New Delhi: An alert has been issued in four districts of Kerala, where more than 100 people died in the last 48 hours in the worst monsoon of the century. Overall, 167 people lost their lives since torrential rains started on Aug. 8, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the…
Modi releases MP Pratap Simha’s achievement booklet
August 2, 2018Prime Minister Narendra Modi seen releasing the achievements booklet of Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha in New Delhi yesterday. The booklet, titled “Saaf Niyath, Sahi Vikas” (clean administration and right development), lists out the Rs. 11,000 crore grants that has been sanctioned to Mysuru by the NDA government. Various development works including road, railways and airport…
The bugles are calling for war
July 31, 2018By T.J.S. George The big question is finally being addressed: Who will be the Opposition’s Prime Minister candidate? It will be unrealistic, of course, to expect an answer at this stage. But the unexpected flexibility in the Congress’ position tells its own tale. Two days after taking a stand firmly in favour of Rahul Gandhi,…
No Trust Motion defeated in LS
July 21, 2018New Delhi: After a raging 12-hour debate yesterday, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government defeated the No-Confidence Motion in the Lok Sabha by 199 votes. While 126 members supported the motion, 325 MPs rejected it. This was the first No Trust Motion against the Modi Government which came to power in 2014. The day-long session in…
Hug + Wink = Hoodwink
July 21, 2018After Wimbledon, Cricket and Football World Cup, we thought we had enough of watching TV, but then Telugu Desam Party (TDP) moved a No Confidence Motion against the BJP government and it was time to watch TV again. And yesterday from 11 am to 11 pm, we had a political drama unfold on TV. Sadly,…
Modi should be Prime Minister for some more years: Yaduveer Wadiyar
July 8, 2018Mysuru: Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Governance, the titular head of Mysuru royal family Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar has said that five years was not enough for the Government to complete its development programmes and more time was needed for the PM to ensure that his vision is executed in toto. Receiving a booklet on…
PM Modi’s initiative has created Yoga Revolution
June 25, 2018By H.R. Bapu Satyanarayana Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on September 27, 2014 proposed that June 21 may be declared as International Yoga Day as it is the longest day of the year and shares special significance in many parts of the world. The text of…
Yoga Day Musings…
June 16, 2018June 21 is International Yoga Day and last year our city made it to the Guinness World Records for the most number of people performing yoga in a single location. Very apt for a city that is world renowned for its yogashalas and yoga gurus. Like most children in Mysuru, in the early 80s, I…
Fitness challenge: Modi dares HDK
June 14, 2018New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday tossed a fitness challenge at Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK), who lost no time in retorting that he was “more concerned about the development fitness” of the State. Modi, who was tagged by cricketer Virat Kohli for the ‘fitness challenge’ campaign started by Sports Minister Rajyavardhan…
Rahul, the young man in a hurry to become Prime Minister and the Perils
June 13, 2018Narendra Modiji, Amit Shahji and Mohan Bhagwatji will understand that India cannot be run by only these three people. India will be run by the people of the country,” thus spake Rahul Gandhi while addressing an Other Backward Classes (OBC) Convention organised by his party, Congress, in Delhi recently. As a senior citizen, having seen…
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