Voting was underway in 18 Assembly constituencies in the first phase of the Chhattisgarh elections Monday during which an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated by Naxals in Dantewada district.
Mangaluru: The district-level Revenue Adalat, which was to be chaired by the Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister UT Khader at Town Hall at 11 am today, has been cancelled following the death of BJP leader and Union Minister Ananth Kumar; informed the deputy commissioner.
A staunch RSS ideologue, a hard boiled organisation man, Bengaluru's "most loved" MP and the first person to speak in Kannada in the United Nations are some of the connotations associated with Union Minister Ananth Kumar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday condoled the demise of senior BJP leader and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar.
Bengaluru: The state government declared a holiday on Monday and a three-day mourning as a mark of respect to Union Minister Ananth Kumar, who died early this morning. "Ananth Kumar's funeral will be held with government honors," said Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
Bengaluru: Union minister and senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar died at a hospital in Bengaluru early on Monday. The 59-year-old was reportedly suffering from cancer.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing police firing incidents at Behbal Kalan on sacrilege issue, has summoned former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, his son Sukhbir Singh Badal and actor Akshay Kumar.
Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday defended his controversial sacking of parliament, saying the decision was taken to prevent violent clashes among rival lawmakers, after Speaker Karu Jayasuriya accused him of "usurping" the rights of legislators.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Sunday hit out at the "critics and cynics" who blame GST for growth deceleration, saying the indirect tax reform had only a "transient" impact on growth and that too for two quarters.
Government-run Air India Sunday grounded its chief of operations Captain A K Kathpalia after he allegedly failed to clear pre-flight alcohol test, a senior airline official said.
