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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:01 PM PST
Two suspects captured on CCTV cameras
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:57 PM PST
Light rains in the morning added to the winter chill in the national capital even as schedule of 60 trains and six flights were disrupted due to poor visibility. According to the MeT department, t...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:54 PM PST
In the wake of writer Perumal Murugan's unconditional apology and withdrawal of all his published works, The Hindu Lit for Life 2015 panel 'To Burn & To Ban: Literature at Stake', sched...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:06 PM PST
This follows Corporation's warning on fining violators
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:06 PM PST
While more people are aware of the parai, artistes want the government to recognise it as a national music instrument
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:04 PM PST
Over the next few days, city residents may have to brace themselves for nippy weather and reach out for scarves and mufflers as night-time temperatures are set to dip.Motorists travelling l...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:07 PM PST
The nesting season this year began on a sad note with nearly 125 Olive Ridley deaths from Dec. 14 to Jan. 13
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:06 PM PST
Doctors advise caution, especially for children and senior citizens, as the temperature dips, bringing another bout of coughs, colds and allergies
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:51 PM PST
Three poachers were on Wednesday killed in two encounters with forest guards in Kaziranga National Park in Assam. On a tip-off about the entry of a group of poachers into the Park, forest g...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:59 PM PST
Telangana Rashtra Samiti's political clout in Hyderabad received a boost after four of the candidates it backed in the Secunderabad Cantonment elections, emerged victorious on Tuesday. Ah...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:44 PM PST
Reflecting revival of the U.S. economy, the country's budget deficit has dropped by USD 72 billion in 2014 than the previous year, according to a report. Capped off by a USD 2 billion surpl...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:39 PM PST
"It will be in the interest of justice if the two accused persons are enlarged on bail..." the Judge said.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:40 PM PST
The chief of a militant outfit and three of his associates were arrested with arms after their camp was busted at Taphou village in Senapati district in Manipur, police said on Wednesday. ...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:43 PM PST
In setback for actor Salman Khan, the Supreme Court set aside Rajasthan High Court's decision to suspend his conviction in the 2013 Black Buck killing case . A bench led by Justic...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:04 PM PST
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three months extension to Italian Marine Massimiliano Latorre to stay back in Italy on health grounds. A three-judge bench led by Justice Anil R. Dave allowe...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:20 PM PST
Mr. Modi extended greetings on the occasion of Pongal, Boghi, Magh Bihu, Uttarayan and Makar Sankranti by tweeting in Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Gujarati and Hindi.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:23 PM PST
New suspect identified in Bulgaria
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:11 PM PST
Four Silicon Valley companies, including Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have agreed to a new settlement that would resolve an antitrust class action lawsuit by tech workers, who accused the firms of co...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:00 PM PST
One aspect that has defined the social censoring of writer Perumal Murgan is the deathly silence maintained by the major Dravidian parties, who had always claimed to represent a progressive politi...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:43 PM PST
Pope Francis gave Sri Lanka its first saint on Wednesday at a Mass for hundreds of thousands of people packed on a Colombo oceanfront, in a climax to a 300-year campaign to recognise the holiness...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:20 PM PST
The Chicago mother of a 19-year-old American facing a terrorist charge for trying to join the Islamic State accused the group on Tuesday of brainwashing youths into joining their ranks via social...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:41 PM PST
A decorated Vietnam War veteran convicted of murdering a Georgia sheriff's deputy in 1998 was put to death on Tuesday, state officials said, becoming the first death row inmate executed in the Uni...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:34 PM PST
If so-called "cyber jihadists" want to launch another social media attack on America's military, they will have plenty of targets: the U.S. Army alone lists more than 2,000 links to feeds on Faceb...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:11 PM PST
Japan's Cabinet has approved the country' largest defence budget, with plans to buy surveillance aircraft and F-35 fighter jets to improve defences of disputed islands amid China's assertiveness i...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:22 PM PST
Republican Rep. Randy Weber has apologised for a tweet that compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler to make a point related to the Paris terrorist attacks. In a written statement,...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:02 PM PST
The Special Investigative Team (SIT) probing the Muzaffarnagar riots, found Sachin and Gaurav to be involved in the murder of Shahnawaz who was stabbed to death alleged by eight people on August...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:26 PM PST
Picking on the land ordinance, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said "this government has effectively destroyed this landmark legislation [Land Acquisition Act] and brought back the law passed by t...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:34 PM PST
Amid concerns over Taj Mahal turning yellow due to increasing pollution, the district administration has banned burning of cow dung cakes in the city while use of coal by small units will also be p...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:25 PM PST
Murugan requests caste outfits and religious organisations to desist from protests
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:23 PM PST
He gave several big stars such as Aanubhav Mohanty, Babusan and Sabyasachi their first break in cinema
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:18 PM PST
An affidavit filed by the Cyber Law Division of the Union Communications and Information Technology Ministry before the Supreme Court on January 8 said the search engines did "have the relevant te...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:12 PM PST
Unwilling to fix a time-frame for the completion of trial in the alleged Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Kauserbi fake encounter case, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the trial court in Mumbai to expedite the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:10 PM PST
Controversial BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj on Tuesday said he was unaware of any show-cause notice served on him by the party and said that even if he received one, it was an "internal matter" of the part...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:09 PM PST
If you have dreamt of Rs. 15 lakh getting deposited in your account once the Government of India (GoI) brings black money back to India, then hold on. The government does not even have the estimat...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:51 AM PST
It proposes to do away with on-site advertising of tobacco products
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:12 PM PST
The government on Tuesday removed Avinash Chander, chief of the top defence research organisation, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), 15 months before his contract was to end. <...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:45 AM PST
An unidentified miscreant on Tuesday threw eggs and a stone at AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal at a rally in Sultanpur Majra Assembly constituency in northwest Delhi. Mr. Kejriwal was unhurt in the inci...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:13 PM PST
In a few months, you will experience cashless travel, using a single prepaid electronic card to pass through the toll plazas on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR) and East Coast Road (ECR) from Chennai to P...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:13 PM PST
U.N. Secretary-General urges India to repeal law on homosexuality, says it is a matter of human rights
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:05 PM PST
The Union government has requested the Supreme Court to direct the search engines Google and Yahoo and Microsoft, which runs the Bing search platform, to reveal the monetary gains they made from a...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:26 PM PST
Even as the reading levels of schoolchildren have stagnated throughout the country, Tamil Nadu has seen sharp improvements.The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), 2014, says only an a...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:43 AM PST
Predicts Modi will start a revolution like Manmohan did in 1991, but at a faster pace
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:11 AM PST
This is the complete transcript of an interview of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to The Hindu and CNN-IBN in New Delhi on January 13, 2014.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:03 AM PST
Modi writes to Ranil, recalls cordial relations during earlier tenures
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:57 AM PST
In yet another case of a girl student allegedly being sexually harassed in a school by a member of the staff, police have registered a case against a female teacher on the basis of a complaint by...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:57 AM PST
Pulikeshi Nagar police have arrested a cook for stealing gold ornaments and other valuables worth Rs 1.5 crore and Rs. 10 lakh from the house of a senior executive of Ernst & Young. The...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:57 AM PST
Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday evening took stock of the investigations into the arrest of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, Church Street blast and the alleged Indian Mujahideen terror module.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:57 AM PST
Availability of essential commodities could be hit as truckers have announced indefinite strike from Friday midnight against restrictions imposed on entry of trucks to the city. Since Ja...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:56 AM PST
The Central Board of Secondary Education has made it mandatory for all affiliated schools to display warnings to ensure that children do not fall prey to the tobacco menace and are aware of the ri...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:54 AM PST
BBMP maintains complex, and is repaying the loan it took on the building from HUDCO
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:53 AM PST
Travelling to the land of Maple and snow will now be easier and quicker, with the inauguration of the visa office at the Consulate General of Canada here on Tuesday. It will cater to six vi...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:53 AM PST
Bengalurean Jyotsna Srikanth and her choir were part of the Musequality World Busk Week that set a world record
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:53 AM PST
Official allegedly sought bribe of Rs. 8,000 per acre
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:58 PM PST
Allows grant of mines, prospecting licence-cum mining lease
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:35 AM PST
U.P. govt. orders Magisterial probe
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:32 AM PST
Calling for a ban on religious conversion, the Shankaracharya of Puri, Swami Nischalananda Saraswati, said here on Tuesday that it was necessary to have a dialogue on the different aspects of the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:31 AM PST
The government excluded comments expressing political dissent, contrarian views and "decent" humour from what constitutes "grossly offensive" or "menacing" on social media, and thus, violative of...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
