Poet B.R. Lakshman Rao and his wife Girija with organisers and the audience at ‘An evening with B.R. Lakshman Rao’ hosted by Art Kanara Trust on Sunday, February 9, in Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Art Kanara Trust, Mangaluru, hosted ‘An Evening with B.R. Lakshman Rao – Conversation, Poetry, and Recitation’ at the Kodial … Read more
A court here awarded life imprisonment to three persons in a murder case on Monday. According to prosecution, N. Arulraj, 46, of Meenakshipuram near Marudhamputhur under Mukkoodal police station limits was working as the car driver for R. Ramaiah, 35, of the same area. When Arulraj failed to repay the loan he had taken from … Read more
AFib is an abnormal rhythm in the heart caused by irregular electrical impulses in the upper chambers of the heart. | Photo Credit: manassanant pamai Doctors in the State-run Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research are seeing a rise in the number of patients being treated for Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), an abnormal rhythm … Read more
Mayor M. Anbazhagan administering deworming tablet to a child in Tiruchi on Monday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Albandezole (deworming) tablets were distributed among children and adolescents in the age group of 1 to 19 and women (except pregnant and lactating women) in the age group of 20-30 in central districts on Monday on the … Read more
Earth-levelling work for the science park in Salem Corporation in Tamil Nadu on Monday, 10 February 2025. | Photo Credit: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN The Salem Corporation will construct a second science park at ward 9 at a cost of ₹3.22 crore. The first science park was constructed at Pallapatti under the Smart Cities Mission project on 13,000 … Read more
C. Balasatish, coordinator of INALI free prosthetic arm camp (centre), addressing the media in Visakhapatnam on Monday. | Photo Credit: V RAJU A free ‘Prosthetic Arm Camp’ is being conducted by Inali Foundation, in association with some other NGOs at Sindhi Panchayat Hall, Nowroji Road, opposite Green Park hotel, here on March 4 and 5. … Read more
The forest cover has increased approximately more than 95.59 sq. km. across 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh, said Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, in the Parliament on Monday. In response to a question by Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, the Union Minister informed that Vizianagaram and SPSR Nellore districts recorded … Read more
Dakshina Kannada MP Capt. Brijesh Chowta while speaking in the Lok Sabha on Monday, February 10, highlighted the lack of adequate infrastructure facilities at key religious and spiritual sites and temples of Dakshina Kannada and the resulting untapped pilgrim tourism potential of the region. Raising a supplementary question on the Swadesh Darshan scheme, he sought … Read more
B. Mahesh Kumar Goud | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud has accused the BRS of indirectly supporting the BJP in the ensuing Telangana Legislative Council Elections like it did in the last Lok Sabha elections. The BRS entered into a secret pact with the BJP to … Read more
AKPL CEO Jagdish Patel and his wife Chandni Patel handing over the keys of a tractor to a local farmer, in Nellore on Monday. In a bid to empower local farmers of its project affected and peripheral villages, Adani Krishnapatnam Port Limited (AKPL) chief executive officer (CEO), Jagdish Patel, distributed tractor, e-rickshaw and motorised pesticide … Read more
The Kerala High Court on Monday held that while granting bail to persons accused of trespassing into a private property, assaulting and damaging the property, a condition for depositing an amount towards damage caused to the property can be imposed. Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan made the ruling while granting bail with the new condition to three persons involved … Read more
A camp elephant of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), Ramu, died at the Varagaliyar camp on Monday. Aged 55, the male elephant had been undergoing treatment for general weakness, debility, and tooth infection for three months. ATR authorities said the elephant appeared dull for the past two days and it did not go for grazing … Read more
Villagers from Korampallam panchayat stage road roko agitation in front of the Collectorate in Thoothukudi on Monday. | Photo Credit: N. RAJESH Around 100 residents of Periyanayagapuram Church Street from Korampallam village and Ayyanadaippu village in Thoothukudi district staged a road blockade near Thoothukudi district collectorate on Monday demanding an action to prevent integration of … Read more
Collector R. Sukumar on Monday inaugurated the distribution of deworming tablets to students at Kallanai Corporation Higher Secondary School in Tirunelveli Town in the presence of MLA Nainar Nagenthiran. Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said the deworming tablets, ‘Albendazole’, being distributed to the students as part of National Deworming Day, would be given to … Read more
Starting a direct flight to the Middle-East from the city can open up new growth opportunities, says K. Vijay Mohan, president, Tours and Travels Association of Andhra. | Photo Credit: File photo The alleged lack of proactive initiatives of the State government, restrictions on slots, which is resulting in airline operators shying away from the … Read more
