Author: Jyotsna D Vengitti

In a recent development, the Delhi High Court has granted interim relief to Manish Sisodia, a prominent leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), allowing him to visit his wife who is suffering from multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disorder. Sisodia has been in jail since February, following his alleged involvement in the Delhi liquor scam. The court has permitted him to spend a few hours with his ailing wife on Saturday, between 10 am and 5 pm. However, there are certain conditions imposed, including a ban on the use of electronic devices and no interaction with the media during the…

The Mekedatu dam project, located in the Ramanagaram district about 100 km south of Bengaluru, near the entry point of the Cauvery River into Tamil Nadu, has become a longstanding source of contention between the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu state governments. Recently, just 10 days after the Congress government in Karnataka assumed power, a conflict emerged between the two states regarding a project aimed at supplying drinking water to Bengaluru. Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister, D K Shivakumar, expressed the intention to construct a dam and reservoir at Mekedatu on the Cauvery River, near the border with Tamil Nadu. However, Durai…

Kuki National Army was a militant group formed by the Kuki people for their administration in Manipur and Myanmar. On Sunday, May 3, the state saw a new wave of violence that left at least two people dead, including a police officer, in separate shootings. It comes as Chief Minister Biren Singh said around 40 Kuki fighters had been killed so far, who he said had attacked civilians by security forces.  Singh did not provide details of when the militants were killed. A civilian was killed by militants in a village in Imphal West district when further arson and shooting…

With his third century of the year, Shubman Gill continued his incredible run score as Gujarat Titans defeated Mumbai Indians by 62 runs on Friday in Ahmedabad to advance to their second straight IPL final. Gujarat Titans scored a huge 233/3 thanks to Gill’s 60-ball 129 (7 fours and 10 sixes), and Mumbai Indians responded valiantly in Qualifier 2 despite suffering from a number of injuries thanks to Suryakumar Yadav (61) and Tilak Varma (43). When Mohit Sharma, who had only been bowling for 15 overs, finished with figures of 2.2-0-10-5, MI collapsed, going from 149/4 in 14 overs to…

The Sydney Morning Herald reported Federation University in Victoria and Western Sydney University in New South Wales both Australian universities have individually announced that they banned the intake of students from some states of India due to rise in fraudulent visa applications. Apparently one in four applications have been deemed as non genuine or fraudulent by the department of Home Affairs. The students from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and The union territory of Jammu Kashmir are not to be entertained by agents according to instructions. The newspaper reported on the latest restrictions imposed on students…

He said, their main motto as a party is to make Karnataka the number one state again and further steps will be taken keeping that in mind. 

An anthology like Modern Love: Chennai is rare. Each section of this anthology works wonders, with refreshing writing and editing at a time when romance stories are considered an outdated genre that no longer surprises viewers. Based on a collection of real-life essays published in The New York Times, Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s anthology features shorts that make you wonder what was real or fictional, and those that make you wish the events were true. The weird thing about what happens in Rajumurugan’s Lalagunda Bommaigal is that first – you wonder if something similar really happened, you laugh a little and sometimes…

On Sunday, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah announced that the Bengaluru Police withdrew the ‘zero traffic’ policy for his vehicle. Zero traffic is a privilege provided to the Chief Minister, Home Minister, Governor, and certain VIPs from the union government. Where all the roads that they take are cleared off and blocked by the city Police for the official’s hindrance free movement. Yesterday, the CM told the police that he no longer wanted that service because he didn’t like the idea of it affecting the citizens and took it to Twitter stating that “I have asked the Bengaluru City Police Commissioner to…

The Karnataka state election was held on May 10, and the results of the election was soon out on May 13, with the Indian National Congress Party bagging the victory in the 224 member assembly by 136 seats. The party has two pillars who are both strong leaders and play a vital role in the party and its win. DK Shivakumar a eight time MLA has been in the party since his age of 27, has consistently been a support to the party since then, and won this time’s election with 1,21,595 votes with a margin of 19,753. And Siddaramaiah…

The movie Kerala Story that released on May 5 in theaters earlier this month by Sudipo Sen, gained a lot of popularity and controversy. The movie claims that 32,000 Non-Muslim girls were forced to convert to Islam and recruited to terrorism. Soon after its release the movie became a great success and hit the box office in many states. But the state of West Bengal banned the movie on May 8 and Tamil Nadu took the movie off the theaters on May 7. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated that the decision was taken “to avoid any incident of…