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Glimpses of Varanasi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 11:04 PM PST

"Varanasi is a city that never dies, avid traveller and photographer M. Madan Gopal, Additional Chief Secretary, Forest, Environment and Ecology Department, told visitors during his photography exh...

BBMP vehicles among 200 booked for flouting norms

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 11:03 PM PST

More than 200 vehicles, including those of some BBMP councillors, were booked by the Transport Department on Thursday for violating norms, at N.R. Square. Apart from flouting air and sound...

Modi stresses need for mobile governance

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 11:02 PM PST

The Prime Minister was addressing the 18th National Conference on e-Governance through Twitter

Jayanthi Natarajan quits Congress

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 11:06 PM PST

No wrongdoing on Rahul Gandhi's part, says Congress sources.

No information on Jayanthi joining BJP: Jaitley

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:59 PM PST

BJP accuses Congress of subjecting nation to "sadistic economy"

Saradha scam: will cooperate with CBI, says Mukul Roy

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:01 PM PST

"I have not committed anything unethical", says the Trinamool Congress general secretary

Auto drivers confront administration, as strike continues

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:41 PM PST

Autorickshaw operators in Mangaluru have decided to continue their strike for another day following the failure of talks with the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) on Thursday....

Traffic gridlock looms

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:21 PM PST

In the city that is set to become 'smart', growing traffic and inadequate infrastructure pose a challenge to the police and GVMC officials

Ghar Vapsi in Chennai

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:15 PM PST

Ghar Vapsi, the re-conversion ceremony to bring converts back into the fold of Hinduism, has come to the city. Hindu Makkal Katchi, a Hindutva outfit operative in the State, said it will be reconv...

170 sarpanchs elected unopposed in Rajasthan

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:59 PM PST

No qualified candidates to contest; seven posts fall vacant

Modi pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:37 PM PST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary. "My tributes to Pujya (respected) Bapu," he tweeted.

Delhi rape victim sues Uber in U.S. Court

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:07 PM PST

In the lawsuit, the victim who resides in Delhi calls Uber the "modern day equivalent of electronic hitchhiking."

Over 100 litres of illicit liquor seized

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:03 PM PST

The Tiruvallur Police and their counterparts in Andhra Pradesh also seized 14, 000 litres of raw material

Bang in the middle

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:02 PM PST

Friends of Chennai, a social initiative, was The Hindu's gift to the city on its 375th birthday. FoC seeks to serve as a vehicle for residents' hopes and concerns about the city. Today's column takes a look at the problem of electricity poles that obstruct several roads in Kodungaiyur

Windbag RGV at it again

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:08 PM PST

Maverick director Ram Gopal Varma is back to doing what he does best – doling out unsolicited advices. He has taken to Twitter to express his views on the comeback film of actor-turned-politician...

Consumer disputes await a closure

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:26 PM PST

With members yet to be appointed for State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, cases are simply numbered and kept aside

Cop beats up man on crutches at Howrah station

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:31 PM PST

A constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) was on Thursday caught on tape beating up a differently-abled man at Howrah station in West Bengal. After the video went viral and was a...

Shah confident of BJP victory in Delhi polls

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:14 PM PST

Ruling out any rifts within the Bharatiya Janata Party, its president Amit Shah on Thursday said that the party would emerge victorious with two-third majority in the upcoming Delhi elections....

20 killed in militant attacks in Egypt’s Sinai

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:49 PM PST

Egypt's Sinai has witnessed many violent attacks by militants since the January 2011 revolution that toppled ex-president Hosni Mubarak.

Three injured in Pakistan firing

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:07 PM PST

Pakistani troops on Thursday night heavily shelled border hamlets and 8 border outposts (BoPs) including Arnia town along the International Border (IB) in Jammu district resulting in injuries to t...

Now, Ghar Vapsi in Chennai

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:45 PM PST

Ghar Vapsi, the re-conversion ceremony to bring converts back into the fold of Hinduism, has come to the city. On Friday, Hindu Makkal Katchi, a Hindutva outfit operative in the State, will...

'The Red Sari' humanises its subject, says Javier Moro

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:53 PM PST

"For four years, I have been sleeping with you" — it takes some nerve to introduce yourself that way to Sonia Gandhi. But it was also a purpose that drove Javier Moro to introduce himself to the f...

Had ‘productive relationship’ with Sujatha Singh: US

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:26 PM PST

The U.S. State Department has welcomed the opportunity to work with India's new Foreign Secretary, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. S. Jaishankar, whose appointment was announced on Wednes...

Birding fair begins today in Jaipur

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:25 PM PST

The 18th Indian Birding Fair will be held at the Man Sagar Lake here on January 30. The two-day fair will be dedicated to biodiversity conservation.The fair aims at conserving this 350-year...

New coins gallery to open at Salar Jung Museum

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:28 PM PST

A new coins gallery will open at the famed Salar Jung Museum next month, displaying for the first time a rare collection ranging from the 3rd Century BC to the present times. Interestingly...

Court stays Naqvi's conviction

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:21 PM PST

A District court of Rampur on Wednesday stayed the conviction of Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi who was sentenced to one year imprisonment.A lower court i...

Muslims must accept their Hindu ancestry: Swamy

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:19 PM PST

Muslims must learn to accept that their forefathers were Hindus, said Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy here on Thursday.Addressing a convention of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyar...

FIRs filed against Togadia, Jugal Kishore

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:19 PM PST

A day after a controversy erupted over a ghar vapsi of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Birbhum district of West Bengal, the police on Thursday registered complaints against senior VHP le...

‘Sharp rise in heat waves in urban areas’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:08 PM PST

Over the last 40 years, the world's cities and towns have seen a sharp rise in heat waves they experience while cold snaps have become more infrequent, according to research just published....

Gorkhaland movement leader Subhash Ghisingh dead

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:30 PM PST

Subhash Ghisingh, the founder-leader of the movement for a separate homeland for the Gorkhas in northern Bengal, passed away on Thursday at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi. He was 80 and is su...

U-turn by Centre on N-deal: CPI(M)

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:28 PM PST

The "breakthrough" in the logjam with the U.S. over the Civil Liability of Nuclear Damage Act is a reversal of the BJP's position in Parliament, as also of a commitment by External Affairs Minister...

Land Acquisition Ordinance faces greater opposition

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:28 PM PST

Opposition to amendments in the Land Acquisition Act that were brought through an ordinance by the Modi government recently is growing. Political parties, farmers' organisations affiliated to polit...

Sangh outfits spearhead Delhi campaign

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:26 PM PST

Infighting-plagued BJP turns to RSS for assistance

Preamble row: Differences surface, RSS silent

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:11 PM PST

Govt. committed to secularism, says Venkaiah Naidu

BJP gears up to counter AAP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:14 PM PST

Union ministers, MPs roped in to address daily meetings

Go by my record: Sujatha

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:38 PM PST

Sujatha Singh said on Thursday that her performance as Foreign Secretary should be judged by the eight months of hectic foreign policy activity under the Narendra Modi government, which she termed...

I honoured Rahul's requests: Jayanthi Natarajan

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:48 PM PST

Rejected green clearances for projects at the Congress leader's bidding, says the former environment minister.

Jayanthi Natarajan's letter to Sonia Gandhi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:51 PM PST

Hon'ble Smt. Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress November 5, 2014 Madam, I write to you with a very heavy heart. Over the last 11 months, I have suffered t...

High Court dismisses Karthik Gowda’s plea

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:35 PM PST

In a setback to Karthik Gowda, son of Union Minister for Law D.V. Sadananda Gowda, the High Court of Karnataka on Thursday refused to quash the First Information Report registered against him on th...

Neem for mosquito control

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

The Corporation plans to use alternative bio-insecticide neem extracts for mosquito control operations. At the council meeting, Mayor Saidai Duraisamy announced the implementation of eco-friendly a...

Two arrested

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The Anti-Land Grab Cell of Coimbatore City Police arrested two persons on Thursday for allegedly cheating a person by selling a land at Vilankuruchi in Coimbatore by forging documents.Inquir...

Badal slams Cong. for its ‘divisive agenda’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday called upon people to give a befitting reply to the Congress for its alleged ongoing "divisive and anti-Punjab agenda", even as he hit out at the Oppo...

Smriti sings PM’s praises

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Mentions Kiran Bedi's name only in passing

Literary fest of BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus from tomorrow

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus will host its national annual Literary Festival "Verba Maximus" with a plethora of literary events on January 31 and February 1.Students from across the coun...

B2B meet to popularise homestays

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:48 PM PST

The State government has extended its support to the proposed maiden business to business (B2B) meet to be organised by the Kerala State Homestay and Tourism Association (KeralaHATS) at Bolgatty P...

CM kin case: notice issued to DGP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday ordered notice to the Director General of Police (DGP) on a petition seeking a CBI enquiry into a case relating to suicide committed by a Dalit youth of...

Adalat

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The Kerala State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has launched a series of adalats, aimed at addressing grievances of people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, in the d...

Health Department stocks up Tamiflu pills

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

As a precautionary measure to control swine flu, the Health Department has stocked up 5,000 Tamiflu pills, which is generally prescribed for treatment of the symptoms and also prevention of the spr...

KLU faculty members selected for research awards

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Four researchers of Koneru Lakshmaiah University (KLU) have been selected for the prestigious research awards sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC).The recipients, G.V. Subba Rao (...

Millet cultivation to get a push

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Organisation formed to promote best farming methods

No change in Group-1, Group-II exams

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

There will be no change in Group-1 and Group-II examination scheme while the syllabus will likely see minor changes with more focus on Telagana history, geography and geology.The meeting of...

Consecration of idol on Feb. 9

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Dwaraka Badarika Ashram Peethadhipathi Sri Vidyanarayana Theertha Swamy will perform idol consecration and "kumbhabhishekam" in Sri Ganapathi, Sri Subrahmanyeswara, Veerabhadra Sametha Sri Sundares...

Elephant menace makes comeback in Chittoor dt.

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

It appears there is no respite for forest officials and villagers of Kuppam constituency from elephant menace. Not even a week has passed after the villagers heaved a sigh of relief from the destru...

Amendment to land acquisition Act opposed

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Hassan District Congress Committee will stage protest against the amendments to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013, brough...

Only 25 p.c. of targeted villages are free from open defecation in State

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Amid doubts over achieving the objectives of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, official figures indicate that only less than 25 per cent of the targeted 1,206 villages have been declared free from open d...

Vying for ‘Research University’ tag

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The University of Mysore, which is on the threshold of its centenary year, is planning to seek a 'Research University' status from the Centre.The recognition will qualify the university for...

Captive elephant welfare panels to be set up

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Inspections to be held to check their abuse

Man killed in dispute over parking

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

In a dispute over parking in front of a school by vehicle drivers transporting school students, an autorickshaw driver was stabbed to death by a man. Two others were also stabbed by the same man an...

Epigrapher, scholar see Indus-Dravidian trade link

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

'Indus script has several features found in Dravidian language'

Call for research-based higher education

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

'Farm technology should be developed to produce more'

Madurai today for issue dated jan 30 Friday

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

RELIGION Selva Vinayagar Temple: Discourse on 'Thirukuralai Thirapom' by Shanmuga Thirukumaran, Railway Colony, 7.30 p.m. Meenakshi Sundareswarar Tem...

Trimester lessons online for classes VI to VIII

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Lessons for the third trimester for classes VI to VIII will soon find their way online.The District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Ranipet, which has come out with video lessons...

Security blanket in city for Games

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:58 PM PST

: As many as 1,200 police personnel from the city limit and two companies of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) will be deployed to ensure foolproof security to the...

Actor accuses police of assault

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:24 PM PST

Kannada film actor Chetan Kumar of Aa Dinagalu fame has alleged police high-handedness and petitioned Police Commissioner M.N. Reddi to intervene and take suitable action.<...

The anatomy of driver fatigue

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:11 PM PST

Around 80 per cent of the accidents that take place in the State are caused by human error, according to National Crime Records Bureau statistics. Now, the Government of Tamil Nadu, along with a te...

Woman killed in road accident: constable held

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST

A. Ashok Kumar, a police constable, was arrested on Thursday on the charge of fatally knocking down S. Regina Begum (23) near Nirmala College for Women here.Ashok Kumar was driving a vehicle...