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had informed the Lok Sabha that there was one block section of about 19 km between Yadakumari and Shiribagilu stations on the Subrahmanya Road-Sakleshpur Ghat section of Mangaluru-Hassan line. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY Only 14-coach trains can cross at Shiribagilu Railway Station on the Subrahmanya Road-Sakleshpur Ghat section of Mangaluru-Hassan … Read more
A 66-year-old man died and a Tasmac supervisor sustained grievous injuries in an accident on Sunday. 108 ambulance workers handed over ₹5.62 lakh cash carried by the victim to his family. On Sunday night, Magudesan, 54, a supervisor at a Tasmac outlet at Kondalampatti and residing in Vembadithalam, was headed home after closing shop with Kulandaivel, … Read more
Mukkoodal police are on the lookout for three persons who attacked the house of anti-naxal police at Vadakku Ariyanayagipuram in the district on Sunday night. Police said the three unidentified persons, who trespassed into the compound around the house of anti-naxal wing head-constable R. Selva Kumaresan, damaged his car with machete and smashed the glass … Read more
Payment of monthly financial assistance of ₹600 for caregivers of bed-ridden patients and intellectually challenged people, among others, under the Aswasakiranam scheme of the Kerala Social Security Mission, continues to be either erratic or nil. Family members of the patients told The Hindu on Monday (February 10) that they had not been getting the amount … Read more
The Delhi High Court on Monday (February 10, 2025) asked the Tihar jail authorities and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to respond to a plea by separatist leader Nayeem Ahmad Khan against the withdrawal of call and “e-mulaqat” facilities from him in Tihar. Advocate Tara Narula, appearing for Mr. Khan, argued that telephone facilities were … Read more
Visakhapatnam Steel Executives Association (SEA) felicitated Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) PF Trust Chairman H.K. Jha and Secretary S. Ramprasad for their efforts in resolving the Employees Pension Scheme (EPS) 95 issue, on Monday. The SEA the executive body felt that the two executive cadres played a key role, especially in determining the eligibility of employees, … Read more
The Police department has reconstituted the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) to handle complaints of sexual harassment of women at workplace under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place (Prevention, Prohibition, Redressal) Act, 2013 (14 of 2013), with IPS officer Anita Roy as chairman, Rachna Singh, SP, as secretary, and Akalya, SI and Vidya Ramkumar … Read more
Final year students pursuing Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) staged a massive protest on the campus of NTR College of Veterinary Science, Gannavaram, demanding that the stipends for them be increased on par with medical students. Krishna Reddy, one of a group of students who began their relay hunger strike on the campus on February … Read more
Kumki Chinnathambi from Kozhikamuthi elephant camp of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve stationed at Varappalayam near Coimbatore on Monday. | Photo Credit: M. PERIASAMY The Forest Department on Monday brought kumki Chinnathambi from the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) to Varappalayam in Thadagam valley in Coimbatore district to drive out wild elephants that enter human habitations. Thadagam … Read more
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday orally expressed its dissatisfaction with the affidavits filed by the police officers including Kiran Narayanan, former Thiruvananthapuram city police commissioner and the Station House Officers of Vanchiyoor and Cantonment police stations in Thiruvananthapuam and Central Police station in Kochi in a contempt of court initiated against them and the political … Read more
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted to investigate 34 cases registered at various police stations across the State in connection with the alleged corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds scam and handed over to the State Crime Branch (CB). The SIT will be headed by M.J. Sojan, Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch CU-II, Ernakulam … Read more
A 30-year-old man allegedly murdered his father and attacked his mother in a property dispute on Sunday night. Ponnusamy (60), a resident of Manachanallur near Bommidi in Dharmapuri district, worked as a security guard at a stone-crushing facility at Veppilaipatti near Kadayampatti in Salem district, where he lived with his wife Gowrammal (50). On Sunday, their … Read more
Students of Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University staging a protest in front of the Tirupati district Collectorate on Monday. | Photo Credit: K.V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR The indefinite strike by students of Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU), Tirupati, has entered its eighth day, with the relay hunger strike continuing for the fourth day. As part of their … Read more
Collector R. Sukumar receives petitions from physically challenged persons at the weekly grievance redressal meeting in Tirunelveli on Monday . | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The underground drainage wastewater generated in the city should be treated in every zone of Tirunelveli Corporation to be used for industrial purposes by manufacturing units in SIPCOT Industrial Growth … Read more
Cover of Dr. M. Thomas Mathew’s autobiography | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The young doctor, who had just completed his M.D. from the Government College in Thiruvananthapuram, was all set to take up a job in a hospital in New Jersey. The US hospital had sent him the air ticket. When Dr. M. Thomas Mathew … Read more