Mayor who brought joy to Kerala turns out to be embarrassment

Mayor who brought joy to Kerala turns out to be embarrassment

Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Kumar Chellappan | KOCHI

When she was elected as Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, Arya Rajendran made to the headlines of the national media. At the age of 21, she was touted as the youngest Mayor of the country. Three years later , this young lady has become a major embarrassment to the CPI(M)...

SAARC Secretary General holds talks to boost regional cooperation

Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Secretary General of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Md Golam Sarwar paid an official visit to India from May 11-15 and interacted with the authorities of the government on issues of cooperation in SAARC. It was Secretary General’s first official visit to any of the Member States of...

India sees highest heatwave deaths globally from 1990 to 2019: Study

Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Archana Jyoti | New Delhi

India shouldered the highest burden of heatwave-related excess deaths globally accounting for more than 20 per cent of the total 1.53 lakh such mortalities surpassing both China and Russia in this aspect in the last three decades from 1990 to 2019. A research conducted by Australia-based Monash University said that the...

India urges Iran to release 40 Indian seafarers

Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

India has asked Iran to release nearly 40 Indian seafarers who were detained from four different merchant ships seized by the Persian Gulf country over the past eight months on different charges, sources said on Wednesday. Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal made the request during a meeting with Iranian...

EC summons Andhra chief secretary, DGP over post poll violence

Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

aking cognisance of post-poll violence in Andhra Pradesh, the Election Commission (EC) of India has summoned the State’s chief secretary and the DGP on Thursday to “personally explain” the administration’s failure to contain the incidents, sources said. Reminding the state government that the Model Code of Conduct is still in force,...

BJP, Congress spar over Modi’s remark

Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The BJP and Congress on Wednesday sparred following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s that he will never do Hindu-Muslim politics to assert that he has worked for development of all sections of society with any discrimination. While BJP leaders cited the Prime Minister’s remarks and said he ended communal appeasement with his...

Deeply saddened: Centre condoles Indian UN worker's death in Gaza

Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

India on Wednesday condoled the death of an Indian who was working with the United Nations (UN) in war-torn Gaza. Colonel Waibhav Anil Kale (retd), a 46-year-old former Indian Army officer, was killed on Monday when the vehicle he was travelling in came under attack in Gaza’s Rafah region. The...

Will carve separate State of Bundelkhand if come to power, says Mayawati

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 | PTI | Jhansi (UP)

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Tuesday said if her party is voted to power, it will carve a separate state of Bundelkhand — the region that straddles the states of Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh. Addressing an election rally in Jhansi, Mayawati said, “There have been demands for carving a separate...

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