The Jammu and Kashmir Police has considered restoration of security cover for Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq days after his engagement with the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 and his outreach to migrant Kashmiri Pandits in New Delhi. Official sources said the recent two-week visit of the Hurriyat chairman and […]
The Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS) of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras held a meeting of school principals recently as part of ‘Training Young Minds’ project. At the conclave, held on January 30, the best practices to equip future generation with better road skills was discussed. The crash data from 2022 published by […]
Two Industrial Training Institute (ITI) students, who were undergoing apprenticeship at BHEL in Ranipet, were run over by a container lorry at Alamelumangapuram that comes under Vellore Corporation limits on Thursday. P. Jeeva, 20, of Mel Kavanur village near Katpadi; R. Hariharan, 20, of Pallikonda; and P. Suriya, 20, of Abdullapuram village near Vellore, were […]
An on-duty sub-inspector of the Madhya Pradesh Police was assaulted in Indore by four men who also tried to hold him hostage after he stopped their car for checking, police said on Thursday (February 6, 2025). Two of the accused, including a prison department employee, have been arrested. According to the police, the incident took place […]
R.S. Venkatraman, 102, who had announced to lakhs of Tamil listeners that the nation had attained Independence on All India Radio (AIR), passed away at his daughter’s home in Mandaveli here on Tuesday. Manorama Ganeshkumar, his daughter, said her father had announced it on the news on the South East Asian Broadcast at 5.45 a.m. […]
A special court in Bengaluru on Thursday convicted former Minister S.N. Krishnaiah Setty and three others and sentenced them to three years’ imprisonment in a bank fraud case of 2008. Santhosh Gajanan Bhat, judge of the Special Court of Sessions for criminal cases against former and present MLAs and MPs, passed the order after finding […]
BJP Tamil Nadu president K. Annamalai on Thursday urged the State government to form a committee to take steps for waiving off farm loans of small and marginal farmers. “The DMK made fake poll promises to the poor to capture power. However, after coming to power, it failed to fulfil its promises. In the last […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked nine persons, including an Income-Tax Deputy Commissioner and two Inspectors, apart from five chartered accountants (CAs), for allegedly attempting to sabotage the “Faceless Scheme of Assessment” of the department. Searches have been conducted at 18 places in various States. The accused have been identified in the First Information […]
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) rank officer working with the Hyderabad Police was placed under suspension by Director General of Police Jitender for his alleged involvement in the abduction of a realtor in Mokila in 2023. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), in the Hyderabad Cybercrime division, Chand Basha was accused of sharing the whereabouts […]
If the Tamil Nadu government continues to delay the conduct of caste survey, which is a prelude to caste census, then the time is not too far for their drama to get exposed automatically, said Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam president Vijay on Thursday. In a statement, Mr. Vijay said since Independence, caste census was not conducted […]
