Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has enlisted the support of an impersonal team to combat the mosquito menace along the Buckingham Canal. The civic agency is using drones to spray bacticide on the waters of the Buckingham Canal. Bacticide is a chemical agent that kill mosquitoes at the larval stage. Reportedly, one drone has been allocated … Read more
The participants at a discussion meeting on the recent Union Budget at GITAM School of Business in Visakhapatnam on Saturday (February 8, 2025) highlighted the Budget’s implications for private sector investment and inclusive growth. Visakhapatnam Port Authority chief accounts officer Saragadam Siva Kumar said the government took steps to correct duty inversions, protecting domestic manufacturers … Read more
Voters wait in queues to cast their votes for the Delhi Assembly elections, at Mustafabad constituency in New Delhi on Wednesday | Photo Credit: ANI In the 2025 Delhi Assembly Elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) retained its dominance in constituencies with a significant Muslim voter base but witnessed a substantial decline in its vote … Read more
File picture of Delhi L-G V.K. Saxena. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Delhi Secretariat, the seat of the city government, was sealed to ensure the safety of official files, documents and computers, with Assembly poll results showing a regime change on Saturday (February 8, 2025), officials said. On the instruction of Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena, … Read more
During a meetup of beneficiaries and donors In 2002, when P.S. Sreemathi retired as Head of Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery from the Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Madras Medical College, there were 700 cases of children waiting for heart surgery. Sophisticated cardiac devices and equipment were not so common in the … Read more
File photo of Swaraj India party co-founder Yogendra Yadav. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Aam Aadmi Party’s loss in the Delhi Assembly polls is a setback not just for the party but the entire opposition, and raises questions over its future now that it will only be limited to Punjab, Swaraj India party co-founder … Read more
Arvind Kejriwal. | Photo Credit: PTI The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday (February 8, 2025) conceded his party’s defeat in the high-stakes Delhi Assembly elections. The AAP is heading towards a big defeat in the 70-member Assembly with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading on 47 seats, leaving the AAP … Read more
Arvind Kejriwal conceded defeat to Parvesh Verma in the New Delhi Assembly constituency. File | Photo Credit: ANI Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal conceded defeat to BJP leader Parvesh Verma from the New Delhi Assembly constituency in the 2025 Delhi Assembly election on Saturday (February 8, 2025). He … Read more
Samsung workers boycott work demanding the reinstatement of suspended employees, at Sunguvarchatiram, near Kancheepuram | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj Employees of Samsung India have gone on strike again, pressing for various demands, including reinstating three workers who were suspended by the management recently. The employees have been staging a sit-in protest on the premises … Read more
File photo of Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. | Photo Credit: ANI Results of the Delhi Assembly election are not a vindication of Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s policies but a referendum on Arvind Kejriwal and AAP, the Congress said on Saturday (February 8, 2025) as it vowed to bounce back from another whitewash. The Congress also … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated BJP for wresting back New Delhi Assembly after more than two decades. | Photo Credit: ANI/DPR PMO Congratulating the BJP for wresting back New Delhi Assembly after more than two decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the party will ensure Delhi has a prime role to play in building Viksit … Read more
Venkaiah Naidu. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu VIZIANAGARAM: Former Vice-President of India Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday (February 8, 2025) said poor patients suffering from cancer could get a new lease of life if they are able to get treatment within their means against the backdrop of skyrocketing of medical expenses. He visited the … Read more
A visually challenged person explaining the features of a talking digital pocket daisy player, ebook reader. File photo | Photo Credit: C.V. Subrahmanyam With the board exams round the corner, a dearth of accessible ebooks, including textbooks, has left visually impaired students in the lurch. For a visually impaired person to be able to access … Read more
Congress leader and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi at the Kannur airport, before heading to her constituency Wayanad, on February 8, 2025. Photo: Special Arrangement Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who arrived at Kannur Airport on Saturday (February 8, 2025) morning, said about the Delhi Assembly elections that people wanted a change and they voted for … Read more
Ramgopal Varma went to Ongole Rural Police Station in Prakasam district in a case related to alleged derogatory remarks about Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan and their family members on social media platforms. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Noted film director Ramgopal Varma had gone to Ongole Rural Police … Read more