Police raided a club in Kadapa and arrested 29 persons on charges of gambling and seized 26 cell phones and Rs. 2.35 lakh from them.Police personnel, led by Kadapa DSP E.G. Ashok Kumar, One...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Deputy Chief Minister K.E. Krishna Murthy has said the revenue record system would be revamped in the State by doing away with archaic procedures.He added that revenue review meetings would...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
There is no let-up in the attacks by wild cats in villages close to forest areas near here. A leopard killed a buffalo calf near Jamboti village on Monday evening.The incident came to light...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
KASARAGOD Mughal: Pishach (Tamil, 4 shows) Mehboob: PK (Hindi, 4 shows) Kanyaka: Swaaha (M...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash has assured to simplify the process of issuing title deeds for the public. He added that the government will re-examine those orders, which made it difficult for thos...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST
Three persons, a cow and a calf were killed on the spot and 41 private mill workers were injured when a bus from a private mill and a goods van collided head-on at Thennampatti village near Vadamad...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
A large number of students of Kannantheri Panchayat Union Middle School took out a rally to create awareness on smokeless Bhogi celebration on Tuesday.The students carrying placards and bann...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
Even pedestrians find the going tough as intersection lacks zebra crossing
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:27 PM PST
Violence erupted near Bommayarpalayam on the ECR after a PMK functionary was hacked to death by a gang at Edayanchavadi near here on Tuesday evening.The victim was identified as Rajendiran,...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G. Parameshwara has said, the Congress will not indulge in the number game during its ongoing membership drive in the State, as was being done by the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
With the uncertainty lifted over the release of director Shankar's I , starring Vikram, the focus has now shifted to the film, which is expected to get a massive countrywide re...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
For those going out this week in Noida, the god of death Yamraj himself will serve as a reminder not to drive rashly, especially if you plan on having a few drinks.As part of its ongoing roa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:27 PM PST
The CPI(M) is making massive arrangements for the success of its first State conference in Telangana here from February 26 to March 1.The Telangana committee of the party has planned a demon...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
Commissioner of Civil Supplies C. Parthasarathi on Tuesday told officials to ensure that no eligible beneficiary was left out and that 6 kg of rice per member on each Food Security Card (FSC) was g...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Black flags were kept near the 'Vaadivasal' at Alanganallur
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST
Ensuring more transparency in procedures
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
South Central Railway will run Jansadharan special trains between Secunderabad and Kakinada town during Sankranti festival for clearing the rush of passengers.The schedule is as follows: Tra...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Colourful festivities marked the Sankranti celebrations at Kendriya Vidyalaya Malkapuram. On the occasion, students made the traditional 'pongal' dish and participated in dance programmes highlight...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST
More than 3 lakh children below the age of five will be administered oral polio drops on January 18 in the district, Collector K.V. Ramana said on Tuesday.As many as 12,068 volunteers will a...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Seven months after the blast at GAIL gas pipeline that took place in this village, some of the victims and family members of those killed in the mishap are expressing their anger against the offici...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
We are studying its pros and cons: Deshpande
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
Tension prevailed at Peringome and areas near Payyannur following incidents of bomb attacks and arson by workers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and the Bharatiya Janata Party (B...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Tourism Minister A.P. Anilkumar commissioned various development works at the Arthunkal beach on Monday evening.The activities were undertaken as part of the Alappuzha mega tourism circuit p...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Leftist cultural front orgainsations staged demonstration in support of writer Perumal Murugan, who is besieged for writing a novel titled 'Madhorubagan'.The book has depicted men and women...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
To understand the distribution and abundance of common as well as un-common bird species in the State, Pongal Bird Count 2015 would be conducted across the State from January 15 to 18.K. Gna...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
In a bid to raise awareness about safe driving, students in large numbers took out a rally organised here on Tuesday. The awareness rally that commenced near Rajaji Park on Palayamkottai Road was f...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
Meeting assumes significance as Yanam MLA has already sided with AINRC
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
'Subramanian Swamy was the original complainant'
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:50 PM PST
Demolition and sealing actions will be put on hold till the Delhi Assembly elections are over, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation decided on Tuesday. At a meeting of the Standing Commi...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
The film has an amazing cast and deals with mythology that almost everyone understands
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Buyers are no more interested in the local varieties, say traders
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Educational institutions here heralded the festive spirit of Pongal into their campuses on Tuesday with celebrations by students and faculty.From cooking pongal in mud pots to hosting compet...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
A 10-member peer team from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) will begin a four-day inspection of the Kerala University on January 14.This is preparatory to the NAAC re...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
The cancellation of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's scheduled meeting with the local entrepreneurs and people's representatives at The Gateway Hotel here on Tuesday disappointed the delegates...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Here's a chance to grab the choicest of silk saris on the last three days of the Silk Fab exhibition at Hotel Novotel.The exhibition that has received a good response from the public will re...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Road safety campaign

The Road Transport Authority (RTA) held a meeting to sensitise private contract bus drivers about road safety. More than 80 drivers attended the meeting...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST
The Pulivendula police on Tuesday apprehended a five-member vehicle-lifting gang and recovered two stolen motorcycles, a lorry and five cars worth more than Rs. 30 lakh from them.Pulivendula...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST
Deputy Chief Minister promises to solve all problems raised by locals
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
Minister for Horticulture and district in-charge Shamanur Shivashankarappa has instructed officials to issue suspension orders to assistant engineers in charge of construction of school buildings i...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
DCC fixes meeting with AICC representatives on Jan. 20
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Activists arrested for altercation in Kumarakom
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
The residents of Koolamedu and its surrounding villages near Attur hoisted black flags atop their houses demanding that permission be given to hold jallikattu in the village as part of Pongal celeb...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
Saranya Spinning Mills Private Limited here was given the 'Model 5s Company' award by ABK-AOTS Dosokai (Alumni Association of ABK and AOTS, Japan), Tamil Nadu centre, at a function held in Chennai...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
The district-level cultural competitions for panchayat-level self help group federations were conducted here on Tuesday as part of pongal celebrations.After V. Jayakumar, Project Officer (Ma...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
The Government has announced cash award and memento for the best journalist and best photo-journalist every year.A notification issued by Department of Information and Publicity said, "Gover...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:27 PM PST
Health Department puts distribution of Madilu kits, Thayi cards on hold
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST
The School Education Department has directed all private schools in the district to remain closed for the three government holidays for Pongal festival. A circular to this effect was issued to all...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
Code of conduct kicks in after poll date announced
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is making arrangements to cover more than 5.83 lakh children in the city as part of Intensive Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme on January 18. Th...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Directs her to be present in the court on January 21
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
The Medical College police on Tuesday arrested two juveniles in connection with a brawl on Saturday that left four people, including two autistic children, injured.Sheen Tharayil, Circle Ins...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Venue moved owing to CM's scheduled visit
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Extensive campaign must be done for the success of the Pulse Polio programme to be conducted all over the district on January 18, Collector N. Yuvaraj told officials. In addition to the 4,26,472 ch...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST
Several weapons, including a revolver, and Rs.1.56 lakh in cash was recovered from them
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
A herd of 13 elephants from Tamil Nadu forests entered the agricultural fields near Pedduru village of Ramakuppam mandal in Kuppam constituency at the dawn on Tuesday and destroyed paddy and maize...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, seeking Centre's intervention in the Mullaperiyar dam issue an...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
The Congress on Tuesday shot off a letter to the Election Commission of India requesting it to change the date of election to the Panaji Assembly constituency scheduled to be held on February 13.</...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
Unidentified persons vandalised the Bharatiya Janata Party's office at Uduma in the early hours of Tuesday.  The miscreants set afire some furniture and files kept in the party office locate...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Kodiyeri opens district meet
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
Three persons were suspended for negligence in the incident of wall collapse in a residential school that claimed the life of a five-year-old girl in Denkanikottai recently.Roja died on the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
Markets teeming with people; special puja arrangements on in temples
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
Travel to Tenkasi or Courtallam and Shencottah remains a nightmare
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
A foreign delegation of the Colombo Plan comprising 27 members from seven countries on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on Chief Minister N.Rangasamy at his office.Under the Technical Co-operati...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Official allegedly sought bribe of Rs. 8,000 per acre
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST
An injured cormorant was rescued near a temple on Raja Street here on Tuesday.According to Environment Conservation Group (ECG) president R. Mohammed Saleem, who went to the spot along with...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:17 PM PST
