FTI, SRFTI NOW DAMEDD UNIVERSITIES; Can Grant Degrees, offer PhDS

FTI, SRFTI NOW DAMEDD UNIVERSITIES; Can Grant Degrees, offer PhDS

Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) In a major decision taken by the education ministry, the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Pune and the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata have been notified as Institutions Deemed to be Universities. The union education ministry notified these institutions as … Read more

Gujarat govt raises grant to Rs 40 lakh for panchayat offices with 10,000+ population

Gujarat govt raises grant to Rs 40 lakh for panchayat offices with 10,000+ population

Follow Us on Google News Gandhinagar, April 18 (IANS) The Gujarat government has announced an increase in financial grants for the construction of new, well-equipped offices for local self-government bodies, including gram panchayats, taluka panchayats, and district panchayats. The initiative aims to modernise administrative infrastructure across rural and semi-urban areas, ensuring that citizens have improved … Read more

K’taka BJP team meets CM; seeks Rs 15,000 cr special grant for Bengaluru ahead of budget

K'taka BJP team meets CM; seeks Rs 15,000 cr special grant for Bengaluru ahead of budget

Bengaluru, Feb 28 (IANS) A Karnataka BJP delegation, led by Leader of Opposition R. Ashoka and State President and MLA, B.Y. Vijayendra, submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ahead of the presentation of the 2025-26 budget, demanding a special grant of Rs 15,000 crore exclusively for Bengaluru. CM Siddaramaiah is scheduled to present the … Read more

Parliamentary panel set up to grant leave to MPs, says Centre on Amritpal Singh’s petition

Parliamentary panel set up to grant leave to MPs, says Centre on Amritpal Singh's petition

Chandigarh, Feb 25 (IANS) The Union government on Tuesday informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that a 15-member parliamentary committee, led by BJP member Biplab Kumar Deb, has been constituted by the Lok Sabha Speaker to examine leave applications of all absent Members of Parliament, including jailed Amritpal Singh, from the ongoing Parliament session. … Read more

Fight over USAID funding: Cong claims 7 projects got grant, BJP calls it ‘theatrics to hide beneficiaries’

Fight over USAID funding: Cong claims 7 projects got grant, BJP calls it ‘theatrics to hide beneficiaries'

New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The raging row over USAID funding to India for ‘voter turnout’ has kicked up a political storm, with Congress and BJP taking turns to potshots at each other over the ‘beneficiaries’. Congress called it another ‘jumla’ to mislead and misguide the nation while BJP has snapped back, accusing the former … Read more

Don’t grant request for 1-hour duty exemption for Muslim staff during Ramzan: K’taka Hindu groups tell govt

Don't grant request for 1-hour duty exemption for Muslim staff during Ramzan: K'taka Hindu groups tell govt

Bengaluru, Feb 21 (IANS) Hindu groups in Karnataka have objected to the request for granting a one-hour exemption from duty to government employees belonging to the Muslim community during the month of Ramzan. Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Vice Presidents M.R.M. Hussain and Syed Ahmad recently wrote a letter to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, requesting him … Read more

Ramesh Chennithala urges Kerala Guv not to grant remission to murder convict

Ramesh Chennithala urges Kerala Guv not to grant remission to murder convict

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 31 (IANS) Former Home Minister and veteran Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Friday wrote to Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar asking him not to commute the sentence of a murder convict. The convict, Sherin, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her father-in-law in 2009 and was sentenced to 20 years … Read more