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Child labourers sent back

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:40 PM PST

The Telangana State Government is sending back the child labourers, who were rescued from the bangle making and other workshops in Hyderabad, in last ten days. Around 400 children hailing from Bih...

Kiran Bedi breaks down during BJP rally

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:26 PM PST

BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi broke down during a roadshow in her constituency, on Wednesday morning. The former top cop is contensting from Krishna Nagar constituency. <...

Sirisena acknowledges division, calls for unity in I-Day speech

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:59 PM PST

Sri Lanka's president said the country has not been able to unite the hearts and minds of ethnic groups despite ending a decades-old civil war five years ago. In his Independence Day address...

NIA arrests one more in Burdwan blast case

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:38 PM PST

NIA has arrested a close aide of suspected Burdwan blast mastermind Sheikh Rehmatullah alias Sajjid for allegedly running a recruitment camp for Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit...

Madonna to perform at 2015 Brit awards

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:21 PM PST

Her last appearance at the Brits was in 1995, when she performed 'Bedtime Stories'

World Cancer Day: Meet the survivors

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:35 PM PST

On World Cancer Day, with the theme 'Not Beyond Us', survivors' message: that cancer can be beaten successfully and a good life can follow.

Plane with 53 passengers crashes in Taipei; 12 dead

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:59 PM PST

The plane was identified as a French-made twin-engine turboprop ATR 72 with a two-pilot air crew.

India a fundamental provider of security, growth in Asia-Pacific: White House

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:48 PM PST

The two meetings between Modi, Obama in past five months significant as U.S. implements its re-balance in the region

AIB pulls out the controversial video

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:54 PM PST

The members of expletive-laced comedy show 'AIB Roast' have removed their latest three part video from Youtube after it sparked a controversy for obscene language and content. AIB has twe...

AAP’s aam aurat shakti at full throttle

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:58 PM PST

The Aam Aadmi Party plans to unleash its women power in Kiran Bedi's Krishna Nagar constituency through a mega rally featuring its key women leaders on Wednesday. According to party leade...

New York train strikes vehicle on tracks, killing 6

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:30 PM PST

A passenger train north of New York City struck a vehicle on the tracks on Tuesday evening, killing 6 people, mostly on the train, and injuring at least 12, authorities said. The northbo...

Modi wishes Sri Lankans on their Independence Day

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:28 PM PST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday wished the neighbouring country Sri Lanka on the its 67th Independence Day. In three seperate tweets in English, Sinhala and Tamil, Mr. Modi sai...

Jordan executes 2 al-Qaeda prisoners

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:55 PM PST

Al-Rishawi had been sentenced to death after her 2005 role in a triple hotel bombing in Amman; al-Karbouly was put on death row in 2008 for plotting terror attacks on Jordanians in Iraq.

Obama, King Abdullah vow not to let up against Islamic State

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:32 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama and Jordanian King Abdullah II vowed not to let up in the fight against the Islamic State group on Tuesday, as Jordanians mourned the death of a military pilot held cap...

Four-day bank strike from February 25

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:28 PM PST

Expressing unhappiness over the long-pending wage revision talks with the Indian Banks Association (IBA), the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) announced on Tuesday that it was reviving its strik...

Health Ministry to roll out its own cleanliness drive

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:46 PM PST

Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry will roll out a new scheme which will lay down a set of guidel...

Centre reviews swine flu control measures

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:13 PM PST

The Centre on Tuesday reviewed the steps being taken by States to control and treat H1N1 (swine flu) cases.Health Secretary B.P. Sharma held a meeting through video conferencing with senior...

Vadra deal will be probed, but not as a priority: Khattar

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:44 PM PST

Insisting that his government remained committed to exposing various land scams and Value Added Tax evasions in the State, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Tuesday that it would...

Police, BSF men walked into Maoist trap

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:43 PM PST

Disregarding all the rules and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), a team of 10 police and BSF men led by BSF Assistant Commandant Vivek Rawat and sub-inspector Avinash Sharma walked into a Maoist...

‘Walk the talk in waste management’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:43 PM PST

Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu asked the corporate sector and industrial and trade bodies on Tuesday to "walk the talk" in ensuring cleanliness and waste management in urban ar...

‘Memorandum’ on liability law needs to be cleared

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:43 PM PST

Indian officials have also clarified that Section 46 of the Liability Act, that relates to tort or civil suits, will not be applicable to American suppliers. U.S. officials were given a presentati...

Most parties have no records of donors

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:41 PM PST

Only three parties declared that they received more than 50 per cent of their funding in amounts above Rs. 20,000 during financial years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 — meaning donations where the names...

Putting AAP on back foot BJP’s priority

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:37 PM PST

With barely four days left for the Delhi Assembly polls, the BJP has decided to launch a multi-pronged, all-out attack on the Aam Aadmi Party through advertisements in newspapers, media debates a...

AAP leaders seek probe

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:37 PM PST

With AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday challenging Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to take legal action against him if he was found guilty of accepting dubious donations, other AAP leaders too d...

Modi obsessed with himself: Congress

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:36 PM PST

Picking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim during his election campaign that he was "lucky for India," the Congress said on Tuesday that his obsession with himself pointed to a "sick mindset"...

Economists dispute govt. claims on PDS leakage

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:34 PM PST

Just how leaky is the Public Distribution System and is it getting worse or better? The question is at the centre of a dispute between economists over recent estimates of diversion in the PDS used...

SC refuses to transfer 5 cases challenging coal ordinance

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:31 PM PST

Noting that "everybody has a right, including the businessman", the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to transfer from various High Courts to itself five cases filed by companies challenging the pro...

Modi’s Beijing visit could be the ‘opportunity of the century’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:17 PM PST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has wrapped up a three-day visit to China on Tuesday, amid expectations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's arrival in May is likely to spur economic ties,...

Party asks Manjhi to bridge gap with colleagues

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:20 PM PST

Amid growing discontent in the ruling Janata Dal (United), the party's State president Basistha Narayan Singh admitted on Tuesday that there was a lack of coordination between Chief Minister Jitan...

Stir against Koteshwar dam intensifies

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:20 PM PST

Seepage from the Koteshwar dam across the Bhagirathi in Tehri district has intensified protests by the local people against the 400-MW project. They allege leak of water through several cracks on...

Dawood’s brother held in extortion case

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:19 PM PST

The Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested fugitive criminal Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother, Iqbal Kaskar, in an extortion case.Kaskar was deported in 2003 from the United Arab Emirates. Howeve...

Reading news mandatory in Rajasthan schools

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:19 PM PST

After making yoga, Surya Namaskar and meditation mandatory in schools, the Rajasthan government has now directed them to devote five minutes to reading out newspapers during the morning assembly.

Any path other than diversity will face obstacles: Ansari

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:48 PM PST

Diversity in Indian society is a fact of life, and any other path will only see "obstacles," Vice-President Hamid Ansari told students of a Mumbai college at an interaction during his two-day Mum...

U.P. police to dispose of skeletons

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:17 PM PST

With the recent recovery of viscera and skeletal remains in the store rooms of Reserve Police Lines in some districts, fresh directives have been issued to destroy the unwanted remains stored in ol...

Bareilly court has closed case against Taslima, SC told

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:17 PM PST

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that a Bareilly Magistrate court has closed legal proceedings started against Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin over her tweet.

Haryana to approach SC on SYL Canal

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:16 PM PST

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said here on Tuesday that the State government would approach the Supreme Court seeking implementation of its two judgments that would pave the way for co...

Hindu Mahasabha takes aim at Valentine’s Day

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:54 PM PST

The Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha has said it will convert inter-religious couples to Hinduism on Valentine's Day (February 14) across the country. Interestingly, a part of the package the Hindu...

Heavy snow hits life in Himachal Pradesh

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:15 PM PST

Heavy snowfall in the tribal districts of Lahaul and Spiti, Kinnaur and upper regions of Chamba, Kullu and Shimla districts in Himachal derailed normal life on Tuesday. Residents in Lahaul-S...

Kejriwal ready to face action if found guilty

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:14 PM PST

Reacting strongly to the Bharatiya Janata Party's allegations of accepting hawala money as party funds, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday challenged Union Finance Minister Arun Jai...

Obama-Modi talks high on optics, many pacts not signed

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:21 PM PST

Negotiations over the India-United States nuclear deal continued until "Air Force One landed in Delhi" carrying President Barack Obama. According to sources, the nuclear deal and other agreements...

Home Ministry official tried to stall Matang Sinh’s arrest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:57 PM PST

A top Union Home Affairs Ministry official could face action for allegedly attempting to stall the arrest of the former Union Minister Matang Sinh in the Saradha scam last Saturday. The Ministry i...

Did not press resignation from AICC wing, says Karan Singh

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:09 PM PST

Senior Congress leader Karan Singh had submitted his resignation as chairman of the foreign affairs department of the All India Congress Committee, but did not press it after a meeting with party...

Formations getting snoop-proof mobile network

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:12 PM PST

While the Army is making progress in fielding its own mobile network in a couple of years under the Mobile Cellular Communications System (MCCS) and also contemplating a cloud network for its rank...

Army shifts focus to indigenous software

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:08 PM PST

While several of the Army's communication systems are built by BEL, some of the larger servers and other basic components are imported. This creates vulnerability of malware or bugging of these cr...

Two chain-snatching incidents on a single day

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Two women, including a lecturer of a city-based college, were robbed on Tuesday.Ranjitha, a lecturer in a college, was on her way to work on Tuesday morning when two motorcycle-borne men app...

Bharath University convocation held

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Bharath University conducted its 27th annual convocation to award degrees to graduates at Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital.A. Sivathanu Pillai, former chief controller, research & de...

‘Umashankar ill-treated as he is a Dalit’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Puthiya Tamizhagam leader K. Krishnasamy on Tuesday said while he was not supporting the religious activities of IAS officer Umashankar, Dalit officers like him were forced to resort to such action...

Corpn. conducts drive against mosquito-breeding sources

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

Medical camp held in Rathinapuri, a dengue-prone pocket

‘We have full faith in banking system’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:58 PM PST

While Arvind Kejriwal went on the offensive on the funding issue, daring the Centre to arrest him, other senior leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party sought a closure on the matter to "focus on other issu...

Injured baby civet rescued in Vasant Kunj colony

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:44 PM PST

Nocturnal animal looks like a cross between fox and cat; now under treatment

‘Flu patients should be wary of secondary infections’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

A person suffering from any kind of flu and has fever that's persistent even after three days of medication should consult a doctor and also guard him/herself against secondary bacterial infections...

KCR offers Rs. 10 crore to IIPH campus

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

People do not have confidence in government hospitals and this ought to change, says Chief Minister

Student nurses’ meet

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

: The 35{+t}{+h}State meet of the Kerala Government Student Nurses Association will be held at Kakkanad community hall in Kochi on Friday and Saturday. The meeting will raise the demand for tutors...

Events in Madurai today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:57 PM PST

RELIGION Selva Vinayagar Temple: Discourse on 'Aanmeega Jothidam' by P.A. Ponniah, Railway Colony, 7 p.m. Ramakrishna Math: Daily aarathi, Re...

Burglary in hospital: one held

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

A man who made it a habit to roam around hospitals and steal gold ornaments and cash from patients and their carers was arrested by the police on Tuesday.Sheen Tharayil, Circle Inspector, Me...