Concerned over seven swine flu deaths, the Rajasthan government on Tuesday decided to screen 50 houses around any household from where A(H1N1) influenza or swine flu cases have been reported.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:50 PM PST
A Delhi court on Tuesday imposed a cost of Rs. 3,000 on Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist Medha Patkar for non-appearance before it in cross-defamation cases filed by her and the head of an Ah...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
: The city police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the mystery behind the killing of 41-year-old man, M. Susheel Chakravarthy, reported at Gandhinagar last month after arresting five persons inclu...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
Move will demoralise officials, says CPI(M)
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
A total of 36 small vegetable shops were gutted at the English Club Daily Market near Sourashtra Higher Secondary School on Kamarajar Salai here in the early hours of Wednesday.The fire that...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
Says investigation into illegal conversion of government land under way
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Carnatic vocalist M. Balamuralikishna enthralled music lovers at a function held at the Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao Music College here on Tuesday. He began with 'Amma Ninnu Nammi Balamurali Ganammu...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
They go around the streets with a 'tambura' in one hand, 'chidathalu' in the other, and a round metal bowl on their head, singing keertanas in praise of Lord Vishnu.They find it difficult to...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Special bus services were launched by the TSRTC from Hanamkonda to the Kothakonda Veerabhadraswamy Temple in Karimnagar district.RTC regional manager E. Yadagiri flagged off the special bus...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST
The Gangavaram Circle Police on Tuesday busted a 11-member fake police gang and a Karnataka police constable after waylaying them on the National Highway near Bangarupalem, 25 km from here, and sei...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Increasing number of those killed in accidents at unmanned level crossings and railway tracks are going unidentified, according to senior Railway Police officers."Identification of bodies on...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government is trying to create obstacles before the pro-people projects initiated by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, th...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
The theatre should be able to express the plurality of society, stressed a discussion held at the seventh International Theatre Festival, here on Tuesday. It discussed the devices to take the theat...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan on Tuesday sought the intervention of Civil Supplies Minister Anoop Jacob to alleviate the fears of the residents of Walayar village in Palakkad district...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
Bus cleaner arrested
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Almost all farmers in this village cultivate turmeric
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
A training programme on recent techniques in hybrid watermelon cultivation would be conducted at Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Veterinary College and Research Institute premises here on January 22.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
South Asian Fishermen Federation (SAFF) has condemned the shooting incident near Vizhinjam in Kerala in which two fishermen from Kanyakumari sustained injuries on Monday evening.In a stateme...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:28 PM PST
The extent of sea water intrusion in the aquifer zone and the overexploitation of groundwater in Puducherry have set alarm bells ringing among authorities concerned, prompting action on a plan to m...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday adjourned till January 16, the preliminary hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking a direction to the Governor to frame guidelines to m...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:54 PM PST
This follows Corporation's warning on fining violators
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST
The District Administration and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board have asked residents to refrain from burning vehicle tyres, rubber, plastics and synthetic wastes, for Bhogi festival today. I...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:17 PM PST
Over 100 affected; U.P. Govt. orders magisterial probe
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
With the Assembly elections in the Capital around the corner, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday expressed concern over errors, such as same photographs appearing for different persons, found in the v...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
A five-year-old girl who accidentally fell in an open borewell at Govindpally thanda in Mohammadabad village of RR district reportedly on Tuesday, was rescued in the night.K. Anjali was trap...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday observed that Rapid Action Force (RAF) or National Disaster Response Force could not be entrusted with the task of managing the crowd along Path...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
District Collector Biju Prabhakar has said the recent Lok Ayukta notice issued to him over the Pattoor land issue was part of a conspiracy to tarnish his name.Mr. Prabhakar told mediapersons...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
The government has exhorted the industry to utilise the opportunities and concessions available for industrial development to achieve the targets set for the next decade.During an interactio...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Continuing the rich tradition of displaying dolls (Bommalakoluvu) Taduri Padmavathi and Ramachandra Rao have turned their house into a veritable show of various customs and celebration of festivals...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
The 16th Mobile Biodiversity Festival celebrations of the Deccan Development Society (DDS) will be flagged off on Wednesday from Hoselli village in Nyalkal mandal and will culminate in festivities...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST
The Prakasam police on Tuesday booked Telugu Desam Party ryots wing State president Karnam Balarama Krishnamurthy, his son Karnam Venkatesh and 25 others in connection with the clash with YSRC acti...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Assembly Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao inaugurated the 'Sankranti Sambaralu' at NTR Municipal Stadium here on Tuesday, kicking off a three-day event of colourful festivities.Ministers Prat...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
The Western Ghats is home to thousands of invaluable medicinal plants and action should be taken to conserve them, Vrakshalasha Andolan president Anant Ashisar has said.The Western Ghats sho...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Abdul Salam seeks exemption from KSR
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
The three-day district conference of the CPI(M) will begin on January 16 at Ottappalam, district secretary C.K. Rajendran said here on Tuesday.Addressing the media here, Mr. Rajendran said 3...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
SASTRA V-C distributes pongal gift among 600 people
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:27 PM PST
: Dengue-hit Rajapalayam is on the road to recovery as the crucial Vector Index (VI), which determines the disease outbreak threat, was on the decline on Tuesday.While undertaking an intensi...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
Having entrusted the maintenance of street lights with a private entity, under a public-private partnership arrangement, the City Corporation is keen to save on 42 per cent power usage.Schne...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST
Aayikudi police arrested three persons for allegedly cutting a sandalwood tree on a temple premises at Aayikudi near Tenkasi on Sunday night.The police said the three persons, who entered Sr...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
The State government and an American solar company, SunEdison, have signed an agreement to develop 5 gigawatts (5,000 megawatts) of renewable energy within five years across Karnataka.As per...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:04 PM PST
The police on Tuesday arrested a 21-year-old man on charges of murdering a woman and grievously injuring her children in Ambattur.The suspect, Vigneswaran alias Vikki, was apprehended at CMB...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST
The Health Department has completed its inquiry into the death of a 20-year-old woman who was admitted to Pollachi Government Hospital, following post-pregnancy complication on Sunday.Accord...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:17 PM PST
LUCKNOW: The State executive of Congress' Uttar Pradesh unit was finalised on Tuesday with Nirmal Khatri being retained as State president. With over 400-functionaries, including 34 vice-presidents...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
The Delhi BJP on Tuesday acquired its own Arvinder Singh Lovely, with the former Congress legislator from South Delhi's Deoli constituency and son of former Union Minister Buta Singh joining the pa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Tissues that can be donated include corneas, bones, tendons, heart-valves, veins, arteries and even skin
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:56 PM PST
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court asked the State government to inform the court in two weeks as to why could not the LPG and other petroleum products be brought under the provisions of the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST
Everyone appeared enthusiastic to support bank's growth
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has re-nominated N. Anand, who lost to AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa in the 2011 election, for the Srirangam by-poll.  Mr.Anand (33), son of Nagar...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) opened e-Connect lobby and Commercial Finance branch at its Patamata branch here on Tuesday.Speaking on the occasion, SBH Managing Director Santanu Mukherjee sa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Work under way at Chintapalli, GK Veedhi, and Hukumpeta
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
One of Telangana's biggest religious fairs, the Inavolu Mallikarjuna Swamy Jatara, began here on Monday in Inavolu village in Wardhannapet mandal.The jatara will go on till March 21 and its...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST
Close on the heels of the recovery of stolen goods worth Rs. 26.77 lakh, the Prakasam police on Tuesday recovered valuables worth Rs. 8.60 lakh with the arrest of seven habitual offenders on Tuesda...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Several aspects of Sankranti celebrations were displayed by the respective folk artistes and all walks of life during the one-day celebrations at the Krishna District Police Grounds here on Tuesday...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST
People — young and old — watched Mercury and Venus, with their naked eyes and through telescopes, at the sky-gazing programme organised by Poornaprajna Amateur Astronomers Club here on Tuesday. A l...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
The Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) is planning to relocate the infrastructure development projects planned at its headquarters here to the other campuses of the university...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Officials and cadres of various political parties in the district are in a piquant situation as they face a peculiar phenomenon of the district falling under the provisions of the model of conduct,...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
After having been badly hit by dengue fever, Rajapalayam is now getting attention of authorities on its bad drainage and garbage removal system.An emergency meeting is being convened next we...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Woollen blankets were gifted to 20 aged persons by Rekchand, businessman of Arcot on behalf of his father Ugamchand of Chennai in memory of his grandfather Mahaveer Chand at the Pongal celebrations...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
The 4-minute song spreads awarenesson free and compulsory education
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:04 PM PST
