Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam leader Vijayakant has lost the status of the Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly due to the resignation of eight party dissidents from the House, Speaker P. Dhanapal announced on Sunday. Earlier in the day, 10 dissident MLAs in the Assembly, including eight from the DMDK, tendered their resignation to Mr. Dhanapal. Mr. Dhanapal […]
» Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said five crore houses will be built for the poor by 2022 as he laid the foundation stone of ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana’ in Naya Raipur. He stressed on the need for skill development and asked the youth to be job creators. Mr. Modi said that years after Independence, there are still five crore […]
» Read moreBJP MLA O P Sharma, who was caught on camera beating a CPI activist at the Patiala House court three days back, was arrested on Thursday and granted bail immediately. The first-time MLA was questioned for about eight hours at the Tilak Marg police station.
» Read morePakistani authorities have lodged an FIR into the Pathankot terror attack case, officials said on Friday, after weeks of probe into the assault that led to the postponement of Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks. The FIR was registered at Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) centre at Gujranwala in Punjab province on Thursday. According to a CTD official, the FIR was needed to start […]
» Read moreAppealing to the students across the country to condemn strongly the recent incident at JNU, Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said tolerance did not mean accepting in silence slogans in support of ‘desh drohis’ (traitors). “How can we keep mum when slogans were raised in support of Afzal Guru, who was hanged […]
» Read moreChief Minister Jayalalithaa, on Thursday, announced that senior citizens over the age of sixty could travel for free on government buses starting February 24. Making a statement in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Ms. Jayalalithaa said through the implementation of this scheme, the AIADMK government has fulfilled all the promises it made in the 2011 election manifesto. Ms. Jayalalithaa said the […]
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