as a wake-up call to revamp the sector […]
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Hyderabad: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the latter’s failure to achieve targets of economic growth. Terming Modi ‘clueless’ about China, he felt that the national security has also weakened hugely. “In 8 years in office we see that Modi has failed to achieve targets […]
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Banaskantha: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Vidya Samiksha Kendra in Gandhinagar can bring substantive changes in the field of education across the country while calling upon other states to study the initiative. After laying the foundation stone for multiple projects at Banas Dairy Sankul in Diyodar in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district, the Prime Minister […]
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New Delhi: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pay an official visit to India from April 21-22. This will be his maiden visit to India as Prime Minister, said the Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday. During the two-day meet, the British Prime Minister will first land in Ahmedabad on April 21 and then proceed […]
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New Delhi: Extending his greetings to the citizens on the occasion of Easter Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the thoughts and ideals of Jesus Christ that emphasised on social justice and compassion. “Happy Easter! We recall the thoughts and ideals of Jesus Christ and the emphasis on social justice as well as compassion. May […]
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Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy sought to know from State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy as to why the BJP State unit was not demanding national status for Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS). Urging the BJP leaders to refrain from uttering blatant lies and misleading the […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted people on the occasion of new years being celebrated in their regions. He tweeted his wishes on Vishu and Poila Boishakh, being celebrated especially in Kerala and West Bengal, respectively. Many regions in India celebrated their traditional new year recently, including on Thursday, which is in […]
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Diplomatic maturity lies in tactfully harmonising divergences with the convergence of mutual interests and seeing that, at the end of the day, the latter prevails over the former. In the midst of ever changing global geopolitics and shifting power dynamics, the challenge for a democratic country like India is to balance the national interests in […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao put the BJP government at the Centre on notice on Monday when he set a sharp 24-hour deadline for the union government to make its stand clear on procurement of the entire paddy crop from Telangana besides formulating a uniform food grains procurement policy. “If the Centre fails to […]
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Hyderabad: The adage ‘practice what you preach’ seems far removed from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheme of things now. It has become the norm for Modi in power to sing a diametrically different tune on the very issues on which Modi of pre-2014 raised vocal protests, be it fuel price hike or farmers’ issues, among […]
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Hyderabad: Animal Husbandry Minister T Srinivas Yadav found fault with Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan for interacting with media in the national capital, especially after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union Home Minister Amit Shah. “It is not wise on the Governor’s part to speak about politics. How can she speak to media soon after meeting […]
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Hyderabad: A determined TRS intensified its agitation against the BJP government at the Centre on its biased paddy procurement policy on Friday, when party leaders, activists, farmers and the general public hoisted black flags atop their residences and major junctions across the 12,769 gram panchayats in the State. They took to the streets in some […]
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Warangal: CPI state secretary Chada Venkat Reddy said that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre was continuing with its misrule and putting a heavy burden on the people. He alleged that for 75 years India had not witnessed the wicked rule like that of the incumbent government at the Centre. He also criticised the […]
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Warangal: TRS cadre held protests wearing the black badges, hoisting the back flags and also taking the symbolic ‘funeral procession’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Centre’s decision not to purchase the paddy produced in Yasangi season. As a part of the ongoing protests, TRS party members including the farmers led by Geesugonda TRS […]
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Nalgonda: Home Minister Md. Mohamood Ali on Thursday termed Narendra Modi government as “dushman government” for showing discrimination towards Telangana state. Participating in the protest organised by the TRS at Clock Tower Centre in Nalgonda, he said that Telangana state was achieved through 14 years of long agitation. He reminded that some forces tried to […]
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Hyderabad: Protocol can’t be viewed from the narrow prism of a Constitutional office and certainly not as a one-way street for implementation of formal rules and procedures. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan may have just stirred a Hornet’s Nest on the issue of protocol and even going a step further in issuing a veiled threat to the […]
