Vice President CP Radhakrishnan will be accorded a civic reception hosted by the government when he arrives in Puducherry on Monday . As per schedule, the Vice President, who will arrive at the Puducherry airport at 10.05 am, will proceed to the Kamban Kalaiarangam, to attend the civic reception. During the function, Mr. Radhakrishnan will … Read more
Entrance to Nowana | Photo Credit: Sangita Rajan A restaurant with outdoor seating and no air conditioning is rarely the first choice on a sweltering summer afternoon. Yet, there I was, at Nowana’s verdant outdoor space in Auroville. Brushing up on my chopstick skills, and sipping on an ice-cold kombucha keeps me distracted from Puducherry’s … Read more
The Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Goods and Services Tax (GST) zone has eight executive, three audit and three appeal commissionerates and has a tax base of 4.57 lakh tax payers administered by Central GST authorities, which has contributed 8.12% of all of India’s GST revenue and 4.72%of the all-India Central Excise Revenue in 2022-23. The … Read more
Representational image only. | Photo Credit: AP Communist Party of India (CPI) MP P. Santosh Kumar on April 5 gave a Zero-Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha demanding that the government provide Statehood to the Union Territory of Puducherry. Meanwhile, BJP MP Harnath Singh Yadav also gave a Zero-Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha over damage caused … Read more
She says former Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy was allergic to Lieutenant Governors She says former Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy was allergic to Lieutenant Governors Defending her actions in Telangana and the Union Territory of Puducherry, Telangana Governor and Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday maintained that she was “not interfering” in the … Read more
PUDUCHERRY: The Union territory of Puducherry reported less than 50 fresh Covid-19 cases on Monday after a gap of more than four months. The positivity rate of the samples (5,243) tested on Monday stood at 0.8%, the lowest during the second wave. The territory reported 42 fresh cases even as 125 patients recovered in the … Read more
India’s case fatality rate, the proportion of Covid-19 infected people who have died, has increased to almost 1.2% now from 1% in early May, with around 330,000 confirmed deaths. The national Covid-19 death ratio was 1% in the week ending May 7 and rose steadily through the month as the second wave peaked in mid-May. … Read more
With the union territory of Puducherry witnessing a surge in coronavirus cases, the territorial government on Saturday imposed a two-week lockdown starting from May 10, in a bid to curb its spread. The Secretary to Government (Relief and Rehabilitation), Ashok Kumar, in an order, said the lockdown would be in addition to the night curfew … Read more
The verdict, especially BJP’s inability to win Bengal, will have a national impact. It will retard, if not completely halt, BJP’s objective of ‘one-nation, one-party’. Source link
Spearheading his party’s campaign in the ongoing polls to elect five assemblies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed 23 rallies so far, 10 of them across four states over the last three days, including Saturday. With the BJP pulling out all the stops to oust Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from government in West Bengal and … Read more