Chitradurga (Karnataka), May 9 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday hailed former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa’s five-decade political journey, describing him as a leader who carved his own path through struggle, ideology and commitment to public service.Addressing the ‘Abhimanotsava’ event organised in Chitradurga in central Karnataka to felicitate Yediyurappa for completing 50 years in public life, Home Minister Shah said the veteran BJP leader’s political career…
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Thiruvananthapuram, May 5 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union Minister, V. Muraleedharan, on Tuesday described his victory from the Kazhakkoottam Assembly constituency as an endorsement of “pro-people policies” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after defeating the CPI(M) leader and Minister Kadakampally Surendran by a narrow margin of 428 votes.Speaking to IANS, Muraleedharan said that his win marked a significant shift in Kerala’s political landscape, where the BJP-led ND…
Mumbai, May 4 (IANS) Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal said on Monday that in the Assembly elections held across five states, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) employed tactics of persuasion, inducement, coercion and division, but the people of South India have rejected the BJP’s toxic, divisive and nation-fragmenting ideology, as well as the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Reacting to the Assembly election results, Sapkal said that in West Bengal, t…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The Islamic State, which has managed to capture a large audience in the country, especially in South India, has been urging its recruits online to set trains on fire. In addition to burning down trains filled with passengers, it has also been urging its supporters to carry out knife attacks on busy streets.An official said that this plan was in fact set in motion in 2023. In the March 2023 edition of the Islamic State’s magazine, Voice of Khorasan, an article appeare…
Hyderabad, April 19 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Labour & Employment, Shobha Karandlaje, on Sunday accused the Congress and the INDIA bloc of not only betraying the women of the country but also the entire South India.Addressing a press conference here, she said that April 17 will go down in the history of Indian women as a dark day.She claimed that the NDA government had introduced the Delimitation Bill — alongside the 33 per cent reservation B…
Bengaluru, April 17 (IANS) Criticising the Opposition, the Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Friday that Congress leaders are raising unnecessary objections over the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ and the issue of delimitation. “Earlier, they (Opposition) had said they would welcome the Bill, but now they are opposing it,” the BJP added.Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, the Leader of the Opposition and veteran BJP leader R. Ashoka said that the Congress leaders are now demanding r…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The focus of the Indian security agencies dealing with the menace of narcotic smuggling has been largely on the contraband originating from the Golden Crescent of Pakistan-Afghanistan.The Indian agencies have said that activities through the Golden Crescent have gone up considerably. There is a push by Pakistan to smuggle huge quantities of narcotics into India.Ramping up activities at the Golden Crescent is a clear sign that the Pakistan-based operatives are trying to…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) India’s logistics sector is projected to touch $362 billion by FY30 from $246 billion in FY25, growing at a CAGR of 8 per cent over rising consumption, expanding trade, as well as cost optimisation and efficiency gains from key government schemes, a report said on Friday.The report from Brickwork Ratings projected freight volume to exceed 7,100 million tonnes by FY30 from roughly 5,000 tonnes in FY24, at a CAGR of 6.1 per cent.“Manufacturing, construction, e-commer…
Hyderabad, April 16 (IANS) Telangana Jagruthi President K. Kavitha on Thursday again warned the Centre that it will face the brunt for injustice to South India in delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies.”Try Being Unfair and You Will Face the Brunt,” she posted on X.”South India’s influence in Union-level decisions is already being systematically marginalised. No matter how many seats we win as a bloc, the math is stacked against us. This structural unfairness cannot continue without cons…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday appealed to the Opposition not to spread rumours regarding the delimitation bill, stating that a wrong message is being spread and urged them not to do that. This comes as a special session of Parliament has been convened to discuss amendments related to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. A three-day special sitting of the extended Budget Session is set to begin later in the day, with discussions centred on p…