For the Left, Kerala is a red fort that cannot fall
NEW DELHI: The most crucial battle for the Left is in Kerala, where the CPM-led vigilantes are fighting to return to power in the last communist-ruled state, which goes to polls along with West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry. In Bengal –…
CPM will contest 86 of 140 seats in Kerala, LDF confident of pulling off hat-trick
T’puram/Kochi: The CPM on Sunday announced it would contest for 86 assembly seats in Kerala and nominated 81 candidates, including six CPM-backed independents and 10 women. Soon after, many CPM candidates took to the streets, organized rallies and…
Voting for eight parliamentary seats will take place on April 9 and April 4. twenty three
New Delhi: Polling for eight assembly seats – two each in Maharashtra and Karnataka and one each in Goa, Gujarat, Nagaland and Tripura – will be held on April 9 and April 23. European Community CEC Gyanesh Kumar said bypoll voting in Goa,…
Inclusion of ‘suspicious voters’ in rolls will be subject to judge’s order: CEC
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta High Court holds the key to whether nearly 4.5 million “suspicious voters” will be able to contest the Bengal assembly elections – their cases being decided by judicial officers based on the Supreme Court’s…
Farmhouse drug bust: AP TDP MP tests positive for methamphetamine
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh’s sitting TDP MP Putta Mahesh Kumar on Sunday tested positive for the banned substance methamphetamine (meth) in a blood test, with investigators saying he was trying to dodge a drug screen at a farmhouse party raided by…
Jewelery worth Rs 2 crore missing after Travancore palace robbery
Thiruvananthapuram: Jewelery worth over Rs 2 crore was allegedly stolen from the Kowdiar Palace, the official residence of the Travancore royal family. Based on a complaint lodged by senior family member Asw-athi Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bai, the Peruvada…
UAE port attacked but Indian oil tanker sails safely
New Delhi: The Indian-flagged oil tanker ‘Jag Laadki’, whose oil terminal was attacked while loading crude oil at the UAE port of Fujairah on Saturday, safely sailed to India from the port on Sunday morning, the shipping ministry said. It…
11 Maoists offered Rs 6.3 million reward for surrender
Bhubaneswar: As many as 11 Maoists carrying a bounty of Rs 6.33 crore surrendered to the Odisha police in Kalahandi district on Sunday and handed over a large amount of arms and ammunition, Debabrata Mohapatra reported. Maoists are active in Kalahandi,…
Plans to reduce fertilizer use remain ‘non-starter’; incentives not yet distributed to states
New Delhi: The government’s ambitious scheme PM-PRANAM to reduce fertilizer consumption remains “unable to launch” as the Center has failed to release a single rupee as an incentive to any state even two-and-a-half years after its…
‘Seeing medium-term changes in traffic to and from India; increasing capacity here due to demand:’ Lufthansa
Frank Naeve, Lufthansa Senior Vice President (Sales, Distribution and Marketing) MUMBAI: The Israel-Iran war will change international traffic flows in and out of India and some other parts of the world “in the medium term”. It remains to be…