Speaking on the occasion, Gadkari said Modi has given highest priority to infrastructure development in the country. The ongoing third decade of 21st century is a golden period which should be fully utilised and no part of the nation should lag behind in making faster progress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. Amid a boycott by the ruling BRS in poll-bound Telangana, Modi laid foundation stone for several infrastructure development projects worth around Rs 6,100 crore during his visit to the southern state. Addressing the gathering at the event here, Modi said today the whole world was coming forward…
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Political parties condemn panchayat poll related deaths in Bengal Cutting across ideological lines, all parties in West Bengal on Saturday condemned the killing of nine people in various parts of the state as voting for the panchayat elections is underway. The opposition BJP and CPI(M) alleged that the State Election Commission (SEC) did not deploy the central forces as per the orders of the Calcutta High Court. The ruling TMC, which lost five of its supporters to poll violence, questioned the absence of central forces that have been brought in for the elections. PM Modi lays foundation for infra development…
The judge at the Rouse Avenue Courts noted that the records, filed by the staff of a Karkardooma court, were bulky and were contained in seven judicial files. A Delhi court will decide on July 19 whether to take cognisance of a charge sheet filed against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a case related to the alleged Pul Bangash killings during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vidhi Gupta Anand reserved the order on July 7 after hearing arguments from prosecuting agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as well as the counsel appearing for the complainant. The…
State Law Minister S Reghupathy questioned Raj Bhavan’s assertion and said due communication has been done to the Governor’s office on the matter. Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan on Thursday contested the claims of the DMK government on the matter of according sanction to prosecute former Ministers in the previous AIADMK regime. State Law Minister S Reghupathy questioned Raj Bhavan’s assertion and said due communication has been done to the Governor’s office on the matter. A day after Regupathy wrote to Governor RN Ravi requesting him that he should ‘not delay any further’ his sanction to prosecute former AIADMK ministers and…
The incident took place early on Friday morning after DIG C Vijayakumar had returned from his morning walk. C Vijayakumar, deputy inspector general of police, Coimbatore range, allegedly died by suicide early Friday morning at his Camp office near Race Course in Coimbatore. Vijayakumar had been undergoing treatment for depression, the police said. According to sources, the incident took place at around 6.50 am after Vijayakumar had returned from his morning walk. His body was later taken to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for a post-mortem. “I spoke to the doctor providing treatment to Vijayakumar… four days ago, he had…
The expert committee carried out its inspection despite the protests and will be visiting the area again for other procedures, Kancheepuram Collector Kalaiselvi Mohan said. The police on Thursday arrested more than 200 villagers from Ekanapuram and other surrounding villages in Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram district after they staged a hunger protest against the visit by an IIT-Madras expert committee formed to assess issues related to the proposed greenfield airport at Parandur. Around 215 villagers were protesting near the B R Ambedkar statue on Thursday, raising slogans against the proposed project when they decided to lay siege to the taluk office…
The link flyover will connect South Usman Flyover to CIT Colony 1st Main Road on Anna Salai. Traffic diversions will in place in Chennai’s T Nagar from Friday till July 13 owing to the construction work of a link flyover connecting South Usman Flyover to CIT Colony 1st Main Road on Anna Salai, said Greater Chennai Traffic Police, All vehicles including Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses coming from Anna Salai and heading towards T Nagar’s Madley Junction will now take a left at Kannammapet junction towards New Boag road and take a right towards Muthurangan Road and turn right near…
The college’s language bar has been called out for “blatant discrimination,” with many social media users opining that the announcement was “elitist” and “anti-Bengali.” Days after the premier institute came under fire for denying admissions to students from schools where the medium of instruction was Bengali or other regional languages, Loreto College, Kolkata, has issued an apology and rescinded the rule. The big point: As admissions to undergraduate courses were opened in West Bengal on July 1, Loreto College had stated in its notice that its medium of instruction is “ONLY English” and that applicants from Bengali medium schools will…
“Why didn’t the Governor start a control room for the victims of the Odisha train accident? All he is doing is campaigning at the behest of a political party. The Governor has received his orders from Delhi and is busy fulfilling them,” Banerjee said. Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday criticised Governor C V Ananda Bose for his partisan role in the ongoing panchayat polls campaign and accused him of working at the behest of a political party. Soon after, the Governor addressed a news conference at the Kolkata Press Club where he slammed the State Election Commissioner Rajiva…
State govt has declared ‘paid public holiday’ for govt employees and workers on the voting day on July 8. The campaigning for the July 8 panchayat election ended on a bitter note on Thursday after Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari was subjected to ‘thief’ slogans by TMC workers in Nandigram in East Midnapore district. Thursday was the last day for campaigning with both the TMC and BJP making the most of it. When TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh was campaigning for his party candidates in Nandigram’s bypass, Suvendu Adhikari’s convoy passed through the same area. Upon…