Kerala Assembly: Opposition stages walkout after wrangling with Left govt over youth unemployment

Kerala Assembly: Opposition stages walkout after wrangling with Left govt over youth unemployment

Congress MLA P.C. Vishnunadh chides the Kerala government for splurging on Navakerala Sadas, Keraleeyam, and Lok Kerala Sabha while allowing government vacancies to languish, citing financial constraints.  | Photo Credit: S. GOPAKUMAR The ruling front and the Opposition clashed in the Kerala Legislative Assembly on Thursday (October 10, 2024) over the Union Ministry of Statistics … Read more

Kallakurichi hooch tragedy: AIADMK demands adjournment of House; stages walkout

Kallakurichi hooch tragedy: AIADMK demands adjournment of House; stages walkout

Leader of the Opposition, Edapadi K. Palaniswami addressing the press after AIADMK MLAs staged a walkout from the T.N. Assembly on Saturday, June 22, 2024 | Photo Credit: Srinath M The hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi district echoed for the second day in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Saturday, June 22, 2024. The AIADMK, the main … Read more

Mehbooba Mufti claims her party workers barred from voting, stages protest

Mehbooba Mufti claims her party workers barred from voting, stages protest

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President and Anantnag candidate Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday staged a sit-in protest in Jammu-Kashmir’s Anantnag alleging that her party workers were being barred from casting votes. In an X post, Mufti wrote, “Many of our PDP polling agents and workers are being detained just before voting. When the families went to … Read more

Power-loom workers union stages day-long hunger strike in Sircilla

Power-loom workers union stages day-long hunger strike in Sircilla

Members of the CITU-affiliated Power-loom Workers’ Union on Friday staged a 24-hour hunger strike in Sircilla demanding urgent steps by the government to place fresh orders for production of Bathukamma saris and other fabric to mitigate the financial woes of the power-loom workers in the textile town. Addressing the demonstrators, the union leaders said thousands … Read more

Palakkad Kathakali Trust stages Nizhalkkuthu

Palakkad Kathakali Trust stages Nizhalkkuthu

Kalamandalam Prasant Panmana as Duryodhanan and Kalamandalam Arun Kumar as Trigartha in the Kathakali titled Nizhalkkuthu at Chembai Memorial Music College, Palakkad, on Saturday evening. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Palakkad Kathakali Trust staged a Kathakali show titled Nizhalkkuthu at Chembai Memorial Music College here on Saturday evening. The episode from the Mahabharata was … Read more

Hassan MLA Swaroop Prakash stages protest, alleges he is not invited by DC for events

Hassan MLA Swaroop Prakash stages protest, alleges he is not invited by DC for events

Hassan MLA Swaroop Prakash staged a protest in front of the Hasanamba Temple in Hassan on Saturday, alleging that the Hassan district administration did not invite him for the religious programmes on the temple premises. Mr. Swaroop Prakash, along with his supporters, alleged that the Deputy Commissioner and her husband organised “homa” inside the temple … Read more

Congress stages fast against Rahul’s disqulification

Congress stages fast against Rahul’s disqulification

Former Rajya Sabha MP V. Hanumantha Rao participating hunger strike at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL A hunger strike was organised at the Gandhi Bhavan here on Thursday under the aegis of Rajiv Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sanghatan to protest against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as MP. Sanghatan chairperson … Read more

CPI(M) stages dharna over distribution of house sites to poor in Anantapur

CPI(M) stages dharna over distribution of house sites to poor in Anantapur

CPI(M) activists and women from Kalluru, Pamidi and Guntakal staging a dharna, in Anantapur on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R.V.S. PRASAD The CPI(M) Anantapur district unit took out a three-day Padayatra from Guntakal to Anantapur to meet the people who were allegedly denied house sites and houses under the Pedalandariki Illu scheme and staged a … Read more