Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and 5T Chairman VK Pandian on Sunday announced that he has decided to consioulsy withdraw himself from active politics adding he’s sorry if campaign narrative against him played part in BJD’s loss. In a video message on social media platform X, Pandian said, “…Now consciously I decide to withdraw myself from active politics. I am sorry if I have hurt anyone on this journey. I am sorry if this campaign narrative against me has had a part to play in BJD’s loss…” Naveen Patnaik’s BJD lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in both Lok…
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By Nava J Thakuria The annual Devarsi Narad Jayanti program is planned at Sudarshanalay in Assam’s capital Guwahati, by Visva Sambad Kendra Assam, where a lecture on the relevance of world’s first media person Narad Muni will be delivered. Many working journalists will also be honoured in the function starting at 4 pm today (9 June 2024). Ashok Srivastava, senior consulting editor of Doordarshan will grace the occasion as the keynote speaker. This year’s Narad Jayanti award will be conferred on Assam Tribune’s executive editor Prashanta Jyoti Baruah, where Diganta Goswami (Dainik Agradoot), Padmini Hazarika (Asomiya Pratidin) and Raju Barua…
Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi was re-elected unanimously as chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party this evening at a meeting of the party’s MPs from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the central hall of Parliament on Saturday. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge proposed Sonia’s name as CPP chairperson. The proposal was seconded by party leader Gaurav Gogoi and senior leader Tariq Anwar. In her acceptance speech, Sonia said the Congress has once again demonstrated its resilience as it was up against a mighty and malevolent machine that was doing its utmost to destroy the party. “It tried to cripple…
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has kickstarted the process of conducting assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. In a notification issued on June 7, the poll panel said that it has decided to accept applications seeking allotment of a common symbol under Para 10B of Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 for the general election to the legislative assembly of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect. The development comes just days after the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir would soon have their democratically-elected government in the union territory.…
Cherukuri Ramoji Rao, the head of Telugu news and entertainment network ETV and founder of the Ramoji Film City, passed away at 87 in Hyderabad on Saturday morning. The media baron, widely known for his Eenadu group of publicaitons, died while undergoing treatment at Star Hospital in Hyderabad. He had been suffering from chronic illness and age-related issues for a long time, say media reports. Ramoji Rao headed the Ramoji Group, which owns several leading businesses, including Ramoji Film City, which is the world’s largest integrated film city, ETV Network of TV channels, and the Telugu-language newspaper Eenadu. His other business ventures include…
The Telugu Desam Party leader K Raghu Rama Krishna Raju said that TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu will take oath as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on June 12 at 4.55 pm. “Nara Chandrababu Naidu will take oath as Andhra Pradesh CM on 12th June at 4.55 pm. It’s a very pleasant moment for the people of Andhra Pradesh, the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appreciated our leaders Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan. Both our state leaders have shown a lot of respect towards Modi Ji. Of course, we need a lot of support from the Centre considering the destruction caused by…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and staked claim to form the government at the Centre. Following this, the President invited PM Modi, the leader of the NDA, to form the government. Narendra Modi is set to be sworn-in as the Prime Minister for the third time on Sunday (June 9) at 6 pm. After meeting the President, PM Modi said that the NDA government has been given a chance for the third time by the people to serve to country. “I assure the people of the country that in the last two terms,…
Unabated encounters against Maoists are continued in Chhattisgarh. During this year only till now as many as 124 Maoists were killed in separate encounters with security forces. Now, seven more Maoists were killed and three jawans injured in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Friday. According to police sources, the gunfight took place in a forest near Gobel village in the Orchha area, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation, a senior police official said. Personnel belonging to the police’s District Reserve Guard from Narayanpur, Kondagaon, Dantewada and Bastar districts and the 45th battalion…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left its key interest rates unchanged as expected, keeping the focus on inflation amid robust economic growth that is likely to provide the new Modi government headroom for manoeuvring reforms. The Monetary Policy Committee, consisting of three RBI and an equal number of external members, kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.50 per cent for an eighth straight policy meeting and stuck to its relatively hawkish stance of “withdrawal of accommodation”, Governor Shaktikanta Das said in his statement. However, there were signs of a more divided policy committee, with one additional member voting for…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed his heartfelt gratitude to all the leaders of the constituent parties present in the Parliament after he was elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) during the meeting of the newly elected MPs, ahead of the government formation. Narendra Modi said that this NDA alliance is the most successful pre-poll and is going to be most successful post-poll alliance. Earlier, newly elected MPs of the BJP-led NDA elected Narendra Modi as their leader, paving the way for him to take oath as prime minister for a third term. Besides NDA MPs,…