BJYM, Youth Congress activists clash in Shimla

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Around a dozen persons were on Thursday injured, four of them seriously, in a clash between the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and Youth Congress activists at the State BJP office here.Shimla...

Lukewarm response to Bedi in Trilokpuri

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi got a lukewarm response during her first rally at Trilokpuri, which had witnessed violent clashes in October last year.Few people came out of the...

HMDA to come up with a master plan for ITIR

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Several major players in IT/ITeS sector have shown an interest in moving to Brownfield

CM opens IRIA meet

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:47 PM PST

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy inaugurated the 68th annual conference of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA) here on Thursday. "The technology, which has emerge...

Polish tourists lose cameras

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The foreigners were befriended at Arapalayam bus stand and taken to Meenakshi temple, Alagarkoil

Reaping fruits of dedication

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Proving that organic farming can be practised anywhere—even within an educational institution—the students of University College here reaped a rich harvest on Thursday.For close to a year th...

10 paramilitary companies for Srirangam bypoll

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Even as the Tiruchi police are engaged in drawing up security for the Srirangam byelection, the central paramilitary companies would arrive here for poll duty soon.The Election Commission ha...

Funtimes Club to felicitate Sindhu

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Badminton star P. V. Sindhu will be felicitated by Funtimes Club management on Friday honouring her for bagging the Padma Shri award and her string of superlative performances in the international...

GITAM to assist BARC in training rural youth

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

GITAM University will be assisting Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to train rural youth on spin-off technologies, which are developed by BARC, as part of the Advanced Knowledge & Rural Technol...

4 barytes-laden trucks seized by villagers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

A group of villagers of Sheripuram in Garla mandal allegedly detained four lorries on charges of illegally transporting barytes from the mineral-rich village of Thursday.According to sources...

Arasavalli festival ends without hitch

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Endowments department expressed happiness over ensuring hassle free darshan to over one lakh devotees in Arasavalli Sri Suryanarayana Swamy temple on the day of Ratha Saptami. Endowments senior off...

IPMA Environment Award for IP-APPM

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

International Paper APPM Limited (IP-APPM), a group company of International Paper in India, has stated that it received coveted IPMA Environment Award for the year 2013-2014.Indian Paper Ma...

Ashok Pattan aspires for Cabinet berth

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

In an interesting turn of events following the resignation of Excise Minister and district in-charge Satish L. Jarkiholi, the Congress government's Chief Whip and Ramdurg MLA Ashok Mahadevappa Patt...

Hindustani music concert today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Under its monthly music programme Gaansinchan, Naganur Rudrakshi Mutt will organise a Hindustani classical music concert at the seminar hall-I of S.G. Balekundri Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. o...

Mysuru, Japanese varsities sign MoU

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The University of Mysore, Mysuru, and Hokkaido University, Japan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here on Thursday to engage in academic and research collaborations with focus on life sc...

Agricultural varsity refutes allegations

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:01 PM PST

The Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has dismissed as baseless allegations of corruption levelled by a former staff member.In a statement here on Thursday, the Registrar said the allegat...

Campus Notes

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

University of Kerala B.Tech. results: Results of the seventh-semester B.Tech. (2008 scheme) examination held in October are available on the unive...

Educational institutions targeted as part of anti-dengue measures

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The municipality has taken up special measures for checking dengue in the town. After a drive to remove tyres and discarded containers from residential areas and commercial complexes, the municipal...

Learning aid distributed

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Collector K. Maharabushanam on Thursday distributed kits to children with intellectual and developmental disabilities so as to develop their ability.Under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), me...

Farmers seek water supply for irrigation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Farmers of Puthiyamputhur have sought the intervention of the Collector to ensure sufficient supply of water from Kombai odai. They told the Collector, M. Ravikumar, who was on a visit to Puthiyamp...

Perarivalan undergoes medical check-up

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Perarivalan, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, lodged in the Central Prison, Vellore underwent a voluntary medical check-up at the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital (...

Plans on to start postgraduate medical courses

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

IGMC&RI gears to offer them from next academic year

Running from pillar to post for pension

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:25 PM PST

Thousands deprived of their due owing to problems with documents and so on

Spiritual fair kicks off on February 3

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:41 PM PST

The 7th annual Hindu Spiritual and Service Fair will be held for a week at Agurchand Manmull Jain College, Meenambakkam, from Tuesday. More than 300 organisations will be taking part in t...

Mayawati selling tickets for Delhi polls, alleges ex-Minister

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Several disgruntled party leaders, workersare in touch with me, says Daddu Prasad

Case filed against Kejriwal

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

After a stern warning from the Election Commission, Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal may face legal trouble for asking voters to accept money from other parties but to vote only for him...

It’s official: government seeks Metro alignment change

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

After months of suspense and keeping the concessionaire L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMRH) on the tenterhooks, the Telangana State government has sent an official communication on the alignment chan...

30 per cent of district hospitals ill-equipped to handle fires

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:47 PM PST

Fire safety preparedness in about 30 per cent of the government and private hospitals in Ernakulam is inadequate, said an official audit. The serious lapse was revealed during a fire safety audit...

630 litres of spirit seized

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The Kalligudi police have seized 18 cans of spirit, suspected to be smuggled to Thiruvananthapuram, in the small hours of Thursday.Police personnel on night patrol, during their routine visi...

Tight security for Games

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The capital city will find itself under a thick blanket of security ahead of the 35{+t}{+h}National Games that begins here on Saturday, with the fortnight-long sporting festival expected to see tho...

Customs Day

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

International Customs Day was celebrated at the Office of the Commissioner of Customs here on Tuesday. Speaking at the function, Sukhjit Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Customs, Tiruchi, said that the...

Movie on Swachh Bharat

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Global Digi Media Village (P) Ltd (GDMV) has announced that it will make a feature film on the 'Swachh Bharat' project.CDMV chairman and CEO Muneer Ahamed said the film would have social mes...

Ganta wants publicity on swine flu

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

With one swine flu case having been reported in the city, there should have been a more vigorous publicity campaign on preventive and treatment methods, Minister for HRD Ganta Srinivasa Rao said he...

Will Kawal be safe for wild animals, trees ever?

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The recent large-scale felling of trees in the core area sets alarm bells ringing

‘Sravanam’ will be expanded further, says TTD EO

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The prestigious 'Sravanam' project launched by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) in the year 2006 for the benefit of the aurally-challenged infants is all set to be expanded further.E...

Vachana Vijayotsava

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Basava Seva Pratishtana, a Bidar-based organisation committed to spreading awareness about Basaveshwara's teachings, plans to celebrate the annual Vachana Vijayotsava fest in a unique manner. It or...

HESCOM officer, awaiting action in sexual abuse plaint, attempts suicide

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

A 27-year-old Assistant Engineer of Hubballi Electricity Supply Company (HESCOM), Sindhu B.V., who lodged a complaint of sexual abuse against her three fellow employees with the Malmaruti police ov...

HOPCOMS to open supermarket-type outlet at Alanahalli

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

It made a profit of Rs. 4.3 lakh last month

Industrialist held on charge of murder bid

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The police on Thursday arrested an industrialist who allegedly tried to kill a security guard of his apartment complex by hitting him with his luxury vehicle, for not opening the gate for him on ti...

Booklovers to undergo health check-up

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Visitors to the book fair that opens in Perambalur on January 30 can undergo free basic medical tests.Darez Ahamed, District Collector, told presspersons here on Thursday that sugar test, EC...

Curriculum adaption training for school teachers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

To enable teachers adapt the curriculum to integrate special children in regular schools, a week-long training programme is being held for 40 school teachers in Thalaivasal here.Organised by...

Rs. 68,567 collected as fine for power thefts

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation, Vellore Electricity Distribution Circle, has collected a compensation amount of Rs. 68,567 from 15 consumers who indulged in power theft and...

ATM robbery cracked, staffer arrested

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The police have cracked the robbery at the Canara Bank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) at Thavalakuppam on the outskirts of the city within 24 hours and arrested a daily rated employee of the bank a...

Cabinet nod for housing scheme for civic workers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:25 PM PST

The Cabinet on Thursday decided to implement a new housing scheme for over 11,000 pourakarmikas working in city corporations across the State.In the first phase, 1,000 houses will be constru...

Amma cement in 9 locations

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

The government's low-cost Amma cement will be available in nine locations in the city soon. People who need the cement, priced at Rs. 190 a bag, will have to furnish the sanctioned plan approval of...

Three held in engineer’s murder case

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Three persons, including the gunner of the BSP MLA from Gorakhpur, were arrested on Thursday by the Barabanki police in connection with the murder of an engineer of National Informatics Centre (NIC...

AAP promises to rein in private schools

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday promised to keep a check on the 'bullying' attitude of owners of private schools and colleges who have been 'misusing' their positions to 'extort'...

Antique cannon recovered

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

The city police recovered a 17th century antique cannon at an under construction site at Nayapool on Wednesday. The contractor, Lateef, found the cannon while digging for laying pillars."The...

KUFOS governing council divided over KCA stadium

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

: The governing council of the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) appears to be a divided house over the cricket stadium project with the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA)....

Six held for murder

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The city police on Thursday arrested six persons in connection with the murder of R. Prakash (22), in an abandoned quarters near ESI Hospital at Thathaneri on Wednesday night.Police said tha...

Child killed in accident

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

A three-and-a-half-year-old boy was killed after he accidentally came under the wheels of a relative's car in the EMS Nagar Housing Board colony at Pattoor here on Thursday. According to the Traffi...

Service road along NH 67 remains a dream for Thuvakudi residents

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

They plan agitation at Kailash Nagar bus depot on January 31

Quran recitation competitions on Feb. 1

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The United Forum for Quranic Studies (UFQS) will conduct semi-final and final competitions in recitation of the holy Quran for children aged below 12 at Tummalapalli Kshetrayya Kalakshetram on Febr...

Nod for sports complex for the disabled in city: MP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

The Central government is committed to providing better amenities to the physically challenged to enable them to lead better lives, Visakhapatnam MP K. Haribabu has said.At a camp conducted...

Microbes in soil degenerating fast

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

If the agriculture officers are to be believed, all is not well with farming activity. In the last one decade, the level of microbes in the soil has came down from 80 to 40 per cent. It may further...

Three held, 80 red sanders logs seized

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Police and forest officials arrested three persons and seized 80 red sander logs worth about Rs. 70 lakh which were being transported by a van near Vanipenta in Mydukur mandal on Thursday. The accu...

IGNOU sets up special study centre at Ballari Central Jail

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has set up a special study centre at the Ballari Central Jail.Anand Reddy, jail superintendent, told The Hindu that he had...

VTU results today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Visvesvaraya Technological University will announce the results of B.E. third and fourth semesters examinations of Bengaluru and Mysuru regions conducted during December 2014 and January 2015 after...

It will set up two wine boutiques

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

HOPCOMS will be setting up two wine boutiques in the city. While one is expected to come up at its proposed outlet at Alanahalli near Lalitha Mahal Palace, the other one is proposed at Thonachikopp...

Kollam gets new hockey stadium

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday inaugurated the hockey stadium constructed at Asramam in the city for the National Games.Mr. Chandy said steps would be taken to ensure that the spor...

Modern fish market opens

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Fisheries Minister K. Babu has said that a modern fish breeding centre will be started at the Thodupuzha taluk soon. Inaugurating a modern fish market at Kumily on Thursday, he said that farmers wo...

Cane price: farmers seek government intervention

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Farmers' Associations in Ariyalur district have appealed to the State government to pressure private sugar mills to pay the State Advised Price of Rs. 2,650 a tonne of sugarcane for this year.<...

Five years jail for inducing three to commit suicide

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Salem court finds three persons guilty of offence

Councillors throw light on erratic maintenance of streetlights

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Say Corporation has been unnecessarily paying crores of rupees to a private agency in Chennai

CME on Head & Neck Cancers from today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The First Annual Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programme in Head & Neck Cancers will be held in the Christian Medical College here on January 30 and 31.According to a CMC release, 'Opti...

Learning shifts to the classroom of nature for now

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

250 students take part in National Nature Camping Programme from January 28 to February 7

Metro train stops as another bird found on tracks

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. stopped operations to rescue a bird from its tracks on Thursday.Vasantha Rao, General Manager (Finance), BMRCL, said an injured adult kite was found on...

