Thrissur, July 14 (IANS) In an unprecedented development in the history of Kerala’s local self-government, jailed BJP leader R. Sugathan, elected as a councillor to the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, was sworn into office inside the Viyyur Central Prison on Tuesday after the Kerala High Court permitted the oath-taking ceremony to be conducted in jail.The brief but historic ceremony was held at around 11 a.m. in the prison’s library hall and lasted less than three minutes.The oath was read out b…
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Bengaluru, July 14 (IANS) Veteran BJP leader and former Karnataka Minister S.V. Ramachandra Gowda passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday after battling age-related ailments. He was 88.Senior BJP leaders, including former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, paid rich tributes to the veteran leader, describing his death as a major loss to the party and Karnataka politics.Ramachandra Gowda, a former Karnataka Medical Education Minister and former Mem…
Chennai, July 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu BJP President Nainar Nagenthran has launched a sharp attack on the Vijay government over reports that multiple patients are being accommodated on a single bed in the emergency ward of the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital in Chennai, calling the situation “deeply condemnable” and accusing the administration of failing to ensure basic healthcare facilities.In a post on X, Nagenthran referred to media reports claiming that three patients were being …
Melbourne, July 14 (IANS) The organisers of the ‘Melbourne Meets Modi’ event have written an open letter to the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, and Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge, strongly rejecting the claims that the thousands of Indian-Australian attendees at the July 9 Marvel Stadium reception were a “paid crowd” funded by the BJP or the Indian government. More than 30,000 people gathered in Melbourne ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the…
News Delhi, July 14 (IANS) BJP leader Kirit Somaiya has written to Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer S. Chockalingam, alleging irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the Bandra East Assembly constituency and claiming that voter mapping of residents from the demolished Garib Nagar settlement was carried out illegally.In his letter, Somaiya on Tuesday raised concerns over the inclusion and mapping of voters from Garib Nagar, an unauthorised settlement located on railw…
Mumbai, July 14 (IANS) The Shiv Sena(UBT) on Tuesday launched an attack on the Central government over the alleged multi-crore donation theft at the Ayodhya Ram Temple, pointing out the silence of top leadership and labelling the recent expression of regret by the Ram Temple Construction Committee Chairman, Nripendra Mishra, as a mere “farce”.In a scathing editorial published in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the party highlighted recent remarks by Nripendra Mishra, who termed the donation embezzleme…
Bengaluru, July 13 (IANS) The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka has gathered pace, with 94.23 per cent of Enumeration Forms (EFs) distributed to voters and 30.61 per cent digitised, according to a statement released by the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Karnataka, on Monday.As part of the ongoing revision exercise, Enumeration Forms are being printed and distributed by Booth Level Officers (BLOs). The house-to-house enumeration and digitisation proces…
Mandya (Karnataka), July 13 (IANS) Senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition R. Ashoka on Monday warned that the BJP would lay siege to the Krishna Raja Sagara (KRS) reservoir if the Karnataka government failed to release water for standing crops in the Cauvery basin within the next three days.Ashoka, who visited drought-hit sugarcane fields in Malavalli and nearby villages in Mandya district, interacted with farmers and assessed crop damage caused by the shortage of irrigation water. Addre…
Hyderabad, July 13 (IANS) Alleging a Congress-BJP nexus over the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Monday accused the Congress government in Telangana of deliberately refusing to lift Godavari waters through the Kaleshwaram Project, despite tens of TMCs of water flowing waste into the sea. He said Chief Minister Revanth Reddy was sacrificing the interests of Telangana’s farmers solely to sustain the false narrative he had built a…
Hyderabad, July 13 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday advised MPs from the state to rise above political affiliations, work unitedly with the interests of Telangana as their primary objective, and take up with the Centre issues related to pending projects. The Chief Minister urged them to focus specifically on securing necessary approvals from the Central government for irrigation projects and infrastructure development. Ahead of the Parliament session, a PowerPoint prese…