New Delhi, 8/3: Prime Minister Modi on Friday presented thefirst ever National Creators’ Awards at the Bharat Mandapam here. Among those awarded were Pankhti Pandey, who got the award in ‘Green Champion’ category, Keerthika Govindasamy got it for best storyteller, singer Maithili Thakur got the ‘Cultural Ambassador of the Year award’, Gaurav Chaudhary for the…
New Delhi, 8/3: Philanthropist and The Murty Trust chairperson Sudha Murty was nominated to the Rajya Sabha on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi coinciding the announcement with the International Women’s Day. The 73-year-old will be the second nominated member from Karnataka to be in the Rajya Sabha at present. Dr Veerendra Heggade, who was…
Bengaluru, 8/3: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken a jailed terror suspect into custody for questioning in connection with the bomb blast at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe, well-placed sources said on Thursday. Officials obtained a body warrant from the NIA special court to arrest Minhaj alias Mohammed Sulaiman, 26, a cloth merchant from Ballari who…
New Delhi, 8/3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a reduction of Rs 100 in cooking gas cylinder prices on Friday on the occasion of International Women’s Day. This will significantly ease the financial burden on millions of households across the country, especially benefiting “Nari Shakti” (women power), he said in a post on X.
Thiruvananthapuram, 7/3: : Former Kerala Chief Minister and Congress top leader K Karunakaran’s daughter Padmaja Venugopal joined the BJP. Padmaja, who received BJP membership from BJP Kerala prabhari Prakash Javadekar in Delhi on Thursday, told reporters that neglect from Congress leadership and attraction towards Narendra Modi’s leadership made her join BJP.
New Delhi, 7/3:The Cabinet approves India AI mission with an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore for five years, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. The approved corpus will be used to create a large computing infrastructure. The minister, briefing reporters after the Cabinet meeting, said supercomputing capacity, comprising over 10,000 GPU, will be made…
Kashmir, 7/3: In his first visit to Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said ‘dil jeetne aaya hoon’ (I have come here to win hearts) as he made an emotional pitch in front of a jam packed Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar. “Whenever I came here after 2014, I…
Bengaluru, 7/3: The state government has finally capped the prices of water tankers in the city. According to an order passed by Bengaluru DC, prices of 12,000-litre water tankers are capped at Rs 1,000 for a distance within five kilometers and at Rs 1,200. Similarly, a 6,000-litre water tanker provider cannot charge over Rs 600…
New Delhi , 7/3: Delhi court on Thursday issued summons to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on a fresh complaint by the ED for allegedly evading its summonses in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra directed Kejriwal to appear before the court on March 16. The…
Kashmir, 7/3: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to land in Srinagar on Thursday morning, the BJP is making all out efforts to showcase the “changed situation” in Jammu & Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 during the high profile trip. Kashmir was infamously called the terrorism capital but now it has emerged…
