Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah lost his cool on Wednesday and slapped a supporter at Mysuru airport when asked to speak over phone to a Congress leader, with a video of the incident going viral.
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The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Wednesday demanded that the Centre retain the name of Andhra Bank, in the wake of the move to merge it with Union Bank of India and Corporation Bank. The cabinet passed a resolution in this regard as ministers denounced the move to erase Andhra Banks name through the merger.
As part of efforts to replenish natural stock of shrimp and enhance its productivity, CMFRI scientists on Wednesday released 2.75 lakhs hatchery-produced shrimp seeds into sea off Thonithurai in nearby Mandapam.
A 24-year-old M.Tech student was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly sending a mail threatening to blow up the international airport here, police said.
IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned recently and claimed he did so over “denial of freedom of expression” to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, on Wednesday said more than the scrapping of special status under Article 370, “the lack of response” to it was more upsetting.
India and Japan agreed to further deepen cooperation in the strategic Indo-Pacific region where China has been flexing its military muscles, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held in-depth talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe here on Thursday.
Lashing out at the NDA government over the GDP growth, the DMK on Wednesday alleged issues like the arrest of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram and Kashmir were being used by it to hide the ‘alarming’ economic slowdown.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday condemned the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to register a case against a journalist for posting a video of school children being served salt and roti as their mid-day meal.
Tamilnadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami has said he never “even dreamt” of reaching the top post and credited his “gradual” growth in politics to his “loyalty” to the late CM J Jayalalithaa. He was addressing members of Tamil diaspora in New York on Tuesday after launching a scheme to attract investments from Tamils living abroad.