On the occasion of Marudhu brothers’ death anniversary in Sivaganga on October 27 and Thevar Jayanthi and Guru Puja on October 30 at Pasumpon in Ramanathapuram district, Sivaganga district administration has declared holidays for schools and colleges located in Sivaganga, Devakottai, Tiruppathur, Tirupuvanam, Manamadurai, Kalaiyarkoil and Ilayangudi on the two days.   Also, Keeladi museum... Read More

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed three police personnel attached to Thideer Nagar police station in Madurai to jointly pay a compensation of ₹10 lakh to a man for conspiring to get him convicted in a ganja case by giving false evidence before the trial court. Justice K.K. Ramakrishnan directed the... Read More

A mechanism to monitor long-distance buses operating on All-India tourist permits would be proposed at the inter-State transport commissioners’ meeting. On Saturday, Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar said, “Buses registered in other States use All-India tourist permits to travel across the country. These are legally valid, of course. However, we have to develop a system to... Read More

In the 50 days since he last heard from his brother, Indian Army jawan Prabhudayal Sunda has petitioned various government offices seeking his brother’s rescue from Russia, but is yet to receive any response. Sandeep, 23, Mr. Sunda’s younger brother, had been enlisted in the Russian Army and forced to fight in the war zone... Read More

Kerala Congress chairman P.J. Joseph on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the CPI(M), accusing it of signing the PM SHRI scheme by keeping the people of Kerala in the dark. Inaugurating a protest meeting at Thirunakkara in the evening, Mr. Joseph alleged that the CPI(M) had even misled its long-time coalition partner, the CPI,... Read More

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing into the alleged burial of bodies in Dharmasthala over a decade ago, has issued notices to four activists, Mahesh Shetty Thimarodi, Girish Mattannavar, T. Jayant, and Vittala Gowda, to appear before it on Monday. In the notice, SIT Chief Investigation Officer Jitendra Kumar Dayama has asked the... Read More

Telangana Rajiv Swagruha Corporation would hold online auction of 167 open plots in Thorrur, Kurmalguda in Rangareddy districts and Bahadurpally in Medchal-Malkajgiri from October 28 to 30. This includes 120 plots measuring 200 to 500 square yards in Thorrur; 29 plots measuring 200 to 300 square yards in Kurmalguda and 18 plots measuring 200 to... Read More

CPI(ML)’s Divya Gautam is a theatre actor with a long list of degrees to her name, including a Master’s in Women Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a rundown building in the Bihar capital, a group of CPI(ML) workers gathered to discuss the campaign strategy for their candidate... Read More

T.G. Sitharam, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), has assured that the currently non-functional AICTE regional office in Bengaluru will be transformed into a ‘Quantum Computing Lab’. Speaking at the felicitation ceremony organised by Senate members of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) at the VTU Regional Center in Bengaluru on Saturday, he... Read More

Signing up for PM SHRI (PM Schools for Rising India) does not mean National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus will be taught in schools in the State, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty has said. Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president K. Surendran’s remarks that content related to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh... Read More