The St. Thomas Mount district police on Monday arrested a woman from Nanganallur on charges of stealing gold jewellery and other valuables from a house in the locality.Police said it was rep...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST
Programme will continue until the end of this month
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
The countdown to the Delhi University Executive Council elections began here on Tuesday, with the final list of short-listed candidates eligible to contest being declared.The Executive Counc...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday, taking a dig at Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal, said it will field people from Delhi for the upcoming Assembly polls and will "not have to bring peo...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
IT Minister asks civic body to take an initiative in providing medical insurance for them
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:55 PM PST
In a first of its kind, a cadaver hands transplant took place in a private hospital here on Tuesday. Oliparambil Binoy, a 26-year old glass designer from Varapuzha, who was declared brain dead on...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:15 PM PST
Undergraduate students of Mangalore University should compulsorily have 75 per cent attendance in each subject in a semester if they want to sit for examinations from 2015-16. The 75 per cent atten...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:19 PM PST
Railway employees attached to the Southern Railway Mazdoor Union (SRMU) staged demonstrations at various places in Tiruchi Railway Division on Tuesday condemning attempts to privatise railways and...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
The agricultural fields in different mandals of Krishna district, which is giving way to real estate ventures, have become the grounds for hosting cockfights this Sankranti. The habitations on the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Fishing technocrats have called for diversification of fishing methodology from Visakhapatnam to effect a five-fold increase in fish landings compared to bottom trawling.It is estimated that...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST
Come Sankranti and the womenfolk here are busy preparing the sakinalu , the traditional crispy snack unique to the State and ubiquitous in households in the district.The...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST
It is election time again in the urban constituency of Tirupati, with the Election Commission making the announcement on Monday evening to hold by-election in Tirupati on February 13.The ele...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Bahuroopi, the six-day drama festival, inaugurated
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST
MANGALURU Mallika Kala Vrinda, Kadri: Religious and cultural festival to mark Kadri Sri Manjunatheshwara Temple annual festival, Bhajane, Mahila Sabha, 5 p.m.; Tulunadad...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
'Cover pensioners under medical insurance scheme'
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The play Moment Just Before Death is about an elderly man's journey through various facets of his life.Director Liju Krishna incorporates properties, images ad dimensions of visual lane to c...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Army recruitment rally will be held from 5 a.m. on January 18 at Perambalur. In the rally to be held till January 24, youth from Ariyalur, Perambalur, Tiruchi, Karur, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Puduk...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Virudhunagar Collector V. Rajaram literally caught the dengue virus on Tuesday during a surprise check in a house in Rajapalayam.During an inspection carried out to weed out mosquito breedin...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
District Collector V. Dakshinamoorthy has placed two anganwadi workers here under suspension on Tuesday.During his inspection of the anganwadi centre in Koraiyaru Panchayat Union Primary Sch...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
Had someone happened to witness the traditional sports organised at Anna Stadium here on Monday, he could have easily understood how the electronic gadgets and the Internet joined hands to destroy...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:18 PM PST
In a major blow to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), four former MLAs of Raj Thackeray's party on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.Among them, Pravin Darekar, former MLA from Ma...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
A 10-year-old girl died after she reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while playing in her school in Dasarahalli on Tuesday.Jayashree K.R., head of Preethi English Medium School, said Haris...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
A councillor of Ramanagaram City Municipal Council was hacked to death by a gang of unidentified miscreants on Tuesday. A senior police official suspected that Nizam Pasha (35) was killed by Samad,...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:04 PM PST
In the wake of writer Perumal Murugan's unconditional apology and withdrawal of all his published works, The Hindu Lit for Life 2015 panel 'To Burn & To Ban: Literature at Stak...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST
The police arrested two persons on Tuesday in connection with chain snatching incidents in the jurisdiction of three city police stations on Monday.Six hoursIn just six hours t...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
A week-long conference will see representation from 30 countries
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
Kamal Chakra Khativ stands behind a black SUV outside the headquarters of the Bharatiya Janata Party's state office holding up a thick wad of survey sheets. He is the national president of the Akhi...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
He asks government to take a 'holistic view' of occupation of different types of lands in conjunction with layout and building regularisation schemes
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:54 PM PST
The most audacious aspect of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been its knowledge base, and success in bringing to town eminent artists and curators along with a cluster of contemporary artistic conce...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST
A 25-year-old labourer from Uttar Pradesh, who reportedly resisted an attack, was found dead in the bathroom of her house in Meenakaliya under Panambur police station limits here on Tuesday....
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
The city police have announced that all buses proceeding in the Thanjavur and Pudukottai routes would be operated from temporary bus stands on January 17 and 18 to ease congestion in view of the Po...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST
Cadaver transplantation is set to receive a big boost in the State, with the scheduled launch of the 'Jeevandan' at NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS) later this month.Decks have bee...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Nearly 10,000 people living in the vicinity of the yard at Danvaigudem reel under air pollution
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST
Facilities to come up at three major locations in the city
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST
Popular Telugu novelist Adharapurapu Tejovathy has been selected for Spoorthi Award instituted by the Bommidala Srikrishnamurthy Foundation.Dr. Tejovathy was chosen for her contribution to t...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST
The District and Sessions Court granted bail to surrendered Maoist Noor Zulfikar alias Sridhar in two cases here on Tuesday.In one of the cases, Zulfikar was charged with illegal possession...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Hartal at Neendakara, Shakthikulangara harbours today
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
About 289 tonnes of Amma cement is available for sale in Ariyalur district. One individual could purchase up to 750 bags of cement at the rate of Rs.190 per bag.A.Saravanavelraj, District Co...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Residents of Karatazhaganpatti village laid siege to Dindigul Government Hospital on Tuesday, demanding registration of murder case against persons responsible for the death of Sivakumar (26) of Ka...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
The City Municipal Corporation has reworked the proposal to re-lay the roads dug for under ground drainage system from Rs. 16.30 crore to Rs. 12.69 crore.This comes after the Commissionerate...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
School misses chance to create record by a whisker
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
Travelling to the land of Maple and snow will now be easier and quicker, with the inauguration of the visa office at the Consulate General of Canada here on Tuesday.It will cater to six visa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:04 PM PST
The rhythmic, haunting beats of parai , a traditional folk percussion instrument, resonated at an apartment complex in Koyambedu on Tuesday.A group of seven artistes dem...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:59 PM PST


Niklesh V. Pajpaye (21) a final year B.Sc. Physics student at a private college in the city was found hanging on Tuesday morning. The police, who recovered a sui...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
A woman made of brass lies half-suspended in the air, with tattered remains of her clothes, made of steel. Hands, symbolising hope, can be seen springing out of the ground. Will they help her or no...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:12 PM PST
The Congress was chucked out of power solely due to a strong anti-incumbency wave and it would resurrect itself on the shoulders of a sustained campaign promising able governance by 'tried and test...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
A Division Bench of Hyderabad High Court comprising Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice S.V. Bhatt, sitting in vacation court, on Tuesday declared that orders in the writ appeal filed by the f...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST
Has defence orders for just Rs.3 crore
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Use of 'disproportionate force' while firing on fishing boat
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
Three panels have been formed to check code violation
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
The tragic death of a NSS volunteer, who accidentally drowned in a canal while participating in the NSS special winter camp in Mudigonda mandal on Monday, sparked protests by the activists of the S...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Naravaripalle, the native village of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, was decked up for Sankranti celebrations .It is for the first time that Mr. Naidu is scheduled to set his foot at th...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
Six-lane ORR reduces to two lanes as it approaches the bridges
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
The Vallarpadam Container Terminal Road isturning into a hotbed for criminal activities
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Students must identify their set of skills and focus their attention in achieving their goal of either pursuing higher education or endeavouring to become entrepreneurs providing jobs to others, Di...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Thousands of college students took out a massive rally in the town on Tuesday for creating awareness on road safety as part of Road Safety Week celebrations here on Tuesday. Flagged off by Collecto...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
Special court judge for corruption cases P. Mohan awarded two years imprisonment to a cooperative society secretary for receiving bribe.The prosecution case is that Chandrasekar (57), who wa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
Villagers await SC nod for conducting the rural sport
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
"When will father come back?" This simple question from her five-year-old son Abhro Sikdar (5), has become uncomfortable for Namita Sikdar, wife of Khokon Sikdar.Mr. Sikdar, a construction w...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
Bengalurean Jyotsna Srikanth and her choir were part ofthe Musequality World Busk Week that set a world record
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:04 PM PST
M. Vijesh (31), a fisherman from Kasimedu, does not understand why his catch is dwindling every year.He has been going out to sea for nearly 15 years now, and he still has no answer for it....
