Former IAS officer Sujata Rout Karthikeyan on Thursday joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), providing a boost to the regional party as it seeks revival path after its electoral setback in 2024.
Trust General Secretary Champat Rai's close aide Tinnu Yadav has also been named as accused in the FIR.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a state visit to Seychelles from June 27 to 29 to attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the National Day of Seychelles as the Guest of Honour, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Thursday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here on Thursday that rebel MP Sanjay Dina Patil, who defected from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena to the Eknath Shinde-led Sena, has been issued a stern warning after he used unprintable language and choicest expletives against journalists.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) interrogated T. Veena (Veena Vijayan, daughter of former Kerala Chief Minister) for a second time on Thursday at its Kochi zonal office.
Both AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi may project an image of being fearless, but the truth is that the former is afraid of his “Delhi masters,” while the latter is beholden to the United States of America, DMK Deputy General Secretary Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, MP, said on Monday.
Congress candidate Advocate Akash More, who is all set to contest the byelection from Baramati assembly constituency against Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar, has offered to withdraw his nomination if the Fadnavis government registers an FIR in the Ajit Pawar air crash case and begins an investigation.
In the April 9 assembly elections, the BJP is making a concerted attempt to shatter the long-standing duopoly of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala by focusing on strengthening its base in key areas like Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Kasargod and Thrissur.
Recent remarks by senior Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Kamal Nath, praising the Narendra Modi government’s handling of the West Asia crisis and domestic fuel supply, have exposed fault lines within the party, in turn raising a larger question — is the Congress unraveling, or undergoing a deliberate generational shift?
This will be the first high-level visit from Bangladesh after the Tarique Rahman-led Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) government assumed office in Dhaka.
