Author: Tejesvi MG

President Zelensky has stated that the US and its allies must provide “legal” assurances that Ukraine is safe, even though it is not a member of NATO. Even though the West cannot offer Kyiv NATO membership, Ukrainian (Ukraine) President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the country must be made “fully safe.”  “Our allies should work out collective security assurances for Ukraine if they are not willing to take Ukraine into NATO… because Russia does not want Ukraine to be in NATO,” Zelensky told Reuters and CNN on Tuesday, amid Russia’s escalating invasion.  These Security guarantees are required to maintain “our…

According to T.N. Minister Gingee K.S, about 5,000 students from T.N. were in the war-torn country. Masthan claimed the state was working with the Centre to arrange for their return.  The five Tamil Nadu students studying in Ukraine and their families were relieved when they arrived in Chennai on Sunday morning after being successfully evacuated from the country, which is resisting a Russian invasion.  All five were students at the Bukovinian State Medical University, which is located in western Ukraine near the Romanian border. Compared to the eastern section of the country, which shares a border with Russia, this region…

On Saturday, Chief Minister ( CM ) Pramod Sawant said that the state administration is working with the Indian embassy in Ukraine to ensure that trapped Goans are safely evacuated.  “Dear Goan students in Ukraine/parents of Goan students in Ukraine,” Chief Minister Pramod Sawant wrote on social media on Saturday. “The government of Goa is in touch with the Embassy of India in Ukraine and understands the terrible situation which our Goans in Ukraine are currently suffering.”  “All Goans in Ukraine are advised to contact our embassy 24 hours a day, seven days a week at +380997300483, +380997300428, +380933980327, +380635917881,…

On Thursday, the Bombay High Court dismissed the Congress and MGP (Maharashtra Gomantak Party) petitions seeking the disqualification of 12 Goa MLAs who switched to the BJP in 2019.  According to news agency PTI, the court stated that the “petitioners have not been able to build up a case for intervention in the impugned orders passed by the Speaker,” according to news agency PTI.  Last year’s judgment by Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar to dismiss two disqualification petitions “cannot be considered to militate against the goal of introducing the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution on the touchstone of political and constitutional…

Kiran Kandolkar, the leader of the Goa Trinamool Congress, has stated that their political consultant I-PAC abandoned the party’s candidates after the state Assembly elections last week. Mr. Kandolkar told reporters on Monday that he was not resigning as TMC’s Goa unit president but that he was unhappy with I-PAC head Prashant Kishor and his team. For a long time, there has been talking of a divide between the Trinamool and the I-PAC (Indian Political Action Committee), which aided Mamata Banerjee’s party during the West Bengal Assembly elections. The Trinamool Congress and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party contested the Goa Assembly…

The counting of votes for the Tamil Nadu urban local body elections commenced at 8:00 a.m. today. Single-phase elections were held in Tamil Nadu on February 19 to fill 12,838 positions in 21 corporations, 138 municipalities, 490 town panchayats, and 649 urban local bodies. There were 74,416 candidates in the campaign, with a few independents among them.While counting votes for the urban local body elections on Tuesday, some 2,400 officials and 7,200 police personnel from the Greater Chennai, Avadi, and Tambaram commissioners were deployed.  In 17 corporations, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is now in the lead. In three municipalities…

Due to scheduling difficulties with his upcoming film “Vikram,” South superstar Kamal Haasan said on Sunday that he has left the reality TV show “Bigg Boss Ultimate.” The formal announcement of Kamal Haasan departure from the digital version of “Bigg Boss Tamil” comes a day after media speculation. The 67-year-old actor revealed the news on Twitter with the phrase “After a brief hiatus,” promising fans that he will return for the sixth season of the famous reality show.  “The pandemic, and the rightfully imposed lockdowns and limitations by the government, has created chaos and forced us to reschedule the filming…

Officials said the single-phase election in Tamil Nadu on Saturday to elect over 12,500 ward members in 640+ urban local bodies was primarily peaceful. Throughout the day, voter turnout was low in various locations, and the state election commission was scheduled to report the overall polling percentage. On Feb 22, 268 polling stations will begin tallying votes. Tamil Nadu’s latest urban civic elections were held in 2011 when the AIADMK was in power. For a time, irregular occurrences like a BJP man’s protest to a Hijab-clad woman voter in a Madurai polling station, group clashes, and disturbance between DMK and…

Goa The Department of Education (DoE) released a new circular on Friday, allowing pre-schools to invite students physically to institute premises beginning Monday. On Thursday, a circular was published permitting students in grades I through XII to participate in offline sessions starting Monday. Goa, When schools reopen for students, Director Bhushan Savaikar also stated that uniforms should not be required. “As educational institutions under this directorate are allowed to open with effect from February 21, heads of all government, government-aided, primary, secondary, higher secondary, and special schools, including pre-primary schools, are hereby directed to follow suggestions for smooth functioning of…

A health official informed the news agency PTI on Wednesday that the state of Goa had reached a critical milestone by providing both anti-Covid vaccination doses to its whole eligible population of 11.66 lakh people.   “We have completed 100% immunization of the whole population of Goa.” We set a population goal of 11.66 lakh, and as of today, we have reached 100.058 percent of that goal. We’ll now incorporate the Covid vaccination campaign into our regular vaccine schedule. Swabbing and testing will, however, continue on all days. “Covid vaccination centres will close, but the vaccine will be available at our…