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:58 PM PST
Velumayil (60), a plastic utensils vendor of Siddhapudur, was killed in a road accident at the Coimbatore Central Prison on Tuesday night. The Traffic Investigation Wing Police (Central) said that...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
As many as 21 private cabs being operated illegally by a popular web app-based service provider have been impounded by the enforcement wing of Delhi Government's Transport Department officials over...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
About 37 lakh poor people will benefit from 'Palle Pragathi' or 'Telangana Rural Inclusive Growth' programme under which producers' organisations will be formed and training imparted to the members...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:53 PM PST
Holds talks with representatives of local bodies
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
A Lucknow-based company has come forward to provide intra-State connectivity by operating flights between the three airports of the State. Initially, the flights to be operated by Awadh Ifraland Lt...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Members of the public, particularly book lovers of Thuraiyur, are sore over the non-utilisation of the government branch library at Thuraiyur which was built a year ago.A cross-section of me...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
With the controversy over the traditional cockfights during Sankranti, associated with betting and revelry, refusing to die down, the law enforcement agencies in the West Godavari district are caug...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Collector Rahul Bojja has directed the officials to identify buildings that can be sold at mandal and division level so that the money could be used for constructing integrated buildings. Presiding...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Ban or no ban, the State-sponsored Sankranti Sambaralu did not pass off without the traditional cockfights in the city on Tuesday.The adage old habits die hard seemingly came true among a se...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
Batri, a locality in Ward No. 31 of Ballari City Corporation, woke up to shocking news on Tuesday morning. Six persons from the locality, all devotees of Swamy Ayyappa, were killed and four suffere...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
Former MLA and freedom fighter P.M. Chikkaboraiah (94), died in the city on Tuesday. He is survived by a son and a daughter.He was born at Paduvarahalli in the city on October 12, 1921, and...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST
MALAYALAM Mayapuri: Zeenath Screen 1 (2354233) 6.15 p.m. Six: Savitha (2374334) 12 noon. Nagaravaridhi Naduvil Njaan:...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Twenty quacks have been arrested by the police in Perambalur district in the past two days as part of a State-wide drive. Tirumal, Resident Medical Officer, and Sasikala, Superintendent, Government...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Collector N. Venatachalam distributed free goats worth Rs.83.29 lakh to 631 beneficiaries at various functions held in Mayiladumparai union near here on Tuesday.He said that 54 beneficiaries...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
Two jaggery manufacturing units that were producing adulterated products in Omalur were sealed by Food Safety officials on Monday.A team led by T. Anuradha, Designated Food Safety Officer, T...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
Farmers attached to the Ulundurpet Regulated Market Committee blocked traffic in front of the committee premises to voice their disillusionment with lack of demand for their produce on Tuesday....
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:06 PM PST
Blaming the students and some members of the Jadavpur University Teachers' Association (JUTA) for his resignation, outgoing Jadavpur University Vice-Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti on Tuesday terme...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
In yet another instance of a girl student allegedly being sexually harassed in a school by a member of the staff, police have registered a case against a female teacher on the basis of a complaint...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:34 PM PST
The suspense over the issue of revoking the ban on jallikattu continues, even as the Pongal festival is approaching.As on date, there is no official word from the Central government on the i...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
A suspected leopard attack near Anamalai has left four persons including two women injured.According to sources, the animal attacked a few persons who were sleeping outside their homes. It t...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
Water supply will be affected in parts of South and Central Delhi this week due to maintenance and repair work by the Delhi Jal Board.Maintenance at the Sonia Vihar water treatment plant wil...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Apart from a deluge of complaints about corruption among government officials, the toll-free number (23454071) announced by the Telangana Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, also received an occa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST
The Cancer Hospital and Research Centre that was part of the Mission 676 scheme of the government continues to be at the foundation stone stage four months after it was laid.Chief Minister O...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:01 PM PST
Kerala leaders seek Presidential assent for Plachimada Bill
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
The Thuraiyur municipal authorities have intensified precautionary measures to check incidence of dengue in the town. Pamphlets were distributed among members of the public under a door-to-door cam...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
An active member of the Galikonda area committee of the banned CPI (Maoist), Pangi Bhaskara Rao, was arrested at Chintapalli, while a member of Kalimela area committee Korra Santhi, who was active...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST
Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu has hinted at reducing allocations to unproductive departments in the forthcoming budget, which will be a zero-based budget.In an informal meeting wit...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
The new Collector of the district P. Satyanarayana Reddy and his team have a challenging tenure ahead. The Telangana government announced the 6,800 MW thermal plant at Damarcherla mandal where the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan on Tuesday advised the State government to ensure marketing facilities to the horticulture farmers of Anantapur district.Speaking at the 'Sankranti Sambaralu' orga...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
Taking exception to the ongoing debate on having a Dalit Chief Minister, leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha M. Mallikarjun Kharge sought to know whether the Chief Minister's post was vacant.</...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
Move necessitated by withdrawal of bus services by private operators
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST
GENERAL Kerala Management Association: Annual National Management Convention, inauguration, Le Meridien International Convention Centre, 6.30 p.m. Sr...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
Chandy and Achuthanandan meet Modi
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
The Kamban Academy has decided to honour Tarun Vijjay, the Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) MP from Uttarakhand, with a title for espousing the cause of Tamil language in general and Saint Poet Thiruv...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
One second-class sleeper coach will be added temporarily to train no: 11013 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Kurla) – Coimbatore Express on January 16 and 17 from Lokmanya Tilak (Kurla) Terminus and in tra...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
Villupuram has got its fifth Industrial Training Institute at Chinna Salem to promote technical education and employment opportunities. Rural Industries Minister P. Mohan inaugurated the ITI in the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
Insensitivity of city police has come to the fore once again. HSR Layout police refused to take a complaint from an 'assaulted' woman on Monday night. Citing 'jurisdictional issues', they asked her...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:27 PM PST
The condition of P. Chendur Pandian, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister, was declared critical on Tuesday.The Minister, who was first admitted to Fortis Malar Hospital here,...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
Special Judge of the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) court G. Senthil Kumar on Tuesday sentenced N. Ayyamuthu, a former head constable of Perur Police Station, to two years rigorous imprison...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Patel Nagar Assembly seat Hazari Lal Chahuan has been booked for dowry harassment after his daughter-in-law accused him and five other family members of torturing her...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
A joint venture agreement to revive the Ramagundam unit of Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd in Karimnagar will be signed on Wednesday by FCIL, National Fertilisers Ltd (NFL) and Engineers India...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
In a couple of months, LPG tankers operating along the State's roads are likely to get safety features including anti-lock braking system (ABS) and GPS-driven vehicle tracking system (VTS).T...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
With the Centre giving the go-ahead for introducing proxy or e-voting for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), the State government may pilot one of these options in the civic body elections due in Septemb...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Students' Exnora of Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College organised an awareness programme on "smokeless" Bhogi festival on Tuesday.R. Sakthi, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, M. Ja...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
After sorting out of the teething problems, Visakhapatnam Port Trust is all set to issue Letter of Award to Vadinar Oil Terminals, part of Essar Group, to launch work on development and operation o...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:27 PM PST
A student of the Government High School in Urgampet under the Robertsonpet police limits in Kolar Gold Fields suffered head injury after a teacher allegedly hit him with a writing pad in the examin...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Pausami Basu has assumed charge as the Joint Collector of Karimnagar district on Tuesday evening.The 2007 batch IAS officer had worked as Joint Collector in Warangal district before her post...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
As the model code of conduct came into force with the announcement of by-election to Tirupati Assembly constituency, there was a palpable disinterest over 'Sankranti Sambaralu' arranged at Shilpara...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
Molkalmuru silk sari, a popular product of Chitradurga district, though has gained substantial popularity in central and southern Karnataka, is yet to become popular in north Karnataka.N. Tu...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
Actor and theatre personality Naseeruddin Shah on Tuesday said that people who opt to make films their profession must have a strong "obsession" for films. Don't come to this profession if the ferv...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
: With just a few months left for the local body elections, the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) lost power in the Mavelikkara Municipality on Tuesday in a no-confidence motion moved by the Com...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:17 PM PST
A primary charge-sheet was filed in Berhampur Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) court by the police against Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda after almost six months of his arrest in the city...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
People are queuing up at 'Nilavembu Kashayam' stalls in Rajapalayam following dengue outbreak.Special distribution points have been established across the town by the Health Department to ma...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
200 residents of E. Meenakshipuram submit petition to Collector
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
It seems the caste outfits have hounded writer Perumal Murugan to give up his writing career.According to officials, almost all protesters at the "peace meeting" held at the Namakkal Collect...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
RELIGION Sri Bashyakara Kainkarya Sabha: Tirupaavai by Ramanuja Patrachariar, Sri Venkatachalapathi Temple, BHEL Township, 6.30 p.m. Bharatiya Vidya...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
'State school festival jury selected with care'
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
Residents of J.P. Nagar and Jayanagar are up in arms against Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) that is replacing underground drainage pipes in those areas.The residents' grou...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:46 PM PST
IT bellwether Tata Consultancy Services finally broke its silence on the alleged large scale layoffs by the firm and clarified that these are entirely false and baseless claims.The IT firm w...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST
Representatives of job working power loom units in Tirupur and Coimbatore districts have appealed to the Chief Minister and Electricity Minister to provide subsidy to the power loom units towards e...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
The West District Police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly murdering a senior citizen and decamping with cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees from her house in Punjabi Bagh on Monday.

