CM seeks PM help on Vizhinjam port
The Morning Standard|December 15, 2024
Pinarayi says fund should be provided as a grant and not loan as per finance ministry norms
CM seeks PM help on Vizhinjam port

IN an effort to get unconditional Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support to the Vizhinjam Seaport project, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his urgent intervention. Pinarayi urged the Prime Minister to withdraw the Union finance ministry's norm making it mandatory for the state to repay the VGF.

In his letter, Pinarayi pointed out that since the Union finance ministry introduced the VGF scheme in 2005, never in the past such a payback has been demanded by the finance ministry under VGF scheme. Vizhinjam project would be the only exception in the country where the Union government has demanded a payback.

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The Morning Standard

The palette of love

This collection is a poetic ode to modern love - from the stolen glances to the quiet moments shared between a couple

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December 18, 2024
Get your pens and notebooks out for this videogame
The Morning Standard

Get your pens and notebooks out for this videogame

IS Solving the Sunday morning cryptic crossword getting a little too easy for you? Of course it is. That's a puzzle for newbs.

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December 18, 2024
Wicked Part 2 gets official title
The Morning Standard

Wicked Part 2 gets official title

The second part of the Wicked film, helmed by Jon M Chu, has now been titled Wicked: For Good.

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December 18, 2024
DIFFERENT STROKES
The Morning Standard

DIFFERENT STROKES

An ongoing exhibition in Delhi spotlights Bireswar Sen and his son Sureshwar - two forgotten modernist artists of Bengal - who differed in art practice, style and vision

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December 18, 2024
Two World Champions, 31 GMs, Tamil Nadu is the best: Anand
The Morning Standard

Two World Champions, 31 GMs, Tamil Nadu is the best: Anand

OPEN rooftop car. Scores of people. Cavalcade of cars. It was another maddening but memorable day in the newly-crowned world champ, D Gukesh's, life.

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December 18, 2024
Chelsea's Mudryk fails drugs test: Club
The Morning Standard

Chelsea's Mudryk fails drugs test: Club

CHELSEA forward Mykhailo Mudryk has failed a doping test, the Premier League club said on Tuesday, as reports stated the Ukraine international has been provisionally suspended.

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December 18, 2024
Rana wouldn't have got into our playing XI: Gujarat coach Klinger
The Morning Standard

Rana wouldn't have got into our playing XI: Gujarat coach Klinger

GUJARAT GIANTS, after finishing last in the back-to-back Women's Premier League points table, went into the mini-auction looking to make a few important changes.

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December 18, 2024
Ongoing struggle of Sharma the Test batter
The Morning Standard

Ongoing struggle of Sharma the Test batter

Poor form and captaincy issues could be two unrelated things as Rohit falls for another low score on day four in Brisbane on Tuesday

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December 18, 2024
RAHUL AND JADEJA BRING ORDER AS INDIA TAIL WAGS
The Morning Standard

RAHUL AND JADEJA BRING ORDER AS INDIA TAIL WAGS

SOMEWHERE in the middle of the first innings, Virat Kohli rushed out of the Gabba dressing room, called up Abhimanyu Easwaran, told him something in earnestness and sent him off the ground.

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December 18, 2024
The Morning Standard

Bid in satellite spectrum not feasible: Scindia

A day after Congress leader Jairam Ramesh raised concerns over the government's decision to administratively allocate satellite spectrum in the country, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday defended the move, saying that satellite spectrum is neither suitable nor practical for auction.

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December 18, 2024