Puttur MLA Ashok Kumar Rai with DCPs Harsha Priamvada and Sundar Raj inspected the sites to host Kambala during Mysuru Dasara, Friday Mysuru: Sathgalli has emerged as the preferred venue for the proposed Kambala event during this year’s Mysuru Dasara after inspection by Puttur MLA Ashok Kumar Rai, officials, and Kambala experts.Rai and the team…
To prevent animals from straying out, the availability of resources inside forests will be examined, said Kerala forest minister Shibu Baby John T’puram/Kottayam: Forest and wildlife minister Shibu Baby John said the govt will prepare a comprehensive strategy to address human-wildlife conflict in the state.Speaking after inaugurating review meetings held in the constituencies of Konni…
Hyderabad: Telangana govt has appointed senior IAS officer Sanjay Jaju as new chief secretary of Telangana on Friday. He will take over from present chief secretary K Rama Krishna Rao, who is set to demit the office on June 30. The 1992 batch officer Jaju presently secretary of ministry of development of north-east region. A…
Prayagraj: Workers of City and Yamunapar Congress Committees on Wednesday held BJP led union and state governments responsible for the alleged theft of offerings and donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.Party workers staged a protest and demonstration at the district collectorate on Wednesday. Following the call given by the Uttar Pradesh Congress committee, workers…
Tourism minister P C Vishnunadh Thiruvananthapuram: Tourism minister P C Vishnunadh on Tuesday said govt would cover the medical expenses of all those injured in the accident at Nileswaram near Kottarakara.A truck rammed into a bus bay, killing three people, including a school boy, on Tuesday morning.After visiting the accident site, Vishnunadh told reporters that…
Hyderabad: Taking objections over state govt’s policy to pay income tax (I-T) of chairpersons of various corporations and advisors of cabinet rank along with the chief minister and ministers from the state exchequer, Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has urged governor Shiv Pratap Shukla to amend the Payment of Salaries Act, 1953, for payment of…
Thiruvananthapuram: The decision to grant tax relief to low-alcohol beverages is snowballing into a controversy within both the govt and the Congress, amid indications that CM V D Satheesan did not discuss the proposal either in the cabinet or within the party before it was announced in the budget.Excise minister M Liju is learnt to…
T’puram: Former KPCC president V M Sudheeran has urged chief minister V D Satheesan to withdraw budget proposals aimed at promoting the sale of low-alcohol content beverages and opening the mineral sand sector to private investment, saying they contradict UDF’s election promises and threaten public interests.In a letter to the CM on Sunday, Sudheeran said…
Capt Brijesh Chowta, MP, Dakshina Kannada Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada MP Capt Brijesh Chowta has written to chief minister DK Shivakumar, urging that pedestrian safety, accessibility and mobility be incorporated as key planning principles in the forthcoming master plan for Mangaluru.Capt Chowta referred to a recent Supreme Court judgment recognising the right of citizens to walk…
Panaji: Transport minister Mauvin Godinho said the state is determined to procure additional buses “by hook or crook”, after a promised donation of 500 buses from an IIT alumni association fell through when the group sought land in Goa in exchange for funding the fleet, a condition the minister refused to entertain.Godinho recently met chief…