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
The city police on Tuesday caught 11 persons for their involvement in a robbery reported at a house in Saidabad last month. Ten bullets of 7.62 calibre, 105 grams of gold, two daggers, a sickle and...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:49 PM PST
Minister for Fisheries, Ports and Excise K. Babu has said that the State government will submit a memorandum to the Union government seeking to reverse the recent decision to cut the grants and sub...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
The Minority Welfare Department will reimburse the course and hostel fees of the minority community students who join the civil service examination training programme at the Kerala Civil Service Ac...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Vehicular traffic on the bridge near Tiruchi railway junction will be stopped from January 16 to 18 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. This is in view of the work of laying steel girders for the new multi-level...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Singapore delegation all praise for rich cultural traditions on show
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
There is no better city in the world geographically, CM tells investors
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Congress leader and former minister Baswaraju Saraiah and his followers staged a protest demonstration opposing theroad widening proposed by the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, here on T...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Progressive Democratic Front MLCs have made a representation to Chief Secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao demanding that the government implement the Tenth Pay Revision Commission recommendations. PDF MLA...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
Rs. 35 crore allotted for Nemmadi Uru
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
Pilgrims camping at Sabarimala to witness Makarajyoti
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:16 PM PST
To leave Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Ganjam districts
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday apprehended six Sri Lankan fishermen on board a deep-sea fishing boat off Nagapattinam coast.Commandant Udhal Singh, Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Station...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
Two of his assistants allegedly suffered stab injuries
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
The free call scheme provided by BSNL for the police, and their family members has become an instant hit with the company getting nearly 1,000 applications.Under the closed user group (CUG)...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
It will be sold at Rs.190 per kg for low income group and middle class people
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
Titles on art literature, music main attractions
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
The Pulikeshi Nagar police have arrested a cook for stealing gold ornaments and other valuables worth Rs 1.5 crore and Rs. 10 lakh from the house of a senior executive of Ernst & Young.Mahes...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST
The Madras High Court on Tuesday declined to direct authorities to display the portrait of Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam alone and remove that of the former Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, from gov...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
Members of the Advocates for Social Justice staged a demonstration here on Tuesday in support of writer Perumal Murugan.The protestors led by the State general secretary of Thanthai Periyar...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:52 PM PST
A 51-year-old Delhi Police assistant sub-inspector was killed and two of his colleagues sustained injuries after a speeding truck hit a police control room van near the Delhi-Noida border in Mayur...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
The Hyderabad Prohibition and Excise (Enforcement) teams conducted raids at different parts in the city and seized 6,296 sachets of illicitly-distilled (ID) liquor, three auto-rickshaws and four sc...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
The Bar Council of Kerala (BCK) has initiated suo motu proceedings against A. Shajudeen, public prosecutor at the Assistant Sessions Court, now Neyyattinkara, under suspension.He was arreste...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
'Welfare schemes being diluted or put on backburner'
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Nandagiri Nagar was part of Akkayyapalem during pre-Independence days
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
With hardly 26 hours for the Makavailakku festival, the Sabarimala Sannidhanam is overflowing with Ayyappa devotees from different parts of the country.Scores of pilgrims are camping in the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
As part of giving a boost to the tourism industry in tail-end Chittoor district, the district Tourism officials are holding a three-day Sankranti Sambaralu at the foot of Puligundu hillock, 15 km f...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Telangana Rashtra Samiti's political clout in Hyderabad received a boost after four of the candidates it backed in the Secunderabad Cantonment elections, emerged victorious on Tuesday.Ahead...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
The Chairman of the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) S.G. Nanjayanamath gave broad hints of overhauling the allotment of the houses and house sites to the beneficiaries in different ongoing and new ho...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
History exhibition in connection with CPI(M) district conference
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
N.K. Premachandran, MP, has called for a high-level probe into the incident in which personnel from the Coast Guard opened fire at a fishing vessel off the Vizhinjam coast on Monday evening injurin...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:15 PM PST
The CBI has intensified its probe into the multi-crore chit fund scam by conducting raids at 14 places in Odisha on Tuesday. Special Investigation Teams of the CBI conducted searches in h...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
Sri M of Manav Ekta Mission began his 'Walk of Hope' from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on Monday to spread the message of peace, secularism and unity, transcending religious, racial, cultural and ideolog...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
With a focus on streamlining manufacturing process for better productivity and organisation growth, the Confederation of Indian Industry, Salem, organised a day-long workshop in the city on Tuesday...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
Condemning the death threat to writer Perumal Murugan and burning of his book 'Maadhorubhagan,' members of Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists' Association staged demonstration here on Tuesd...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
Three more goats which were injured when street dogs mauled them in Thuraiyeri village in Chettiappanur village panchayat near Vaniyambadi succumbed to the injuries on Monday night, taking the toll...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:22 PM PST
Festival managers should rethink the practice of using elephants for mere show of pomp and ensure that they are employed only for unavoidable rituals or religious ceremonies considering the huge st...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday took stock of the investigations into the arrest of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the Church Street blast and the alleged Indian Mujahideen terror module. Home Minist...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
In a major order, the Madras High Court on Tuesday granted an interim injunction for four weeks restraining software major, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), from terminating the services of an empl...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:51 PM PST
The accused hid a country-made firearm under his shawl
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
BJP national executive member Nagam Janardhan Reddy rubbished Energy Minister C. Laxma Reddy's claim that dewatering works at the third lift of the Kalwakurthy irrigation project had commenced on J...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

High Court denies advance bail

The Madras High Court Bench here on Tuesday dismissed an anticipatory bail application filed by former Tiruchi Mayor Emily Richard (69) and he...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the government will focus on promoting products companies to ensure sustainable growth of the IT indus...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
One of the famous landmarks of Nandagiri Nagar in Akkayyapalem is 'chekkudurayi' building. The first-of-its-kind stone-studded façade was built in 1978 by Boddeti Appa Rao (I), a former railway emp...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:04 PM PST
The Karimnagar police have foiled Maoists' attempts to revive party activities in the district with the arrest of three persons, including a militant, and recovery of huge quantity of ammunition an...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
The historic temple of Raghunayaka at Chadalavada in Prakasam district has been spruced up for 'Goda Kalyanam' on the Bhogi day on January 14.The Raghunayaka Seva Samiti has made elaborate a...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Tuesday announced it was fielding sitting MLC and the Government Whip K.V.V. Satyanarayana Raju (Chaitanya Raju) as its candidate in the ensuing elections for the Go...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST
Pointing his finger at Minister for Water Resources M.B. Patil for not booking criminal cases against the contractor and government officials responsible for the breach of 9A Distributory of Naraya...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
Sets model for other major airports to emulate
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
The annual Kottarakara convention of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church will be held at the Pulamon Christian Centre at Kottarakara from January 18 to 25.General convener of the event Fr....
