Puducherry

Members of the opposition AINRC and AIADMK boycotted the session while the three nominated BJP legislators staged a walk out after registering their objection to the tabling of the resolution. read more

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman had made the announcement in the budget presented on Saturday. Read on to know more... read more

Addressing a meeting of the alumni of the college, he said a Bill for upgradation of the college into a university has already been prepared and it would be introduced on the floor of the House in its forthcoming session. read more

The development comes days after Bedi had declared the appointment of the SEC by the Narayanasamy-led government as “illegal and null and void.” read more

Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy is unhappy that the Centre treats the Union Territory as a state for some schemes and as a UT for others. read more

Having 45% women population, city has no association with state or national panels either read more

The beaches identified for the campaign are in Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha. The beaches have been identified after consultation with the state governments according to... read more

The candidature of Ruby Manoharan for Nanguneri and John Kumar for Kamaraj Nagar has been approved by party president Sonia Gandhi, according to Congress general secretary Mukul Wasnik. read more

Cracks appeared in Puducherry NDA when the local unit of the BJP-- upset over AIADMK’s decision to allot Kamaraj Nagar assembly bypoll seat to All India NR Congress party of former Chief Minister N Rangasamy—invited applications to field a rival can... read more

AIADMK is fielding Muthamizh Selvan in Vikravandi and V Narayanan in Nanguneri. Ruling party is looking to win back both the seats from the DMK and the Congress and consolidate its majority in Tamil Nadu assembly. read more

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said voting for the assembly seats in Haryana and Maharashtra and by-polls on 64 seats in 18 states will be held on October 21 and counting on October 24. read more

After a search, the former IPS officer, who led a large number of volunteers and officials raising slogans on the need to conserve water bodies, found the high-end phone lying in a thicket, but it was partially damaged. read more

Kiran Bedi is working on a similar campaign called “Water Rich Puducherry”. She suggested various ways in which the administration could revitalise water bodies and sensitise people read more

The Puducherry Chief Minister said, “I was on a visit to a rural school recently and found to my dismay that teachers in government schools had preferred private schools for education of their children.” read more

The DMK is also the third-largest party in the Lok Sabha and is making its presence felt on the national level. read more