Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that the people of Karnataka are fed up with the 40 percent Commission BJP Government, Rajya Sabha Congress MP and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh asserted that it is certain that the Congress would return to power in the State, going by the latest trend. Addressing a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here…
Rajya Sabha Polls held
June 10, 2022Nirmala Sitharaman and Jaggesh of BJP; Jairam Ramesh of Congress all set to win Suspense over fourth seat to end this evening Bengaluru: As expected, two candidates of the ruling BJP — Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and actor Jaggesh and one from the Opposition Congress — former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh — are certain…
Former Union Minister visits Book Expo at ORI
January 10, 2021Jairam Ramesh to personally contribute Rs.5.50 lakh to the Institute Mysore/Mysuru: With the city’s Oriental Research Institute (ORI) located near Crawford Hall organising a book expo with a 50 percent discount on sale of books, former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh who was in city on a private visit visited the Institute on Thursday and had…
Biography of V.K. Krishna Menon launched in city
February 22, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (V.K. Krishna Menon) continues to draw our attention not just because he was Jawaharlal Nehru‘s confidant and political soul-mate but also for many of his own political and literary accomplishments. A relentless crusader for Indian independence in the UK in the 1930s and 1940s, he was a global star at…
Reintroducing Cheetah into Indian wildlife a good move: Jairam Ramesh
February 22, 2020Rajya Sabha MP delivers lecture on ‘Jayachamaraja Wadiyar and the Indian Board of Wildlife’ ‘Sri Jayachamaraja Prashasti’ to Musicologists Mysore/Mysuru: “Erstwhile ruler of Mysore Dynasty, Jayachamaraja Wadiyar was a lover of wildlife and his favourite animal was the Lion and that of the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was the Tiger. Both of them had…
Musings on ‘Conversation’ with Jairam Ramesh
February 22, 2020Om Namah Shivaya. After a wakeful night, in fits and starts of course, to observe the Night of Shiva, the third of the Triumvirate Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara of the Hindu pantheon, I was in no mood to write this column. However, the morning before Shiva’s night there was an interesting event at the Rotary…
Jairam Ramesh in city for book launch on Feb.21
February 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysore Literary Association has organised a programme to launch the book ‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon’ authored by Jairam Ramesh, at Rotary West auditorium in Saraswathipuram in city on Friday, 21st February, at 11 am, according to Reginald Wesley, Hon. Secretary of Mysore Literary Association. Retired diplomat Ravi Joshi…
Jairam Ramesh faults Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa
February 10, 2020A case of Suppressio Veri, Suggestio Falsi ? Be that as it may, in retrospect, one will wonder if what the General Cariappa had said in 1970 was prophetic because Indira Gandhi soon in 1975 declared Nationwide Emergency which is similar to a military rule in its enforcement and it also turned out to be…
Singhvi, Shashi Tharoor back Jairam Ramesh: ‘Demonising PM Modi wrong’
August 24, 2019New Delhi: Many Congress leaders like Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Shashi Tharoor yesterday backed party colleague and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh’s remarks on Narendra Modi, saying demonising the Prime Minister was “wrong.” Speaking at a book launch on Thursday, Jairam Ramesh had said Modi’s governance model was “not a complete negative story,” adding that…
Demonising Modi all the time won’t help: Jairam Ramesh
August 23, 2019New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governance model is not a “complete negative story” and not recognising his work and demonising him all the time is not going to help, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said. He made the remarks on Wednesday while launching a book, ‘Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India’ written…
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