The State government has given new postings to few IAS officers. Commercial Taxes commissioner M. Raghunandan Rao has been placed in full additional charge of the post of Revenue (Commercial Taxes & Excise) department secretary in place of Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi who has opted for voluntary retirement with effect from October 31. TS Genco... Read More

Surplus water gushing out of the 16-vent Ellis Saddle surplus slices from the Stanley Reservoir in Salem district. | Photo Credit: LAKSHMI NARAYANAN E With the water level at the Stanley Reservoir in Mettur being maintained at the full reservoir level (FRL) of 120 feet for the third consecutive day, 35,500 cusecs of surplus water... Read More

Virudhunagar Collector N.O. Sukhaputra has appealed to the farmers to insure their crops during Rabi season. In a statement, the Collector said that the premium for the crops under Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance scheme, being implmented by SBI General Insurance Company, could be paid through banks, primary agricultural cooperative societies and common service centres. The... Read More

There is no risk that fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi will not get a fair trial in India after his extradition, a Belgian court has ruled, underlining that he has failed to demonstrate any “serious risk” of being subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment. A four-member indictment chamber at the Court of Appeals in Antwerp... Read More

The Ramayana’slinks with Sri Lanka are well-known across India. Not so celebrated is the connection that Tevaram (a collection of devotional hymns to Shiva) has with that country. Of the 275 Padal Petra Sthalams revered in the Tevaram, the collective name for the works of the trio — Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar — two are... Read More

Supreme Court of India. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court has granted four months to the Madhya Pradesh High Court to implement its judgment, which held that visually impaired persons cannot be denied the opportunity of employment in judicial services and struck down provisions of the Madhya Pradesh Judicial Service Rules that... Read More

People protesting against a private poultry waste rendering unit at Ambayathode in Kozhikode. | Photo Credit: File A special squad formed by the Kozhikode Rural police has booked 321 identifiable persons accused of having key involvement in a clash that broke out at a private slaughterhouse waste treatment company at Ambayathode near Thamarassery in Kozhikode... Read More

 Four sophisticated pistols with live ammunition were recovered. (X/@DGPPunjabPolice) Punjab Police have busted a cross-border smuggling network and arrested four operatives and recovered four sophisticated pistols with live ammunition from them. Preliminary investigation reveals that the arrested accused were working on the directions of a Pakistan-based smuggler who had been orchestrating cross-border weapons movement into... Read More

The first of the physical public hearings held by the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) on its draft renewable energy regulations has drawn a fresh round of protests against the proposals, with prosumers calling them harmful to both their interests and the overall push for renewable energy in Kerala. As in the online hearings... Read More

Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju. File | Photo Credit: ANI Union minister Kiren Rijiju commenced his two-day visit to Mizoram on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) to campaign for the BJP candidate in the November 11 Dampa Assembly by-election, a party leader said. Soon after his arrival in Aizawl, the Union... Read More