Ranchi, Feb 21 (IANS) The issues of increasing the retirement age of government employees and filling long-pending backlog vacancies dominated discussions in the Jharkhand Assembly on Saturday.Clarifying the government’s position, Finance Minister Radha Krishna Kishore said there is no proposal under consideration to raise the retirement age of state employees. At the same time, he assured the House that backlog vacancies would be filled on a priority basis through a transparent recruitment pr…
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Bhubaneswar, Feb 20 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Friday said the state Budget for the 2026–27 financial year would accelerate development and fulfil the dreams, hopes, and aspirations of people across all sections of society.Majhi, who also holds the Finance portfolio, presented the annual Budget in the Odisha Assembly earlier in the day and later described it as a roadmap for building a prosperous, inclusive, and future-ready state.Interacting with mediapersons after pre…
Hyderabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Thursday wrote an open letter to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, seeking allocations in the state budget for implementing the poll promises of the Congress.He said though the Congress has been in power in the state for almost half its term, 95 percent of the promises made by it were yet to be fulfilled.Stating that no allocation was made in two previous budgets, the BRS leader said the people of …
Hyderabad, Feb 18 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former minister T. Harish Rao on Wednesday termed the Congress leadership’s review of the Telangana government’s performance in Delhi as an affront to the state’s pride and self-governance.In an open letter addressed to the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Harish Rao said that the review of the Telangana government’s performance by the central leadership was not merely an administrative exercise but raised concerns abou…
Bengaluru, Feb 16 (IANS) Karnataka unit BJP president and MLA B.Y. Vijayendra on Monday expressed concern that while Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has facilitated foreign tours for MLAs, sending Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao to Australia and New Zealand would raise serious questions about the government’s priorities, particularly when poor people in the state are facing hardships.Speaking at a press conference held at the BJP state office, Jagannath Bhavan, he alleged that poor patients in gove…
Bhubaneswar, Feb 14 (IANS) The Opposition Biju Janata Dal on Saturday intensified its criticism of the Bharatiya Janata Party, questioning its commitment to a decade-old promise to secure special category status for Odisha.BJD MP Sasmit Patra, speaking at a press conference here, said the demand remains unresolved despite the BJP’s 2014 manifesto pledging to work towards granting the status for the state’s overall development.”The Odisha BJP in 2014 promised that it would strive for the spec…
Belagavi, Feb 12 (IANS) BJP’s Karnataka unit President B. Y. Vijayendra on Thursday alleged that the Congress-led government in Karnataka has completely neglected Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes.Discussions have begun among the poor, farmers, backward classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes that they were misled by the Congress and are being subjected to injustice, he claimed.Speaking to the media here, he said the Congress-led government has been in power fo…
New Delhi, February 10 (IANS) Alleging major diversion, dilution, and under-utilisation of funds allotted for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), the Congress on Tuesday called Union Budget 2026 a “casteist betrayal” of Dalits and Adivasis. The budget reflected their exclusion rather than empowerment, claimed Rajendra Pal Gautam, Chairman of the All India Congress Committee’s SC Department, and Vikrant Bhuria, Chairman, Adivasi Congress, at a press conference in New Delhi.Wh…
Bareilly, Feb 9 (IANS) All India Muslim Jamaat President Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi welcomed some recent remarks by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat while flagging some issues concerning the Muslim community in the country. Speaking to IANS, Maulana Razvi said that the RSS chief’s statement about having three children has actually strengthened the position of the Muslim community. He said that having children or not is one of Allah’s greatest blessings, and no one has the right to question it. Those who…
Jaipur, Feb 9 (IANS) Rajasthan Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar Sharma, during his visit to Bhilwara on Monday, conducted a comprehensive crime review meeting of the Ajmer Range at the Collectorate Auditorium, focusing on crime control, pending investigations, law and order, and the overall effectiveness of policing across all districts of the range.Addressing the meeting, the DGP said Rajasthan Police has clearly defined priorities and all officers must act with full commitment while kee…