BJP promises heritage town status for Srirangam

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Party releases manifesto for the Assembly byelection

Liquor at doorstep! Illegal, cry officials

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

If you thought availability of liquor at every nook and cranny of the city is a cause of concern, there is more in the offing.A new facility has been introduced in the city to serve liquor a...

Model programme to boost farm income

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

The programme 'Chandranna Rythu Kshetram' will implement in 50,000 acres: Agriculture Minister

‘NHAI responsible for Morampudi accident’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Deputy Transport Commissioner A. Mohan held the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) responsible for the Morampudi road accident on Sunday that claimed three lives and left two seriously inj...

Students win laurels for school

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

Students from the Chandrasekhar Patil Memorial English Medium School bagged a rich haul of 24 medals in the 27th National All-India Karate Federation Championship held at the Kanteerava Indoor Stad...

It wasn’t business as usual for doli carriers

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:42 PM PST

Access to Vindyagiri was inadequate as there was a huge crowd, they say

Lessons in fire alarms, quick response

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The students of MSP Higher Secondary School here were treated to a surprise mock drill by the personnel of the Fire and Rescue Service on Tuesday. Many students did not know at first what was going...

Maramon Convention from Sunday

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The 120th edition of the Maramon Convention, organised by the Mar Thoma Evangelistic Association (MTEA), will be held on the Pampa riverbed at Maramon, near Kozhencherry, from February 8 to 15....

Girl’s body found in sack, police suspect rape

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:56 PM PST

The dismembered body of a girl, missing since Sunday, was found in a sack on the outskirts of the city, triggering a protest against the police's failure to control crime in the State capital. The...

AIADMK, DMK cadre take out silent rallies

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Cadres of the AIADMK and the DMK took out silent rallies and garlanded statues of late Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai on his 46th death anniversary here on Tuesday.In the function held under...

‘Implement Seventh Pay Commission report’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The All India BSNL Pensioners Welfare Association urged the Centre to implement the Seventh Pay Commission report with effect from January 1, 2014.A resolution to this effect was adopted at...

Death of tusker: Forest Dept. initiates action against staff

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The recent death of an adult tusker due to electrocution at Dhoddamanehaada near Sholur has led to the transfer of three forest officials from The Nilgiris North range.Speaking to...

HC dismisses pleas on Akrama-Sakrama scheme

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday dismissed a batch of petitions, which had questioned the rules framed in 2007 for regularising unauthorised constructions and developments under the scheme po...

‘87% of large buildings pose hurdles for disabled’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Over 87 per cent of the buildings in the city, where the public gathers in large numbers, continue to have barriers to access. Of this, 250 are Chennai Corporation buildings.This has been in...

Cong flays BJP’s Northeast ‘immigrant’ term

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:54 PM PST

Within hours after it released its Vision Document, the Bharatiya Janata Party found itself in a spot as the Congress slammed the party leadership over a controversial reference to the Northeast co...

De-stress yourself to beat cancer

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The average age of people suffering from cancer has come down by a decade, and that is attributed to modern stressful lifestyle

Telangana staff seek restoration of higher scales

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Representatives of the Telangana Secretariat Association have represented to the high-level committee looking into the recommendations of Pay Revision Commission to sanction higher salaries to the...

Man held in Nitta Gelatin attack case

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

The city police on Tuesday arrested a man for his alleged involvement in the attack on the office of Nitta Gelatin India Limited in November last year.A man identified as Jose was detained b...

I-T search on premises of two businessmen

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Action comes in the wake of bar licence bribery charges

Web cameras to be installed in all 322 polling booths

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Web cameras would be installed in all 322 polling booths in the Srirangam Assembly constituency which goes to byelection on February 13, District Collector K.S.Palanisamy has said.In a press...

VMC now pins hopes on penalisation scheme

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:34 PM PST

The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) authorities are expecting to rake in good revenues through its penalisation scheme if the government goes ahead with a proposal to regularise unauthorised...

Rajahmundry city Cong. chief joins BJP

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Rajahmundry city Congress president and State INTUC organising Secretary V. Gangadhar, who resigned from the party a couple of days ago, joined the BJP along with 500 workers.BJP's national...

23 sand theft cases in one week

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

In order to curb the illegal sand extraction menace in the district, Raichur district administration has started to book theft cases on the offenders. In the last one week, different police station...

Death of youth in accident triggers protest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

People damage private bus and police jeep

Construction of language lab at SIE launched

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Education Minister P. K. Abdu Rabb on Tuesday inaugurated the construction of the State's first comprehensive digital multimedia language lab at the State Institute of English (SIE) here.He...

Ethical hacking contest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Amrita Centre for Cyber Security, attached to the Amrita University, is conducting the fifth edition of its 'India Capture the Flag (InCTF),' a national-level ethical hacking contest, to promot...

Newspaper reading must in Rajasthan school assemblies

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:56 PM PST

After making yoga, Surya Namaskar and meditation mandatory in schools, the Rajasthan government has now directed them to devote five minutes to reading out newspapers during the morning assembly.

Seminar on guidance

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Students who study in Tamil medium in schools should overcome inferiority complex. There are many who had passed the Civil Services examinations by writing them in Tamil, said Collector A. Saravana...

SSP conducts medical camp

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

More than 800 men, women and children were screened for various health disorders at a medical camp organised by Salem Steel Plant at K. K. Nagar near Sidhar Koil on Sunday.The camp was organ...

Knitwear sector unhappy over RBI decision to keep key policy rates unchanged

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

'Unless the interest rates are reduced, SMEs cannot achieve growth'

Helpline soon for taking complaints about footpaths

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Soon, you will be able to lodge a complaint about poorly maintained footpaths by calling a toll-free helpline of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).BBMP Commissioner M. Lakshminarayan...

Fuel prices dip but commuting’s still costly

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Only those who have private modes of transport have benefitted from the fall

BJP gives statehood a miss

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:51 PM PST

The party's vision document focuses on development, women security and transparent governance.it vows to scrap brt corridor and cm face kiran bedi promises to interact through radio programme

Taking health care to a new level

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The 100,000 Genomes Project is a combination of caring for patients and using genomic medicine to change how patients are treated in the National Health Service (NHS), UK, observed Mark Caulfield,...

Keep vaastu beliefs to your chambers, CPI tells KCR

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Communist Party of India has advised the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to confine his beliefs in 'Vaastu' to his chambers instead of forcing people to bear the burden of crores of rupees by s...

Process waste at the source: MLA

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

: Kerala should focus on micro, decentralised waste disposal system instead of establishing big-scale waste treatment plants, Thomas Isaac MLA has said. Inaugurating a seminar on waste disposal org...

Kudumbasree game for running canteen at MLA hostel

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

It will also take over DTPC hotel at Shanghumughom

Star power missing in Srirangam

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Ministers, MPs of the ruling party confine themselves to micro-management

Kanaka Durga temple management plans to organise pujas in US

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Sri Durga Malleswara Swamyvarla Devasthanam is planning to perform special pujas in US. A team of priests and officials, sources say, will leave for US shortly. The priests will perform 'Laksha kum...

Farmers seek more procurement centres

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:59 PM PST

Officials hopeful of meeting procurement target

Internet kiosks to be set up in GP libraries

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

Minority Affairs Minister Qamarul Islam, who is also the chairman of the Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development Board (HKRDB), has said that the board has decided to install internet kiosks in libr...

‘Provide better health services’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

C.S. Puttaraju, Mandya MP, on Tuesday instructed the officials concerned to focus on providing free dialysis treatment to patients having suffered renal failure.Mr. Puttaraju was chairing a...

Wayanad seed festival to begin on Friday

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Awards for tribal farmers, seminars, film fete

Call for branding coir products from Kerala

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Bringing coir products under a single brand was the way forward for the coir industry in the State, according to John Nicholas Hahn, an expert in commodity branding and marketing.Leading an...

Districts selected

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:56 PM PST

The Centre has selected ten districts in Rajasthan for its 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' awareness campaign. The mass campaign will be run in Jaipur, Alwar, Dausa, Dholpur, Sawaima...

Cotton to be auctioned on Wednesdays

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

With a view to help cotton farmers, indirect auction of cotton will be conducted on Wednesdays every week at the regulated market here, according to a press release issued by Collector A. Saravanav...

‘Energy conservation techniques key for increased productivity’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

To understand and implement the latest maintenance techniques, energy conservation and productivity improvement techniques, a one-day workshop on Industrial Electrical System Design and Maintenance...

Bhavishyanidhi Adalat on February 10

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Bhavishyanidhi Adalat will be held at the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's Sub-Regional Office on Water Tank Road in Nagercoil between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on February 10 to redress the griev...

Fear of media glare stops many from complaining: teachers

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

According to teachers, one of the key problems in recent months with sexual harassment cases is the enormous media focus that such cases attract. This they say has made both schools and some parent...

Woman, daughter killed

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

A 50-year-old woman and her 24-year-old daughter were murdered at their home in Chinna Sozhiyampakkam village in Gummidipoondi early on Tuesday.Gummidipoondi police said Lakshmi Rajendran an...

‘Bedi’s NGO got foreign funds’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:03 PM PST

Even as its Delhi unit cornered the Bharatiya Janata Party's vision document over a controversial reference to Northeast residents living in Delhi, the senior Congress leadership raised questions a...

City students present a strong ‘case’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Two IBS students shortlisted for the finals of the prestigious Baylor USASBE Student Case Writing Competition

Online petition against Secretariat shift

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Congress MLA T. Ram Mohan Reddy has launched an e-petition against the Telangana government's decision to shift the State Secretariat to the government Chest Hospital premises in Erragadda.M...

Clinical trials on coconut oil, neera

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) will initiate studies on multi-ethnic groups of patients with coronary artery disease, on the use of coconut oil as a cooking medium. Clinical trials have...

Varsity to take up research on YLD in arecanut

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

The University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (UAHS), Shivamogga, in association with other government institutes, will soon take up a Rs. 5-crore research project to find a remedy to y...

Kadakampally criticises Thiruvanchoor

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Sports Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan's attempts to use actor Mohanlal to shield the corruption in the organising of the National Games are condemnable, CPI (M) district unit secretary Kadaka...

Intensify vigil, BJP urges EC

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Bharatiya Janata Party has urged the Election Commission to intensify vigil by posting more officials in the Srirangam Assembly constituency to check "misuse of authority" in the run-up to the...

KCR accuses A.P. of not honouring PPAs, Act provisions

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:17 PM PST

Writes to Prime Minister for power from Eastern Grid

Stakes getting higher for Tirupati by-election

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:15 PM PST

With the TDP and the Congress roping in senior leaders for the campaign ahead of the by-election in Tirupati, the stakes appear to be getting bigger by the passing day.The Congress campaign...

Vachana Vijayotsava ends

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

Folk artistes from across the State performed all along the procession that marked the end of Vachana Vijayotsava in Bidar on Tuesday.The three-day festival is organised by Basava Seva Prati...

High construction cost, real estate prices hit affordable housing

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Builders suggest vertical growth model as a solution

500 litres of wash destroyed

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Excise Department officials recovered nearly 500 litres of wash, an ingredient used for preparing spurious liquor, from the banks of the Karicheri river on the Kasaragod-Bandadukka road on Tuesday.

Students injured as bus overturns

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Fourteen school students were injured after the bus they were travelling in overturned in Kayamkulam on Tuesday. According to the police, the incident occurred by around 4 p.m. at the M.S.M. Colleg...

