Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who last month abruptly sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, will write a book on his ‘unsuccessful political marriage’ with the ousted premier.
Author: PTI
A 28-year-old sanitation worker was Friday arrested for the alleged sexual harassment of a woman student of SRM University following a complaint by the varsity, the police said.
A non-cognisable case was filed against a woman on a complaint by Flipkart Co-founder Binny Bansal, who recently quit as the Group CEO over allegations of “serious personal misconduct,” but was later closed after a brief probe, a senior police official said Friday.
Tamilnadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami Friday directed the Collectors in the districts to provide tarpaulin to the cyclone-affected people.
The Karnataka government Friday said it has decided to constitute four cabinet sub-committees of senior ministers for each revenue division to ensure effective implementation of drought mitigation measures.
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency has asked all state governments to ensure implementation of its recommendation to use only air-conditioners with a default temperature at 24 degrees Celsius, as part of efforts to save energy.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday attacked TRS chief and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for running a “family rule” in Telangana and “failing” to respond to the aspirations of people of the state.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Friday lashed out at the Centre for allegedly showing indifference in granting aid for the rebuilding initiatives of the state, which had suffered the deadliest flood of the century in August.
As the Congress-JD(S) coalition government completed six months in office on Friday, state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa said its survival for six months itself was a big success of the “non serious” Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.