Chennai, 22/3: Asserting that southern states won’t allow their voices to be “diluted”, resources “looted”, and cultures “erased”, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday said Karnataka will join hands with all progressive states to fight in the courts, in Parliament, and on the streets” to protect their political representation which is threatened by…
Chennai, 22/3: Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK backed first Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting over Lok Sabha delimitation saw a political consensus emerge to bat for ‘fair delimitation,’ to not lose representation and to fight against having population as the yardstick to determine the number of seats. At the meeting held here on Saturday, TN Chief…
Washington, 22/3: US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would pay out of his pockets the overtime for astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, who returned to Earth this week after spending nine months in space. The two astronauts, who were supposed to be on an eight-day mission, spent 286 days in…
Bengaluru, 22/3: Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s newly installed skipper Rajat Patidar will get a foretaste of how arduous that job could be when he leads the side against a dangerous-looking defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders in the opening clash of IPL 18. Right from the very first clash of the biggest franchise T20 tournament in the…
Bengaluru, 22/3: A city and sessions court in Bengaluru adjourned the bail hearing of Kannada actress Ranya Rao, who is accused in the gold smuggling case, to Saturday after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) submitted objections on Friday. Ranya moved sessions court after a special court judge rejected her plea following DRI’s objections. On…
Aul, 22/3: In a sad piece of news, Debendra Sharma, the former MLA from Aul in Kendrapara district, breathed his laston Friday. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at a private hospital here. He was 66 years old. Debendra Sharma was known as a grassroots-level organizer and a dedicated leader. He was elected to…
New Delhi, 21/3: Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday targeted the DMK, alleging that “some parties” are using the language row as a tool to hide their corruption even as he insisted that the country has faced problems over the language question in the past as well and it should not be repeated However,…
Lucknow, 21/3: In a significant decision the Allahabad High Court has said that being a customer of a prostitute or being caught in a sex act with a prostitute does not prove the offense of human trafficking. A single bench comprising Justice Vinod Diwakar gave this ruling on a petition challenging his trial and summons…
New Delhi, 21/3: : A month-and-half after its electoral debacle in Delhi, AAP on Friday pressed the ‘reboot’ button by choosing party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s close associates Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Pankaj Gupta, Sandeep Pathak, Gopal Rai and Saurabh Bharadwaj for key assignments that could see a fresh round of confrontation with Congress. Sisodia has…
Bengaluru, 21/3: The Karnataka Assembly on Friday passed Bills giving a 100 per cent salary hike to the chief minister and all lawmakers, which will cost the exchequer Rs 62 crore every year. The monthly salary of the CM will rise from Rs 75,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh. All ministers will get a 108 per…