Bihar to provide free education till PG to SC/ST and girl students

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:56 PM PST

The Bihar Government on Tuesday decided to provide free education to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and girl students till Post Graduation (PG) level in the State. The decis...

Collector inspects development works

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

S. Ganesh, District Collector, inspected the development works being executed in Alangudi town panchayat on Tuesday. He inspected the laying of tar road at Andikulam being executed at an estimate o...

Guidance programme held

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The Rotary Centurial, district unit of the Youth Red Cross and Padmavani Arts and Science College jointly organised a counselling and guidance programme on the topic 'problems confronting the adole...

Religious fervour marks car festival of Nagaraja temple

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Religious fervour marked the car festival of Nagaraja temple here on Tuesday, in which hundreds of devotees from all over Kanyakumari district participated.The car festival was held as part...

School files complaint against teacher for ‘sexually assaulting’ students

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Authorities of the institution counsel victims, parents, and get suspect arrested

Lunchbox row: HC directs students to go to school

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

What appears to have been a skirmish between school students over a lunchbox has escalated into a court case.A group of students had stopped going to school fearing police action for having...

School alumni donate Rs. 1 lakh to treat cancer affected children

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The St. Joseph's Matriculation Higher Secondary School Alumni Association donated Rs. 1 lakh to Sri Ramakrishna Hospital to treat children with cancer. The donation was made to mark World Cancer Da...

Congress promises doles for middle class

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:01 PM PST

Pitches for signal-free, beggar-less Delhi

A big push to MSME sector

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Syndicate Bank executive director T.K. Srivastava has said that 72 proposals from customers belonging to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, amounting to Rs. 250 crore, were being cl...

KCR scraps all party panels

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Steering committee to oversee membership drive, party polls

‘No attempt to upgrade quality of cancer care’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

: There is no audit of cancer care outcome in any public institution and this has dampened the quality of cancer treatment, said oncologist V.P. Gangadharan.Speaking to The Hind...

20 villages to get help in mechanised paddy farming

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (UAHS), Shivamogga, will adopt 20 villages, including a few in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, to promote mechanised paddy cultivation under cooper...

Graft charges not aimed at hounding actor: Sivankutty

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The campaign against actor Mohanlal and his band Lalisom for the cultural show that marked the opening ceremony of the National Games is being used as a smokescreen to cover up corruption, V. Sivan...

Transport officials crack the whip

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

27 school and college buses seized in four districts

‘Vizag will be first to be made a Smart City’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:18 PM PST

Top executives of Cisco Systems have informed Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu that Visakhapatnam would be first taken up for development as Smart City among other cities chosen from Gujarat, Ra...

‘Need for ambitious projects in bioinformatics’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Research and educational centres, working in the field of bioinformatics, should focus on envisaging ambitious projects with implications in the application-related fields such as agriculture, publ...

Work on third thermal unit at BTPS in full swing

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

The work on setting up a third thermal power generation unit, having a capacity of 700 MW, is in full swing at the Ballari Thermal Power Station (BTPS)."Around 85 per cent of the civil works...

Publicity drive to popularise government schemes takes off

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

To educate the public on programmes introduced by the State government, the Department of Information and Public Relations, with support from the Mysuru Zilla Panchayat, on Tuesday launched a publi...

Palakkad-Palani rail route by March 31

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The much-delayed gauge conversion work between Palakkad and Pollachi railway stations have reached its final phase and will be completed by March 31.Once completed, the rail route will enhan...

Dies in accident

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

A sixty-year-old man was killed after a bus which hit his scooter ran over him at Ponkunnam on Tuesday. According to police, Pir Mohammed Khan of Karuvalickal house, Mukkali, Edakkunnam, who was co...

Haryana to approach SC on SYL Canal

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:57 PM PST

Dispute between Haryana and Punjab over sharing river water is over five decades old

LPG tanker strike to continue, talks today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

: The Southern Region Bulk LPG Transport Owners Association, which called for a strike demanding higher transportation charges, has decided to participate in the tripartite meeting to be held in Ch...

Project to raise forest trees with Government subsidy a success

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

More than 50,000 malaivembu seedlings were distributed to private farms

Panic at Collectorate, as wife of arrested fisherman faints

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Family members seek stepsto get fishermen released

Many shades of her persona

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

A teacher, ward councillor, standing committee chairperson, P. Usha Devi is many things. But not many know that she is an artist as well.'A Polymer Clay Creation' that began at the Kerala La...

e-auction gives firm new lease of life

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:19 PM PST

The State-owned Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd. (KIOCL), which was struggling for survival in the absence of captive mines for over a decade, can now heave a sigh of relief.For, the Supreme...

Power shutdown in Chennai

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:38 PM PST

Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Paper Mills Road: Wattkins st, Janagiraman nagar, T.N.P.st, Thiruvalluvar st, Lak...

Conference on Neonatal Advanced Life Support held

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:51 PM PST

A conference on Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS) and Neonatal Ventilation - NEOTRENDZ 2015 - was organised here on Saturday and Sunday for paediatric doctors by the Department of Paediatrics,...

Babul Supriyo roped in to woo CR Park

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:09 PM PST

The BJP on Tuesday brought singer-turned-MP from West Bengal Babul Supriyo to cut into the vote base of Congress candidate Sharmistha Mukherjee at CR Park, the affluent South Delhi neighbourhood wi...

Metro rail: officials told to adhere to deadlines

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Telangana Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma conducted a special task force (STF) meeting on Tuesday to review the progress of Hyderabad Metro Rail project.After a detailed presentation of the Act...

Odisha delegation to study Shetaxi initiative

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

A group of people's representatives from Odisha are reaching the State on Wednesday to study the Kerala State Women's Development Corporation's women-friendly transport service Shetaxi.They...

Pilot project of CFMS in Guntur, Chittoor

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

As part of efforts to leverage the advantages offered by the IT in governance, the State government has decided to operationalise a Comprehensive Financial Management System for establishing state...

“It’s time space tech was made available to man on the field”

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

India has done a lot to utilise space applications, the DRDO has the technology, but this is not available to the soldier on the field, Prof. M.G.K. Menon, DRDO Chair at RCI Hyderabad, Prem Shanker...

TS not to entertain fresh pleas under FRA

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Forest officials want KCR's decision followed up with a Government Order

Congress signature campaign to highlight ‘govt.’ flaws’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president and former Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy on Tuesday accused the TDP government of failure to ensure the accrual of benefits to the State in accorda...

HESCOM executive engineer arrested

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

The Malmaruti Police arrested T.B. Majjagi, Rural Division Executive Engineer of Hubli Electricity Supply Company (HESCOM), from his office around 5 p.m. on Tuesday.He was produced in a loca...

‘Development should promote human rights’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

S.R. Nayak, Chairman, Law Commission of Karnataka, said here on Tuesday that the development process of any country should promote human dignity.Delivering the inaugural address of a nationa...

Move to deploy police force derided

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:50 PM PST

Kodiyeri terms it denial of right of people to protest

e-registration of properties launched in Haryana

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:57 PM PST

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday launched e-registration of properties in all the 130 tehsil and sub-tehsils of the State to mark the completion of 100 days of his government.<...

Human skulls, bones found in bucket

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:55 PM PST

A plastic bucket containing human skulls and bones was found on Kaniakulam Road here on Monday night. It created a flutter among locals. The police arrested Babu (35) of Villupuram in this connect...

Results published

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The results of the examinations of undergraduate, postgraduate courses and diploma level courses offered by Periyar University Distance Education (PRIDE) were published on Tuesday.The examin...

Meet to curb caste clashes among students

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Collector M. Karunakaran convened a meeting with police officials and heads of educational institutions here on Tuesday on taking stringent measures to prevent increasing caste-based clashes among...

Case against school Principal

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Medical College police on Tuesday registered a case against the principal, vice principal, and accounts officer of Hill Top Public School, Puthiyara, here in connection with a complaint filed b...

Steaming hot idlis, upma for just Rs. 5?

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:32 PM PST

C.M. Ibrahim suggests 'Anna' canteens in State on the lines of Amma food outlets in TN

Woman robbed of 12 sovereigns of jewellery

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Two unidentified men barged into a house on Tuesday and stole 12 sovereigns of jewellery from a woman on Kaveri Street, Sembakkam, which falls under Selaiyur police limits.Police said the tw...

Franchise India opens Coimbatore branch

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Franchise India, which offers franchise solutions and has opened a branch here, plans to work with about a dozen regional companies during the next one year and help them expand to the national-lev...

Notice to AAP candidate

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:09 PM PST

Three days after liquor was seized from a gowdown allegedly owned by him, the Delhi Police Crime Branch has served a notice to AAP's Uttam Nagar candidate Naresh Balyan to join the probe.A s...

2 RTC employees caught by SHE team

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

They were passing lewd comments on a woman at a bus stop in Miyapur

Illegal granite mining: CBI probe sought

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

One of the first complainants on illegal granite scam, S. Murugesan from Melur, on Tuesday submitted several files, which he claimed were records, to prove that granite exporters had given false in...

Some RTO services to be online-only from Feb. 15

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:19 PM PST

You can expect minimum or no mistakes in the driving licence (DL) or vehicle registration certificate (RC) cards from February 15 when the process of making applications for learner's licence (LL),...

Karakulam murder: four arrested

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Nedumangad police on Tuesday recorded the arrest of four persons in connection with the January 29 murder of history-sheeter Purandaran Biju, alias Bhuvanachandran.M. Saibudeen, Deputy S...

Complete land pooling by Feb. 15, officials told

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:18 PM PST

District Collector Kantilal Dande has asked deputy collectors in the notified area of Capital Region to expedite pooling of land and complete the entire exercise of pooling 30,000 acres in 29 villa...

‘Model programme to boost farm income’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Asserting that the TDP government will make farming profitable, Minister for Agriculture Prattipati Pulla Rao has said as a first step towards it "Chandranna Rythu Kshetram" programme has been take...

Asad, other MIM leaders attend court

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asadudduin Owaisi, MIM floor leader in Telangana Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi and others attended the court of Judicial First...

Expert: swine flu homeo pills ineffective on smokers

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

The homeopathic medicine for swine flu being distributed to people will be ineffective if they are habitual smokers and guzzlers, AYUSH senior medical officer R. Venkata Rao has said. Participating...

‘Set up agricultural college in Ballari taluk’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

A group of like-minded people have planned to launch a movement to pressure the government to set up an agriculture college at Hagari Agricultural Research Station in Ballari taluk.The group...

‘Opt for vertical growth model’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Private players in the construction sector have pointed out that affordable housing can be a reality in Mysuru if the government opts for a vertical growth model with a higher floor area ratio (FAR...

Placement event tomorrow

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

A programme aimed at providing placement opportunities for students in small towns will be held at Vimal Jyothi Engineering College at Chemperi here on Thursday. The programme named 'FLAG 2015' is...

Any path other than diversity will face obstacles: Ansari

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Diversity in Indian society is a fact of life, and any other path will only see "obstacles," Vice-President Hamid Ansari told students of a Mumbai college at an interaction during his two-day Mumba...

‘Jaitley meeting Jayalalithaa not wrong’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

All India general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party K. Muralidhar Rao has justified the recent meeting Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had with AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa in Ch...

