At Karnataka’s Minto Ophthalmic Hospital, a total of 30 cracker injury cases were reported in the last three days. File | Photo Credit: V. Sreenivasa Murthy The festive spirit of Deepavali celebrations was marred by a spate of firecracker-related eye injuries across Bengaluru, with leading eye hospitals collectively reporting over 130 cases in the last... Read More

Vehicular movement was affected near Indira Gandhi Square on Wednesday morning due to water-logging caused by overnight rain in Puducherry. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Vehicular movement was affected near Indira Gandhi Square on Wednesday morning due to water-logging caused by overnight rain in Puducherry. Movement of vehicles got disrupted near Indira Gandhi Square during... Read More

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit has launched a project to encourage students to come up with innovative start-up ideas. It has joined hands with the Kerala Startup Mission to help young aspirants pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. The varsity’s Design Technology Business Incubation Centre on the main campus at Kalady is implementing the project. “We have... Read More

President Droupadi Murmu will be the chief guest of the valedictory ceremony of the platinum jubilee of St. Thomas Autonomous College, Pala, to be held on Thursday. The President will unveil a plaque of the upcoming platinum jubilee block at a function to be presided over by Mar Joseph Kallarangatt, Bishop of the Diocese of... Read More

The Hindu Future India Club, in association with Paari School of Business, SRM-AP, and Bapatla Engineering College, will organise a seminar titled ‘Careers in Management and Sciences’ at the college in Bapatla on October 24. President of the college Muppalaneni Srinivasa Rao, secretary Manam Nageswara Rao and principal N. Rama Devi will address the students.... Read More

A total of 40 persons underwent treatment for fire wounds at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) on October 19 and 20 in Tiruchi. According to an official press release, 22 persons were admitted as inpatients, and 18 were treated as outpatients over the two days. A senior hospital official told The Hindu that a... Read More

The Santosh Trophy is still more than two months away, but M. Shafeeq Hassan cannot wait. He was recently appointed as Kerala’s coach for the National football championship. “I realized how important this assignment is by the responses I got after I was picked for the job by the Kerala Football Association,” Shafeeq told The... Read More

The Telangana government and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) on Wednesday signed a letter of intent for strategic partnership in strengthening life sciences education and research. Minister for IT, Electronics & Communications D. Sridhar Babu and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT Catherine Itsiopoulos, amid other government and university leaders, attended the signing ceremony. According to... Read More

APCC president Y.S. Sharmila staging a protest in Vijayawada on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila on Wednesday staged a protest at Andhra Ratna Bhavan in Vijayawada, demanding immediate release of ₹2,700 crore pending under Aarogyasri health scheme. Standing in rain with a stretcher, Ms. Sharmila said... Read More

A meeting at the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) office which was attended by MLA Sriganesh Narayanan, Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender and senior officials, in Hyderabad, on Wednesday. The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) is set to receive a major infrastructure boost worth ₹303 crore as part of a land compensation agreement linked to the construction of... Read More