V. Ravichandar, Bengaluru Restructuring Committee member, says allowing GBA to nominate ward committee members is against the spirit of the 74th Amendment relating to decentralisation. | Photo Credit: file photo In what may contradict the spirit of decentralisation and the 74th Amendment to the Constitution, the Greater Bengaluru Governance (GBG) Bill 2024 has proposed granting … Read more
Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Osmania University, Syeda Azeem Unnisa has been appointed member of Water Quality Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). BIS, the national standards body, is responsible for developing and publishing Indian Standards, implementing conformity assessment schemes, accrediting and operating laboratories for quality evaluation, among others. In her … Read more
Rescue operation underway after a blast at the ordnance factory, in Bhandara district, Maharashtra, on January 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A committee has been constituted to investigate the blast at the Ordnance Factory in Bhandara district, Maharashtra, which killed eight workers and injured five others on Friday (January 24, 2025). The Deputy Commissioner … Read more
Minister of State Arjun Ram Meghwal speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on Dec. 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The 129th Constitution Amendment Bill, seeking to implement simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, has been referred to a joint parliamentary committee after Law … Read more
The Manipur High Court on Wednesday constituted a committee to conduct a probe in connection with a man who went missing from an Army camp in the state. A two-judge bench of the Manipur High Court, comprising Justices D Krishnakumar and Golmei Gaiphulshillu, heard the petition filed by the younger brother of the man, identified … Read more
Presently, the fee structure for nursing students stands at ₹10,000 under government quota, ₹1 lakh under management quota, and ₹1.4 lakh for non-Karnataka students. | Photo Credit: File photo Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil has said that a fee regulatory committee has been formed to monitor and regulate the fee structure in nursing colleges … Read more
Actor Mohanlal speaks during a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala on August 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran Claiming that the arrows of criticism after the publication of the Hema Committee report are being directed solely at the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA), actor and former AMMA president Mohanlal on Saturday (August … Read more
File photo of K. Annamalai | Photo Credit: M. Periasamy The BJP on Friday (August 29, 2024) appointed a six-member committee to oversee the party’s activities in Tamil Nadu in the absence of its State president K. Annamalai, who will be attending an education training programme in the United Kingdom for three months, from September … Read more
Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: PTI The working committee of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rajasthan unit, which met on July 13welfare for the first time after the party came to power in the State in December 2023, took a pledge to take the public welfare schemes and policies of the “double engine” … Read more
Revenue Minister K. Rajan tabled the subject committee report related to the Kerala Revenue Recovery (Amendment) Bill, 2024, in the Assembly on Thursday. A key amendment empowers the State government to declare a moratorium on revenue recovery proceedings subject to conditions and guidelines. Earlier, the Kerala High Court had observed that the government was not … Read more