Work on limited use subway progressing fast

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The work on construction of a limited use subway (LUS) in the vicinity of Rasipuram Railway Station is progressing at a fast pace.The project is executed by the Construction Organisation of...

Gold ornaments stolen

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Twelve sovereigns of gold ornaments were stolen from the locked house of Isakkimuthu of Asarimar North Street in Kottar area in Nagercoil on Sunday night.Unidentified persons gained entry in...

Committee seeks steps to expedite land acquisition

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Hunger strike to press for highway widening

Tributes paid to Sarojini Mahishi, R.K. Laxman

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Rich tributes were paid to the former Governor Rameshwar Thakur, renowned cartoonist R.K. Laxman, the former Union Minister Sarojini Mahishi and seven former members of the Assembly who passed away...

Hunt on for three men who stole Rs. 9 lakh

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

The police are hunting for three men who allegedly stole over Rs. 9 lakh from two others after attacking them in a lodge in Porur on Monday.According to the police, Shahul Hameed recently go...

Thai Poosam celebrated with fervour

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

Thai Poosam was celebrated here at the Marudhamalai Subramanyaswami Thirukoil on Tuesday. According to sources, as part of the festival, the devotees pulled the temple car. The festivities began wi...

Court to hear case against Kejriwal in April

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

A Delhi court on Tuesday said it will record pre-summoning evidence of a complainant on his plea for prosecution of Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly abetting voters to accept...

35 kg of ganja seized, one held

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The enforcement wing of Prohibition and Excise (P&E) Department, Hyderabad, on Tuesday arrested a person on charge of selling ganja and seized 35 kg of the contraband from him.The accused pe...

HC rejects plea on terrorism charges

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday endorsed the action of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in incorporating terrorism charges under Section 15(1)(a) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)...

CB-CID claims breakthrough in baby theft case

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

: The Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) probing the theft of a day-old baby boy from the Government Rajaji Hospital here on June 15, 2013 has finally claimed to have made a br...

Art Kanara goes to Mumbai

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:17 PM PST

In order to popularise the art and artists of coastal Karnataka, a group of painters from Mangaluru are showcasing their talent in Mumbai under the auspices of Karnataka Lalitha Kala Academy. The e...

Graffiti: Left sympathisers under police scanner

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Patrolling, vehicle-checking intensified

Sub-Collector reviews arrangements for Gunadala Matha Utsavams

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Sub-Collector S. Nagalakshmi on Tuesday reviewed the arrangements being made for Gunadala Matha Utsavams to be organised from February 9 to 11, in the city.Ms. Nagalakshmi visited the shrine...

Investment awaiting better connectivity, says official

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Optic fibre grid, one of the dream projects of the AP Government, will usher in a revolution by creating the right ecosystem for generating employment opportunities across the State."This is...

Chittoor teacher dies of swine flu

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

A 45-year-old teacher Swami Raju from Punganur town in Chittoor district, died of swine flu while undergoing treatment St. John's Hospital in Benguluru, on Tuesday. His family members reported the...

Line blurred between TDP, A.P. govt?

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:16 PM PST

Is there no dividing line between Telugu Desam Party and Andhra Pradesh government?It appears to be at least for the State Information and Public Relations Department. Publicity cell of the...

Rail line: land-losers seek jobs for family members

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

Indefinite fast begins outside SWR official's office

Intense competition for ‘Smart City’ tag

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:12 PM PST

'Mysuru has reasonable chance of making it to final list'

New development block for Alakkode

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Alakkode panchayat to be bifurcated

Archaeology seminar

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

: A two-day archaeology seminar and exhibition will be conducted at the Co-operative Arts and Science College at Madayi here beginning February 4.The seminar and exhibition, organised by the...

Shankaracharya calls for reforms in education

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:53 PM PST

: Swami Nischalananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Puri, advocated reforms in the education system as per Vedic values for protection of culture and environment for the future generation.

U.P. police to dispose of skeletons

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

With the recent recovery of viscera and skeletal remains in the store rooms of Reserve Police Lines in some districts, fresh directives have been issued to destroy the unwanted remains stored in ol...

Delegation explores opportunities

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

A Japanese delegation, comprising leading Japanese companies Mizuho Bank, Japan Bank of International Cooperation and Itochu Corporation, paid a visit to V.O. Chidambaranar Port here on Monday....

Ragi to get pride of place

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Change in food habits has affected health of farmers too

Stone idols found in gunny bag

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Five stone idols were found in a gunny bag under water in the Paraliar in Thiruvattar on Monday evening.It was noticed by a few local people taking a dip in the river. They took out the gunn...

Deliberating on writer’s decision to call it quits

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The cultural fraternity of Kozhikode came together on Tuesday to express solidarity with Tamil writer Perumal Muragan.Mr. Murugan had quit writing recently following violent outbursts agains...

H1N1 cases more than double in one week

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

In one week, the number of confirmed H1N1 cases in the State has more than doubled. Health Department sources said that from the 24 positive cases reported last week, the number has now jumped to 5...

PCB finds fault with firm

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

The TNPCB has found fault with the company that runs and maintains the CETP for the tragedy.A team of three top officials from the TNPCB led by additional chief environmental engineer N. Sun...

Pricol ties up with CoreTech

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Pricol Technologies is the preferred solution partner in India for Taiwan-based CoreTech System's Moldex3D solution. According to a release from Pricol, Moldex3D, a product of CoreTech, is a plasti...

Student groups list their expectations

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:04 PM PST

With a few more days to go for the Delhi Assembly election, student associations' in the city have been busy campaigning and have their own expectations from whichever government comes to power.

Notorious chain-snatcher escapes from custody

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

A manhunt has been launched by the police to nab a notorious chain-snatcher Aqueeluddin alias Khalifa, who escaped from their custody at Kothapet.A member of Lamba Hussain gang, the 21-year-...

World Ocean Congress to begin tomorrow

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:49 PM PST

The four-day World Ocean Science Congress, jointly organised by the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies and Swadeshi Science Movement, will begin at Jawaharlal Nehru International Sta...

Madurai on swine flu alert

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Four undergoing treatment in a city hospital

Uppinangady shop catches fire

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

A tent opposite a shop and an autorickshaw were damaged in an alleged case of arson reported in Uppinangady on Tuesday night.The police said the fire broke out in the tent in Karaya, while t...

Ten lorries seized with clay

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Clay from Olathanni paddy fields being taken to factories in Thrissur

‘Programme to nurture creativity in students’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Y.S. Chowdary on Tuesday said that 3,000 government schools have been selected for implementation of an exclusive programme aimed at sparking curi...

Araku MP discharged from hospital

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Araku Lok Sabha Member Kothapalli Geetha was discharged from a private hospital in the city on Tuesday afternoon after being treated for swine flu.Ms. Geetha, who had experienced symptoms of...

‘Every 10 minutes a woman is succumbing to breast cancer’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

The Hindu in association with Ushalaxmi Breast Cancer Foundation organises awareness programme

Son of ‘honour killing’ accused to be rehabilitated

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Madanapalle Sub-Collector R.V. Karnan on Tuesday directed the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Project Officer Usha Phanikar to chalk out an action plan for rehabilitating Bhaskar (8),...

Pooja Gandhi to make a comeback in politics

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:02 PM PST

Actor-turned-producer Pooja Gandhi, who has remained politically neutral after a brief party-hopping stint and a loss in the last Assembly election, has said that she will announce her political pl...

Administration cancels licences of 5 fair price shops in Mysuru

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:41 PM PST

The Mysuru district administration cancelled the licences of five fair price shops in the district for allegedly indulging in unlawful activities and misusing food grain and kerosene supplied to th...

Archaeology seminar

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

: A two-day archaeology seminar and exhibition will be conducted at the Co-operative Arts and Science College at Madayi here beginning February 4.The seminar and exhibition, organised by the...

When scribes nearly missed the bus

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Buses to take presspersons to Karyavattom for the National Games opening ceremony were delayed...

Odisha farmers to stage protest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:54 PM PST

Under the banner of Odisha Krushak Sabha (OKS), a peasants' organisation, farmers will stage demonstrations before all block and tehsil offices in Ganjam, the home district of Odisha Chief Ministe...

Bareilly court has closed case against Taslima, SC told

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that a Bareilly Magistrate court has closed legal proceedings started against Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin over her tweet.

Japanese delegates visit Nanguneri Multiproduct SEZ

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Even as the State government is gearing up for its global investors' meet in May, a team of Japanese delegates visited the AMRL Multiproduct Special Economic Zone at Nanguneri on Tuesday to ascerta...

Go organic, reap benefits

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Ample use of organic manure has been the main the reason for Erode farmers bagging the Chief Minister's Award for obtaining highest paddy yield for two consecutive years.This year's award re...

Hygiene check in hotels, commercial establishments

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

In a bid to prevent possible outbreak of dengue, Food Safety and Corporation Health officials conducted raids on hotels and other commercial establishments across the district on Tuesday.As...

Desist from harmful practices, fish workers told

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Campaign to promote scientific resource management

Plant caught in row

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Even as the Ranipet tragedy has broken out into a major controversy, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) are likely to be blamed at the...

World Wetlands Day celebrated

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

The World Wetlands Day, observed annually on March 2, was celebrated at the Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School at R.S. Puram here on Monday by the Environment Conservation Group, a city-base...

Bar Council asks lawyers to behave

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:13 PM PST

The appeal came after a group of protesters, dressed as lawyers, vandalised the election office of Kiran Bedi

Two more die of swine flu

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Two more persons have died at Gandhi Hospital due to complications from swine flu taking the fatality toll to 47 deaths in Telangana. The deceased, included a 60-year-old woman from Yousufguda and...

Vyttila–Pettah land acquisition to begin soon

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:48 PM PST

Close on the heels of clearing the hurdles to Pettah extension of Metro rail, the authorities are set to begin acquisition of land for widening the Vyttila-Pettah stretch. According to re...

HC Bench lawyers want equal representation in judgeship

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Plan to present memorandum to Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul

Chief Secretary’s remarks irk Minister

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Forest, Transport, and Sports Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan on Tuesday expressed his displeasure over certain remarks that Chief Secretary Jiji Thomson made regarding the conduct of the Nati...

Man hacked to death

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

A 35-year-old man, Vinod, of Amaravila was hacked to death late Monday night over an argument with his neighbour, who is now absconding.The police said Vinod had reportedly publicly teased h...

Two held on charge of thefts

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Sleuths of Central Crime Station (CCS) held two persons -- B. Harish and M. Lavesh – on charges of committing thefts under the City Police Commissionerate limits and recovered Rs. 7,000 in cash and...

Driving licence mela held for scribes

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

A 'driving licence mela' for journalists was conducted jointly by the Journalists' Association of Andhra Pradesh (JAAP) and the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) at the RTA Office here on Tuesday.

Naini promises to strengthen police department

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy said that the police department is getting ready for 'Bangaru Telangana' and towards this objective, the department is being strengthened.Addressing a gat...

MRPS extends olive branch to Naidu

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti founder president Krishna Madiga on Tuesday extended an olive branch to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu with a hope to get the long pending bill for categorisat...

Anganwadi workers’ strike enters second day

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

The indefinite dharna by anganawadi workers and assistants against the alleged proposal for privatisation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme entered the second day here on Tuesday.A...

Exotic birds come to roost

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:20 PM PST

Flying over the towering Himalayas, the bar-headed geese have kept their annual tryst with Mysuru.A large number of these exotic birds have landed at Hadinarukere, which is about 24 km from...

