Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress lost five MLAs in 24 hours, but managed to save when one of them, Jitendra Tiwari, said he was back in the camp. Friday’s major exits were the MLAs Shilbhadra Dutta and Banasree Maiti, as the party bleeds the rebels looking to cross over to the BJP four months ahead of the elections. Jitendra Tiwari and Suvendu Adhikari left on Thursday. Later, Jitendra Tiwari called his resignation a “mistake” After meeting with a senior leader and Minister of State, he said to reporters, “I never said anything about Didi (Mamata Banerjee) or joining…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, strongly advocating farm legislation that sparked major protests near Delhi, said today that he was ready “with folded hands” to address any problem with farmers and allay their fears. He also said that any discussion about new laws abolishing the MSP or the Minimum Crop Support Price “is the biggest lie ever” “if anyone has any concerns, then with our heads bowed and our hands folded, with humility, we are willing to discuss with them and assuage their fears,” PM Modi said, addressing farmers in Madhya Pradesh via video as part of the government’s redoubled efforts…
Tamil superstar Dhanush, as well as Hollywood stars Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura and Julia Butters have joined the cast of director duo Anthony and Joe Russo’s new film The Gray Man, which also stars Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas. Dhanush occupied the top spot on the list of trends on Friday after Netflix announced the latest additions to the cast of the action-thriller film. The actor also shared a tweet about his collaboration with the Russo Brothers that read: “Elated to announce that I will be joining the team of Netflix’s The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling…
https://twitter.com/VPSecretariat/status/1339911191691313152?s=20 Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu today released a book of English poems by Mizoram Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, titled Oh Mizoram. In his speech, VP Naidu said that Pillai was a multi-faceted person. “He is a successful lawyer, a former politician, an organiser par excellence, an orator, a prolific writer, a philanthropic, and a thinker. “I am amazed that despite his busy life, he has written 125 books in Malayalam and English on a variety of topics including politics, social and legal issues and poetry. The book being released today, Oh, Mizoram is his first poetry collection in English,” he said. Pillai’s poems…
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal denied the claims that he did not meet farmers on the current Central Farm Laws. Goyal said on Friday that these laws had been implemented only after they had been debated with the farmers. Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been negotiating agricultural reforms with all stakeholders from the outset. Model laws have been forwarded to the States and consultations have taken place with the Chief Ministers. Goyal said innumerable training and webinar sessions were held with farmers, and these laws have been enforced only after…
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday. He informed via a tweet that he has no symptoms and has gone into home isolation. “I took the test for Covid today and was tested positive. I am alright as I have no symptoms. Following doctors’ advice, I am going into home isolation. I request people who have come in contact with me to get themselves tested and go into isolation as a precautionary measure,” the CM tweeted. Officials said that they are keeping a tab on CM’s health and arrangements are in place to take care…
The South Central Railway (SCR) region has commissioned its first longer loop line at the Bikkavolu station in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, with the goal of accommodating more trains and easing the service, among others. “The first longer SCR loop was commissioned by the Bikkavolu Railway Station of the Vijayawada Division located on the busy Vijayawada-Visakhapatnam (Waltair) section,” said the railway zone official. Generally, loop lines are constructed with a length of 750 metres to accommodate full length goods trains with multiple engines. “With the increasing need to handle more number of trains with higher average speeds,…
Abhijeet Dua, a student of the Culinary Arts Program at the Indian School of Hospitality, a leading hospitality education college, received the ‘Culinary Student of the Year’ award. Organized by the Chefs Table Studio, 450 students from around the country participated in the 2020 Awards. The selection process involved three qualification rounds and participants were assessed by a jury comprising of highly respected veteran chefs including Vijaya Bhaskaran and Shaju Zacharia, among others. The final round of the competition had 15 young chefs compete for the title award. Students cooked live from their college and home kitchens to a virtual…
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said India plans to manufacture about 300 million doses of Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine next year. “In India, we have agreements with four large manufacturers. … India will produce about 300 mln doses or more of the vaccine for us next year,” Kirill Dmitriev told Tass News Agency in an interview, adding that development is scheduled to begin in early 2021. Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said India plans to manufacture about 300 million doses of Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine next year. “In…
Twitter has begun exploring its new experiment, ‘Spaces,’ a Clubhouse-like voice-based chat room. Users may create a ‘Room’ that their followers can enter to take part in a chat. Anyone on Twitter can listen to the chat, but only the host can control who’s going to talk. “The human voice can bring a layer of connectivity to Twitter through emotion, nuance and empathy often lost in text,” the official account of Twitter Spaces said. “We see this with voice Tweets and voice DMs. Sometimes 280 characters are not enough, and the voice gives people another way to join the conversation.…