Congress party in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao also confirmed that Narayanasamy will not be contesting this time and instead will supervise the party’s election campaign.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said her party has had a bitter experience of aligning with other parties in the past and therefore will contest alone in UP elections next year
In a letter written to the health ministry, the poll panel referred to certain provisions of the model code which bar the use of advertisement at the cost of the public exchequer.
Union home minister Amit Shah alleged that former Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy had siphoned off the Centre’s funds to pay the ‘Gandhi family’
Voting will take place for 126 seats in Assam, 234 in Tamil Nadu, 294 in West Bengal, 140 in Kerala, and 30 in Puducherry.
Besides this, Shah will also hold organisational meetings of the party's units of the state and the Union Territory.
The terms of the legislative assemblies of Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and Puducherry will come to an end in May and June
The president also suspended the operation of various provisions of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 (20 of 1963), thus imposing central rule in Puducherry.
The move comes just days after the Congress-DMK alliance in Puducherry lost a vote of confidence after several of the alliance’s MLAs resigned from the Assembly.
Puducherry Floor Test: The floor test in Puducherry comes after two Congress MLAs A John Kumar and Lakshmi Narayanan and DMK MLA K Venkatesan resigned from their Assembly membership.
The ruling Congress-DMK alliance’s strength dropped to 11, while the Opposition has 14 MLAs in the 33-member Assembly
After serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry for over four years, Kiran Bedi left for Delhi on Sunday.
Soundararajan's direction to Chief Minister V Narayansamy came after the opposition 'reiterated' its stand that the government has to prove its majority on the floor of the House
The incident occurred on Wednesday when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was interacting with the fisher community at Nellithope, Puducherry
Rahul Gandhi also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not allow the Congress government in Puducherry to function freely during the last few years
In her over-enthusiasm, the maverick retired IPS officer would often cross the line, embarrassing the Centre.
Congress government in Puducherry is tottering to survive having lost its majority in the Union Territory’s Assembly with the resignation of four MLAs.
Kiran Bedi said she could say with a deep sense of satisfaction that during her tenure 'Team Raj Nivas diligently worked to serve larger public interest'.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.