Amid a raging debate over Hindi as a common language for the country, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Monday asserted that Kannada is the principal language in the State and its importance would never be compromised.
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The death of former Andhra Pradesh Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao triggered a political slugfest in the state with the Telugu Desam Party holding the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government responsible for the veteran leaders suspected suicide.
US President Donald Trump said he will be meeting the prime ministers of India and Pakistan soon, even as he maintained that tension between the two Asian countries had reduced. While Trump will address Indian-Americans, along with PM Modi, at the “Howdy Modi!” event in Houston on 22 September, the American president did not say when or where will he be meeting PM Khan.
Kashmir has been made a prison, MDMK chief Vaiko alleged on Monday and said he would visit National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, now under detention, in Srinagar at an appropriate time.
Senior TDP leader and former Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly Kodela Siva Prasada Rao was declared dead at a hospital here on Monday amid speculation that he committed suicide. He was 72.
With protests mounting over the new Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, Kerala Transport minister A K Saseendran on Monday urged Union minister Nitin Gadkari to bring in an ordinance, giving flexibility to States to fix compounding fee at rates proportionate to the gravity of the offences and which was affordable to the public.
Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Kiran Bedi on Monday announced that a volunteer group has been formed to keep vigil on the bad condition of roads and also display of banners and hoardings posing a threat to the lives of road-users in the Union Territory.
A Sri Lankan Minister on Monday favoured more Indian involvement in the island nation’s economic sector, saying his country wants to be a stakeholder of India’s development.
Upping the ante against ‘Hindi imposition,’ a high-level DMK meet on Monday announced protest demonstrations across Tamilnadu on 20 September to condemn Home Minister Amit Shah’s Hindi pitch.