New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman achieved a Parliamentary milestone this morning by presenting her seventh consecutive Budget, a feat previously achieved only by C.D. Deshmukh 68 years ago. Both Deshmukh, who presented Budgets between 1951 and 1956, and Nirmala Sitharaman have presented six full Budgets and an interim Budget each. Two of Deshmukh’s Budgets…
With Kumaraswamy as a Minister, JD(S) first family returns to Centre after 28 years New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s new Council of Ministers has 13 Ministers from Southern India. Five of the 13 Southern Ministers, including former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, are from Karnataka, BJP’s only bastion in the South, which delivered 19 of…
Mysore/Mysuru: Veteran BJP leader and former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa (BSY) said that the State Congress Government’s five guarantees were no match to the schemes and welfare programmes launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was speaking after inaugurating the day-long Mysuru District (Rural) BJP Executive meeting at Dasara Exhibition Grounds here this morning. Pointing…
Speaking in Kannada, he alleges financial mismanagement. Says Siddu Govt. has made only zero progress. New Delhi: Following the ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation by Karnataka Congress Government, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simmha took on the Government in Karnataka for what he described as mismanagement of funds allocated by the Centre. He likened Prime Minister Narendra Modi to…
New Delhi: In a major relief to the common man, the Modi Government has withdrawn the rate cut order on the Small Savings Schemes. In a brief message on Twitter, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “Interest rates of Small Savings Schemes of the Government shall continue to be at the rates which existed in…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha yesterday distributed selection certificates to beneficiaries of various Central Government Schemes at a programme organised under the aegis of Belaku Charitable Trust at Jana Seva Kendra on Ramanuja road here on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Pratap Simha said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced a host of welfare…
Freedom fighter Doreswamy questions silence of Rahul Gandhi Mysore/Mysuru: Opposition parties have failed to create public opinion about anti-people laws being implemented by Union Government, said veteran freedom fighter H.S. Doreswamy. He was speaking at a programme titled ‘Yashodharamma Dasappa – Ondu nenapu,’ organised in memory of freedom fighter Yashodharamma Dasappa as part of ‘Mareyalagada…
10+2 structure to be replaced with 5+3+3+4 curriculum structure corresponding to age groups 3-8, 8-11, 11-14 and 14-18 years respectively New Delhi: Either one of the mother-tongue or the local/regional language will be the medium of instruction up to Class 5 in all Schools, the Union Government said yesterday while launching the National Education Policy…
Mysore/Mysuru: Marking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s completion of the first year of his second term, the BJP K.R. Unit on Sunday held a digital rally highlighting his achievements, measures taken for tackling COVID-19 and his ambitious ‘Atma Nirbhar’ initiative aimed at self-reliance, at the office of K.R. MLA S.A. Ramdas located in CADA office premises…
Mysore/Mysuru: “The amendment to the Land Reforms Act will bring down the production of food grains drastically,” said former MP R. Dhruvanarayan. Addressing a press meet at Jaladarshini Guest House on Hunsur Road here yesterday, he said that the amendments to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961, would break the backbone of the country, the…
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