Fire at complex in Kilpauk; none injured

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

A small fire broke out at 8.15 p.m. in a commercial complex, Dowlath Tower, on Taylor's Road in Kilpauk on Thursday. No casualties were reported in the incident.According to the staff at the...

Primary health centres see an increase in number of patients being treated

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

'Rural health apparatus has recorded significant achievements'

Woman pushed out of train by cop dies

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

A 25-year-old woman died after being pushed out of a moving train allegedly by a Railway Protection Force constable, the police said on Thursday.The incident occurred on Tuesday night at the...

Surajkund Mela to get a vibrant makeover

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The 29{+t}{+h} Surajkund International Crafts Mela-2015 to be held from February 1 to 15 at Surajkund in Faridabad is all set to get a vibrant look this time around.The mela grounds will be...

Cordon and search operation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Sixty-three vehicles, nine cylinders and gas cutters were seized while 40 suspects were taken into custody during a cordon and search operation conducted at Uppal by the Cyberabad police early on T...

Work on Vyttila-Pettah stretch to take off soon

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

: The way has been cleared for the formal launch of the work of Kochi metro rail along the Vyttila-Pettah stretch with the revenue authorities kick-starting the proceedings to acquire a 1.25 acre p...

‘Gastro-intestinal cancer among men on the rise’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:08 PM PST

Chief causes are smoking and drinking, say experts

Obama’s backwater reference reinvigorates State tourism

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:25 PM PST

Kerala is already cashing in on the reference to the backwaters made by U.S. President Barack Obama during his just concluded visit.The reference has come at a time when the State is gearing...

Chandy first accused in Pattoor case: VS

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan has demanded filing of First Information Report (FIR) in the Pattoor land scam in the capital with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy as the first accused....

Students urged to work for conservation of fossil fuel

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Speakers at the valediction of the fortnight-long celebrations on 'Oil and gas conservation' organised jointly by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and the Cauvery Group of educational instit...

Lured by lavish lifestyle, lovers court trouble

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:11 PM PST

A degree dropout girl and her boyfriend landed in jail for allegedly resorting to thefts at busy junctions and moving buses in the city. The 'lovers' are said to have committed a series of offences...

NMU launches mass hunger strike

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

A two-day mass hunger strike was launched by RTC employees owing allegiance to the National Mazdoor Union (NMU) at the Maddlilapalem Depot on Thursday to protest against the 'indifference of the ma...

Awareness programme on Vitamin D held

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

University College of Pharmaceutical sciences of Satavahana University in association with Mankind pharmaceutical company conducted an awareness programme on the importance of Vitamin D for the ben...

Four held, transformer material worth Rs. 20 lakh recovered

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The Madanapalle Police on Thursday arrested four persons involved in stealing of the material used in power transformers from the town outskirts and seized copper, aluminium and cable wires worth m...

Scholarships for children of convicts

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

The authorities at the Ballari Central Jail have been functioning as facilitators to help the children of convicts get scholarships.Continuing educationScholarships were being...

Children’s drama festival in Ballari

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Makkala Ranga Suggi 2015, a two-day children drama festival, will be held at Dr. Joladarashi Doddanagouda Rangamandir here from February 1 at 5.30 pm.The festival is organised by Ranga Janga...

Aadhaar cards can be issued to foreigners: officials

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

An Aadhaar card can be issued a person anyone residing in the country for more than six months continuous provided he/she submits one of the 18 identity cards listed and an address proof, officials...

BJP worker hacked to death

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) observed a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the Alappuzha Assembly constituency after a party leader was found murdered at Kalavoor, near here, on Thursday.Venugopal,...

Gender park to come up at Ramavarmapuram

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Minister for Social Welfare and Panchayats M.K. Muneer has said the government will set up a Gender Park on the campus of the Government Children's Home at Ramavarmapuram. It will be the third Gend...

Official visits dengue-affected villages in Karur district

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

M.S.Shanmugam, Director, Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project, visited the dengue-affected villages, including Kosur, on Thursday.He is the second senior official of the State government to vis...

Three killed, 42 injured in bus-lorry collision

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Three persons were killed and 42 others injured when a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus collided head-on with a speeding lorry at Maaraanthai, about 15 kilometres from here, on Tirunelvel...

Three held under Goondas Act

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Three out of the 11 persons arrested by the Food Cell Criminal Investigation Department at Vaniyambadi on January 10 for smuggling of rice meant for the public distribution system were booked under...

State athletic championship under way

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Students from all enclaves of the Union Territory of Puducherry are taking part in the Puducherry State School Athletic Championship organised by the Directorate of School Education (Sports and You...

BBMP is violating CDP: councillor

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:26 PM PST

By approving building plans for properties on roads notified for widening, the BBMP is violating the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), charged K. Chandrasekhar, Hanumanthnagar councillor.

VCK to boycott Srirangam by-poll

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:00 PM PST

Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi (VCK), an ally of the DMK, has decided to boycott the by-election to the Srirangam Assembly constituency.While the announcement has come as a surprise to the D...

Fillers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Grievance redressal

meeting

Chairperson of Coimbatore electricity distribution circle, north, consumer grievance redressal forum has proposed to conduct a mee...

Punjab looks for $1 billion for ethanol production

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Punjab government has decided to set up five second generation bio-ethanol producing refineries, which would not only attract investments worth one billion US dollars, but would further its pro...

Guards, Sikh regiments march to glory

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

CISF declared the best in the category of paramilitary forces

“Centre’s inaction on dams’ row forced our hand”

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Andhra Pradesh to dash off a strong letter to Delhi in a day or two

NHAI office vandalised

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:25 PM PST

Files burnt; pamphlets claim CPI(Maoist) role

DMRC accords final clearance for coaches

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Having sorted out the differences over the specifications of coaches about two weeks ago, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Thursday gave the final clearance for the rolling stocks of Kochi Metro...

Man held for son’s murder

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:53 PM PST

Kottampatti police have arrested a 70-year-old man, Baskaran, on the charge of murdering his elder son B. Meyyar over land dispute. The police are on the lookout for his younger son, Anbazhagan, in...

A home for aged construction workers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

'Snehasadanam' at Kudappanakkunnu has 19 residents

No compromise on food quality at Games

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The State Food Safety Commissioner has issued directives on the additional precautions to be taken by the Food Safety Department during the conduct of the National Games in Kerala from January 31 t...

“Instil entrepreneurial spirit in students’ minds”

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Governor K.Rosaiah on Thursday called upon educational institutions to foster entrepreneurship among students.Delivering the Graduation Day address at Srimad Andavan Arts and Science College...

60 tolas of gold, 1 kg silver stolen from house

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Thieves struck a house at Narayanapuram Colony on the city outskirts on Thursday and decamped with gold and silver ornaments valued at around Rs. 14 lakh.According to East Zone Assistant Com...

Improved infrastructure need of the hour

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Apart from managing the parking issue, improved infrastructure is the need of the hour, say ACP (Traffic) K. Prabhakar and Chief City Planner D. Venkata Ratnam.It is learnt that the police d...

‘Voluminous info being sought under RTI’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Stakeholders and Public Information Officers participating at the two-day national seminar on the topic of 'Nine Years of RTI Act, implementation and levels of awareness', being held at Women's Col...

Woman beaten up by husband, in-laws, suffers abortion

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

A 23-year-old housewife, Lakshmi, was allegedly subjected to physical assault by her husband and in-laws, resulting in her suffering an abortion. Lakshmi was in her fourth month of pregnancy. Incid...

Sangha opposes Union government’s attempts to dilute MGNREGA

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

'Govt. is withdrawing scheme from existing rural areas'

Auto drivers association leader begins indefinite fast seeking Ashraya houses

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Beedi workers, auto drivers launch relay protest

Aadhaar helpdesk to be set up at Nada Kacheris

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Deputy Commissioner C. Shikha has said that the Aadhaar was not just an identity card but a vital document for people, especially for those who were denied resources for want of identity. The Mysur...

NSS withdraws suit against daily

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The Nair Service Society (NSS), which had filed a defamation case against the Indian Union Muslim League's mouthpiece Chandrika daily, withdrew the case on Thursday following a...

Poor implementation of laws helps human trafficking: NHRC chairman

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

'More than 12 million children working in hazardous sectors'

Farmers find varagu cultivation more lucrative

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

200 acres of land brought under cultivation in various blocks

Measures in place to treat H1N1 at Govt. Headquarters Hospital in Erode

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

The Government Headquarters Hospital at Erode has put in place measures as a precaution for providing treatment in isolation to patients admitted with H1N1 flu symptoms.Hospital authorities...

Gang hacks youth, ransacks house

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

A gang carrying lethal weapons hacked a youth from another caste and ransacked a few houses and vehicles in broad daylight at busy Vannarpet here on Thursday.Police said the problem started...

More autonomy needed for Indian varsities: former VC

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:53 PM PST

Former Vice-Chancellor of Hindu Banaras University Lalji Singh has said Indian Universities needed to be made more autonomous and freed from the 'clutches' of both government and regulatory bodies.

Leather factory workers stage protest for pay hike

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Over 200 workers of a private leather factory on Thursday staged a protest on the Beach promenade and threatened to jump into the sea demanding increase in wage and job security. The workers claime...

PU admission details to go online

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Admission details of students enrolling in I PU courses in the State in the coming academic year will be available online, even when they seek admissions in higher education institutions. The Depar...

OPS not yet accepted as CM: Karunanidhi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:40 PM PST

DMK leader M. Karunanidhi on Thursday said the display of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on the floats during the Republic Day celebrations showed that officials and ministers had no...

Mini marathon

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

A mini marathon will be taken out in the city on Sunday to create awareness about blood donation among the public. Being organised jointly by the Y's Men's Club Coimbatore and Coimbatore Institute...

Congress stages protest against Modi, Ramdev

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee on Thursday staged a protest in Haridwar's Har-Ki-Pauri area urging the Modi government and yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who supported the BJP during the Lok Sabha...

Court acquits rape accused as woman retracts statement

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of allegedly raping a woman several times on the pretext of marrying her as the victim said in her evidence during the case trial that she had physic...

Employees’ bodies meet panel on PRC report

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

A high power committee, constituted by the Telangana government to hear the views of employees' associations on the recommendations of the tenth Pay Revision Commission, held consultations with the...

KTDC all set to register Rs. 15 crore profit: Chairman

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:51 PM PST

Chief Minister inaugurates Event Centre at Bolgatty Island

FACT strikes deal for gas supply from Feb. 7

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:45 PM PST

Agreement is a breakthrough for the company

Now, Raj Bhavan takes to organic vegetable farming

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The verdant premises of Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the Governor, will soon become a micro hub of organic farming. The Agriculture Department has tied up with the garden wing of Raj Bhava...

Fem Patrol to take the FB route against harassment

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

To encourage women to share information

TNAU initiative pays dividend

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

A group of 25 farmers get 600 kg an acre of "TRY 3" rice

Blame game puts road project in limbo

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:13 PM PST

Autonagar- Kakani Venkata Ratnam link road project planned 2 years ago

IIM-V to begin with flagship programme in management

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

The latest in the IIM (Indian Institute of Management) fold, IIM-Visakhapatnam, will begin its academic operation from this year with the IIM-Bangalore's flagship two-year programme PGP (post gradu...

‘Greater’ challenges await Warangal Municipal Corporation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The State government has issued G.O. No. 99 declaring the Warangal Municipal Corporation (WMC) as Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation.Now the corporation will have Warangal, Hanamkonda, K...

Now, a modern hostel for milch cattle in W.G .

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Sanctioned under a pilot project, the facility likely to come up at Tadikalapudi

Rs. 2,500 cr. sought for development projects

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

A proposal has been submitted to the State government to release Rs. 2,500 crore to take up development projects for 2014-15, Chairperson of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Development Corporation, Mallajamma ha...

Seminar on coastal knowledge systems

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The Department of Tourism, the Karnataka Janapada Parishat and the Oriental Archives Research Centre will organise a one-day national seminar on 'Folk-life and knowledge system of coastal Karnataka...

