Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (Kufos) here will set up a Marine Biology Centre (MBC–L) at Kavaratti, Lakshadweep. The proposed centre will function as a spoke institution under Vertical 6 of the Deep Ocean Mission — Advanced Marine Station for Ocean Biology — conceptualised by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). A recent... Read More

A separate budgetary allocation has been made by the government to meet expenses related to the SAF. | Photo Credit: H.S. MANJUNATH Special Action Force (SAF) personnel in Mangaluru on Friday flagged the speech of a regional RSS leader posted on social media, having the potential to create communal tension, and forwarded it to the... Read More

The Hyderabad Disaster Response & Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) removed encroachments from a layout open space meant for public utilities in Kondapur on Saturday. The 4,300 square yard plot was allocated for a school and other public utilities in the Osmania University Teachers Welfare Society layout, at Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Kondapur. The layout was made... Read More

England’s captain Natalie Sciver-Brunt will hope the team finishes the league stage of the World Cup on a high, with a win over New Zealand. | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK Head coach Ben Sawyer will have to plan for life after Sophie Devine, who bids adieu to ODIs after Sunday’s game, a theme that dominated... Read More

Ajinkya Rahane presents the full face of the bat. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI As Ajinkya Rahane brought up his first century of the season with a single, the celebrations were muted. Rahane just raised his bat towards the dugout and gave a thumbs up to his teammates. Throughout his 315-minute stay at the crease,... Read More

CISF personnel during the tree sapling distribution recently at MRPL in Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) undertook a large-scale plantation and sapling distribution drive around Mangaluru and distributed over 5,000 tree saplings recently. The initiative was launched in alignment with the “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam-2.0“ initiative by... Read More

Road repair work undertaken on Thennur High Road in Tiruchi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Tiruchi Corporation has stepped up relief and health measures across its limits following heavy rainfall caused by the northeast monsoon. Corporation and private vehicles have been deployed to pump out and drain rainwater that has accumulated along major... Read More

The charred remains of the bus, which went up in flames on the national highway at Chinnatekur village in Kurnool district on Friday, killing 19 people. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL The Kurnool police, who are probing the bus fire tragedy that claimed 19 lives at Chinnatekur, have said that B. Shivashankar whose bike was... Read More

District Collector Snehil Kumar Singh has directed the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) and the Suchitwa Mission to carry out a detailed field-level study at the Ambayathode-based slaughterhouse waste treatment factory in Kozhikode district, where a clash recently broke out between residents and the police over alleged environmental concerns.  The Collector will also convene... Read More

A student receiving his degree from Magesh Ethirajan, Director-General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) at the convocation ceremony at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tiruchi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT With India’s transformation from a mere consumer to a major creator of technology products, the world is looking up to... Read More