However, Kerala CM Pinarayi, who lauded award to actor Mammootty at the State Film Awards ceremony, was silent on Padma Vibhushan awarded posthumously to veteran communist leader.
13 Padma awards went to Tamil Nadu followed by Bengal, 11, Kerala, 8, & Assam, 5. All these states are headed to polls & so is Puducherry which had one personality in the list.
Nepotism, absent leadership and cadre erosion see Shinde's Sena reduced to MMR in municipal polls while BJP captures urban Maharashtra with superior organisation and funds.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday pitched a BJP–NDA double engine government for Tamil Nadu, drawing a sharp rebuttal from Chief Minister M. K. Stalin.
EPS & OPS have been politically estranged since their leadership tussle after Jayalalithaa's death. Over the years, EPS consolidated control of AIADMK, with OPS being sidelined.
PM Modi began the BJP-led NDA’s assembly election campaign in Thiruvananthapuram, linking the party’s recent civic victory in the state capital to what he called growing public trust in the BJP.
Row that erupted after ‘Shankaracharya’ of Jyotirmath & his followers were prevented by UP govt from taking holy dip at Sangam on Mauni Amavasya refuses to die.
With several corporations throwing up fractured mandates & an intense tug-of-war for power, especially among Mahayuti allies, hectic parleys are on to stake claim to urban local bodies.
Ajmal's AIUDF was formed in 2005 in the backdrop of the Supreme Court scrapping the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, enacted in 1983 when Indira Gandhi was PM.
‘Well-entrenched institutional apathy' is how Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur defined it. 'New Delhi has the power to intervene at every level,' he said.
Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
‘Cut money’ (corruption) from top to bottom in Mamatha’s administration is a common knowledge. I wonder why Mr Sircar joined TMC in the first place. Nice to see the certified, intellectual, secular, liberal, honest, and anti Modi—none other than—Sagarika Ghose in the picture.
The protest resignation, on a point of principle. Worthy of the highest respect. Makes awkward the position of articulate lady MPs who are defending the administration.
If Ms. Mahua Moitra and Ms. Sagarika Ghose had an iota of self-respect and shame left in them, they would resign too.
‘Cut money’ (corruption) from top to bottom in Mamatha’s administration is a common knowledge. I wonder why Mr Sircar joined TMC in the first place. Nice to see the certified, intellectual, secular, liberal, honest, and anti Modi—none other than—Sagarika Ghose in the picture.
The protest resignation, on a point of principle. Worthy of the highest respect. Makes awkward the position of articulate lady MPs who are defending the administration.