The ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala Friday bagged 21 of the 39 seats in the keenly fought bypolls to the local bodies.
Author: PTI
Continuing her tour of cyclone Gaja affected areas in Tamilnadu for the second day, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited Thanjavur district Friday and assured affected coconut farmers that the union government would extend all help to them.
Union Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh Friday flayed the TRS government in Telangana over the alleged suicides of more than 4,000 farmers in the state during the last four-and-half-years.
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao Friday hit out at Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi over his comments that irrigation projects in Telangana have been redesigned for commissions.
Former Congress MP Mohammed Azharuddin, the party’s working president in Telangana, Friday said that Chief Minister and TRS leader K Chandrasekhar Rao can never get 12 per cent reservation for Muslims as it was not legally possible.
Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu Friday mounted a sharp attack on Telangana caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao accusing him of indulging in corruption and likening him and his family members to “Alibaba and forty thieves.”
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Friday mooted a national suicide prevention strategy to curb the tendency among youngsters and others to end their lives due to depression and frustration.
A petrol bomb was hurled at the residence of a BJP woman functionary near Teppakulam in this city Friday by some miscreants, slightly damaging a car, police said.
Armed with a court order, officials Friday made a vain bid to attach the engine of a passenger train here in a case of non-payment of enhanced compensation for land acquired for a railway project nearly 20 years ago, causing a flutter.