Residents’ body to resume agitation demanding city entry of Goshree buses

Residents’ body to resume agitation demanding city entry of Goshree buses

Passengers rush to catch a Vypeen-bound bus at Hight Court Junction in Kochi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT With the Transport department remaining non-committal on the city entry of private buses from Goshree islands despite the expiry of the revised deadline of November 1, Federation of Residents Associations Apex Council in Goshree Islands … Read more

Cooperative export body NCEL gets ₹7,000 crore orders so far, to share profit with member farmers: Amit Shah

Cooperative export body NCEL gets ₹7,000 crore orders so far, to share profit with member farmers: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah addresses during the National Symposium on Cooperative Exports organised by National Cooperative Exports Limited (NCEL), in New Delhi on October 23, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Cooperation Minister Amit Mr. Shah on October 23 said the newly established National Cooperative for Exports Ltd. (NCEL) has bagged … Read more

The mutilated body of woman found in Malda triggers panic, and a political row

The mutilated body of woman found in Malda triggers panic, and a political row

  The body of an unidentified woman with multiple injuries in West Bengal’s Malda district not only triggered panic among the people but also sparked a political war of words between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The body, found in Harishchandrapur in Malda, had been disfigured with acid. It was … Read more

Zomi body holds peace rally in front of Indian Embassy in Washington DC

Zomi body holds peace rally in front of Indian Embassy in Washington DC

The Zomi Innkuan USA, a civil society organisation of Zo people based in the United States of America, last week held a peace rally outside the Embassy of India in Washington DC | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Zomi Innkuan USA, a civil society organisation of Zo people based in the United States of America, … Read more

Farmers’ body opposes release of water to T.N.; seeks release of water to irrigation canals

Farmers’ body opposes release of water to T.N.; seeks release of water to irrigation canals

President of Federation of Karnataka Farmers’ Associations Kurubur Shanthakumar (second from left) addressing reporters in Mysuru on Sunday. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram Opposing the release of water from reservoirs in the Cauvery basin to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, the Federation of Karnataka State Farmers’ Association president Kurubur Shanthakumar has urged the State government to instead … Read more

Body of civil engineer killed in Maharashtra accident handed over to family in Nagapattinam district

Body of civil engineer killed in Maharashtra accident handed over to family in Nagapattinam district

On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, Minister for Minorities Welfare and Non-Resident Tamils Welfare, Gingee K.S. Masthan, handed over the body of the engineer to his family | Photo Credit: Twitter@GingeeMasthan The body of V. Kannan, a civil engineer from Nagapattinam district, who was killed in the collapse of a girder launching machine in Thane district … Read more

Residents’ body seeks action against drug mafia

Residents’ body seeks action against drug mafia

The Residents Apex Council of Kozhikode has demanded stringent steps to control drug mafia in the State. The council has offered to cooperate with the police to monitor activities of individuals with criminal tendencies among migrant workers. Residents’ associations can help the police collect details of migrant labourers residing within every police station limits, monitor … Read more

RSS’s tribal body welcome Sushil Kumar Modi’s suggestion to keep the tribal community out of Uniform Civil Code

RSS’s tribal body welcome Sushil Kumar Modi’s suggestion to keep the tribal community out of Uniform Civil Code

BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKS) a tribal body affiliated with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), on July 9 said that it welcomes the ‘role’ of BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, to keep the tribes out of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). … Read more