Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in his address at the G7 health ministers’ meeting in Tokyo on Saturday will promote India as a medical tourism destination.
The high-voltage campaign for Karnataka Assembly polls found the repeated mention of “Bajrang Bali’’. Voting may be over in Karnataka but “Bajrang Bali” found space in Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s address at the National Technology Day event on Thursday.
Union minister Bhupender Yadav had set up a library in his native village, Jamalpur, bordering Gurgaon city, just over a year ago. The library, with free internet and work stations, has been a huge hit among students, who can access a wide range of books and use the premises to prepare for exams.
The section close to B S Yeddiyurappa, who obviously topped the charts among the state leaders, attending nearly 85 election programmes, ensured that his son B Y Vijayendra also had an extensive tour programme beyond his constituency.
His poll expenses, he said, rose marginally to Rs 14 lakh in his second victory, and Rs 16 lakh the third time in 2004. And, he added, "a Rs 20 photostat got me into Rajya Sabha”.
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav was in Berlin for the two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue last week.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah may visit Tripura next week to interact with members of the Bru community, displaced from neighbouring Mizoram over two decades ago and settled in various parts of the state in camps.
As hectic campaigning is under way by all parties for urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh, BSP chief Mayawati will spend two days in Karnataka and Telangana.
The panel, headed by YSRCP leader V Vijayasai Reddy, was expected to visit Guwahati, Gangtok and Tawang from April 15 to 19.
The CEC thanked the centenarian for voting and is learnt to have told him that elderly voters like him are an inspiration to young voters.
Chowdhury, who will head the PAC till the end of this Lok Sabha’s term next year, will have the unique distinction of heading the panel for five consecutive years.
Many political observers have been pointing out that the BSP’s decision to field 11 Muslim faces as mayoral candidates in the upcoming UP civic polls signals a change in tack by the party.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday convened a meeting with Lieutenant Governors to review schemes in their respective Union Territories but none, except Puducherry LG Tamilisai Soundararanjan, turned up.
With German weekly magazine Der Spiegel's cartoon mocking India’s population numbers surpassing China’s drawing flak — it showed overcrowded trains in India vis-a-vis sleek Chinese trains — German envoy to India, Philipp Ackermann, has come out defending India’s railway system.
Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh is in London these days to attend the India-UK Science and Innovation Council meeting.
Union minister Anurag Thakur played a quick game of table tennis with P T Usha, India's athletics great, Rajya Sabha MP, and president of the Indian Olympic Association.
The minister tweeted photos of the ceremony at the Bhagwan Birsa Munda Bhawan, which was attended by senior functionaries of the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram as well as the RSS.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may meet his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee this week.
It seems there are no takers for a luxury sedan the Lok Sabha wants to sell. A white Jaguar, driven only 21,000 km and bought in 2016 for former Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, has been on sale for a while.
Less than a month after Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri promised a woman sanitation worker at an event in Delhi, a jacket made of recycled plastic was delivered to her home in Uttarakhand.
Pilot was in the list of star campaigners for Karnataka in the 2018 elections, for 2021 Kerala Assembly elections, and also for the recent Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections.
Apparently, Shettar was asked to step out of the electoral fray as the leadership had decided to avoid confusion among voters about the probable chief ministerial faces in the state.
Irani took time to try her hand at a local sport of ‘bow and arrow’ and also played carrom with locals.
Sources say senior Karnataka Congress leaders M B Patil and Shamanur Shivashankarappa are in touch with Jagadish Shettar
Former Karnataka deputy chief minister Laxman Savadi’s exit from the BJP and his joining the Congress on Friday provided fresh ammunition against a senior saffron party leader from Karnataka at the Centre.



