New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): Superstar Rajinikanth's younger daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth and her husband Vishagan Vanangamudi have been blessed with a baby boy. On Sunday, Soundarya announced on social media.
New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations are in full swing across the country. Devotees have brought different types of idols of the Elephant God to their homes to celebrate the 10-day-long Ganesh festival. Fans are going filmy this time.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 8 (ANI): Superstar Rajinikanth has finally denied all the rumours about him starting a political party and also spilled beans about his upcoming movie 'Jailer'.
New Delhi Mar 31 PTI The Rajya Sabha on Thursday bid an emotional farewell to 72 members including A K Antony P Chidambaram Anand Sharma Jairam Ramesh and Subramanian Swamy whose terms are coming to an end with Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging them to take their experience across the countryThe terms of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in the Upper House are coming to an end as well However they are likely to be re-electedMembers cutting across party lines shared memories of their retiring colleagues and hoped that they would return to the House While most MPs were emotional there were some lighter moments as wellChairman M Venkaiah Naidu asked the lawmakers to desist from disrupting law-making bodies while upholding the honour and privilege bestowed on them by people while Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge emphasised that the numbers on the Opposition benches may be less but they have strength in their argumentSixty five speakers including those who are retiring shared their experiencesThe speakers included the chairman the prime minister the deputy chairman the leader of the opposition the floor leaders of nine other parties 11 other members and 40 retiring MembersIn the end Goyal who is the leader of the House responded to the day-long proceedingsA total of 72 Rajya Sabha MPs including seven nominated members are retiring between March and July which is one-third of the strength of the House Among them some may return to the Rajya SabhaThe retiring members represent 19 statesThose retiring also include Ambika Soni Kapil Sibal Suresh Prabhu Praful Patel Prasanna Acharya Sanjay Raut Naresh Gujral Satish Chandra Mishra M C Mary Kom Swapan Dasgupta and Narendra JadhavChidambaram Patel and Sibal were not present in the House when the prime minister the chairman and the leader of opposition spoke in the morning sessionIn his speech Modi emphasised that experience has more power than knowledge and the MPs should take it forward in the service of the nationWe may be moving out of these four walls but we should take this experience from here to all the four directions in the best interests of the country he saidHe told the retiring members to come to the House again and to pen down their experiencesI would want you to put in words the memories gained here to help serve as a reference point for the coming generations Modi saidThe House and the nation feel the loss and some sort of shortcomings in decision making for the coming generations when experienced colleagues retire he addedWhen experienced people retire a lot would be said about them in the House but the responsibility of those remaining increases The members who remain have to take forward the tales of experience left behind by those retiring Modi saidNaidu asked the lawmakers to be propelled by passion performance and procedural integrity and desist from disrupting law-making bodies while upholding the honour and privilege bestowed on them by peopleHe called upon them to ensure that the expectations and aspirations of people are incorporated in designing laws and policiesNaidu also voiced concern over the House having lost more than 35 per cent of the functional time due to disruptions since 2017Kharge said after listening to the prime minister and the other members I realised how important the Rajya Sabha is The Upper House is a chamber of ideas and a house of intellectuals from varied fields Ex-chief ministers ex-prime ministers and many ministers are part of the House We have gained from their experience he saidThe numbers on the Opposition benches may be less but they have strength in their argument The problem is that arguments are not considered but voices are counted This is what Atalji had said not me he recalledGoyal expressed gratitude to Naidu and former president late Pranab Mukherjee for motivating him when he was first elected to the Upper House in 2010Retirement certainly is a time of mixed feelings and we will miss the contributions of all our esteemed colleagues who may not come back he saidDeputy Chairman Harivansh expressed confidence that the retiring members through their pubic engagement would continue to work to increase the confidence of citizens and students in politics and parliamentary democracyCongress leader Anand Sharma who too is retiring said he never trooped to the Well of the House during his entire tenureHe also said he never used impolite words in his speeches and no word of his was ever expunged from the House recordsDerek OBrien of the Trinamool Congress said he would tell his grandchildren that when he was in Parliament there were two former prime ministers -- Manmohan Singh and H D Deve Gowda -- and the prime minister was Narendra ModiDMK leader Tiruchi Siva said farewell moments are always emotional and painfulI would only like to say one thing to my colleagues who are retiringthis is not the end of the road only a bend he saidRecollecting that Sharma often used to borrow a pen from him Siva said Yesterday he told me that he wont be asking for a pen from tomorrow Naidu talked about his earlier days when he and former Union minister Jaipal Reddy often used to borrow pens from their fellow lawmakersLater I found out that whenever both of us were moving towards them many of the members would hide their pens he said PTI NKD MJH LUX RSN SKC RC
