Party's membership drive gets lukewarm response in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s quest to become the “largest political party on the planet” by 2016 appears to have hit a bump. While its membership drive has managed to enrol tens of lakhs in northern and western states, the response in the southern and eastern states has been tepid.
In over a month, the party has registered 21 lakh new members in Uttar Pradesh and 14 lakh new members in Delhi, according to party leaders. Twelve lakh people have joined it in Gujarat and 10 lakh in Maharashtra, they say.
If the alleged over-invoicing coal imports from Indonesia by power companies in one year by Rs 29,000 cr, and now investigated by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) impacts a consumer by Re 1 per unit, imagine the impact bought seats in private medical colleges by prospective doctors would have on patients.
The Times of India has reported that the value of the sold seats every year is around Rs 10,000 crore. The doctors from these medical colleges would tend to recover the investment as quickly as possible – Rs 50 lakh for an MBBS seat is no small change to be ignored – and that makes medical care quite expensive.
In a surprising move, Spicejet announced today that it has signed a bailout deal with Nirmal Durbar. A radiant, beaming, haloed Nirmal Baba was also present at the hurriedly arranged joint press conference.
Addressing the conference, CEO of Spicejet declared that they decided to go to Nirmal Baba with the faith that God helps all those who are spurned by everyone. As the saying goes, “गरीब का आखिरी सहारा ईश्वर ही हॊता है”.
The portents are ominous. Into its last week, the defining feature of the winter session of Parliament thus far has been pandemonium. Crucial bills such as the one to keep many of India’s coal mines running next financial year are yet to be cleared.
Some longstanding bills like the one to reform insurance sector have not even been introduced. For sure, some bills such as one to ease adherence to labour laws have been shepherded through both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
It seems that the luxury market of Kolkata is all set to fly high again. Check out the 6200 sq ft apartment in Kolkata that is priced at an outstanding Rs 25,000 per sq ft! Magicbricks asked real estate insiders how they see their business faring and although the market has been stagnant for quite some time now, luxury buyers have been actively enquiring!
K Joardar of GLR Realty Management Pvt Ltd says, “The buyers are not NRIs. It is a popular assumption that most luxury buyers may be those who have lived abroad for most of their lives. However, in Kolkata the main drivers of luxury are well placed and settled locals.”
This is how the undisputed media baron Ramoji Rao of Eenadu Group wrested control of power and politics in Andhra Pradesh. INNLIVE delves into the historic prespective and recounts the growth and empowerment of Eenaadu Group.
|ONE | - ON A COLD DAY IN DECEMBER 1994, Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, universally known as NTR, woke, of long habit, at 3 am. Once a movie star, the hugely popular NTR had changed the very character of Andhra Pradesh politics over the previous decade.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban, which carried out perhaps the bloodiest school massacre in modern history, has called the killing consistent with what Prophet Mohammed did with his enemies 1400 years ago.
"At the time of the Bannu Qurayza massacre, Prophet Mohammed ordered only those children be killed whose pubic hairs have appeared," Umar Khurasani, spokesperson for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, is quoted as saying by the American website, examiner.com. He said the Islamic terrorists only followed sunnat (actions of Prophet Mohammed) during wars.
Fathers-to-be suffer at least one symptom of pregnancy - a dip in two key hormones. Not just mothers, even fathers go through hormonal changes as the date of delivery comes closer, finds a study. Previous studies have shown that men's hormones change once they become fathers.
"But our findings suggest that these changes may begin even earlier, during the transition to fatherhood," said lead study author Robin Edelstein from University of Michigan.