2.23 kg of gold seized from flight, two held

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The Air Customs Intelligence wing at the Karipur airport seized 2.23 kg of gold and arrested two passengers from a flight from Dubai which landed here on Tuesday.Those arrested were Irshad A...

Mandela Chair at MGU to be inaugurated today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The activities of the Nelson Mandela Chair for Afro-Asian Studies, established under the School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP), Mahatma Gandhi University, will be inaugurated by T.P...

Maoist supporters detained

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:54 PM PST

The attackers had shouted 'Lal Salam' and claimed to be Naxalites

Hindu Mahasabha takes aim at Valentine’s Day

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

It promises easy marriage for inter-religious couples as per Hindu religion

Thousands take part in Thai Poosam car festival

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:04 PM PST

Thousands of devotees witnessed Thai Poosam car procession at Sri Periyanayaki Amman Temple, popularly known as Oor Kovil, here on Tuesday.The festival began with 'Theerthavari', the holy di...

‘France and Japanese companies keen on opening manufacturing units’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The AMRL Hitech City Limited, which is holding campaigns in the United Kingdom and France to woo investors to its Nanguneri Multiproduct Special Economic Zone (NMSEZ), has exuded confidence that on...

Attack on teacher’s house: police apathy alleged

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Delay in arresting accused in case related to attack on Professor's house

NGT orders site inspection

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Taking a serious view of the Ranipet Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) accident that killed 10 workers, the National Green Tribunal (Southern Bench) on Tuesday asked the Tamil Nadu Pollution C...

Man held on rape charge

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

A 44-year-old man was arrested in Pollachi on Tuesday on charges of raping his sister-in-law, a widow.According to the police, the 37-year-old woman was residing at Machinampatti village nea...

Nomination dates were notified on time, says HC

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:10 PM PST

Refuses to put Assembly elections on hold

TSCHE doesn’t have funds to conduct EAMCET

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Its AP counterpart controls the finances even after bifurcation

Bachelor pads might be a rarity soon

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

: In an apparent backlash of the arrest of a film actor with four women for possessing cocaine, apartment owners have voiced their concern about letting out apartments to bachelors.All Keral...

Schoolgirl dies in road accident

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

An 11-year-old schoolgirl, S. Vidhubalasri, died on the spot when a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus hit a two-wheeler near Periyar statue on Alagarkoil Road on Tuesday night.The r...

Games mascot origin triggers row

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:49 PM PST

Artist says he was kept out of loop after getting IOC nod

Varsity told to fill typists’ vacancies

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Kerala State Youth Commission has directed the University of Kerala to fill up the posts of typists that were notified on February 2, 2006. The commission issued the order on the basis of a com...

Property owners asked to furnish Aadhaar copies

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) directed all the property owners, who obtained property tax assessment numbers to furnish copies of Aadhaar copies at respective circle offices or hand over t...

A record attempt, against odds

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Adil, a quadriplegic, is out to assert the pre-eminence of mind over matter

Abducted girl murdered?

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Police investigating into the case of a girl who went missing believe that the girl was tortured to death after abduction.According to Kondapur Circle Inspector Ch. Sada Nagaraj, Md. Mahamoo...

Multi-disciplinary approach to tackle red sanders smuggling

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Task Force (RSASTF) has decided to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach in tackling the menace of red sanders smuggling, said Deputy Inspector General of Police M. Kantha...

Purandaradasa music festival from Friday

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Raga Dhana is organising the 27th Annual Sri Purandaradasa and Trinity Music Festival at Nutana Ravindra Mantapa on MGM College campus here from February 6 to 8.The Susheela Upadhyaya Memori...

Mullaperiyar water level down

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:17 PM PST

The Mullaperiyar water level has fallen considerably with Tamil Nadu discharging increased quantity of water. As per the estimate on Tuesday, the water level was 116.5 ft where as the inflow was 45...

Workshop on dairy production

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

A workshop on 'Sustainable Dairy Production' organised by the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) as part of the Global Innovative Initiative (GII) will be held at P.R. Mandira...

Kerala turning increasingly dependent on other States for power: Aryadan

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Third phase of Madakkathara sub-station launched

Apology sought over BJP’s remark on ‘immigrants’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:54 PM PST

The BJP's reference to the people of North-eastern States as "immigrants" in its Vision Document for Delhi has triggered sharp reactions in the region. Political parties and organisations have dema...

Three detained under Goondas Act

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Three persons were detained under Goondas Act here on Monday. According to Superintendent of Police M. Durai, they were accused of various criminal acts including murder and attempt to murder. Whil...

Tax payers’ day

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

As part of the initiative towards good governance, the Central Board of Central Excise will observe every Wednesday as 'Tax Payers Day'.The tax payers are free to meet the heads of all the o...

Drive to shore up Coast Guard bond with fishermen

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

The rally will cover nearly 900 km from Chennai to Kanyakumari

Jayalalithaa reaches out to voters through mobile

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Pays floral tributes to former Chief Minister Annadurai

Dengue control measures reviewed

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

Harmander Singh, Secretary, Department of Handlooms, Handicrafts, Textiles and Khadi, on Tuesday reviewed the dengue control measures in Coimbatore with top officials of the district administration...

Rural seat that has seen no development

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:11 PM PST

It is a mere dot on the map as the Delhi metro is yet to reach here and the skyline is not dotted by fancy buildings. Bordering the State of Haryana, the Narela Assembly constituency is one of the...

Endeavour to showcase of Railways neglect of Telangana

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

A concerted endeavour is being taken up by a group of employees of the South Central Railway to showcase the plight of rail infrastructure and the snail's pace of ongoing projects in the geography...

‘One Island, One Jetty’ scheme to link ferries to all isles

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:48 PM PST

Twenty three boat hubs in the greater-Kochi area will be developed by mid-2016 for air-conditioned passenger ferries under a Rs 227-crore initiative of Kochi's Unified Metropolitan Transportation...

Teppam festival lifts spirits

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

It was a sight to behold for many devotees who thronged the Teppakulam here in the morning to witness the 'Teppa Tiruvizha' as the float was taken around the tank which was filled with water.

Panel set up for Light Metro

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The government has set up a three-member committee to reach an agreement with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for the proposed Light Metro in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode.The hig...

Lighting up their path to education

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Helping visually-impaired students in learning

Special drive for D&O licences

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

VMC officials and elected representatives seem to have divergent views over Dangerous and Offensive (D&O) Trade licences issued in the city. According to records, the corporation issued nearly 32,7...

Tote centre will be shifted, says Ganta

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Responding to the request made by the people of Adarsh Nagar, the HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao assured to shift the off-course tote centre of the Hyderabad Race Club, from Adarsh Nagar within 1...

Ongole bull race leaves spectators spellbound

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

The annual Ongole bull race organised at Bonuthala village of Anumala mandal in Nalgonda district was a huge draw.Ongole bull rears from across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh took part in the...

A.P. struggles to clear salary bill

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Andhra Pradesh government continues to struggle to meet its routine financial commitments given the reduced inflows into its coffers and it resorted to 'ways and means' advance of Rs.950 crore for...

ISEC director Pattnaik resigns

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:16 PM PST

M.R. Narayana, professor, will be the in-charge director

Meet on Exercise Science

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The Dr. T.M.A. Pai Endowment Chair in Exercise Science and Health Promotion is organising a two-day International Symposium on Exercise Science and Health Promotion at the Shirdi Sai Baba conferenc...

LDF won’t rest till Mani quits, says VS

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:19 PM PST

Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan has said that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) would not relent till Finance Minister K.M. Mani resigns.Inaugurating a Secretariat march organised...

KVASU to tie up with Dutch institutes

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) is preparing to establish collaboration with higher educational institutes in the Netherlands in veterinary and allied subjects.A...

Sivaratri celebrations to begin on February 9

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Sivaratri celebrations will begin at Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple here on February 9."Laksharchana Yajna" will be held from February 14 to 16. "Samooharchana" will be performed on February 16....

Nagaland Governor calls special Assembly session

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:55 PM PST

Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya has summoned a one-day special session of the Nagaland Assembly on Thursday with the sole agenda to test the strength of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland ministry...

Modern wet grinders chisel away at engravers’ trade

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

With a small bag slung on his shoulder, M. Sekar walks around residential localities crying out ' ammi poliliyo' (do you need tiny grooves on grinding stone?).He is one...

Woman found dead

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Jeyarani (78), wife of Jeyasingh, was allegedly beaten to death in her house at Kootampuli under Pudukottai police limits on Monday night. According to police, she was found dead in a chair in a si...

Protest against new land Act

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

About 70 members of the Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam affiliated to both the CPI, and the CPI (M) were taken to custody when they attempted to burn the copy of the gazette of the recently introduce...

TAMIN gets e-governance award

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited (TAMIN) received the national award for e-governance at the 18th national e-governance conference held at Gandhi Nagar in Gujarat last week.'Silver' rated award

Provident Fund adalat on February 10

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

The 'Bhavishya Nidhi Adalat' for the month will be held on February 10 to facilitate redressal of grievances among members of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).According to B....

‘CBI should interrogate Mamata in Saradha scam’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:59 PM PST

She must be summoned under the same law: BJP

Ragging: college asked us to drop case, say parents of nursing student

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Anger spilled on to the streets on Tuesday with many organisations protesting against the alleged ragging of a college student in K.R. Puram.Thamarai Chelvan, a student of South East Asian C...

A flying disc ride to success, all the way

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:37 PM PST

Youngsters from Urur Kuppam feature in a short film that has won at Sundance

Chidambaram faction may take part in party meet

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

After returning from New Delhi where he met Congress national general secretary Mukul Wasnik, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president E.V.K.S Elangovan has called for a meeting of party dist...

Events in Coimbatore today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:54 PM PST

Narayaneeyam and Thevaram: Sadhana Sadhan, Madhav Nagar, Vadavalli, 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Theppa Thiruvizha: Marudhamalai Subramanyaswami Thirukoil, 5 p.m. ...

BJP should have just copied our manifesto, says AAP

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:56 PM PST

Drawing similarities between the Bharatiya Janata Party's vision document for Delhi and its manifesto released earlier, the Aam Aadmi Party said the BJP would have been better off copying the AAP m...

AAP should have supported BJP to form govt: Rajnath

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:14 PM PST

Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said AAP should have supported BJP to form a government instead of taking the reigns with Congress' backing. Addressing an electi...

KCR sees no future for other parties in TS

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

'Work to the satisfaction of people and leave no space for Opposition parties'

Man held on murder charge

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

A man was arrested on charge of stabbing a person, allegedly in revenge for an attack on his father two years ago. Thoppumpady police arrested Sathyavelu, 27, of Dindigul in Tamil Nadu, residing ne...

Postgraduate student succumbs to injuries

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

T. Alagesan (22), a postgraduate student of Madurai Kamaraj University, who was injured in a road accident on Sunday succumbed to injuries at a private hospital on Tuesday.Police said that t...

Focus on prevention of cancer

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

A recent study in the Science magazine, the gist of which was widely reported in the media a fortnight ago that a "majority of cancers are due to pure bad luck," may have generated a sense of resig...

Grand procession and special abishekam mark Thai Poosam

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

TNSTC operated special buses from Chathiram Bus Stand throughout the day

Kusalava products set ‘drag racing tracks on fire’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Nearly 10 years after it started catering to the global cylinder liner market, city-based Kusalava International Limited (KIL) continues to reign supreme in a niche market where cars that burn rock...

