The 130th Maramon convention, billed as Asia’s largest annual Christian religious congregation, will kick off to a start on the Pampa riverbed near Kozhencherry on Sunday. Theodosius Mar Thoma, Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, will inaugurate the event at a function to be presided over by Isaac Mar Philoxenos. Besides, the bishops […]
A junior warrant officer of the Indian Air Force, a native of Hosanagara in Shivamogga district, died after his parachute failed to open during a training session at the Paratrooper Training School in Agra of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. G.S. Manjunath, 36, was among the 12 officers participating in the training. He went missing, while […]
Disability rights activists have written to the National Medical Commission (NMC), the regulatory body that governs medical education and practice in India, asking for a Supreme Court order to facilitate measures that would support students with disabilities prior to the release of the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) 2025-26 brochure this year. Pointing to several […]
The sexually assaulted two minor sisters of Walayar could have died by suicide, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has said. The CBI noted that the “most probable manner of death could be suicide in nature” in the chargesheet that was filed in a Kochi CBI court recently. It concluded that “the possibility of […]
The State Budget 2025-26 stated that the Kerala State Housing Board (KSHB) expects an income of around ₹3,650 crore from the proposed Marine Eco City venture on Marine Drive in the heart of Kochi. However, concerns persist about the Housing Board’s future. “Expectations of income do not put bread on the table,” said P. S. […]
Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh 20-Point Program Implementation Committee Lanka Dinakar on Saturday hailed the BJP’s victory in the Delhi Assembly elections and described it as a decisive mandate for a “double engine government.” In a statement here, Mr. Dinakar congratulated the BJP leaders and workers on their success. After 28 years, the people of […]
The construction of a new bridge across the Cauvery between Nerur in Karur district and Unniyur in Tiruchi district is expected to be completed by June. About 85% of the construction work on the bridge had been completed so far, sources in the State Highways Department (Projects Wing) told The Hindu. “The decks have been […]
Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar on Saturday said the Delhi voters rejected the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its leader Arvind Kejriwal in the Assembly elections as they failed to develop the State in the last 10 years. Addressing the media here after declaration of the election results, […]
Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has invited the public to purchase compost for domestic use. The civic body has announced on X (earlier Twitter) that it collects approximately 250 metric tonnes of segregated wet waste daily, including fruit and vegetable peels from households and market waste. “The wet waste is composted by the aerobic window composting […]
The State government plans to open 1,000 Mudhalvar Marunthagam (Chief Minister’s Pharmacies) across the State by the end of this month, said J. Radhakrishnan, Additional Chief Secretary of the Department of Cooperation, Food, and Consumer Protection, here on Saturday. After visiting the soon-to-be-opened Chief Minister’s pharmacies in Kattur and Kallukuzhi in Tiruchi, Mr. Radhakrishnan said […]