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST
: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his elder brother Prem Patnaik on Tuesday donated their ancestral house 'Anand Bhawan' at Biju Patnaik Square to the people of Odisha for converting it into a mu...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST
Two persons were arrested on a charge of stealing a country-made gun from a farm house in Periyakulam on Tuesday. A single-barrel gun was recovered from them. The arrested were Anand (26) of Vadipa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST
Indian Bank has set a target of Rs. 3 lakh crore business, said B. Rajkumar, Executive Director of the bank, here on Monday.30th branchDistrict Collector V. Dakshinamoorthy ina...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST
RELIGION Selva Vinayagar Temple: Discourse on 'Aanmeega Jothidam' by P.A. Ponnaiah, Railway Colony, 7.30 p.m. Thiruvalluvar Mandram: Discours...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST
The Chief Engineer of the Water Resources Organisation (WRO), Public Works Department, Chennai Zone has approved a proposal of the VIT University, Vellore to undertake cleaning of the bushes that h...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:22 PM PST
The Kerala Arabic Teachers Federation (KATF) has asked the government to organise the Arabic Sahithyolsavam for students in the higher secondary category as well in the State School Arts Festival a...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST
Allow trucks to ply between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m: FKCCI
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:16 PM PST
Perumal Murugan, whose Tamil novel Madhorubhagan  has come under attack from Hindutva and caste outfits, has announced that he will give up writing."Perumal Murugan the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST
A 19-month-old child from Freedom Fighter's Enclave is among the 10 new swine flu cases reported in the Capital on Tuesday.Four persons have already died due to the infection since the begin...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
With many members away from capital,the meeting remains inconclusive
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST
Lok Satta Party Founder president Jayaprakash Narayan has welcomed the Supreme Court's suggestion to provide voting right to all the non-resident Indians living abroad.Voting right for NRIs...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:13 PM PST
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tarun Vijay, who is on a yatra to propagate the 'Tirukkural,' said that Tamils did not have to demand making of saint-poet Tiruvalluvar's work a national book, as its sig...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST
The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) and Kerala Swathantra Matsya Thozhilali Federation (KSMTF) have protested against the firing by the Coast Guard on a fishing boat, resulting in injuries to two...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:31 PM PST
Local Ashore B team won the Eastern Naval Command cricket championship 2014-15, beating NOIC (APD) in the final at the Command stadium here on Tuesday. The two teams and Fleet A, Fleet B, Local Ash...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:24 PM PST
Nalgonda police have arrested two fake Maoists who put up posters on the name of Maoists at Ouravani village of Narketpally mandal 20 days ago. The accused have been identified as N. Uadyakiran Red...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST
Artistes receive praise from officials and political representatives
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:22 AM PST
The Janata Parivar is moving closer to a merger of six of its constituents, senior Janata Dal (United) sources told The Hindu, adding that the final shape is likely to emerge by January-end.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:21 AM PST
Centre mulling PPP model to turn KVIC into a profit-making body
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:47 AM PST
State has suffered seven A(H1N1) deaths so far; over 12 positive cases under treatment
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:44 AM PST
In a major blow to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), four former MLAs of Raj Thackeray's party on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.Among them, Pravin Darekar, former MLA from M...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:42 AM PST
The Centre has identified five areas for the Kyoto-Varanasi partnership, based on which the Japanese will extend their expertise to help rejuvenate the holy city.These include solid-liquid...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:03 AM PST
Kamala Harris (50), California's Attorney General of Indian descent, has announced her intention to run for the seat of the retiring U.S. Senator from the state, Barbara Boxer. If she win...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:46 AM PST
Even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was wrapping up a high-level visit to Pakistan, the Department of State has designated Maulana Fazlullah, commander of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:02 AM PST
While the question of funding for developing countries remains a big question mark, Sir David King, special representative on climate change UK, has ruled out a separate allocation of funds in add...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:18 AM PST
Fine for smoking in public places raised to Rs. 1000 from Rs. 200
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:15 AM PST
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday arrested an Income-Tax officer at Khatima in Uttarakhand on charges of demanding and receiving a bribe of Rs.1 lakh from a person on the pretext of...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:07 AM PST
The Hindutva group had last month announced that it would build a temple for Nathuram Godse, the killer of Mahatma Gandhi, in the office premises.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:50 AM PST
In the wake of the attacks in Paris, people talk of free speech and what it really entails
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:30 AM PST
African mystic singer Solo Cissokho and the Manganiyar Ketha Khan believe that music brings the world together
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:29 AM PST
The Foundation will assist in providing sanitation in Uttarakhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal under the 'Swacch Bharat' mission.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:21 AM PST
The annual TOTO awards was a celebration of young talent and recognition of their skills
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:14 AM PST
If you could wrap up the essence of modern urban life in one word it would be 'package'. From packaging the tangible (practically everything we eat and use is sheathed in plastic) we've moved to pa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:14 AM PST
A Lucknow-based company has come forward to provide intra-State connectivity by operating flights between the three airports of the State. Initially, the flights to be operated by Awadh Ifraland Lt...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:09 AM PST
This talented young woman is all about customisation for a range of products
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:55 AM PST
'Maaya Chitram' is an unusual launchpad for debutante actor Rukshar
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:49 AM PST
Viswanathan Anand moved his coins at an event in the city recently to raise funds for children with cleft palates.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:48 AM PST
To head party's 101-member campaign committee marking dawn of a new leadership
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:42 AM PST
Meet Krishan Myer, who has developed a prototype for a movable wooden house which can be used as a temporary shelter.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:52 PM PST
He was reportedly upset over the denial of ticket to his father Buta Singh in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:34 PM PST
We all know Goundamani is doing a full-fledged comedy film as hero in 49-O; the shoot is over and post-production is almost complete as well. The comic actor has now signed another film as...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:39 PM PST
Russell Peters on his audience, Indianness and what drives him as a comedian
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:11 AM PST
The Finance Minister said the Centre would extend all support to the Trinamool-government to promote industry and boost growth in the state.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:01 AM PST
A 10-year-old girl collapsed and died while playing in a school in Peenya on Tuesday. The deceased, Harshitha, a class four student was the daughter of Manjunath, an employee in a garment...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:39 AM PST
P. Chendur Pandian, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister, who fell ill on Monday, was on Tuesday declared critical.    The Minister, who was originally admitt...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:39 AM PST
Bestselling novelist James Patterson says his favourite genre now is his the Middle School series for children
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:50 AM PST
A councillor of Ramanagaram City Municipal Council was brutally hacked to death in the town on Tuesday afternoon, by a gang of yet unidentified miscreants. A senior police official suspects...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:48 AM PST
French artist B2Fays captures her artistic journey in three stages, using different media
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:35 PM PST
This vulnerable tribal group has been left out in the cold since the retirement of the development officer about a decade ago. The rate of death due to seasonal diseases is also proportionately higher in this PVTG. For example, about 20 Kolams died in Jainoor and Sirpur (U) mandals out of a total of 65 in the last epidemic season.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:49 AM PST
The mission is being awarded for putting a spacecraft into orbit around Mars on the very first try and for taking full disk images
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:45 AM PST
Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FKCCI) requested Bangalore City Traffic police to lift the ban and allow the movement of goods truck. The members of the Federa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:34 AM PST
IntelliPaper is a paper USB drive that is embedded with memory chips
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:42 AM PST
An active member of Galikonda area committee of banned CPI (Maoist) Pangi Bhaskara Rao was arrested at Chintapalli, while a member of Kalimela area committee Korra Santhi, who was active in Malkan...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:36 AM PST
Batri, a locality in the 31st ward of the Ballari City Corporation, woke up on Tuesday morning to the shock of the death of six Shabari Malai pilgrims and injury of four teenagers, in a road accid...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:35 AM PST
Taking exception to the ongoing debate on whether a Dalit would become the Chief Minister of Karnataka, former union minister and floor leader of Congress in the Loksabha, Mallikarjun Kharge has s...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:34 AM PST
RELIGIONManasollasa: Discourse by Shivarama Agnihotri, Adhyatma Prakasha Karyalaya, 2nd Block, Thyagarajanagar, 9.30 a.m.Thiruppavai: Discourses by G.T.Nar...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:33 AM PST
An Assistant Manager of a private company in Lal Bagh Road was thrashed by women colleagues after he was allegedly reported misbehaving with one of them. The police gave the details of t...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:06 AM PST
Promoting Visakhapatnam as an ideal investment destination to Singapore investors, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu hosted an interactive session between industrialists and a visiting Singapore...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:18 AM PST
Jammu and Kashmir's former chief minister and National Congress leader Omar Abdullah, on Tuesday, said his party has written a letter to the state Governor N.N. Vohra, pledging support to Mufti-le...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 AM PST
Divers retrieved the crashed AirAsia plane's second black box from the bottom of the Java Sea on Tuesday, giving experts essential tools to piece together what brought Flight 8501 down.The...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:21 AM PST
Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Bhavani Singh on Tuesday filed in the Karnataka High Court their objections to DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan'...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:09 AM PST
Lumosity is a free training app that exercises your cognitive faculties
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:48 AM PST
Our security forces are responding appropriately, says Defence Minister
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:43 AM PST
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here on Tuesday that India should lead the campaign to arrive at a "universal and meaningful agreement" at the U.N. Climate Change Conference to b...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:46 AM PST
Prominent speakers at the inaugural event of the 3-day national seminar on "Shaikh-ul-Islam Sayyad Muhammed Madani Miya Ashrafi al Jilani: Shaks Aur Aks" called upon the Muslim community members to...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:46 AM PST
A student of Government High School at Urgampet under Robertsonpet police limits in Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) was injured when a teacher allegedly assaulted him in the examination hall on Tuesday.</...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:45 AM PST
The Chairman of the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB), S.G. Nanjayanamath gave hints of overhauling the allotment of houses and house-sites to beneficiaries in different ongoing and new-housing projec...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:44 AM PST
The South-East Division police have written a letter to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to take disciplinary action against an Executive Engineer whose negligence lead to the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:44 AM PST
A 24-year-old employee of a private firm was found brutally murdered in Bommasandra Industrial Area on Tuesday morning. The incident was reported in Hebbagodi police station around 7 a.m....
