Employees of Tamilnadu state transport undertakings Wednesday threatened to go on strike following government’s non-assurance on key demands, including Diwali festival advance.
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The Centre has approved Rs 229 crore for the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) of Andhra Pradesh as its share for 2018-19, the Home Ministry said Wednesday.
The Nair Service Society, an outfit of Kerala’s influential Nair community, Wednesday said it stood firmly with the devotees opposing entry of women in the menstrual age group into the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala.
With the Union government invoking for the first time a clause of the RBI Act, AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi Wednesday alleged that the BJP-led NDA government was “hell-bent on destroying” all autonomous institutions in the country.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Wednesday wanted to know why BJP had not built a bigger statue for Mahatma Gandhi while they erected a 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, his disciple.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan handed over keys of 192 flats built for families of fishermen, whose homes were destroyed due to sea erosion in various villages in Thiruvananthapuram district.
A major fire broke out at a plastic manufacturing unit in Manvilla near here on Wednesday night. There was, however, no casualty, police said, citing preliminary reports.
Tamilnadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami Wednesday launched various initiatives completed at an estimated cost of a little over Rs 620 crore in the Energy, Home and Highways departments.
Sri Lanka’s Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya Wednesday refused to give an opinion to parliamentary Speaker Karu Jayasuriya on the current political impasse over the sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, saying it would be “deemed inappropriate”.