CM says a positive decision on pay revision will be taken after final report of pay commission

CM says a positive decision on pay revision will be taken after final report of pay commission

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah during the inauguration of the State Government Employees Conference, by Karnataka State Government Employees’ Association, at Palace Grounds, in Bengaluru on February 27, 2024, Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who inaugurated a State-level convention of Government Employees’ Association, assured them of taking a positive decision on their pay … Read more

Mizo student body urges Centre to reconsider its decision to fence Indo-Myanmar border

Mizo student body urges Centre to reconsider its decision to fence Indo-Myanmar border

Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Mizoram’s apex student body Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider the Centre’s decision to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR). In the letter sent through State Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, the MZP expressed … Read more

Suspend synod decision on Mass celebrations, demands lay group

Suspend synod decision on Mass celebrations, demands lay group

A lay people’s group in the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese has demanded that the Syro-Malabar synod’s decision on liturgy be suspended, and a commission be constituted by Rome to look into what the group called “sabotage” of the synod’s decision on Mass celebration. In a public statement, the lay group, Almaya Munnettam, alleged that the synod’s decision … Read more

Have full faith that EC will make right decision, says NCP leader Jayant Patil on party name and symbol row

Have full faith that EC will make right decision, says NCP leader Jayant Patil on party name and symbol row

NCP leader Jayant Patil expressed confidence in the EC that it would make the right decision regarding the party’s name and symbol amidst an ongoing dispute with Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar. File | Photo Credit: Twitter/Jayant_R_Patil Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader (Sharad Pawar faction), Jayant Patil, on Saturday, expressed confidence in the Election Commission … Read more

Distraught Rajaiah breaks down, says he will abide by KCR’s decision

Distraught Rajaiah breaks down, says he will abide by KCR’s decision

BRS MLA Thatikonda Rajaiah broke down in front of his supporters after being denied party ticket from Station Ghanpur Assembly constituency for the upcoming Assembly polls. | Photo Credit: Twitter: Dr Thatikonda Rajaiah/@DrTRajaiah Emotional scenes were witnessed in Station Ghanpur of Jangaon district as sitting BRS MLA Thatikonda Rajaiah broke down in front of his … Read more

Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir welcome Supreme Court’s decision to hear petitions on Article 370 daily

Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir welcome Supreme Court’s decision to hear petitions on Article 370 daily

National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah said he is confident that there is a strong case in favour of the restoration of Article 370. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir on July 11 welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article … Read more

Citizens’ collective criticises Khader’s decision to invite religious personalities

Citizens’ collective criticises Khader’s decision to invite religious personalities

Bengaluru  Jagruta Nagarika Karnataka, a citizens collective, has condemned Legislative Assembly Speaker U.T. Khader’s move of inviting religious personalities to give inspirational talks to the newly elected legislators. Mr. Khader had earlier said that people, including Rajya Sabha member and Dharmadhikari of Dharmasthala D. Veerendra Heggade and founder of Art of Living Sri Sri Ravishankar, would … Read more

Bank unions oppose RBI’s decision to allow compromise settlement for wilful defaulters

Bank unions oppose RBI’s decision to allow compromise settlement for wilful defaulters

Represenatational image | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna Bank unions AIBOC and AIBEA have opposed the Reserve Bank’s move to allow lenders to settle loans of wilful defaulters under compromise settlement. The RBI’s recent ‘framework for compromise settlements and technical write-offs’ is a detrimental step that may compromise the integrity of the banking system and undermine … Read more

AP History Congress panel slams NCERT decision to erase chapters on Moghuls from history textbooks

AP History Congress panel slams NCERT decision to erase chapters on Moghuls from history textbooks

Without the study of Mughal history, the history of India will remain incomplete and an academic void will be created, say members Members of the Andhra Pradesh History Congress (APHC) have expressed serious concern over the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)‘s decision to erase certain chapters on the Mughal Empire from Class … Read more