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:43 AM PST
Sports meets help developing good bond between officers and personnel at lower levels, said Inspector General of Police (Central Range) Arun Chakravarthy. "It creates feeling of oneness a...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:43 AM PST
The Telangana State Government on Tuesday cancelled transfer of Adilabad Collector M. Jagan Mohan after two Ministers from the district impressed upon Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao the need...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:43 AM PST
According to the Annual Status of Education Report 2014, reading levels of Class V children in Tamil Nadu has shot up from 31.9 per cent in 2013 to 46.9 per cent in 2014
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:42 AM PST
The special investigation team (SIT), probing the Muzaffarnagar riots, has given a clean chit to six accused in connection with a murder case during the communal violence in the district.SI...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:25 AM PST
Chittoor District police on Tuesday arrested a 11-member gang of fake policemen, and a Karnataka police constable after waylaying them on National Highway near Bangarupalem, about 25 km from here.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:42 AM PST
The statement comes as a response to criticism Secretary of State John Kerry and US President Barack Obama have been facing for not being present at the anti-terror march over the weekend in Paris.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:35 PM PST
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday called for "both structural changes and changes in leadership styles" in the party even as vice-president Rahul Gandhi maintained that the challenge for...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:14 AM PST
A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges against the driver of U.S.-based cab service provider Uber for alleged rape and kidnapping, amid some drama by him inside the court room. Addition...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:40 AM PST
After Goa CM said homosexuality is a "natural act", state minister Ramesh Tawadkar says he was misquoted by the media.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:38 AM PST
Says model code that will remain in force till Feb.16 when counting of votes will be taken up, coincides with the Goa Carnival festivities.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:57 PM PST
Compact steel structures, currently under construction at three major locations of the temple city, seem to have sparked a sense of inquiry among denizens and devotees. Failing to blend in with th...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:25 AM PST
The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Department and Avantika Foundation, a non-profit organisation, will implement an innovative pilot project in 30 Gram Panchayats in Mulbagal taluk in...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:24 AM PST
Seven houses along with grain-stock, cash, valuable jewelleries, cloths and all other household articles have been completely burnt in a fire accident at Myadar street in Sia Talab area here on Tu...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:15 AM PST
Malaysian Police crackdown on the activities of Islamic State (IS) militants here has thwarted the terror group's plans to use Malaysia as a transit point for recruits headed to Syria to join its...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:10 AM PST
The BJP MP terms the show cause notice on him by the party as an "internal matter"
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:50 AM PST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday praised the Pakistani military's operation against militants in the country's northwest, saying the results are "significant," but cautioned that more...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:50 AM PST
"It's now trying to push in militants through international border"
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:19 AM PST
Shubhankar Dam suggests that the Hong Kong electorate be given the None of the Above option when they vote for the Chief Executive's election in 2017.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:57 AM PST
The move that could pave the way for the former autocrat's release during the new proceedings.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:46 AM PST
"In Marxism, there is emphasis on equal distribution. That is very crucial to me," the Tibetan spiritual leader said
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:43 AM PST
The merger of State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) with its parent bank, State Bank of India (SBI) is unlikely in near future. "There is no such proposal on cards now," said SBH Managing Director (MD) Sa...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:41 AM PST
Notwithstanding concerns raised by environmentalists, the government today said it will take up inter-linking of rivers on a priority basis "come what may" and that any "obstacles" which may come...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:33 AM PST
The marriage hall was apparently rented-out to Non-Muslims
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:51 AM PST
In a dramatic development, dismissed Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Tinoo Joshi surrendered before a court here on Tuesday after evading arrest for over four months. Arriving on...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:17 AM PST
A couple died on-the-spot when their two-wheeler hit a stone slab, on which the name of the village was written, and then fell into a pit near Gundanahalli cross in Koratagere taluk in the distric...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:25 PM PST
JP MP Tarun Vijay has said the sport is part of Tamil culture and should not be banned.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:10 AM PST
Adilabad Zilla Parishad Chairperson V. Shobha Rani and three others were injured when the jeep in which they were travelling collided with a lorry at Medchal in Ranga Reddy District on Tuesday. Th...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:57 AM PST
Everyone appeared enthusiastic in supporting the bank's growth
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:27 AM PST
Leader of the Opposition in the Upper House of state legislature, K.S. Eshwarappa today said that the Irrigation Minister was 'insensitive and irresponsible'. Mr. Eshwarappa pointed fing...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:54 AM PST
Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Revanna has demanded that D.K. Shivakumar resign from his post of chairman of the House Committee. "How can one expect the Legislature Committee perform in a non-p...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:47 AM PST
Little done to protect GI-owner's right
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:47 AM PST
The Bengaluru chapter of Forum for IT Employees (FITE) has filed a petition to the Deputy Commissioner of Labour – Region-2, in the city regarding the layoff in Tata Consultancy Services.In...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:06 AM PST
After humongous amount of money going down the drain, so to speak, in the name of cleaning Yamuna, the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed against throwing of waste and debris in it and re...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:21 AM PST
A general strike called by opposition parties has crippled life in Kathmandu on Tuesday by shutting down schools, market and transportation. An alliance of 30 opposition parties called the...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:16 AM PST
DMK on Tuesday announced its candidate for the February 13 bypoll for the Srirangam seat, vacated by AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa following her conviction in a graft case. Party chief M. Karun...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:34 AM PST
Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has denied allegations that he attempted to stage a military coup to stay in power. "I deny in all possible terms reports of attempts to us...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:33 PM PST
"I will pay the compensation for the unsold books," he said.
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:58 PM PST
US would continue to encourage the two sides to hold dialogue to resolve the issue, says Kerry
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:53 PM PST
The bodies of four Jewish victims of a Paris terror attack on a kosher supermarket arrived in Israel on Tuesday ahead of a funeral to be attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other pub...
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:44 PM PST
A total of 16 persons have reportedly embraced Hindusim at Uzhavaoor in the district. The reconversion ritual, organised by certain Hindu outfits, was held at a temple. Members from six fam...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:19 AM PST
The North American International Auto Show begins this week in Detroit with media and industry previews. It opens to the public on January 17. Here are the hottest cars in the line-up:
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:37 PM PST
Cadaver transplantation is set to receive a big boost in Andhra Pradesh with scheduled launch of the programme (Jeevandan) at NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS) later this month. ...
Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:21 PM PST
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday suggested to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahangara Palike (BBMP) that criminal prosecution may be launched against officials concerned when non-maintenance of footpa...

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