Women’s issues through bold strokes

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST

The paintings and sculptures of a group of young artists of Kunhimangalam village being exhibited here cannot but draw the attention of visitors to issues concerning women.The exhibition bei...

Call to ensure higher allocation for S&T

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien has called for ensuring greater allocation for research work and formulating a science policy that provides the highest priority to such activities....

Best Paper Awards announced

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:53 PM PST

Best Poster Awards presented to recipients

Lend for small dairies, banks told

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

Banks should extend loans for establishing small dairy farms in Perambalur district through Tamil Nadu Adi Dravida Housing Development Corporation (THADCO), said Darez Ahamed, District Collector, h...

Farmer murdered by nephew over property dispute

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Progressive farmer and member of Palayam Channel Water Users' Association R. Ganesan (55) of Kurichi under Melapalayam police station limits was murdered here on Thursday morning allegedly by his n...

Messi fan loyal to Cristiano on reel

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:00 PM PST

SBT star striker Asif Saheer to play a role in a Malayalam film

Pondicherry University hosts awareness workshop on NITI Aayog

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Pondicherry University on Thursday hosted a national-level awareness workshop on NITI Aayog at the Academic Staff College, Silver Jubilee Campus.Inaugurating the two-day conference, the Regi...

PETA builds electric fence for elephants

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

An expanse of forested space is now open to 15 elephants of the Bannerghatta Biological Park. With the installation of a solar-powered electric fence, the first of its kind in the State, the herd c...

Wetland centre planned

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

In an effort to promote the conservation and sustainable management of wetlands across the State, the government has decided to set up the Tamil Nadu Wetland and Environment Centre within the campu...

Coimbatore Vizha from January 30

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

For 10 days, from January 30, over 80 voluntary, residential and industrial associations and institutions here will join hands to celebrate Coimbatore Vizha, an annual event presented by Coimbatore...

Rahul takes a swipe at Modi on black money

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Questions Kejriwal for his silence on corruption during NDA regime

Notice to Haryana govt. on law officers’ appointment

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Haryana Government and all law officers in the office of Advocate General, Haryana, in a case pertaining to selection of law offic...

Back off or face legal action, Kadiyam tells his detractors

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:07 PM PST

Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari has stated that he will initiate legal action against TDP leader Mothkupalli Narsimhulu if the latter continued to indulge in acts damaging his image...

Land grab probe: HC gives CBI more time

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The High Court on Thursday granted six more months to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complete its probe into the two land grab cases in which Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's former gun...

Fire destroys ten shops near Kochi rail station

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

: Ten temporary shops set up opposite the Specialists Hospital near Ernakulam North railway station were completely gutted in a fire that broke out in the wee hours of Thursday.The Gandhi Na...

White arecanut prices recover, go up to Rs. 300 a kg

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Prices of different grades jump by Rs. 15 in the last fortnight

Rs.5,000-crore works in State to be affected

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Contractors' association meets Chief Minister

Held on charge of attempt to murder

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The Sreekaryam police on Thursday arrested Sajeev alias Gaff Hill Sajeev, 28, of Chekkalamukku on charges of attempting to murder an autorickshaw driver who refused to take him on a trip.She...

Finally, Arjunaveedhi water tank slab to be repaired

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

After much delay, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation is finally taking steps to repair the dilapidated water tank slab at Arjunaveedhi, besides initiating measures to lay roads at Peddama temple...

It was a murder, say police

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

The police on Thursday said that the 25-year-old woman who died under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday was murdered allegedly by her husband.Sitamahalakshmi was found dead in her house...

Lokari village lights up with solar system

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Lokari, a remote tribal village in Adilabad mandal, on Thursday, became another habitation in the district with all its homes boasting of solar home lighting system.The Telangana Grameena Ba...

Civic infra eludes Ongole

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Water supply, garbage disposal remain a concern

Three of a family among four killed in accident

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Four persons, including three of a family, died in a road accident at Agasbal village of Vijayapura taluk on Thursday evening.IdentifiedThe dead were identified as Prakash Hitt...

Kakodkar sees need for pro-active foreign policy

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Anil Kakodkar, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said on Thursday that the country should leverage its strengths and overcome its weaknesses and have a pro-active foreign policy....

Classmates relive old memories

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:06 PM PST

The 1964 SSLC batch of Umbichi Haji Higher Secondary School, Chaliyam, regrouped at their alma mater on Thursday and fell back on nostalgic memories. Giving vigour and zest to the gathering were fo...

A school that paved the way for social uplift

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Government Lower Primary School, Purappuzha, to celebrate sesquicentenary

Modi govt. has failed to check graft: Hazare

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

The anti-corruption crusader refuses to comment on Kejriwal or Bedi

PMK State conference to discuss Assembly poll

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

The PMK's State conference in Salem scheduled for February 15, will chalk out the strategy for 2016 Assembly elections, said the party president, G.K. Mani, here on Thursday.Mr. Mani said th...

Two-wheelers parked in bus bays at Old Bus Stand in Salem

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Open drainage and poor sanitation add to the problems faced by passengers

Train delayed due to defect on tracks

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Chennai-Nellai Express Train was running an hour behind schedule owing to a defect detected on the tracks near Kalpattichatram in the early hours of Thursday.Railways sources said that loco...

More on cancer and its prevention

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:00 PM PST

Did you know that only 5 to 10 per cent of cancers were hereditary and that the rest were caused by our living conditions? Did you ever think that the greasy food you eat is as dangerous as tobacc...

CM distributes aid to students

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Chief Minister N. Rangasamy distributed financial assistance for the students who were admitted under government quota in the private professional colleges through the Centralised Admission Committ...

Bounty on those who tortured dog

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Watch a video, recognise those in it, and walk away with Rs. 50,000, and even the pleasure of knowing that a small step has been taken against those who torture dogs for 'fun'.In the 31-seco...

‘Cities need to compete for Smart City tag’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

: The Centre will roll out a city challenge initiative in the next few weeks, allowing urban areas across India to compete for the Smart City tag, said Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu.

Buses waiting at stops for longer time come under scanner

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Following repeated representations by various organisations to regional transport authorities for several years, action has been initiated against private buses for halting the vehicles at select b...

Seelampur lacks basic amenities

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

A walk through Seelampur's streets, where piles of garbage dot nearly each corner, is sufficient to see that the Muslim-dominated Assembly constituency in North-East Delhi lacks in basic amenities.

India Art Fair begins

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The 7th edition of the India Art Fair opened here on Thursday with a special VIP preview that enabled art lovers to admire works by not only India's best-knows artists but also avant-garde works by...

Nod to Gajwel ring road

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

The Government of Telangana on Thursday gave administrative sanction for the first phase of formation of ring road to Gajwel town in Medak district with Rs. 30 crore.The Government Order iss...

Core road network proposed

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The proposed 8,000-km core road network that envisages linking up major roads in Kerala will be established with the assistance of World Bank, Public Works Minister V.K. Ebrahim Kunju has said....

Nurses hold agitation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

: Nurses at the Government Medical College, Ernakulam, held a protest in front of the administrative block of the institution against the suspension of three nurses.Leading the protests agai...

European stunt champion leaves city audience spellbound

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Audience screamed in joy and applauded Aras Gibieza as he jumped off his motorcycle and then sat back on the vehicle. The stunts he performed on the remodelled 180 kg Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle left...

Kerala in Games mode as teams arrive

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

With two days left for the official inauguration of the 35th National Games, teams from competing States have started arriving in batches at various venues across the State from Wednesday.Th...

Poovar murder: police recover weapon

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The Poovar police on Thursday recovered the weapon allegedly used by a three-member gang to stab to death Shameer, an autorickshaw driver on January 19 after he allegedly questioned motorbike-racin...

CPI(M) to hold 24th State meet on Feb. 8, 9

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) State secretary P. Madhu inaugurated a pylon of the party's 24{+t}{+h}State meeting scheduled to be held in the city on February 8 and 9, at Lenin Centr...

DCI providing toilets in schools under CSR

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Dredging Corporation of India Limited has taken up construction of toilets under its Corporate Social Responsibility programme in 2014-15.The total cost of the project, comprising 30 units i...

KTR promises safe drinking water to Khammam

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Safe drinking water will be supplied to entire Khammam town and Khammam rural mandal in one year under the first phase of Water Grid programme, said Minister for Panchayat Raj K T Rama Rao.M...

Co-worker kills carpenter over monetary dispute

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The Prakasam Police achieved a breakthrough in a case related to the death of a 24-year-old carpenter from Nellore and arrested a co-worker of the deceased, here on Thursday.Ongole Deputy Su...

Tirthahalli farmer’s two bank accounts hacked

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

A sum of Rs. 60,600 has been siphoned off from two bank accounts of Dinesh Hegde, farmer at Kunda, a village in Tirthahalli taluk, by unidentified persons allegedly by securing his ATM card number...

CINEMA

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

MangaluruTULU Chaali Polilu: Jyothi (2424660) 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.; PVR Cinemas (4261315) 3.45 p.m. Madime: Prabhath (94481...

UDF wins ward by-polls in Kannur, Kasaragod

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The United Democratic Front (UDF) on Thursday scripted a sweeping victory in the by-elections held to the two wards in Ajanur grama panchayat near Kanhangad. In Ward No. 4 (Madiyan), UDF nominee M....

Playing it his way

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Tennis or politics, Oommen Chandy is game for a fight

Two U.P. MLAs disqualified

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on Thursday ordered disqualification of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Uma Shankar Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Bajrang Bahadur Singh as members of the State Assemb...

Synchronised bird census

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

All Tamil Nadu birds census for this fiscal is to be conducted on Friday and Saturday (January 30 and 31).In a statement, J.S. Ambrose, District Forest Officer, Tirunelveli, said the census...

Food safety officials destroy expired soft drinks

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Officials of the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department on Wednesday evening conducted raids in various shops in the town and destroyed expired soft drinks of leading brands and also packag...

Facelift for moat wall portion of Vellore Fort

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has taken up works to reconstruct a portion of the moat wall of the Vellore Fort.Parts of the moat wall surrounding the fort had collapsed due to agi...

New wasp in Ghats

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:01 PM PST

A team of researchers headed by Lambert Kishore, Associate Professor, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, has spotted a new species of Paper wasp in the Sulthan Bathery region of the Western Ghat...

Ministerial staff picket secretariat

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Ministerial staff on Thursday picketed the Chief Secretariat protesting against delay in filling up of various posts. A spokesperson for the Puducherry Unified Ministerial Staff Association said th...

Jarkiholi may withdraw resignation today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

Satish L. Jarkiholi, who created a flutter by submitting his resignation as Excise Minister on Tuesday, is likely to withdraw his resignation on Friday, after holding consultations with Chief Minis...

Court refuses to stay removal of TNPCB Member-Secretary

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:39 PM PST

The Madras High Court on Thursday refused to stay an order of a single Judge striking down the appointment of K.Karthikeyan as Member-Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). Ch...

Three test positive for H1N1

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

A 29-year-old woman and her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter from Saibaba Colony and a 56-year-old woman from Ganapathy were admitted to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday after the...

A numbers game

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The Congress party is fielding five women candidates, one less than lastpolls, whereas the Aam Aadmi Party has six candidates this time too

Bagpipes, dandiya captivate audience at Beating Retreat

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

A touch of Indian, Bollywood and even Gujarati dandiya found its way into the traditional beats of bagpipes, drums, flutes and the pageantry of times gone by in the Beating Retreat ceremony at Vija...

Waiting period to come down for industries

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Investors need not run around officials as statutory approvals will be issued within a fortnight: KCR

Writ plea referred to Division Bench

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

A single judge of the Kerala High Court on Thursday referred to a Division Bench a public interest writ petition challenging the appointment of Jiji Thomson as Chief Secretary.The petition w...

CPT did not dump waste in public places, State tells court

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:42 PM PST

The State government on Thursday informed the Kerala High Court that the Cochin Port Trust (CPT) did not dump septage generated from vessels anchored at the port in open public places.In an...

Now, get case status on touchscreen kiosks

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

People wanting to know the status of a case, pending in a court in Mangaluru or any other part of the district, need to head to the kiosk installed near the Principal District and Sessions Court on...

No truck with Pillai: VS

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan has said that there is no question of his teaming up with KC(B) leader R. Balakrishna Pillai.At a press conference here on Thursday, Mr. Achuthana...

