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
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
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 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
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
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says this is to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Source link
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
Parliamentarians in the Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI SansadTV Monday, December 19, marked the beginning of the third working week of the Winter Session of Parliament. Opposition members today continued to raise concerns about the clash between India and China … Read more
Celebrity chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver has been protesting outside No 10 Downing Street with an Eton mess dessert following a government decision to delay implementing parts of its obesity strategy. The government announced last week that a ban on promotional offers around unhealthy food, like ‘buy one get one free’ deals, and a ban … Read more
Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme whether the UK was already in a third wave of infections, Prof Gupta said: “Yes, there has been exponential growth in the number of the new cases and at least three-quarters of them are the new (Indian) variant. Source link