Minister for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Adluri Laxman Kumar has once again stated that he is ready for a debate with BRS Siddipet MLA T. Harish Rao, challenging him to appear at the 123-foot-tall Ambedkar statue in Hyderabad. Mr. Laxman Kumar, who had dared former Minister Harish Rao to take an oath at the... Read More

At the draw: Fruhvirtova, Alastair Garland MD, Octagon Tennis, Vijay Amritraj, President, TNTA, J. Meghanatha Reddy IAS, Member-Secretary, SDAT, and Shrivalli Bhamidipaty. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran When Linda Fruhvirtova of Czechia won the WTA 250 Chennai Open as a 17-year-old in the year 2022, she wasn’t the favourite by a distance. Unseeded, Linda put... Read More

Principal Secretary (Energy) Navin Mittal at a review meeting with senior officials at the Southern Power Distribution Company on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Chandra Shekar B 6746 Principal Secretary (Energy) Navin Mittal said for the upcoming 2026 Rabi/Summer seasons, the State’s power demand is projected to exceed 19,000 MW, and instructed Chief Engineers and Superintending... Read More

The Telangana government has made it clear that employees who failed to link their Aadhaar details with the IFMIS portal by the October 25 midnight deadline will not receive their salary for the month. In a memo circulated on October 25, the Finance department emphasised that all categories of employees, including regular, contract and outsourcing... Read More

Chief minister Siddaramaiah, with Public Works Department Minister Satish Jarkiholi, paritcipating in Kittur Utsav in Belagavi district. | Photo Credit: P.K. BADIGER Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has emphasised the need for being cautious about people who try to divide society on the basis of caste and religion for their vested interests. Addressing a large gathering at... Read More

Eighty years after the U.S. attacked Japan with the atomic bomb, crowds still throng to the mound-shaped peace memorial and museum in Hiroshima to pay their respects to hundreds of thousands killed or affected. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the subsequent surrender of Japan to allied forces in 1945 laid the foundation for... Read More

Three youths attacked and snatched a mobile phone from a person near Salem New Bus Stand, video of which went viral on social media. On Saturday, the three youths snatched the mobile phone from a person at the flyover near Salem New Bus Stand and a few people recorded the video and uploaded it on... Read More

Forest officials with the carcass of a wild boar that was shot down at Mannarkottai in Virudhunagar on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ten months after the Tamil Nadu Forest Department issued a government order permitting regulated culling of wild boars that damage crops and attacks farmers, the first incident of forest officials hunting... Read More

A consumer association from Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district has objected to the power tariff review petition filed by the Hubballi Electricity Supply Company Limited (Hescom), saying the company is trying to misuse the process to reopen a settled tariff order and shift the financial burden of electricity subsidies from the State government onto consumers.... Read More

The data available on the Lokpal’s website revealed that the Lokpal has ordered preliminary inquiries in only 289 cases against all the complaints it has received so far. Photo credit: lokpal.gov.in While the Lokpal of India’s decision to float a tender for seven luxury BMW cars has triggered public outrage, the anti-graft body’s own performance... Read More