Cancer awareness drive today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

A cancer awareness programme will be organised on Wednesday at the office of the VUDA for the benefit of its employees and those in other government departments located in VUDA Complex.The p...

Kalingandhra enriched Telugu literature: Mandali

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:58 PM PST

Writers recall the services of Geddapu Satyam to Telugu literature

A.P. moots Economic Development Board

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Andhra Pradesh is considering constituting an Economic Development Board to chalk out the accelerated growth strategy for the State.A meeting chaired by Chief Minister N.Chandrababu Naidu he...

NRI lauds Bengaluru airport staff after getting back lost laptop

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:45 PM PST

Prominent Indian-American Ashok K. Mago was pleasantly surprised when he got back his expensive laptop at Bengaluru airport several days after losing it at the security screening. "Once I...

S.K. Samuel elected vice-president of AIACHE

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The All India Association for Christian Higher Education (AIACHE), New Delhi, in its Triennial Conference and General body meeting held at Christ University from January 29 to 31, elected S.K. Samu...

Kerala seeks exclusive Marine Police battalion

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:19 PM PST

Battalion to be raised entirely by direct recruitment

Patriarchal visit to State can be a game-changer

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Peace expectations among warring congregations

KUHS: vigilance registers cases

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) has registered a case against seven persons, including the Registrar of the Kerala University of Health Sciences Ipe Varghese and former Vice-Chancel...

Mizoram seeks Tripura’s help to trace abducted staff

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:55 PM PST

The Mizoram police have requested their Tripura counterpart to trace two General Reserve Engineering Force (GREF) members who were kidnapped on Monday. Suspected National Liberation Front...

Waghela recuses from hearing Anbazhagan plea

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka D.H. Waghela on Tuesday recused himself from hearing DMK leader Anbazhagan's plea on the row over appointment of G. Bhavani Singh, special public prosec...

Fixed container scanner facility to come up

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

It will help save time in clearing consignments: official

Missing drivers yet to be traced

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

The family members of two lorry drivers who were found to be missing for the last several days, have urged the State Government to take steps to trace them.Kandeepan (40) of Vazhappadi, and...

Puducherry forms Animal Welfare Board

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:07 PM PST

In an effort to prevent cruelty against animals, the Puducherry government has constituted a State Animal Welfare Board.The Minister for Animal Husbandry will be the chairman of the newly co...

Professor alleges assault by students’ wing of Trinamool

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:53 PM PST

A teacher of a college in Paschim Medinipur district on Tuesday alleged that he was beaten up by supporters of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the students' wing of the ruling Trinamool Con...

‘Action against school only after police investigation’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

The Education Department will wait for the police investigation to reveal details of culpability before taking action against a private school where students were allegedly tonsured as punishment.<...

NCC cadets return from R-Day parade

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Cadets from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (TNP and A) directorate, who took part in the annual month-long Republic Day parade celebrations in New Delhi, returned to the...

Corrective list of voters will be issued, EC tells court

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

: The Election Commission on Tuesday submitted before the Madras High Court it was taking action to issue a corrective list so far as multiple entries of voters were concerned in the Srirangam Asse...

AAP wants median on 100 Feet Road reopened

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:55 PM PST

Aam Aadmi Party, Coimbatore, has urged the Coimbatore City Traffic Police to reopen the the median on 100 Feet Road to decongest the Seventh Street – 100 Feet Road Junction. In a letter t...

Toxic air increasing cancer risk

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:46 PM PST

"About 1.6 to 4.8 per cent of all cancers in India is seen in children below 15 years"

Tatas evince interest in 100 MW solar power unit

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Tata Power, an arm of Tata Group has showed its willingness to take up generation of 100 MW solar power plant in Telangana.The assurance came during interaction the Information Technology Mi...

Police seek custody of accused

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

: The city police filed a petition before the Ernakulam Principal Sessions court on Tuesday seeking custody of the five people arrested from a flat near Kadavanthra for possession of cocaine.

‘Nilavembu Kashayam’ for school students

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Collector L. Subramanian has instructed the health authorities to take immediate steps to provide 'Nilavembu Kashayam' to all school students to prevent dengue fever.Since the annual examina...

KPCC’s Raj Bhavan march today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) is all set to stage a dharna in front of the Raj Bhavan and Central government offices in the districts on Wednesday in protest against what it termed a...

Physiotherapists to hold fast in 7 districts

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Physiotherapists in seven districts will go on a day's fast stir on February 10 in support of their six-point charter of demands.Their demands, among other things, include constitution of a...

Leading the fight against cancer

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

K Sailaja (43) had more than a close brush with death. Cancer ate into here intestine and liver. Nine inches of her large intestine, 4.5 inches of her small intestine and a large section of her liv...

Teachers go on novel protest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Aided teachers not getting salaries for months now resorted to a novel protest on Tuesday.Aided teachers in the district are not getting salaries for four months now. Responding to a call gi...

AP will get 11 national institutes soon : Govt. Whip

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:58 PM PST

Stating that the State government was focusing on developing infrastructure and facilities in educational institutions, Government Whip K.V.V. Satyanarayana Raju on Tuesday said that a sum of Rs. 1...

Singapore seeks conducive atmosphere for investors

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:18 PM PST

To identify local growth engines, revenue generators

Sammelan echoes current debates

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Resolution passed that State should make all efforts to ensure Kannada as medium of instruction

Engagements for February 4

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

MANGALURU Rashtra Gaurava Samrakshana Parishath: Release of patriotic calendar, auditorium, SDM College of Management Studies, M.G. Road, 11.55 a.m. ...

SC questions nature of Padmanabha Swamy trust

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:19 PM PST

Asking whether the Padmanabha Swamy temple trust is a "public charitable trust," the Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response on whether the trust was open to an audit by former Comptroller and A...

Muslim couple to perform at Sivaratri fete

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:51 PM PST

A Muslim couple will dance at the Sivaratri festival at Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple, one of the important temples in the State, on February 14, in a rare show of communal harmony.B.K. Shafeek...

Four injured as Naxals target passenger bus

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:55 PM PST

Four persons, including a woman, were injured on Tuesday as a private passenger bus they were travelling in was hit by a landmine blast triggered by the Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur distric...

Coimbatore sees slowdown in new industrial projects

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

Entrepreneurs seek ease ofdoing BUSINESS

Three hurt in attack on TNSTC bus

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Three persons including the driver and a one-year old girl child sustained bleeding injuries when unidentified persons pelted stones on a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus at Melaneelithan...

Three teachers placed under suspension

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Raviraj Murugan, headmaster, and Suresh Babu and Uma Maheswari, both teachers of Selathanpatty Middle School in Salem block were placed under suspension on the charge of allowing ineligible student...

Traders demand closure of user fee plaza

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Observe fast on National Highway at Pallikonda

AIKS against ordinance amending Land Acquisition Act

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Volunteers of the pro-Left All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) staged a demonstration in front of the Collectorate here on Tuesday protesting against the Centre's ordinance amending the Land Acquisition A...

Plywood godown catches fire

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:53 PM PST

A major fire broke out at a plywood godown in the central Kolkata. Thirty five fire tenders took over two hours to douse the fire. No casualty was reported in the fire that spread from th...

Custody of IM terror suspects extended

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Two terror suspects allegedly linked to an Indian Mujahiddeen (IM) terror module — homeopathic doctor Syed Ismail Afaq and his cousin Abdus Subur — were on Tuesday remanded in police custody for an...

Girl complains of identity theft on Instagram

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:46 PM PST

The Chennai city police recently received its first complaint on identity theft on the popular photo-sharing network, Instagram. The social networking app, also featuring video-sharing and chatting...

Let IDPs return home first, says CM

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Tuesday said that it was the stand of the State government that the return of internally-displaced people (IDPs ) to their homes in Sri Lanka should precede the v...

Bharathiar University’s sari purchase draped in controversy

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

Bharathiar University that wanted to gift saris to women employees for the 2014 International Women's Day has draped itself in controversy. Or so it appears if the records available are anything to...

‘Fake donors, a conspiracy to defame party’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:59 PM PST

The Aam Aadmi Party said names such as Barack Obama and Narendra Modi featuring on its website as donors were the result of a conspiracy by opponents to defame the party.According to the par...

Uber rape accused denies all charges

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:45 PM PST

Yadav said that he had been implicated in the case and denied that he had sexually assaulted the victim

TS, China Medical City ink MoU

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation and China Medical City on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding for working together in the area of life sciences, bio-technology and me...

Two killed in accident

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:06 PM PST

Two persons on a motorbike were killed in an accident near Kumbalam bridge on Tuesday afternoon.Devdas, 50, son of Parameswaram, of Mallappilly house, near Aroor temple, and Ambujakshan, 55,...

New GRH Dean inspects fever wards

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Dr. S. Revwathy took charge as Dean of Government Rajaji Hospital here on February 1. Earlier, she served as Dean of Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and was transferred to Madurai by the State...

KC(B) meet to decide on future path

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

: The Kerala Congress (B), which is almost on its way out of the United Democratic Front (UDF), is holding its secretariat meeting here on Wednesday to decide the future course of action.The...

Blast disease reduces ‘Andhra ponni’ yield

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Advathur farmers are worst hit; workers agree to reduce wages

Free consultations from today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Free consultation and counselling will be given to patients for one week beginning from February 4, World Cancer Day, by the American Oncology Institute (AOI) and Andhra Hospitals, Medical Oncologi...

ECoR wins volleyball tourney

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

East Coast Railway Sports Association, Waltair Division, won the all-India Nalco open volleyball tournament held at Damanjodi in Odisha.It beat its counterpart from Khurda Road 25-23,25-21,2...

Teacher arrested in fake TC racket

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Police on Tuesday busted a fake certificate racket by arresting five persons, including a municipal high school teacher and a record assistant, and seized more than 800 blank school transfer certif...

Stone laid for ‘Veda Pathasala’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for a 'Veda Pathasala,' on the hill shrine at Kotappakonda near Narsaraopet.The vedic school woul...

Corporation starts work to relocate street vendors

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

The Kalaburagi City Corporation has started identifying alternative spots in nine selected localities to provide affordable shops for street vendors, Municipal Administration and Minority Affairs M...

ANF intensifies combing in the Western Ghats

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The Anti-Naxalite Force (ANF) and the police intensified combing in the Western Ghats on Tuesday after a team of suspected Naxalites visited a house in Ajjoli village coming under the Hebri police...

Theyyam fete from today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

All arrangements are in place for the 'Perumkaliyattam' (grand theyyam festival) to be held at Cheruvathur Muchilot Bhagavathy Temple from Wednesday, a mega event hosted after three decades....

Caught on camera… almost

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:52 PM PST

CCTVs prove ineffective in collecting crucial evidence

Heavy snow hits life in Himachal

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:55 PM PST

Heavy snowfall in the tribal districts of Lahaul and Spiti, Kinnaur and upper regions of Chamba, Kullu and Shimla districts in Himachal derailed normal life on Tuesday. Residents in Lahau...

Industrialist donates crash carts, trolley to hospital

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Thanks to P. Muruganathan, an industrialist from Chinnakarai near here, the District Headquarters Hospital on Monday got three 'crash carts' and an 'exchange stretcher trolley' that were much neede...