Youth arrested following partner’s complaint

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

A 32-year-old man who surreptitiously took videos on his mobile phone of intimate moments he shared with a live-in partner and shared the same with his friends on messaging service WhatsApp has bee...

Overseas buyers line up for BEL products

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:15 PM PST

Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), the public sector unit based at Machilipatnam, under the Ministry of Defence, is registering growing overseas business, what with several Asian and African countri...

Welfare pension disbursal from post offices

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

From February, the Postal Department will distribute welfare pensions to 50,000 beneficiaries in the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation area.For effective disbursement of the pensio...

Leopard creates panic in village

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The residents of Netivandlapalle in Veeraballi mandal counted anxious moments on Thursday morning after they spotted a leopard among bushes in the village. The animal was trapped after being shot w...

Three-day CPI district meet begins

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The three-day 20th conference of the Karimnagar district unit of Communist Party of India (CPI) got off to a colourful start in Karimnagar town on Thursday.The CPI rank and file took out a m...

Scare over sheep deaths

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The death of more than two dozen of sheep on Thursday left the residents of Roddam Locherla in panic, as they claimed the animals were killed by a pack of leopards. However, the forest officials sa...

Congress members in Bidar CMC resign

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

All 11 Congress members in the Bidar City Municipal Council, including president Fatima Anwar Ali, quit the Congress on Thursday. Flashing the resignation letters before cameras, Ms. Ali told press...

Meet on secularism

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

: The District Congress Committee (DCC) will hold a convention here on Friday to highlight the need to safeguard the nation's secular tenets as part of commemorating Mahatma Gandhi's 67th death ann...

Engagements for Friday

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

GENERAL Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer Chair on Human Rights, School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology: National workshop on `Inroads into freedom...

Now, plan to install Godse statue in temples

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

After its attempts to install Nathuram Godse's statues at a few identified places in Uttar Pradesh was foiled by the State police, the Hindu Mahasabha now plans to install them on the premises of t...

Increase in road accidents in Salem

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

The number of road accidents within the city limits, its rural areas, has increased in December 2014, when compared to the previous month.The number of people who lost life on city roads has...

A gesture aimed at improving education

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Panchayat Union Primary School, Vanakkambadi, received a donation of Rs.12,000 for the School Patron Scheme from N. Subramanian, a retired railway official of Chennai on the occasion of the dia...

Malabar temples fail to adopt security systems

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Even after a strict direction from the Malabar Devaswom Board (MDB) authorities, temples in the Malabar region are lagging behind in the installation of Closed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTVs) to...

Integrated Transport Authority mooted to solve train commuters’ problems

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:27 PM PST

'Bengaluru needs a multimodal transport system for seamless travel'

Workshop on sexual violence against children

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

Tulir - Center for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse is organising 'Connecting the Dots: The Annual Program Series to Address Sexual Violence against Children', between February 2 an...

Constitute State Coordination Committee within a month: HC

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:37 PM PST

The Madras High Court has directed the authorities to constitute the State Coordination Committee under The Persons with Disabilities Act 1995, within one month. The First Bench comprising Chief Ju...

Man murders house owner

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The police arrested a 34-year-old man of Vettaikaranpudur near Anaimalai for allegedly murdering the owner of the house he was staying, on Wednesday night.According to the police, the victim...

BJP nervous about polls, says AAP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Responding to questions posed to convenor Arvind Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party said it was not going to fall for the Bharatiya Janata Party's trap.The questions pertain to the AAP accepting...

One killed, two injured at under-construction site

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

One labourer died and three others were injured when a mound of mud caved in on them at a building site under the National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) project in South Delhi's Kidwai...

Land regularisation poses threat to wakf properties

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

: The Telangana government's scheme to regularise unauthorised occupation of government lands poses grave threat to wakf properties. The ownership of large tracts of wakf land in the State is shown...

Migratory birds come under surveillance

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:01 PM PST

Fears of recurrence of avian influenza epidemic have pushed the Forest Department to keep a tab on migratory birds that winter in Kerala.Though the epidemic, first reported among domestic po...

KWA asked to give priority to domestic connections

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The High Court on Thursday observed that the Kerala Water Authority should give preference to applications for water connections from domestic consumers over non-domestic ones.Justice V. Chi...

Few enforcement personnel

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:43 PM PST

The city has just about 130 personnel, not continuously at a stretch, to manage over 4.4 lakh vehicles in Mangaluru. While the City Traffic Police have 120 personnel working as against the sanction...

Pillai unrepentant, dares ruling front to oust him

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Wants UDF to set its house in order

Man succumbs to injuries

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

A 58-year-old man, a lottery seller and reportedly an activist of the BJP, succumbed to injuries he sustained after being attacked by a gang on January 24, at the Government Medical College Hospita...

A long way to go for smart tag

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

The smart city plan being worked out by the Centre and the State government has a set of precedent conditions. The selected cities, Visakhapatnam, Ajmer, and Allahabad, will have to strive to achie...

Weekly express to Tata Nagar, Yesvantapur

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

A pair of weekly express trains no.18111/18112 Tata Nagar-Yesvantapur-Tata Nagar via Rourkela, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Baragarh Road, Bolangir, Titlagarh, Rayagada, Vizianagarm, Visakhapatnam, Vijay...

Illegal layouts in capital region will be demolished: Minister

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:37 PM PST

Narayana hopeful of pooling 10,000 acres by the month-end

Ramagundam NTPC Ltd. achieves yet another landmark

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Second biggest solar power plant established by corporation

Land scarcity poses problem in investors’ paradise

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Multi-nationals and NRIs have shown interest in Vizag

Dalits stage dharna seeking safety, submit memorandum

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Karnataka Rajya Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (Krantikari) activists staged a sit in dharna outside the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Thursday.They demanded that immediate action be taken a...

No-confidence motion: JD(S) issues whip to its members in CMC

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Janata Dal (Secular) has issued whip to its members in the Hassan City Municipal Council to vote in favour of the no-confidence motion against the incumbent. The party had sought for a meeting...

IETE students’ forum launched

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The students' forum of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) began functioning at the Prime College of Engineering, Erattayal, near here, on Thursday. IETE south zon...

Coir-based organic acoustic panelling system developed

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Chief Minister to launch product at Coir Kerala expo on Sunday

Chennai today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

RELIGION Ramayanam: Jamadhagni, Ramanakendram, Alamelumangapuram, Mylapore, 6-30 p.m. Ashtavakra Samhita: S. Vasudevan, 11, 1{+s}{+t}Avenue R...

RI for PWD Engineers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Two engineers of Public Works Department (Water Resources Organisation) were sentenced to undergo two years rigorous imprisonment (RI) and pay a fine of Rs. 12,000 each by the Chief Judicial Ma...

Killed in accidents

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Two men were killed and one man was injured when their motorcycle collided head-on with a BMTC bus on Bannerghatta Road on Wednesday afternoon. Police identified the deceased as Devaraj (22), a res...

VIDS signs MoA with Asia e University

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Vellore Institute of Development Studies (VIDS) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Bureau of Indian Distance Learning (BIDL), partner of Asia e University, Malaysia, to conduct...

SDPI seeks action against arsonists at Thooneri

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

It would picket highway on Feb. 5

FIRs filed against Togadia, Jugal Kishore for ghar vapsi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:33 PM PST

A day after a controversy erupted over a ghar vapsi of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Birbhum district of West Bengal, the police on Thursday registered complaints against...

SPVs to fund rail projects in States

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:28 PM PST

The Indian Railways is introducing the idea of forming a special purpose vehicle (SPV) between the Government of India (through Indian Railways) and the State government, which can take up projects...

‘Leadership needs to change with the times’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

In the 21{+s}{+t}century, management needs to change with the changing needs of the employee and the organisation, according to Paul T. Thomas, director, DNA Definitive, and BBC Wales Business Doct...

Aavin milk shake ‘elusive’ for schoolchildren

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:36 PM PST

It is a case of "sweet idea" that has eluded schoolchildren.About three years ago, a proposal was mooted to provide mango milk shake as part of the noon meal scheme. This followed the then C...

Controversy over press meet at CMCH

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

A controversy broke out at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Thursday over a press meet conducted to announce the commissioning of a liquid oxygen plant.While all the reporters were...

BJP’s five questions for Kejriwal

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Over the next week, the party will put forth 35 questions to the AaP chief

MCI warns Hindu Rao Hospital over lack of teaching facilities

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

May not allow admissions for third MBBS batch

Jagan, Gali appear in court in separate cases

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

YSRC president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, former Ministers Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, Dharmana Prasada Rao and P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, several industrialists and IAS officers appeared in the Principal Sp...

Hyderabad RPO takes the cake, issuing most passports in 2014

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

6.95 lakh were issued out of 7.17 lakh applications received

Patriarch to meet Pranab, Modi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Ignatius Aphrem II, head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church, who arrives here on an 11-day India visit on February 7, is scheduled to meet President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra M...

“Poor quality of construction not an offence under Sec. 420”

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Builders cannot be booked by police under Section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Indian Penal Code just because the quality of a building constructed by them wa...

Fishery harbour case posted for arguments

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The case of violations of the Coastal Regulation Zone rules in the ongoing expansion of the fisheries harbour at Bunder has been posted for arguments on February 19.New Delhi-based Principal...

State a model in devolution of funds, says Finance Minister

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The State is a model worth emulating in the devolution of funds to panchayats, Finance Minister K.M. Mani has said. He was inaugurating a workshop organised by the Fifth State Finance Commission he...

Joint Council questions govt. stance

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:53 PM PST

The State secretariat of the Joint Council has asked the government to stop duping the Medical Council of India by redeploying faculty in government medical colleges to the newly created institutio...

First bootcamp held for startups

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Sunrise Startup Village, first in Andhra Pradesh, was kicked off on Thursday with MobMe of Kochi Startup Village organising a bootcamp for hundreds of college students.As a first step, MobMe...

Artificial limbs unit opened

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

RINL CMD P. Madhusudan on Thursday inaugurated an artificial limbs manufacturing workshop building at Mangalapalem (Kothavalasa) in Vizianagaram district.The building, which houses the works...

Consensus not necessary for special status: Vundavalli

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

An executive order by the Centre will serve the purpose, he says

Govt. to spend Rs.45,000 cr. on power generation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Etela Rajender has said that all measures were being taken to overcome the power shortage and also achieve surplus energy position, for which the Government...

‘Centre will solve drought problem’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to chalk out strategies at different levels to address the drought situation in Rayalaseema region.The meeting of the party's national general secreta...

Question on Nobel stumps scientist

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

Momentarily stumped

The former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam usually peppers his speeches with childhood anecdotes, his encounters with Nobel Laureates, and even poetry that...

‘Create awareness on biodiversity Act’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Workshops are being held in Karnataka to strengthen the implementation of the biodiversity Act with focus on its access and benefit-sharing provisions, M.D. Subhaschandran, member, Karnataka Biodiv...

Hassan people want train services to Mangaluru increased

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Closure of Shiradi Ghat stretch is the reason behind their demand

Quit over solar scam, CM told

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Says Mani following Chandy in bar bribery scandal

Rajnath Singh to open Hindu meet at Cherukolpuzha

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The 103rd Hindu religious meet, Ayroor-Cherukolpuzha Hindumatha Parishad, organised by the Hindumatha Maha Mandalam (HMM), will be held at its traditional venue on the sand bed of river Pampa at Ch...

“Nano science offers plenty of scope’’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Conference on nano technology at SASTRA University

Women cheated

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

A woman and daughter were cheated of 45 sovereigns by a woman near here on Wednesday.According to police, Selvi of Pudukkiramam near Boothapandi, had discussed the problems she faced after h...

Water released from Kelavarapalli dam

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

It will meet irrigation needs of farmers

Fumigate to prevent dengue, tells Collector

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

As part of the drive to eradicate dengue the district administration has granted permission to the local bodies such as the municipalities, town panchayats, panchayat unions and the village panchay...

‘Partly communal, partly political’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Kannur Range, Dinendra Kashyap, has said that preliminary investigation revealed that the incident in which a DYFI activist was killed at Thooneri last wee...