PM Modi with BJP candidate Ravinder Singh Negi during a public meeting ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, at Kartar Nagar in New Delhi, on January 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI With the BJP looking at a comfortable win in Delhi Assembly elections, the party’s Patparganj candidate Ravinder Singh Negi leads from the constituency … Read more
A deserted AAP office in Delhi as election results show BJP maintaining a comfortable lead on Februyar 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: Nikhil M. Babu With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) poised to lose the Delhi Assembly elections after winning there thrice consecutively, and the BJP set to comfortably win, some INDIA bloc leaders lamented … Read more
Congress general secretary and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at Kannur airport enroute to Wayanad on Saturday, February 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has said that small steps of progress are being made with regard to the development of the Government Medical College Hospital in Wayanad. Addressing booth-level … Read more
Social activist Anna Hazare. File | Photo Credit: PTI As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to form a government in Delhi, activist Anna Hazare on Saturday (February 8, 2025) said the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) “drowned” owing to the liquor policy and its focus on money, failing to understand its duty to … Read more
Revathi smiles coyly from the confines of a monochrome image plunked down on an ultra wide computer screen. The image serves as a mnemomic prop for recollecting a celluloid success of the 1980s, Bharathiraja-directed Manvasanai. While the movie camera was rolling, this image had been captured from the sidelines, still photographer Lakshmikanthan pressing the shutter. … Read more
AAP candidate Manish Sisodia outside the Maharani Bagh counting centre for Delhi Assembly polls, in New Delhi, Saturday, February 8, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Manish Sisodia on Saturday (February 8, 2025) conceded his defeat from the Jangpura constituency in the Delhi elections. Mr. Sisodia lost to Tarvinder Singh Marwah … Read more
During the pandemic, life was reduced to its barest and most essential minimum. Wardrobes could be pared down: the regular sweatshirt and nightie were haute couture. One could get by on fewer possessions with the most indispensable one being the face-hugging mask. The commute became redundant. One could be parked at home along with their fancy … Read more
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. File | Photo Credit: PTI As early trends showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading in 45 of Delhi’s 70 Assembly seats and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) big-wigs trailing in some seats, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Saturday (February 8, 2025) said leaders who were part … Read more
Congress leader and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi at the Kannur airport, before heading to her constituency Wayanad, on February 8, 2025. Photo: Special Arrangement Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who arrived at Kannur Airport on Saturday (February 8, 2025) morning, said that she has not checked the trends of the counting of votes in the … Read more
Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrives to cast her vote for the Delhi Assembly elections with Party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party candidate from New Delhi Sandeep Dikshit, on February 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Sandeep Dikshit, Congress leader and son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, conceded … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a public meeting in support of BJP candidate Mohan Singh Bisht from Mustafabad constituency. File | Photo Credit: PTI Mohan Singh Bisht, BJP candidate from Mustafabad is leading with 38,583 votes after counting of 10 rounds. As the counting is going on for the Delhi Assembly election, early trends … Read more
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) booked a case against Puppala Srinivas, Deputy Transport Commissioner of Warangal district, for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income through corrupt practices. The bureau seized movable and immovable properties worth ₹4.04 crore during the preliminary searches conducted at his residence and five other locations linked to him … Read more
Virendra Sachdeva. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The next Delhi Chief Minister will be from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but the Central leadership will decide on who it will be, the party’s Delhi president Virendra Sachdeva said on Saturday (February 8, 2025) as votes were counted for the Assembly elections held earlier this … Read more
Poll officials begin counting of votes at the Netaji Subhas University of Technology counting centre for Delhi Assembly polls, in New Delhi, Saturday, February 8, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI As the counting of votes for the Assembly polls began in Delhi on Saturday (February 8, 2025), candidates cutting across party lines visited shrines in … Read more
BJP candidate from Kalkaji Delhi Assembly seat, Ramesh Bidhuri | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Chief Minister Atishi is trailing from BJP rival Ramesh Bidhuri by 2800 votes from Kalkaji seat at the end of the fifth rounds of counting for the Delhi Assembly polls, the Election Commission website showed. Mr. Bidhuri said the AAP … Read more