Woman ends life, father held

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

Police have arrested the father of a 23-year-old postgraduate woman, who allegedly committed suicide after she secretly married a driver, but asserted that it was not a case of honour killing.<...

Girl rescued from farmhouse

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Officials have rescued a nine-year-old girl from a poultry farm in Peramandampalayam village in Mohanur taluk here on Monday.Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan members while carrying out a survey found t...

Utilise ‘anti-incumbency’ wave to return Congress to power: Narayanasamy

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

Former Union Minister of State for PMO V. Narayanasamy on Wednesday criticised Chief Minister N. Rangasamy for "failing the people on several counts" and said that the time had come to put an end t...

MC MPs to meet Vice-President

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:53 PM PST

: A delegation from Trinamool Congress will meet Vice president and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari to take up the issue of MPs being "targeted" by the CBI in the Saradha scam. "It was...

Gang of five arrested

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

Police on Monday arrested a gang of five on charge of robbing people by laying a trap for them by sending sleazy pictures of women on their mobile phones.The arrest was based on a complaint...

Panel deliberates democracy in all walks of life

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 PM PST

"Any discussion on freedom of speech and expression can't be removed from its political context. One should not fall into the intellectual trap of seeing an issue as one between free speech and non...

Forest College students’ protest enters Day 8

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

Students of the Forest College and Research Institute, Mettupalayam, continued their protest for the eighth day on Tuesday demanding that the State Government restore the higher quota of reservatio...

AAP demands SC-monitored probe into funding of all parties

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:53 PM PST

Rubbishing allegations of "dubious" funding, the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the funding of the BJP, the Congress and itself and dared the government to...

Police clueless about church attack; NHRC issues notices

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST

Rights body seeks reports within 10 days

Centre to promote bulk drug manufacturing to reduce imports

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

A multi-pronged strategy encouraging bulk drug manufacturing to reduce dependence on imports, setting up of clusters for small and medium-sized pharma companies, making changes to the existing regu...

Kochi today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:52 PM PST

GENERAL Cochin Municipal Corporation: Presentation on book 'Mosques of Cochin' by author Patricia Tusa Fels followed by discussion on challenges of maintaining old mosqu...

Litigant accuses Sagayam of not being honest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The Madras High Court Bench here on Tuesday ordered notice to the State government on a public interest litigation petition seeking departmental action against officials who allegedly failed to inf...

NRI deposits up by Rs. 3,795 cr. in SBT

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

The State Bank of Travancore (SBT) has posted an increase of Rs.3,795 crore in NRI deposits till December 2014.With this, the total NRI deposits in the bank had gone up to Rs.28,758 crore, M...

Damage to hoarding causes flutter

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Social activist and independent candidate for Srirangam by poll 'Traffic' Ramasamy created a flutter here on Tuesday after he reportedly damaged a hoarding installed by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJ...

Nehru charges Minister with making money through land deals

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

'Will reveal the name after getting documentary evidence'

Memoranda submitted to House panel

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Memoranda were submitted to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology and Environment and Forests during its two-day visit to the city which concluded on Monday.The Gree...

Elephants raid fields, damage standing crops

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 PM PST

Two herds of elephants have been rampaging standing crops of maize, paddy and vegetable plantations at Pedduru and Naniyala tribal hamlets deep inside the Koundinya wildlife sanctuary spread over P...

EAMCET row has Inter students in a fix

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:54 PM PST

Intermediate students in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are in a dilemma with both States almost coming to a conclusion that the EAMCET will be held separately.Students, who wish to apply for...

‘Details of action plan to get back black money not available’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:09 PM PST

Application by RTI activist evokes this response

Sahitya sammelan echoes current debates

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The three-day Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, which concluded on Tuesday, responded to several current issues, including the imbroglio over the medium of instruction and farmers' angst over the proposed...

Jeevaraksha for medical care at Shoranur station

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

: Perturbed over incidents of death at the Shornur Railway Station  for want of urgent medical help, a set of  youngsters has begun a Facebook community to channelize funds to ensure basic medical...

College to host cultural fete

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 PM PST

The College of Engineering attached to the Institute of Human Resources Development (IHRD) at Kallooppara will host a four-day techno-cultural fest, 'Dhanush-2015,' from February 4 to 7.Acco...

‘Manjhi must bridge the gap with colleagues’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:55 PM PST

Amid growing discontent in the ruling Janata Dal (United), the party's State president admitted on Tuesday, perhaps for the first time, that there was a lack of coordination between Chief Minister...

Agitation over Land Acquisition Bill: 43 farmers court arrest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:55 PM PST

A total of 43 persons belonging to the Tamil Nadu Vivasyigal Sangam affiliated to the Left ideology were arrested here on Tuesday when they tried to burn copies of the amendments to the Land Acqui...

Preparations for two-day Katchatheevu pilgrimage

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:04 PM PST

Those involved in smuggling and facing criminal cases would not be allowed to undertake pilgrimage to Katchatheevu for the annual St. Antony's Church festival on February 28 and March 1, Superinten...

Office-bearers

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:05 PM PST

Dr. Kannan assumed office as the president of the Indian Medical Association of the Namakkal branch. Dr. D. Sridhar assumed office as secretary.

Egg price falls

Th...

Mission Charity: Mumbai to Goa on a kayak

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:17 AM PST

Celebrities walk or run miles, swim long distances in the sea or fly across continents to raise money for charity. But Kaustubh Khade has chosen a new way — go kayaking solo for 500 km from Mumbai...

‘Rising population threatens Sunderbans’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:15 AM PST

The carrying capacity of the Indian Sunderbans has been exceeded, and the increased population is exerting pressure on the fragile and richest ecosystem of the world, a World Bank report has said.

Britain votes on allowing ‘three-parent babies’

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:08 AM PST

Britain on Tuesday was to become the first country to allow a "three-parent" IVF technique which doctors say will prevent some inherited incurable diseases but which critics see as a step towards...

Won’t accept preconditions for talks, says Koirala

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:08 AM PST

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on Tuesday said talks to draft a Constitution would go on, but he would not give in to any precondition set by the Opposition. Receiving a memorandum from the...

Pakistan withdraws official from Dhaka Embassy

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:06 AM PST

Pakistan has withdrawn an official from its High Commission here after being asked by Dhaka, which alleged that he was financing terrorism.Mohammad Mazhar Khan, an attaché at the consular s...

Jordan: Islamic State killed pilot on January 3

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:50 AM PST

The Jordanian government confirmed on Tuesday that Islamic State militants had killed a captive Jordanian pilot and said this had happened on January 3, state television reported.A video re...

Islamic State video shows Jordanian pilot burnt alive

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:54 PM PST

A video released by the Islamic State militant group on Tuesday purported to show captive Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh being burnt alive. Reuters could not immediatel...

34 swine flu deaths in Telangana in one month

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:05 AM PST

From January 1 to February 1, 976 samples were tested, of which 668 samples were found to be positive.

NHRC notice to Centre, Delhi govt. on church vandalism

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:53 AM PST

The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi Government and Delhi police seeking reports on the status of investigation into the vandalism...

SC lends powerful voice to free speech online

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:45 AM PST

The defensive Centre said its laws are meant to fight cyber crime and not curb free expression

CB-CID traces baby that went missing from Madurai GH in 2013

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:13 AM PST

The CB-CID said the child will be produced before the Judicial Magistrate for a DNA test and sought time to file the DNA report.

Italy's new President decries corruption, loss of hope

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:07 AM PST

Italy's new President, Sergio Mattarella, assumed office on Tuesday with a ringing call to the nation to root out organized crime and corruption devouring public resources and solve a protracted e...

Ambedkar's London house to be an international memorial

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:14 AM PST

The Maharashtra Cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal to purchase the three-storey bungalow of Dr. Bababsaheb Ambedkar in London.   The house -- situated on 10,...

Women in the fray

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:02 AM PST

"I am most familiar with my own community so I chose to set my book in that milieu. But what I am exploring here is human nature," says Renu Kurien Balakrishnan, whose debut novel Four Aleys

Monkeying around with kids

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:00 AM PST

Stage lights. Dramatic pause. The actors freeze as one asks theatrically — "What has Taklu done?" Suddenly, a squeaky little voice interrupts the play. "He's not been exercising enough," says the...

Home is where the stories are

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:57 AM PST

Gautham Vasudev Menon became a filmmaker at a time when the Tamil heroe had already elevated stalking to an accepted social principle and moral policing of women became his fundamental duty. In sl...

First World Ocean Science Congress begins in Kochi on February 5

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:54 AM PST

Sustainable means to utilise ocean resources without causing damage to them and their marine life would come up for deliberations during the four-day World Ocean Science Congress-2015, beginning i...

I want to believe in magic

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:05 AM PST

He can trick you into believing many things. Twenty-one year old Neel Madhav wants to bring magic to a whole new level in India, combining NLP, criminology and mentalism

Cancer: Not beyond us

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:48 AM PST

On World Cancer Day today, The Union for International Cancer Control calls the doctors, institutions and the community at large to come together and unite in the fight against cancer

Publishers to boycott Marathi literary meet in Punjab

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:46 AM PST

They regard the event as a "quixotic venture" that is commercially detrimental to their trade.

Bengaluru Today: February 4

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:31 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 RELIGION ...

Bill on housing co-ops in budget session

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:27 AM PST

Karnataka Government proposes to present a bill in the budget session to reign in housing co-operative societies, with a clause that makes it mandatory for a society that fails to allot a site wit...

Council for metering IP sets, after assuring farmers they won’t be charged

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:19 AM PST

The Legislative Council on Tuesday gave approval to metering all irrigations pump sets in Karnataka after entering into an agreement with the farmers that they would not be charged for the power c...

100,000 Genomes Project cares for patients

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:28 AM PST

The 100,000 Genomes Project is a combination of caring for patients and using genomic medicine to change how patients are treated in the National Health Service (NHS), UK, observed Mark Caulfield,...

Petrol price cut by Rs. 2.42/litre, diesel by Rs. 2.25

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 11:39 AM PST

After the price cuts, petrol price is the lowest since September 2010 while diesel is cheapest since March 2013.

City MBA students reach case study competition world final

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:01 AM PST

The team of Sukanya Das and Anupriya Chaturvedi, MBA final year students of ICFAI Business School (IBS) Hyderabad were shortlisted for the final of the prestigious Baylor USASBE Student Case Writi...

Kudgi NTPC thermal plant prepares for crucial hydrotest

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:54 AM PST

The NTPC thermal plant at Kudgi village of Basavanabagewadi is making hurried preparation for the crucial hydrotest which is an important element in generating the power. According to sou...

2 RTC employees nabbed for harassing woman

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:52 AM PST

Two employees of APSRTC one in his mid 40s and another aged 25 years, were caught by the Cyberabad police on Wednesday while they were sexually harassing a woman at a bus-stop in Miyapur passing l...

Model programme to boost farm income in AP

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:45 AM PST

Minister for Agriculture Prattipati Pulla Rao has said as a first step towards making farming profitable, "Chandranna Rythu Kshetram" programme has been taken up. Under the programme, in 50,000 ac...

‘Mungaru Male’ girl’s second innings in politics

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:42 AM PST

Actor turned producer Pooja Gandhi, who has remained politically neutral after a brief 'party hopping' stint and a loss in the assembly election, will announce her political plans in a month. ...

