Election Commission announces schedule for bye-election in Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal; details

The Election Commission of India on Sunday announced the schedule for upcoming bye-elections to fill vacant Assembly seats in Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal. Polling will take place on June 19, with the counting of votes scheduled for June 23. Gujarat In Gujarat, the bye-election will be held in the Kadi and Visavadar constituencies…

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Shashi Tharoor remembers Oommen Chandy as Vizhinjam seaport commissioned: ‘Shame none of the official speakers…’

The Congress upped its attack on the Centre and the LDF government in Kerala over the inauguration of the Vizhinjam seaport near Thiruvananthapuram, with party MP Shashi Tharoor accusing official spokespersons of not mentioning the name of Oommen Chandy. The Vizhinjam port deal with Adani Ports was signed in 2015, when the Congress government was…

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Divyam Mehta’s new collection features skirts inspired by South-Indian mundus

Delhi-based fashion designer Divyam Mehta’s new collection Still Waters | Photo Credit: Special arrangement With deliberate, calculated precision, Delhi-based fashion designer Divyam Mehta defines the inspiration behind his newly launched summer collection Still Waters. He borrows the collection’s design language from South Asian contemporary art, tribal rugs and nautical stripes, but manipulates its grammar to…

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INTERVIEW | Sharan Venugopal: The response to ‘Narayaneente Moonaanmakkal’ is validation after the occasional self-doubt

The first time I spoke to Sharan Venugopal was before the release of Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal. We talk about how he comes from a family of bankers, his childhood in Koyilandy, studying engineering in Thiruvananthapuram and cinema at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, his National Award-winning short film, Oru Paathira Swapnam Poley and how…

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Kochi | ‘Go With The Flo – The Period Game’ is an educational board game that debunks myths around menstruation

Go with the flo board game  | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The educational board game Go With the Flo – The Period Game is exactly what you think it is. It is about menstruation, and probably India’s only board game on the subject. It is designed to demystify menstruation and aims to create menstrual literacy…

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BJP’s Suresh Gopi makes controversial remark, says ‘Brahmin or Naidu should handle tribal affairs portfolio’

Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Suresh Gopi, sparked controversy during a BJP election campaign in New Delhi by asserting that the “upper castes” should oversee the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to ensure genuine progress in tribal welfare. Speaking at the event, Gopi claimed that leadership from upper-caste members, such as Brahmins…

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