Siliguri commissioner transferred in police reshuffle in Bengal

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

In a major reshuffle in IPS cadre, Siliguri Commissioner of Police, three DIGs and Superintendents of Police in four districts have either been transferred or promoted in West Bengal.Siligur...

Book authority extends last date

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Kannada Book Authority (KBA) has extended the last date for book publishers and exhibitors to submit their applications to put up stalls at the Book Sales Fair 2015, till February 5.The...

Off with their tresses, for cancer

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

If fairytale character Rapunzel shed her locks to escape from the tower, many city college girls on Thursday sacrificed their long tresses for a noble cause: to boost the self-confidence of cancer...

IRCTC trains to pilgrim centres

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:36 PM PST

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched a pilgrim tourist train each for Shirdi and the nine Jyothirlingas in February. The seven-day Guru krupa yatra wil...

Forest College students’ protest continues

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Students of the Forest College and Research Institute of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University here continued to abstain from their classes for the third day on Thursday.They urged the Governme...

No manifesto just vision document for BJP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The Bharatiya Janata Party may not go through with earlier poll promises of providing full Statehood to Delhi with the party's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi and senior BJP leaders skirting...

To beat stress, Naidu and his team take to yoga

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Taking a break from the routine, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, his ministerial colleagues, IAS, IPS, IFS and other officials undertook yoga and breathing exercises in a relaxed atmosphere on...

Chest Hospital still in the eye of the storm

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Ponnala vows to stall the move to shift the facility to Vikarabad

Chandy asks Pillai to behave

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:50 PM PST

A day after the ruling UDF was forced to condone the anti-coalition utterances of Balakrishna Pillai, leader of its constituent Kerala Congress (B), Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has caustically rem...

Parliamentary panel irked over advocate’s remark

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

A sitting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice at the Madras High Court Bench campus here on Thursday, to discuss issues related to legal aid movement, witnessed some heated m...

‘Census information cannot be revealed to anyone’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

D. Helen Prema Kumari, Deputy Director, Directorate of Census Operations, Karnataka, said on Thursday that individual information collected under the census was confidential and could not be reveal...

Autonomy for medical colleges in focus

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Impact of redeployment of faculty on quality of education

AIADMK counting on sympathy factor

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

DMK, BJP and CPI(M) pose a challange

Rajani all set for a grand century

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

He listens to music and reads newspapers everyday without the help of spectacles

Wipro, Tech Mahindra to provide 11,400 jobs: Palle

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

IT Minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy on Thursday said Vizag was poised to become a mega IT hub with the expansion projects of Wipro Limited and Tech Mahindra providing 11,400 jobs in next few years.<...

No VIP break darsan on Thursday evenings

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

TTD management's decision coms into force with immediate effect

Congress threatens stir over pensions

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

MLC Mohammed Ali Shabbir has criticised that the State Government led by K. Chandrasekhar Rao failed to keep its promises and has left scores of poor people who are eligible for Aasara pensions in...

Medium of instruction issue: State plans to amend Central Act

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Despite the Supreme Court striking down the State's language policy in September 2014, the Siddaramaiah government seems all set to harden its position on implementing Kannada as the compulsory med...

Need for gardens in schools stressed

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Mangalore University former Vice-Chancellor M.I. Savadatti has regretted the fact that most schools do not have gardens on their campuses these days.He was here to inaugurate the Shala Paris...

Congress-JD(S) combine retains power in Shivamogga CMC

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Mangala Annappa of the Congress elected Mayor, unopposed

Alter education system: ex-VC

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:02 PM PST

Former Vice-Chancellor of Manipal University B.M. Hegde has said efforts for a corruption-free society should begin by changing the education system.Delivering the second Madhava Baliga Memo...

Kurien sees no reason for Mani to quit

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Stresses for a fair probe to place facts before the people

Book fair from today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

The 12th edition of Tirupur Book Festival, organised by Pinnal Book Trust and Bharathi Puthakalayam, to be held at K.R.C. City Centre here from January 30 to February 8, will have a participation o...

Two electrocuted

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Two persons including a 9th standard student were electrocuted in separate incidents in the district. Police said M. Esakki Pandi (14) of Tharuvai under Munneerpallam police station limits was elec...

Pythons rescued

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

The locals of Kondepalli created a flutter when they walked into the Collectorate premises with two pythons, on Thursday. The snakes, each measuring eight to nine feet, were found in the field of P...

Child handed over to convent

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Collector S. Suresh Kumar handed over a one-week-old female child, found abandoned at the Vriddhachalam bus stand recently, to the representatives from the Holy Apostle Convent at St. Thomas Mount...

Two-day meet on architecture at NIT-C

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The Department of Architecture at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) in alliance with the Calicut Chapter of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) will organise the first inte...

Visva Bharati student raped, one arrested

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

: A student of the Visva Bharati University was raped, police said on Thursday.The main accused has been arrested, officer in charge of the Bolpur police station Deb Kumar Roy told...

‘Abhinetri’ to hit screens today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Curious movie-goers will finally get answers to all their questions

Conference to focus on syllabus

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

Many students in engineering colleges are unable to cope, educationists say, suggesting that this problem can be remedied by focussing more on school education, and modifying the syllabus."A...

Food Safety Officers raid fish stalls

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Food Safety Officers on Thursday raided fish stalls in the city following complaints over the quality of fishes being sold.A team led by Designated Officer of Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug...

For elderly voters, individual performance, loyalty matter

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Political parties might be busy wooing the youth during the elections, but some of the eldest voters in the city are equally eager to exercise their franchise. And their reasons to choose a particu...

UoH is India’s best Central varsity

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:49 PM PST

University of Hyderabad has been selected for the 'Visitor's Award for the Best University', which will be presented by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on...

10 more coastal police stations this year

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:49 PM PST

Second phase of Coastal Police expansion

January 30, a day to renew faith in values

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:09 PM PST

"Standard of life is more important than standard of living"

Many roads do not have footpaths

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:43 PM PST

The absence of footpaths between Poonja International Hotel and Hampankatta Junction, in front of Prabhat cinema, and other stretches on the busy K.S. Rao Road has forced people to walk on the road...

Plea for Central intervention to help nurses

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Minister for Non-resident Keralites' Affairs K.C. Joseph has urged Union Minister for External Affairs Sushama Swaraj to intervene to help nurses stranded in Kuwait. He claimed that the nurses were...

Check distribution of money: CPI(M)

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan on Thursday urged the Election Commission to check distribution of money and exercise of authority by the ruling AIADMK ahead of t...

Congress stages dharna against CDRA’s curbs on cultivation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Congress activists staged a dharna to protest against the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) call to Thullur area farmers to forgo their second crop. Congress workers led by PCC vice-presi...

Folk arts festival from tomorrow

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

The CPI(M) will be organising the Safdar Hashmi memorial folk arts festival from Saturday to February 3 in the run-up to its 21{+s}{+t}national congress to be held in April.The festival woul...

‘RTC seats should be clearly labelled’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Until recently, the front two rows of seats in the local RTC buses were reserved for physically handicapped and senior citizens while eight rows of seats on both sides were reserved for women. Howe...

Special teams to tackle anti-social elements

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Superintendent of Police, K.A. Jha directed police personnel at all police station to constitute special teams to combatanti-social elements and ID liquor menace within their limits.T...

Chittoor bags national award

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Chittoor district, the home turf of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, has bagged the national award for successful implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme...

2 more die, 12 doctors test positive

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Two more persons, a woman from Nizamabad and another male patient from Madhapur area have died of complications out of swine flu at Gandhi Hospital on Thursday. This has taken the overall death tol...

KVGB to appoint women pigmy collectors soon

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) has taken steps to appoint women as daily deposit collectors, also known as pigmy deposit collectors, to ensure their greater participation in furthering financ...

School to celebrate golden jubilee

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

A programme to mark the golden jubilee of the Sacred Heart High School and silver jubilee of the Sacred Heart Higher Primary School will be held on the premises of the Sacred Heart Cathedral here o...

CPI(M) Kannur meet begins

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Pinarayi asks cadre to expand mass base of party

2 kg of ganja seized

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Three men from Alappuzha district who were allegedly transporting 2 kg of cannabis (ganja) in an autorickshaw were arrested by a team led by Kollam Excise circle inspector J. Thajudeenkutty late We...

Coimbatore Today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

RELIGION Thaipoosa Thiruther Vizha: Arulmigu Subramania Swamy Temple, Marudhamalai,10 a.m.CULTURE Kasthuri Sreenivasan Trust: P...

Call to avoid buying poor quality products

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

Consumers advised to check quality, manufacturing date and weight before buying goods

Close ATMs at night, says Collector

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

The district collector has asked banks to down the shutters of automated teller machines (ATMs) in isolated and rural areas with low transactions, during the night, to avoid crime. This includes AT...

Jewellery group denies allegations

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The Malabar Gold and Diamonds Group has said that its proposed factory at Kakkancherry in Malappuram will be set up "in compliance with all legal and safety aspects. "A section of people...

Moving BMTC bus catches fire; narrow escape for passengers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Moving BMTC bus catches fire

In the second incident in as many days, a moving Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus caught fire in the city on Thursday, pr...

Firms in added zones to pay company tax

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:49 PM PST

Companies in added zones will pay company tax with effect from October 25, 2011. The Council on Thursday passed a resolution for collection of company tax in the eight added zones. Compan...

Noon special force to tackle trash

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:53 PM PST

A single-shift system will be introduced for conservancy staff

Research centre

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Amrita Automotive Research Centre (AARTC), a joint venture between Amrita University and Automotive Test Systems, was launched on the university premises on Wednesday. Established at Rs.15 crore, t...

Crime Branch takes over probe into ITR spying case

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

: Crime Branch of the Odisha police has taken over the investigation into the spying incident inside the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, India's leading missile testing centre.Acting on a...

Sidhu plays to the galleries

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

"First he left his job and ran away… then left his duty as Chief Minister and ran away and he even ran away from Varanasi. If he was so fond of running he should have run a marathon. At least he wo...

Marked increase in swine flu patients in govt. hospitals

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

Three govt. facilities segregate isolation wards, ILI clinics and undertake testing of swab samples

Composite materials are the future: Avinash Chander

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister Avinash Chander on Thursday said stated that composite materials were the future of scientific advances.From high-end defence applications includin...

CBSE science expo gets under way

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:49 PM PST

Budding talents revealed their passion for science as the three-day regional level science exhibition of schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) began at Bhavan's Vidya Mandi...

Dengue fever: Aruppukottai put on alert

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

More entomologists deployed

Schools seek steps to save lives

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The death of 10-year old Anand Raj of Kateel on K.S. Rao Road in an accident on Wednesday sent shock waves across the city and schools said that appeals to the police to intervene effectively have...

Research institute caught in a recruitment row

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

44 temporary posts of project scientists in NCESS

Double delight for Srirangam boys school

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

It was a sweet double for The Higher Secondary School for Boys, Srirangam, as it emerged victorious in the inter-school league and inter-school knockout cricket tournaments conducted by the Tiruchi...

Call for national institute for Telugu

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

'People's hesitation to speak Telugu disturbing'

Motivational talk by elected representatives

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

State's first boot camp held at start-up village

RGV is at it again

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Maverick director Ram Gopal Varma is back to doing what he does best – doling out unsolicited advices. He has taken to Twitter to express his views on the comeback film of actor-turned-politician C...

Seminar on Indian writing in English

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The Department of English, Telangana University will conduct national conference on Subaltern Concept in Indian Writing in English at the university campus at Dichpally on March 11, according to M.

Tsundur case in Human Rights Watch 2015 report

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:14 PM PST

An international human rights watchdog has expressed concern over a recent AP High court judgment pertaining to Dalit deaths.In its 2015 annual report released on January 29, Thursday, the H...

Jagan and Gali appear in court

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

YSR Congress president and Leader of the Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, and former BJP Minister of Karnataka Gali Janardhan Reddy who was released from jail in Be...

‘KVS neglecting former office-bearers’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Shivanand Gali, a former joint-secretary of the Karnatak Vidyavardhak Sangha (KVS), has alleged that KVS office-bearers are neglecting those who have contributed to the growth of the organisation.<...

Only 30 acres for exotic Nanjangud rasabale

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

Notwithstanding the efforts of researchers and government agencies, the slide of Nanjangud rasabale, a variety of banana, into extinction seems to be continuing."Nanjangud rasabale is now co...

