Trinamool’s mission Meghalaya began in 2004
The Hindu
The main rival of the party is the NPP whose founder was its MP
The Trinamool Congress gained 12 MLAs in Meghalaya in an evening coup on November 24. This was not the first such foray for the Mamata Banerjee-led party in the northeastern hill State.
The Trinamool had its first lawmaker from Meghalaya almost overnight in 2004. Former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Agitok Sangma won the Tura constituency that year after quitting the Nationalist Congress Party and joining the Trinamool.
The man he defeated was Mukul M. Sangma, a former Congress heavyweight and now the president of the Trinamool’s Meghalaya unit.
Chennai has two categories of Black kites: a larger group heading to the city from the western parts of India during the south west monsoon and heading back when the monsoon is past; and another group, smaller and resident, which would make minor movements in and around Chennai looking for an optimal atmosphere for nesting and raising the young. A couple of pylons in Perumbakkam suggest that Black kites have found an ideal nesting space there
This is part of the Karnataka Namakarana Suvarna Mahotsava celebrations organised to mark the naming of the State as ‘Karnataka’ during the tenure of the late D. Devaraj Urs. The statue, sculpted at an approximate cost of ₹21.24 crore, is 41-foot-tall including the pedestal and weighs around 31.5 tonnes.