Chennai: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday welcomed chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s statement that Tamil Nadu govt would cooperate with Union govt on administrative matters though BJP is TVK’s ideological enemy.“As a Union minister, I welcome the announcement of TVK govt that it will cooperate with Union govt,’’ Nirmala told reporters in Kancheepuram…
Mayor V V Rajesh tries to get inside the office during the clash T’puram: The city corporation turned into a flashpoint on Thursday when CPM and BJP councillors clashed outside the mayor’s office, as CPM pressed for the resignation of mayor V V Rajesh and the deputy mayor Asha Nath G S over the controversy…
Hubballi: The general body of the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation has decided to take all corporators to Bengaluru to press the state government to approve a One-Time Settlement (OTS) for clearing pending water bills. The HDMC has been seeking govt approval for the past four years without success.The decision was taken at Thursday’s general body meeting…
Kolkata: The Bengal govt is likely to introduce a bill on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the Assembly on Monday. The Assembly’s Business Advisory Committee, chaired by Speaker Rathindra Bose, decided to email the draft UCC Bill to all MLAs and then table it for discussion on Monday.If passed, Bengal will join states like Gujarat,…
Suvendu Adhikari and Samik Bhattacharya at the event on Thursday Kolkata: Autocracy and arrogance are not part of BJP’s ideology, and Bengal’s history has never accepted them, CM Suvendu Adhikari and Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Thursday.At an event to mark the day when Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975, the CM…
Nagpur: Congress has been pushed into damage-control mode after its candidate in the Amravati legislative council poll failed to secure even a single vote, despite the party and its Maha Vikas Aghadi allies collectively controlling more than 100 elected representatives in the region.The extraordinary outcome intensified concerns within Congress over internal sabotage, crossvoting and weakening…
BJD president Naveen Patnaik Bhubaneswar: In a significant political mobilisation since the 2024 election setback, BJD president Naveen Patnaik has convened a meeting of party’s MPs, MLAs, office-bearers and senior functionaries at Sankha Bhawan, BJD’s headquarters, on Thursday.Wednesday’s move comes a day after BJP state president Manmohan Samal said a number of BJD and Congress…
NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule Pune: Working president of NCP (SP) Supriya Sule ruled out the possibility of a similar division in her party when she said all their eight MPs are with them. She was speaking against the backdrop of a second split in Shiv Sena (UBT).Supriya claimed that the BJP has misused…
New Delhi: Door-to-door visits will start in Delhi from June 30 as part of a special intensive revision (SIR) of voters’ lists to cleanse and update the electoral rolls which includes nearly 1.5 crore voters.The booth-level officers (BLOs) will do the door-to-door enumeration till July 29, distributing pre-printed enumeration forms to all existing voters who…
Chennai: War of words between DMK and CPM intensified on Wednesday after DMK’s official organ `Murasoli once again criticised the Left party for extending support to the TVK govt, prompting a sharp response from CPM, equating DMK with BJP and AIADMK.The latest round of exchanges began with a two-part series in Murasoli criticising CPM. Murasoli…