Six Boxers of JEC to represent VTU in All India Inter-university Competition

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:42 AM PST

Four men and two women boxers of the city-based Jain College of Engineering have been selected in the Visvesvaraya Technological University Boxing team and will be representing in All India Inter...

Higher goals? Be prepared to spend

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:41 AM PST

There's more to marathon running than just the runner's high. Runners give us an insight into their financial planning

We won't tolerate ex-communication, says Bombay HC

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:36 AM PST

Rapping the Maharashtra govt. for inaction, the high court transferred the probe to the Crime Branch.

Tributes paid to RK Laxman, Rameshwar Thakur, Sarojini Mahishi

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:15 AM PST

Rich tributes were paid to former Governor Rameshwar Thakur, renowned cartoonist R.K. Laxman, former Union Minister, Sarojini Mahishi and seven other former members of the Assembly who passed away...

Man killed in hit-and-run case

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:11 AM PST

A 38-year-old businessman from Shimla was killed on-the-spot after an unidentified vehicle knocked him down on Varthur Main Road on Monday night. The deceased, Surendra Kumar along with h...

Space applications lack user connect: expert

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:11 AM PST

India has done a lot to utilise space applications, the DRDO has the technology, but somehow this is not available to the soldier on the field, Prof. MGK Menon DRDO Chair at RCI Hyderabad Prem Sha...

BJP refers to northeast people in Delhi as immigrants

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:46 AM PST

The Congress promptly demanded an apology.

Two women robbed off gold valuables in separate incidents

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:07 AM PST

Two women, including a lecturer of a city-based college, were robbed in two different incidents on Tuesday. Two bike-borne men robbed a gold chain worth over Rs. two lakh from one Ranjith...

Cairo airport on alert after bombs found: security official

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:08 AM PST

Cairo airport authorities tightened security after finding two bombs near the arrivals hall and a homemade explosive device exploded in the centre of the capital on Tuesday, security officials sai...

CBDT does not have information about blackmoney

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:01 AM PST

The Union Ministry of Finance has said that the information pertaining to the blackmoney stashed away in foreign banks and other details of the action plan to get back the blackmoney was not avail...

TS, China Medical City ink MoU in Life Sciences

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:56 AM PST

Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation and China Medical City on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding for working together in the area of life sciences, bio-technology and m...

Three injured as KSRTC bus overturns

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:55 AM PST

Three persons sustained minor injuries when a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus overturned on the National Highway-75 near Kunigal taluk in the district on Tuesday. A...

e-registration of property launched in Haryana

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:19 AM PST

It is expected to lead the State's move towards e-governance.

Church attack: NHRC notice to Home Ministry, Delhi Govt.

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:26 AM PST

The NHRC has issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi government and police seeking reports on the status of investigation into the alleged vandalism of a south Delhi church. ...

More H1N1 cases reported in Tumakuru

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:18 AM PST

Four H1N1 cases were reported in Tumakuru in January 2015 while two died out of seven who were tested positive due to H1N1 in 2014 in the district. District Vector Borne Disease Control...

University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences to take up a project on YLD

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:38 AM PST

University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (UAHS), Shivamogga in association with other government institutes will soon take up a Rs. five crore research project for finding a solution...

Time to correct all that went wrong in Delhi for 16 years: Modi

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:47 AM PST

The Prime Minister was addressing an election meeting at Rohini in New Delhi.

Officials told to focus on providing free dialysis treatment

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:14 AM PST

C.S. Puttaraju, Mandya MP, on Tuesday instructed the officials concerned to focus on providing free dialysis treatment to renal failure patients in the district. Mr. Puttaraju chaired a m...

Egypt could free jailed journalist Mohamed Fahmy within hours: Al-Jazeera

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:08 AM PST

Egypt could free Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy within hours, Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera English reported on Tuesday. Fahmy's colleague, Peter Greste, an Austr...

Fatal accident triggers protest; villagers damage vehicles

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:04 AM PST

The death of a youth in a road accident triggered a protest on Poorigali-Saragur Main Road near Malavalli, in Mandya district, on Monday night. Hundreds of villagers gathered at the spot,...

BDA needs surgery, says Siddaramaiah

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:17 AM PST

"Let us perform surgery on BDA (Bangalore Development Authority)" to bring it back on track is what Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had to say when the question raised by N. Cheluvarayaswamy of the Ja...

Panneerselvam lashes out at Karunanidhi for comments on Sri Lankan refugees repatriation

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:57 AM PST

Reaffirming his government's stand on repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Tuesday lashed out at DMK chief M. Karunanidhi for criticising the State fo...

Charles wanted to call off wedding with Diana: book

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:59 AM PST

Catherine Mayer's book 'Charles: Heart of a King' says both Prince Charles and Princess Diana contemplated calling off their wedding - but for different reasons.

HC Chief Justice recuses from hearing Anbazhagan's plea after Bhavani Singh's objection

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:02 AM PST

Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court D.H. Waghela on Tuesday recused from hearing DMK leader Anbazhagan's plea on the row over appointment of G Bhavani Singh, special public prosecutor (SPP) in t...

BRAOU exams from February 9

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:47 AM PST

The first phase of examinations of Post Graduate Diplomas, Diploma and Certificate programmes of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) will be held from February 9 onwards from 2 p.m to 5 p.m...

Live Chat - as it happened: Mihir Joshi on muting 'Bombay'

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:50 AM PST

People took to social media to express their outrage after Censor Board muted the word 'Bombay' in the song 'Sorry' composed by Mihir Joshi. Join us for a Live Chat at 5 pm today with the music composer and our correspondents Omar Rashid and Satish Nandgaonkar to discuss about freedom of expression in all art forms.

TS Govt. grants Rs. 10 crore for IIPH

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:50 AM PST

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced a grant of Rs.10 crore to the Indian Institute of Public Health. He was laying the foundation for the second campus of the institute at Rajendranagar...

Analysis: BJP Vision Document gets into the basics of Bedi’s Blueprint

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:24 AM PST

The BJP's Vision Document for Delhi on Tuesday spelt out specific promises for the capital's voters. The document is being viewed in the light of 'Kiran's Blueprint'—a daily series...

No future for other parties: KCR

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:24 AM PST

Telangana Rashtra Samiti president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday asserted that there was no alternative to the party in the new State. Addressing the first extended executive...

Over 75% of parties income from opaque source: report

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:26 AM PST

INC, BJP, NCP, CPM, AIADMK, SP, JD (U), Lok Janshakti Party, RLD, SAD did not maintain or disclose the names and addresses of contributors.

Route rationalisation of Railways a curse for port users from Vizag

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:28 AM PST

Route rationalisation introduced by Railway Board through its notification on April 1, in 2011 has turned out to be a big bane for export and import cargo operators from Visakhapatnam. Ap...

Israeli Prime Minister calls for scrapping U.N. Gaza war probe

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:08 AM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for scrapping a U.N. commission tasked with investigating potential war crimes committed last summer in Gaza after reports emerged that...

Coal scam: Court directs CBI to furnish CVC reference

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:48 AM PST

CBI was on Tuesday directed by a special court to produce the original reference made by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on the basis of which the agency had registered a case against M/s P...

Villagers block road with youth's body in Adilabad dt.

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:04 AM PST

Traffic flow on Gudihatnoor-Utnoor Road was blocked by protesters near Indervelli mandal headquarters on Tuesday. The protesters belonging to Ginnera Bhikku tanda village in the same man...

Woman, new born die of swine flu in Madhya Pradesh

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:03 AM PST

The child was born on Monday night, while the woman from Rajasthan was under treatment, at the government-run Kamla Raja Hospital.

AIB Knockout: Won’t allow movie releases till Arjun Kapoor, Ranveer Singh apologise, says MNS

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:03 AM PST

Maharashtra Culture Minister Vinod Tawde says the government does not intend to do any "moral policing"

Elephant herds storm crops in Koundinya hamlets in Chittoor

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:53 AM PST

Two herds of elephants have been rampaging standing crops of maize, paddy and vegetable plantations at Pedduru and Naniyala tribal hamlets deep inside the Koundinya wildlife sanctuary spread over...

Secularism means state shall not have religion of its own, Ansari tells students

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:52 AM PST

Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said that secularism implies that a state shall not have a religion of its own. His statement comes in the backdrop of an ongoing row between politi...

23 sand theft cases filed within a week in Raichur

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:50 AM PST

In order to curb illegal sand mining menace in the district, Raichur district administration has started booking theft cases on the offenders. Within last one week, different police stations acros...

Labourer's son puts his mark on Centre’s new education policy

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:58 AM PST

Nawaz Shaikh's logo for the HRD Ministry's new education policy was chosen from among 3000 entries.

Police summon Arjun Rampal for meeting gangster

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:30 PM PST

The Mumbai Police have summoned Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal for allegedly meeting jailed gangster Arun Gawli in a State-run hospital on December 28 without permission. The police said th...

Political parties under RTI: CIC's final order awaited

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:28 AM PST

Nearly one month after its final hearing on the non-compliance of political parties with the Right To Information (RTI) Act, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has not yet made public its de...

Mangaluru boy wins stamp design competition

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:09 AM PST

Mangaluru's young artist Vaibhav Shenoy, who has made a series of contributions to the London-based 'Look and Learn' website - a picture library for schools and teachers - has gone to win the nati...

Three-day 'Vachana Vijayotsava' ends today

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:39 AM PST

Folk artists from across the state performed all along the procession that marked the end of Vachana Vijayotsava in Bidar on Tuesday. The three day festival is organised by Basava Seva Pr...

Gang of five blackmailers arrested

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:59 AM PST

The South East Division Police have nabbed a gang of five who would trap people and later blackmailed them. The accused have been identified as Abdul Karim (28), Mohammed Saleem (27), Abb...

AAP throws probe gauntlet, Modi mocks it

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:06 PM PST

In his third election rally in four days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chided the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday over allegations that it received "dubious" donations, and said it was strange that AAP...

Bring naxals to mainstream, says Speaker

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:44 AM PST

Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa, on Tuesday, suggested to the State government to convene a meeting of the elected representatives from the naxal-affected regions in the State to work out a package of fa...

Swine flu death reported in Chittoor district

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:43 AM PST

The first swine flu death was reported from Punganur, 60 km from here in the early hours of Tuesday. The death was reported to the district medical and health officials by the victim's family memb...

Vehicle 'jatha' of farm workers union reaches Udupi

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:21 AM PST

The union opposes dilution of provisions of MNREGS

BJP promises to make Delhi a world class city

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:52 AM PST

Utmost transparency, unimpeachable integrity promises: Kiran Bedi to Delhi at Vision document release

Goa records first swine flu death

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 12:29 AM PST

Goa recorded its first swine flu death late Monday after a 45-year-old patient died in a South Goa hospital, a top state medical official said on Tuesday.Speaking to IANS, nodal epid...

Haryana to move Supreme Court for completion of SYL canal

Posted: 02 Feb 2015 11:47 PM PST

Once two of its previous judgments are implemented, the State can get its full share of surplus Ravi-Beas waters from Punjab

As it happened: AAP demands SIT probe into funding

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:22 AM PST

Those who made allegations against us are acting at the behest of the BJP: AAP

Asaduddin, other MIM leaders appear before Medak court

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 03:23 AM PST

All India Majlis e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, MIM floor leader in Telangana Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi and others attended the court of Judicial First...

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