PM MODI TO PACIFIC ISLAND-NATIONS: INDIA A RELIABLE PARTNER, WITH YOU, ALWAYS In a rare tandem move to minimise Chinese influence, the US and India held parallel summits with 14 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) on the same day in Papua New Guinea. PM Narendra Modi announced a 12-point actio
G20 TOURISM MEET IN SRINAGAR FROM TODAY AMID TIGHT SECURITY The third G20 tourism working group meeting is set to begin in Srinagar Monday amid elaborate security arrangements. The three-day meeting will see the highest participation of foreign delegates as compared to t
CONG RESOLVES DEADLOCK: SIDDA IT IS, AND DKS TO BE HIS ONLY DEPUTY Siddharamaiah is set to take oath as the next chief minister of Karnataka and state Congress chief DK Shivakumar as his deputy. Congress sources said a decision to this effect was reached on Wednesday night following parley
SIDDARAMAIAH SEEMS SET TO BE KARNATAKA CM After a day of hectic parleys and burning the midnight oil, the Congress on Thursday ended the impasse over the Karnataka govt formation, according to ANI, and is set to appoint Siddaramaiah the Chief Minister and D K Shivakumar the Deputy
G7 MEET: MODI VISIT TO HIROSHIMA FIRST BY INDIAN PM AFTER POKHRAN N-TESTS Prime Minister Narendra Modi is headed to Hiroshima for the G7 leaders’ summit this Friday — the first visit to the Japanese city by an Indian Prime Minister since India conducted nuclear tests i
CONGRESS MLAS AUTHORISE KHARGE TO CHOOSE NEXT KARNATAKA CM A day after Congress swept the Assembly polls in Karnataka, the 135 newly-elected Congress MLAs met in Bengaluru Sunday evening and passed a one-line resolution authorising AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge to choose the l
GOVERNOR ERRED IN CALLING FLOOR TEST, BUT CAN'T RESTORE UDDHAV GOVT: SC Eknath Shinde will continue as the chief minister of Maharashtra, with the Supreme Court holding on Thursday that it cannot restore the then Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Uddhav Thackeray as he res
GOVERNOR ERRED IN CALLING FLOOR TEST, BUT CAN'T RESTORE UDDHAV GOVT: SC Eknath Shinde will continue as the chief minister of Maharashtra, with the Supreme Court holding on Thursday that it cannot restore the then Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Uddhav Thackeray as he res
Karnataka delivered its highest voter turnout of 73% in seven decades in the assembly elections Wednesday, eclipsing the previous record of 71.1% in 2018, the best since the first-ever state polls in 1952. Bengaluru Urban was the laggard in the voting stakes with 54.5%, even lower than the 56%
A CHARGED UP KARNATAKA POLL CAMPAIGN COMES TO AN END Campaigning wrapped up last evening for the bitterly contested Karnataka Assembly elections, polling for which takes place tomorrow (May 10). With stakes high and the contest close between ruling BJP and a resurgent Congress, w