Puducherry Mar 30 PTI The Puducherry Assembly adjourned sine die on Wednesday after passing the Appropriation Vote on Account Bill tabled by Chief Minister N Rangasamy with Rs 361366 crore allocated for five months from April to August of the upcoming financial year Over the course of a two-hour long session the House adopted the Appropriation Vote on Account Bill which earmarked funds for the five months from April to August 2022 and also approved supplementary demand for grants for financial year 2021-2022 As soon as the Chief Minister tabled the Vote on Account Bill members belonging to both the ruling and opposition bloc raised several issues concerning the woes of unemployed youth and availability of infrastructure such as roads and health care facilities Members of both the treasury and opposition benches expressed concern over rampant availability of ganja and other narcotics in Puducherry and also unemployed youth falling prey to drug peddlers Government Whip A K D Arumugham wanted the territorial administration to create a separate cell in the police department under the head of a Superintendent of Police to handle cases relating to ganja Opposition DMK leader R Siva underscored the need for holding the Assembly session for a considerable number of days instead of having it only for a day He also said the government should also ensure that a full-fledged budget was passed instead of adopting a Vote on Account Earlier the members belonging to the DMK and Congress in the opposition bloc registered strong protests against holding the session for a day and also against adopting a Vote on Account without presenting a full-fledged budget All the opposition legislators staged a walk-out from the House flaunting placards stating their demands However all of them returned to the House a few minutes later to participate in the proceedings PTI COR HDA HDA
Puducherry Nov 23 PTI A delegation of legislators of the opposition DMK submitted a memorandum to the inter-Ministerial central to Puducherry on Tuesday and sought liberal relief to the union territory to tackle the situation arising out of torrential rains A party release said that the delegation led by R Siva apprised the team on a visit to take stock of the situation about the severe damage to infrastructures bed dams across the rivers power installations farm sector in the recent floods in Puducherry The Centre should sanction liberal relief to Puducherry instead of adopting hackneyed yardsticks to help farm and other sectors the DMK team said The release said that the bed dams across the river in Chellipet and also across the Thenpennayar in Commandanpet in Bahoor Commune limits had been totally damaged by the large inflow of water released from catchment areas As much as Rs 500 crore was needed to repair roads reconstruct the bed dams and to provide infrastructure including irrigation channels The Centre should not adopt hackneyed yardsticks in finalising the relief package the DMK said in the petition The opposition party also sought adequate compensation for farmers who had suffered due to the heavy rains which caused damage to paddy fields and crops The central team visited several rain-hit areas before wrapping up its visit to the union territory Tuesday and saw for itself the extent of damages in coastal villages and hamlets in and around Puducherry The rain that lashed Puducherry for the last nearly two weeks was unprecedented and the government had urged the Centre to sanction an interim relief of Rs 300 crore PTI Cor SS SS
Chennai Oct 29 PTI Superstar Rajinikanth on Friday underwent a procedure to restore blood supply to brain and he is recovering well a hospital here that is treating him said The top Tamil star was admitted on October 28 following an episode of giddiness the hospital said Rajinikanth was thoroughly evaluated by an expert panel of doctors and was advised to undergo Carotid Artery Revascularization CAR a medical bulletin issued by Kauvery Hospital said The procedure was performed successfully today and he is recovering well He is likely to be discharged from the hospital after few days the bulletin issued by Dr Aravindan Selvaraj co-founder and executive director of the hospital said Dr J Amalorpavanathan a noted senior vascular surgeon who has served in several government medical institutions for decades told PTI that the CAR is a procedure to restore blood supply to the brain On Thursday sources close to the actor had said that he was in a city hospital for a routine health check-up Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin wished the Superstar a speedy recovery Get well soon the Chief Minister said conveying his wishes to the actor for an early recovery Rajinikanths next flick Annaatthe Elder brother an action movie and directed by Siva is all set for theatrical release on Deepavali November 4 The actor had tweeted that he watched the movie along with his grandson The 70-year old actor received the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award on October 25 and he had also visited President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital PTI VGN SS SS
New Delhi [India], October 24 (ANI): Megastar Rajinikanth will be conferred with the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award tomorrow. He will receive the prestigious award for his stupendous contribution to the world of Indian cinema.
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], August 30 (ANI): An ex-serviceman fired killed two persons and left one injured by firing at them in Guntur on Sunday.
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