Wayanad ideal for fruit, flower farming: expert

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) is gearing up to organise an international symposium on horticulture at Ambalavayal.Sisir Mitra, Chairman, ISHS, told the media her...

Workshop on research methodology

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

: A workshop on 'Research Methodology in Social Sciences' will be held by the Postgraduate and Research Department of Political Science attached to Sree Narayana College, Kollam on January 30 and 3...

Over 2,000 women benefit from scheme

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

A total of 2,023 women who have girl children have benefitted from the Chief Minister's Girl Child Protection Scheme in the district. They have received funds to the tune of Rs 6.95 crore, accordin...

Protest against move to extend KMTR

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

As many as 202 members of Tamil Nadu Tribals' Association (TNTA), including 88 women and eight children, were arrested for blocking road in front of the Collectorate here on Thursday in protest aga...

Vaniyambadi overbridge opened

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Works on two more ROBs and a RUB to be over by March

IIM-K conclave to update students on nation-building

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, (IIM-K), will hold its annual management and public policy conclave — Horizons 2015, on its campus from January 31 to February 5. The event aims at se...

School bus overturns injuring nine children

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:21 PM PST

Two with head injuries are being treated at Columbia Asia

Plan to link MRTS stations gets a boost

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:44 PM PST

The Corporation will develop a new road connecting the Velachery, Perungudi and Taramani MRTS stations. The Chennai Corporation Council on Thursday passed a resolution pertaining to taking over a 2...

Clash hits traffic

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

A clash between a few students and conductor of a bus brought traffic to a standstill near Gandhipuram on Thursday evening. The police said that Vanniraj, conductor of a Governme...

Rs. 74,000 crore worth investment proposals in Durgapur-Asansol: CM

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said investment proposals worth more than Rs 74,000 crore were lined up across sectors such as steel, fertilisers and coal mines in the Durg...

Cong. rebel who hosted party website joins AAP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

After leaving people guessing for a week about his next political move since snapping a three-decade-old association with Congress, former councillor from Janakpuri Sanjey Puri joined the Aam Aadmi...

Inter-caste couples demand quota

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Future concerns for their children's identities is forcing inter-caste and inter-religious couples to demand reservation

Govt. abetting sand, liquor syndicates: BJP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

BJP State president G. Kishan Reddy on Thursday accused the TRS government of abetting the activities of illegal sand and liquor syndicates in various parts of the State.Alleging that the ru...

The Hindu In School handwriting contest to be held on Saturday

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

The Hindu In School Cello Handwriting Wizards contest regional city round will be held at Ernakulam Women's Association hall on Diwan's Road in the city on Saturday.The...

Order in favour of PRP firm set aside

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Regarding nod for export from outside Madurai

Handwriting contest tomorrow

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

After successful conduct of the school-level contests, The Hindu-Cello Handwriting Wizard Contest is now moving to the city level. The capital city would host the event at Christ Nagar ICSE school,...

Brinda Karat remembers contribution of Umanath couple ‘with gratitude’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Politbureau member inaugurates a stupi in favour of the two late leaders

Two-day Startup Weekend programme at KLU

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Koneru Lakshmaiah University (KLU), in association with Global Business Incubator (GBI) and NASSCOM is organising a two-day Startup Weekend programme on the university premises at Vaddeswaram on Ja...

Cinematography: training for second batch from Feb. 4

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Alternative education helps students explore beyond their academic world and provides them a sense of direction to play a larger than life role.Although there are plenty of opportunities in...

4-year-old girl’s death: torture suspected

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

Mystery shrouds the death of a four-year-old girl at Malkapur village near here on Thursday. Volunteers of Child Line, an NGO, rushed to the house where the girl, Shahista Saba, was staying when th...

Illegal structures demolished , 3 held

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Vizianagaram Municipal officials on Thursday razed illegal encroachments on the Clock Tower-Nehru Park-City Bus Stand-Krishna theatre stretch and at Dasannapeta Rythu Bazaar on the Ring Road and at...

‘Withdraw security cover for Deve Gowda’s family members’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Hassan District Congress Committee has urged the State and Union governments to withdraw the special security being provided to family members of the former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda under...

‘Don’t rake up border dispute during natya sammelan’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Belagavi District Kannada Organisations Action Committee has warned of possible linguistic disharmony if the forthcoming Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Sammelan will "be misused to raise controversi...

University of Mysore is part of global cancer research project

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

In a bid to enable early diagnosis of cancer, Alzhemier's disease and lifestyle diseases like diabetes, scientists of three institutions from India, Japan and Ethiopia have started work on a joint...

Revenue adalat today

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash will chair a day-long revenue adalat to be held from 9 a.m. at a venue set up on the Collectorate premises here on Friday.The Minister said the adalat had been...

Six AIYF activists held for waving black flag at CM

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Taking the police by surprise, six activists of the All India Youth Federation (AIYF) rushed from the among the audience and waved a black flag at Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday morning w...

Man sentenced to 10 years RI

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST

Mahila Court Judge N. Vasanthaleela on Thursday sentenced P. Nagaraj (33), a casual labourer, to 10 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in his house at S. V....

Periyar University to get indoor stadium

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

The Periyar University here will soon get an indoor stadium for promoting sports activities among its students.The University Grants Commission, New Delhi, has sanctioned Rs. 70 lakh for the...

Quacks arrested in Nellai, Tuticorin

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Police have arrested two quacks in the district even as anti-dengue operations are being intensified.When anti-dengue operations by the official machinery intensified in Rajapalayam and its...

‘Link Thenpennai, Palar’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Farmers in Vellore have urged the State government to immediately allot funds and take up works for the Thenpennai — Palar linking project.At a meeting of the Tamizhaga Vivasaigal Sangam on...

Cyberpark to draw IT investment

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:57 PM PST

Third major facility after Technopark and Infopark

Spotlight now on safety of children on school bus

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

The spotlight is once again on the safety of children on school buses after a bus carrying schoolchildren toppled on Jakkur Main Road, in Bengaluru on Thursday.As children are in care of the...

Sri Lankan government plans fresh war crimes probe

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:23 AM PST

Sri Lanka is planning an investigation into accusations of human rights abuses in the final stages of a 26-year civil war amid international frustration at the failure to look into numerous civili...

3 Oklahoma executions halted following concerns about drug

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:18 AM PST

Convicts have challenged the State's lethal-injection protocol

Full text of the interview with Sujatha Singh

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:54 PM PST

Sujatha Singh, whose tenure as foreign secretary was cut short by the Modi government, gave this exclusive interview to Amit Baruah. Excerpts: Did you feel...

Beating the Retreat ceremony held at Rajpath

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:50 AM PST

Beating the Retreat ceremony was held on January 29 evening in Rajpath, New Delhi, marking the end of Republic Day celebrations in India. Photos by R.V.Moorthy

CAs can give India a global edge: Suresh Prabhu

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:13 AM PST

Chartered accountants meeting here for an international conference were urged to help build the country's global competitiveness with modern and ethical auditing practices. Minister for R...

SC allows creditor banks to decide NPA norms

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:14 AM PST

Serving a blow to borrowers, especially in the industrial sector, the Supreme Court upheld a 2004 amendment in law enabling banks to follow different guidelines for declaring bad loans as 'non-pe...

A taste of the hills

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST

There is unusual fare at The Taj Vivanta as its Badaga Chef prepares a traditional Badaga feast for you

Up &amp; away!

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:58 AM PST

PARSHATHY J. NATH gets airborne in Pollachi and gets a first hand experience of the Balloon Festival

A touch of glass

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:52 AM PST

Shanthini Rajkumar tells you what you can do with all the bottles that keep piling up at home. Recycle them!

Coal unions to protest on Friday against disinvestment

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:14 PM PST

Following the government's decision to disinvest 10 per cent shares of Coal India Limited's (CIL), five central trade unions have announced protest demonstrations on Friday across the country. Rep...

Science in curious li’l hands

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:49 AM PST

Give them lemons and they'll make batteries out of them. Or they might just teach you to make square bubbles. Bengaluru's Curiouscity helps kids get creative with their learning of science

Revisiting Gandhi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:45 AM PST

On Martyr's Day, Birad Rajaram Yajnik talks about why it is imperative to visit the Gandhi Museum and invoke the Mahatma in today's day and age

They came, they saw, they painted

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:44 AM PST

Conquer the Concrete melds the works of international artists, hoarding painters and the city's love affair with cinema to create street art that is uniquely Chennai

Ignorance and its possible effects

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:42 AM PST

Manohar Chiluveru is kick starting an art project that will travel to Barcelona and Florence

IIT Bombay launches mass open online courses

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:38 AM PST

The programme, offered free, will give access to high quality, IIT-style education to Indian students in Indian languages.

‘Doctors’ without borders

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:48 AM PST

Medicine Corner, Wellcome Collection's project on India's healthcare, gets a boost thanks to BLOT's audio-visuals on street 'doctors'

Numaish and all it stood for

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:37 AM PST

In days of old, 45 lakh people visited Numaish and everyone but everyone went at least thrice. First to check it out, then to go shopping and finally to hang out and eat. Numaish was a piece of ou...

In memory of the Mahatma

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:28 AM PST

Two Gandhians who cherish and propagate the ideals of Gandhiji

Five days of celebration

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:23 AM PST

At SRM University's cultural fest Milan, expect gaming championships, music performances and maybe even a Guinness World Record.

An Amby adventure

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:18 AM PST

A group of tourists is traversing South India as millions of Indians have for years: on Hindustan Ambassadors

The pursuit of happiness

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:29 PM PST

On International Fun at Work Day, a look at what makes for a conducive workplace

Gandhism lives here

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:14 AM PST

Sister Mythili, the guiding light of the Madhavi Mandiram Loka Seva Trust at Ooruttukala, Neyyattinkara, leads from the front in instilling Gandhian values in a new generation. Today is Sarvodaya Day

Shekhar Sen named chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:49 AM PST

The eminent singer and theatre director was recently awarded the Padma Shri on Republic day for his contribution to the arts.

Go Greek!

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:03 AM PST

Healthy, nutritious and easy-to-make recipes from Greece

Memories of the Mahatma

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:03 AM PST

The writer walks through Gandhi Smriti in Delhi where Gandhiji spent his final days

Khammam Fort: Heritage in peril

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST

One of the cannons dating back to the 18th century lying neglected at the Khammam Fort's entrance tells the sorry state of affairs in maintaining structures of historical importance. The fort was originally equipped with 15 cannons to guard it from invasions. The Hindu lensman G.N. Rao provides view of the fort from various angles.

Art meets the artiste

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:57 AM PST

Kapila, a new documentary by filmmaker Sanju Surendran, explores Koodiyattam through the life and recitals of young exponent Kapila Venu

Getting into top gear

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:57 AM PST

Bright colours, fancy designs and better protection… headgear for two-wheeler riders make a style statement these days

Dare to think beyond duty-free

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:53 AM PST

The writer tastes fine spirits from around the world in the collection offered by The Vault

A trattoria at The Taj?

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:48 AM PST

Prego, the recently re-launched Italian restaurant at The Taj Coromandel, offers brave flavours

Wrap it up

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:44 AM PST

Faaso's, in Besant Nagar, is ideal for a quick bite

Hindu Mahasabha to install Godse statue in temples

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:53 PM PST

The Hindutva outfit is in touch with saints and temple trusts across the country for the purpose.

Splendour of silk

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:39 AM PST

It is a textile spread at 'Silk India 2015' and a range of aesthetic products at 'Crafts Bazaar.'

BJP to Kejriwal: why did you take Congress support to form government?

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:25 PM PST

The party will pose five questions a day to Kejriwal till February 5, the last day of electioneering.

Leopard strays into village, creates panic

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:39 AM PST

A leopard that staryed into village and perched atop a peepal tree in Netivandlapalle in Veeraballi mandal of Kadapa District, created panic among the residents. The animal was trapped after being...

Siddaramaiah lashes out at Devegowda

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:58 AM PST

The very fact that H.D. Devegowda became Chief Minister of Karnataka was a problem in itself, Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah said.Reacting to a statement made by former Prime MinisterH.D....

