The DCGI head said that a digital monitoring system on the ONDLS portal needs to be established for monitoring the supply chain as well as the quality of the high-risk solvents, including the Propylene Glycol. Representational image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Drugs Controller General (India) has directed digital monitoring on the Online National... Read More

Ethanol producers have raised concerns on the recent ethanol tender order for the 2025-2026 ethanol supply year that reportedly favours new entrants in deficit zones. The published allocations indicate that at least 350 distilleries are deprived of adequate procurement orders from Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs). Many of these units were set up with an understanding... Read More

  The Karaikal District Sessions Court on Thursday convicted and sentenced a 42-year-old woman Sahayarani Victoria to undergo life imprisonment for poisoning to death her daughter’s classmate in school, who performed better than her academically. In September 2022, she had mixed rat poison in a cool drink, which the boy consumed. While pronouncing the order,... Read More

The Amruthahalli police on Thursday arrested a 26-year-old private firm employee for allegedly cheating his female friend on the pretext of marriage. Based on the complaint filed by the victim, working as a sales executive, the HSR layout police have registered an FIR against Mohammed Isaq charging him under criminal intimidation, intentional insult to provoke... Read More

Launching a counter-attack on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who had described him as “amavasye surya” (dark sun), BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday alleged that the Siddaramaiah dispensation itself was “an eclipse that had masked the State”. “The State will be freed from the Siddaramaiah-Congress eclipse after two-and-a-half years while the BJP would continue to shine... Read More

Pedestrians covering themselves with an umbrella as Vijayawada receives moderate showers on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI A fresh low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is expected to bring more rain until October 29 in Andhra Pradesh, and a yellow alert has been given for a few coastal and Rayalaseema districts. According to... Read More

The State government will form a network of self-help groups of the differently abled and their families for their comprehensive empowerment and rehabilitation. The network named Sushakti will be modelled after the Kudumbashree that increased the presence and visibility of women in Kerala society and provided them with a means of livelihood, Minister for Social... Read More

M.A. English Literature students of Government Arts and Science College (autonomous), Coimbatore, display the books they have authored, on Thursday. | Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M. It was a red-letter day on Thursday for the Government Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, when 17 final-year M.A. English Literature students turned authors with all their published books... Read More

In this episode, let’s look at the Tamil Nadu Government’s Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam — an initiative that’s reshaping the economic and emotional lives of women. How is this ₹1,000-a-month basic income changing lives, empowering women, and boosting the local economy? Source link

The Tamil Tourism Development Corporation has renamed the SRM property as Hotel Tamil Nadu in Tiruchi. | Photo Credit: M. MOORTHY With the State government taking over SRM Hotel in Tiruchi, it has become one of the most luxurious and highly valued hotels of the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC). The prime property, situated... Read More