Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) engaged an outside lawyer for Veena Vijayan. The remuneration paid is Rs 82.5 lakhs, despite the KSIDC having its own permanent lawyer. The assignment given to the outside lawyer was to argue in the High Court that there was no need for a Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) enquiry in connection with the monthly payment Veena received from Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL). This journal had reported in August 2023 the shocking allegation that Veena Vijayan, daughter of Pinar ..read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 19, hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the Wayanad MP had mocked the Prime Minister’s visit to Dwarka where he dived into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Gujarat to perform a puja. Prime Minister said that “Congress’ Shehzada mocked his pooja at the holy site for vote bank politics”. Addressing an election rally in Amroha, Prime Minister Modi said, “Bhagwan Krishna went to Gujarat from here. I was born there and now I am in Uttar Pradesh. Kashi made me their MP. When I went to Dwarka, with full devotion I offered prayers but Congress’ Shehzad ..read more

The first phase of Lok Sabha elections, which will have 102 seats, is going to be a mixed phase in which no party has a clear edge. Half of the Manipur outer seat is also being included in the seat tally. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, among these seats, the BJP won 40 seats, while the Congress party was next with 15 seats. The BJP was runner-up with 15 seats, while the Congress party had 38 seats. All 39 LS seats in Tamil Nadu are voting in the first phase . Tamil Nadu is the biggest state in the South in terms of seats. The BJP has a lot of hope in Tamil Nadu in number of seats and number ..read more

The United States, on April 18, used its veto power to block a United Nations Security Council resolution on granting statehood to Palestine. In the vote 12-1, the one being the US veto and two abstentions, the UNSC did not adopt a draft resolution that would have recommended the General Assembly to hold a vote with the broader UN membership to allow Palestine to join as a full UN Member State. For a draft resolution to pass, the UNSC must have at least nine members in favour and none of its permanent members–China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US–using their veto power. Amid the ongoing w ..read more

BJP Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency candidate Tamilisai Soundararajan, who recently resigned as Governor of Telangana and Lt. Governor of Puducherry to return to active politics, is confident of winning. In a candid conversation with Organiser Special Correspondent Nishant Kr Azad and Sub-editor Yatharth Sikka, in Chennai on April 14, the former BJP State President and a gynaecologist by profession, Tamilisai Soundararajan, said that the BJP workers are toiling and sweating hard, and we are hopeful that under the leadership of PM Modi we will contribute our share in the Lok Sabha polls ..read more

Tamil Nadu BJP president and Coimbatore candidate K Annamalai cast his vote in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections and alleged that the DMK and AIADMK have spent more than 1000 crores in Coimbatore to influence the voters. #WATCH | Tamil Nadu BJP chief and party's candidate from Coimbatore constituency, K Annamalai casts his vote at a polling booth in Uthupatti, Karur. He faces DMK's Ganapathy P. Rajkumar in the constituency. pic.twitter.com/n3VCoyFkWE — ANI (@ANI) April 19, 2024 Annamalai cast his vote at a polling booth in Uthupatti, Karur. Voting is underway in all 39 seats in Tamil N ..read more

With the first phase of voting for the Lok Sabha elections commenced on April 19, let us look at the big faces in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA versus the opposition’s I.N.D.I Alliance. The Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu will witness a high-stakes battle, with State BJP president K Annamalai facing DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (AIADMK) Singai Ramachandran. The candidature of its Tamil Nadu state president shows that the BJP is pressing hard to increase its presence in South India. Annamalai faces strong competition from par ..read more

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat exercised his franchise at a polling booth in Nagpur, Maharashtra, during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections on April 19. RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat showed his inked finger after casting his vote. Urging people to exercise their franchise, he said, “Voting is our duty, our right. There should be 100 per cent polling. I have cast my vote.” Voting for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 began at 7:00 am on April 19, across 102 parliamentary constituencies spread over 21 states and Union Territories. Voting will end at 6 p ..read more

India’s G20 sherpa, Amitabh Kant, made a bold declaration at the ‘We Made in India’ event, emphasising that the future of global innovation and progress will not be dictated by big technology corporations, but rather by the transformative potential of locally developed digital public infrastructure (DPI) platforms. During his speech he also highlighted that India is committed to share its DPI model with the rest of the world and cited numerous instances where other nations expressed their interest in adopting similar frameworks. This shows a big change from the usual story which is controlled ..read more

Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris is one of the constituencies that the BJP is expecting to win in the southern part of Tamil Nadu. The battle is between BJP’s L Murugan and DMK’s A Raja. In an exclusive interview with Organiser Special Correspondent Nishant Kumar Azad and Sub-editor Yatharth Sikka in Nilgiris on April 16, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy L Murugan said that Dravidian parties, through fake narratives, isolate the people of Tamil Nadu in the name language, culture, & pseudo-history to perpetuate their misrule & cor ..read more