Man killed while extracting sand

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:56 AM PST

A person was killed on the spot when a sand mound caved in while extracting sand at Chikkanakotehalla in Sira taluk in the district on Thursday.The police said that the deceased is identifie...

Bangalore Today: January 30

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:56 AM PST

You want to know what's going on in Namma Bengaluru? Click here to view the list of Religious, Cultural and General events happening across the City

Guards, Sikh Regiment, CISF are best marching contingents

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:19 AM PST

The Maharashtra Tableau which depicted 'Wari to Pandharpur' (the pilgrimage to Pandharpur) was adjudged the best among the 25 tableaux.

HCU selected as best among central universities

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:53 AM PST

University of Hyderabad has been selected for the Visitor's Award for the Best University and President of India Pranab Mukherjee will present the award at a function to be held at Rashtrapati Bha...

Shun worries, lead stress-free life: Naidu

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:34 AM PST

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu turned a bit spiritual on Thursday and spoke about the positive impact of yoga and meditation on thinking and approach. Speaking at the...

US calls Afghan Taliban insurgents, Islamic State terrorists

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:26 AM PST

"The Taliban is an armed insurgency. ISIL is a terrorist group. So we don't make concessions to terrorist groups," White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said.

Suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terrorist held

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:38 AM PST

In a joint operation the Bangalore Internal Security Division, Davangere District Police and the Assam Police have arrested a suspected terrorist involved in more than two bomb blast cases in Assa...

ULBs told to legalise water connections

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 AM PST

Urban Development Minister Vinaykumar Sorake has said that directions have been given to urban local bodies (ULBs) to legalise all illegal drinking water connections to ensure collection of water...

Swine Flu fear brings people to Hyderabad

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:21 AM PST

A sudden spurt of suspected swine flu cases has led to all Government-run hospitals in Hyderabad getting a large number of patients led by Fever Hospital in Hyderabad on Thursday. The Hindu photographer G. Ramakrishna compiles the activity at Fever Hospital, which displays the fear towards the disease among large number of people in Telangana Districts that brings them to the city to get proper treatment.

CPI(M) accuses Modi govt. of U-turn in nuke deal with U.S.

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:54 AM PST

The ``breakthrough'' in the logjam with the U.S. over The Civil Liability of Nuclear Damage Act, according to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), represents not only a reversal of the...

KPKKS opposes attempts to dilute MNREGA

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:45 AM PST

Karnataka Prantha Krishi Koolikarara Sangha (KPKKS), an agricultural labourers' organisation affiliated to All India Agricultural Workers Union, criticised the Union Government for its attempt to...

A case for the Doctor

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:53 PM PST

A behind-the-scenes look at the new Foreign Secretary's career shows he is not one to be swayed by public discourse, but is all for measured responses

With local millers ruling the roost, tapioca farmers get a raw deal

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:45 AM PST

It is troubled time for tapioca farmers of East Godavari district as they struggle to get minimum price for their produce with outside players virtually staying away from the market this season. T...

Nine students injured as school bus topples

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:21 PM PST

Nine primary school students sustained minor injuries when a private school bus, dropping students back home from school, toppled near Jakkur on Thursday afternoon.The school bus carrying 1...

Charles Townes, Nobel winner for co-inventing laser, dies aged 99

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:40 AM PST

Townes shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics with Russian physicists Aleksandr M. Prokhorov and Nicolai G. Basov.

Need to set up national institute for promotion of Telugu: Mandali

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:31 AM PST

Assembly Deputy Speaker Mandali Buddha Prasad on Thursday expressed anguish over the Central Government's failure to establish a national institution for promotion of Telugu language on the lines...

BITS Pilani Hyd campus literary festival from Jan 31

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:29 AM PST

The BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus will host its national annual Literary Festival "Verba Maximus" with a plethora of literary events on January 31 and February 1. Students from across the country w...

‘French co-pilot flying AirAsia jet before crash’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:24 AM PST

Data from the black box has provided the accident probe with a "pretty clear picture" of what happened in the last moments of flight QZ8501, although few details have been made public.

IGNOU sets up ‘special study centre’ at Central Jail

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:17 AM PST

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has opened a Special Study Centre at Ballari Central Jail. Ballari Central Jail is perhaps the first in the State to have this facility to h...

‘Imperialism waging cultural warfare’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:17 AM PST

Writer and playwright Kotiganahalli Ramaiah has expressed concern over the growing 'cultural warfare' by American imperialism to strengthen its hold over the world. "American imperialism...

HRW calls for speedy justice to Nepal's conflict-era victims

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:24 AM PST

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called upon the Nepal Government to honour its promises on providing justice to conflict-era victims, ending im...

RPO Hyderabad delivers highest passports in the country in 2014

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:16 AM PST

From November 24 all the hand-written and non-machine readable passports would become invalid. Very soon Ananatapur, Chittoor, YSR Kadapa, Kurnool, Nellore, Vijayawada, Guntur and Prakasham districts would be transferred to the Passport Office in Vishakapatnam.

Far from the glamour world

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:08 AM PST

Telugu girl Rakshita's performance is earning her laurels in Tamil films

Malaysia says MH370 crash an accident, to clear compensation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:08 AM PST

Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday officially declared the crash of Flight 370 an accident, fulfilling a legal obligation that will allow efforts to proceed with compensation claims.

Steady climb to recognition

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:06 AM PST

With her performances now getting noticed, Madhu Shalini looks for ward to the release of 'Seethavalokanam'.

Obama India visit only scratched the surface, says Xinhua

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:53 AM PST

Taking a hard look at President Barack Obama's visit to India, a section of the Chinese state media is calling it a journey that was "symbolic than pragmatic," which would fail to bridge v...

Where is black money, and where are the protests, Rahul asks Modi, Kejriwal

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:26 AM PST

If elected, Congress will give permanent employment to contract workers, he says.

Jagan and Gali appear in court

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:34 AM PST

YSR Congress President and Leader of Opposition in Andhra Pradesh Assembly Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and former Karnataka BJP Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who was released from jail in Bengaluru a f...

Factories Act Amendment Bill being revised

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:40 AM PST

Following the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on labour, the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) has prepared a revised draft of Factories Act (Amendme...

NHAI office at Kalamassery vandalised

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:16 AM PST

The office of the National Highways Authority of India at Kalamassery here on Thursday was vandalized by unidentified miscreants claiming to be affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

‘The Thorn Birds’ author Colleen McCullough dies at age 77

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:15 AM PST

Best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose novel The Thorn Birds sold 30 million copies worldwide, has died at age 77 after a long illness. McCullough died on Thursd...

Possible linguistic disharmony, threat to peace at ‘Nada Geethe’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:11 AM PST

Belagavi District Kannada Organisations Action Committee has warned of possible linguistic disharmony and threats to the peace in the event of the forthcoming Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Sammela...

CCB sleuths nab cricket bookies

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:11 AM PST

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police have raided two places and nabbed cricket bookies taking bets from punters for Cricket World Cup starting next month. Based on a tip-off, a team of o...

Composite materials are future, says DRDO chief

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:05 AM PST

Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister Avinash Chander on Thursday categorically stated that composite materials were future of scientific advances. Considering the enormous potential they had, it...

Two U.P. MLAs disqualified after Lokayukta probe

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:33 PM PST

MLA Uma Shankar Singh from Rasrha and MLA Bajrang Bahadur Singh from Pharenda were found guilty of using their position for acquiring government contracts.

Musical offering to Tyagaraja

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:46 AM PST

Tyagaraja Aaradhana at Kalpathy has an enviable tradition of music mixed with devotion.

IGNOU faculty urge President to stop probe against VC

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:45 AM PST

Two senior professors of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) have written to President Pranab Mukherjee urging him to intervene in the inquiry against incumbent Vice-Chancellor Moha...

French police question 8-year-old who ‘backed’ Charlie Hebdo attackers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:44 AM PST

A public security official in the Alpes-Maritimes region, said that the boy declared "I am with the terrorists" and refused to take part in the national minute of silence for victims.

BMTC bus catches fire; passengers safe

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:37 AM PST

A Peenya-Majestic bound BMTC bus caught fire at Laggere Bridge on Thursday morning, falling under RMC Yard police station limits. No casualties have been reported as all the passengers s...

Clearances for new industrial units in 15 days: KCR

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:06 AM PST

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandraskhar Rao on Thursday said the State Government is all set to launch a new industrial policy as All India Service officers are settling down in their posts after...

‘Drastic decrease in omission of households in census’

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:30 AM PST

The omission of households during the 2011 census came down drastically when compared to the previous census, according to D. Helen Prema Kumari, Deputy Director, Directorate of Census Operations,...

Kannada film actor allegedly attacked by cop, seeks action

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:30 AM PST

Kannada film actor Chetan has filed a petition with the City Police Commissioner, M.N. Reddi against a sub-inspector of Cubbon Park for allegedly assaulting him over a trivial row.Though...

Police launch ‘cyberhood policing’ at HSR Layout

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:28 AM PST

In order to contain the growing crime including mugging and house break thefts in and around HSR Layout, the city police have launched Cyberhood policing on Thursday. As part of the new i...

Traditions in time

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:23 AM PST

Carnatic vocalist Sudha Ragunathan, named in this year's Republic Day honours as a Padma Bhushan recipient, speaks on her projects and plans.

A festival of firsts

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:15 AM PST

The 17th edition of Bharat Rang Mahotsav brings a range of new experiences for theatre lovers in the National Capital, reports Swati Daftuar

Loud and clear

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:07 AM PST

An experimental theatre piece, "Galpo Shesher Pore", paints a poignant picture of the state of women in the society — yesterday and today.

Police nab drug peddlers

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:53 AM PST

The Madiwala police have nabbed three drug peddlers from Mumbai and recovered 85 grams of Methamphetamine, popularly known as Meth, worth Rs 2.12 lakh from them. Meth is a synthetic (man-...

Governor to address Joint Session of Legislature in Hindi

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:46 AM PST

Governor Vajubhai R. Vala will address the Joint Session of the State legislature in Hindi on February 2 at the newly renovated hall of the Legislative Assembly. Copies of the Governor's...

Jarkiholi resignation: Team from Belagavi to meet CM today evening

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:51 AM PST

The ongoing political imbroglio within the ruling Congress arising out of the resignation of Excise Minister Satish L. Jarkiholi stood extended by at least one more day, given that the disgruntled...

Mysore, Japanese varsities ink deal

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:50 AM PST

University of Mysore, Mysuru and Hokkaido University, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for academic and research collaborations. Prof. K.S...

Born to be a villain

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:45 AM PST

When you mention the name of Gulshan Grover, a feeling of fear and loathing overcomes you. After the likes of Pran, Amjad Khan and Amrish Puri, he is easily the most hated villain of his generatio...

Govt. keen on ITIR in Vizag, Tirupati, Anantapur: says Minister

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:29 AM PST

The State Government is keen on creating IT Investment Region in Visakhapatnam, Anantapur and Tirupati, Minister for IT Palle Raghunath Reddy has said. Speaking at the inaugural of the first Bootc...

3 Govt. staff arrested for Rs.5.4-cr misappropriation

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:26 AM PST

Officer in-charge of Chintapalli Sub-Treasury and two employees of office of Additional District Medical and Health Officer, Paderu were arrested by the Visakhapatnam police in connection with all...

No political motive behind Sujatha Singh’s removal: BJP

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:41 PM PST

"A government is within its rights to appoint any officer and this has been done by preceding governments too"

Metro stops train to rescue another juvenile kite

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:11 AM PST

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) stopped a train for three minutes on the Peenya line on Thursday morning after a juvenile kite fell on the tracks. Last Friday, the Me...

Woman, her two daughters die in house collapse

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 11:48 PM PST

A woman and her two daughters were killed and her husband suffered multiple injuries when their old house collapsed on them at Medara Basti in Kothagudem in the early hours of Thursday. A...

Modi govt. has failed to check corruption: Anna Hazare

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 11:58 PM PST

The social activist slams the Narendra Modi government for its "failure" to bring back black money stashed away abroad

Congress questions removal of Sujatha Singh as Foreign Secretary

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 11:29 PM PST

Congress on Thursday questioned the timing of government's decision to remove Sujatha Singh as Foreign Secretary. Former Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari wrote on Twitter: ...
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