Centre has agreed to consider proposal to set up food tech institute in Belagavi, says MP

Centre has agreed to consider proposal to set up food tech institute in Belagavi, says MP

BJP MP Jagadish Shettar in a meeting with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on Friday, seeking financial approval for a National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management for Belagavi. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Union government has agreed to consider a proposal to set up a national-level food technology institute … Read more

Maithili language missed out on classical status for lack of proposal from Bihar government

Maithili language missed out on classical status for lack of proposal from Bihar government

Activists of Maithili Sangharsh Abhiyan demonstrating to protest against the decision of Bihar Government to abolish Maithili Language from Bihar Public Service Commission on March 08, 1992. | Photo Credit: The Hindu archives While five languages were accorded the classical status earlier this month, Maithili, a language for which demands have been raised time and … Read more

Anbumani criticises T.N. Transport Dept.’s proposal to operate private buses on contract basis during Deepavali

Anbumani criticises T.N. Transport Dept.’s proposal to operate private buses on contract basis during Deepavali

Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday (October 22, 2024) urged the State government to drop the Transport Department’s proposal to hire and operate private buses on a contractual basis during the Deepavali festival, expressing concern that it would lead to privatisation. In a statement, he said the State government had announced last … Read more

Why a proposal to upgrade government, aided colleges as unitary universities was scrapped

Why a proposal to upgrade government, aided colleges as unitary universities was scrapped

Backlash: Members of the Association of University Teachers and Tamil Nadu Association of Non-Teaching Staff of Aided Colleges staging a demonstration in Coimbatore on December 9, 2010 against the plan. | Photo Credit: S. SIVA SARAVANAN While Tamil Nadu continues to expand its footprint in higher education, its attempt to go a step further by … Read more

BJP considering proposal to field Yamini Sarma from Vijayawada Central

BJP considering proposal to field Yamini Sarma from Vijayawada Central

Sadineni Yamini Sarma  | Photo Credit: The Hindu : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is weighing its options of fielding Sadineni Yamini Sarma from the Vijayawada Central Assembly constituency. The proposal assumes significance in the wake of YSRCP’s decision to field Velampalli Srinivas instead of Malladi Vishnu, sitting MLA. Mr. Vishnu and Ms. Yamini Sarma … Read more

Water dues: Govt. asks MCC to submit proposal on interest waiver

Water dues: Govt. asks MCC to submit proposal on interest waiver

The State government is mulling over introducing the interest waiver scheme on water dues (for domestic consumers) as it has asked the Mysuru City Corporation to submit a proposal in this regard. The direction came at a meeting chaired by Minister for Urban Development B.S. Suresh (Byrathi) in Bengaluru on Thursday, August 31, in which … Read more

Karnataka Cabinet clears proposal to increase Nandini milk price by₹3 a litre

Karnataka Cabinet clears proposal to increase Nandini milk price by₹3 a litre

Nandini toned milk sold at ₹39 per litre, will now be sold at ₹42. File photo | Photo Credit: SRIRAM MA   The Karnataka Cabinet that met on July 27 is learnt to have cleared the proposal by Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) to hike selling prices of its “Nandini” milk by ₹3 a litre. The … Read more

Election Commission begins public hearings in Guwahati on draft delimitation proposal for Assam

Election Commission begins public hearings in Guwahati on draft delimitation proposal for Assam

The Election Commission on Wednesday began public hearings in Guwahati on the draft delimitation proposal for Assam. The full Bench of the commission, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, will meet political parties, civil society organisations and other sections of society over three days till Friday. The draft delimitation proposal for Assam was published … Read more

Explained | Tracking the new railway proposal for Kerala

Explained | Tracking the new railway proposal for Kerala

Activists under the banner of the anti K-rail protest committee burning a copy of the Detailed Project Report of the SilverLine semi-high speed rail project in Kozhikode in 2022. | Photo Credit: K Ragesh The story so far: In Kerala, a new semi-high speed railway, expected to cruise at an average speed of 125 kmph … Read more