Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti (MRPS) founder Manda Krishna has accused the Congress government in Telangana of manipulating the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes (SCs) to favour the Mala community at the expense of Madigas. He demanded that Madigas receive 11% reservation in proportion to their population among SCs. At a press conference on Wednesday, he alleged […]
Work to widen the East Coast Road (ECR) running from Villupuram to Nagapattinam is expected to be completed by October 2025. The four-lane-wide road — NH 32 (NH – 45A) — with a median and service lanes, and taken up as part of the Bharatmala Pariyojana Scheme, is mostly complete up to Sattanathapuram with both […]
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is set to serve show-cause notices to the owners and developer of the under-construction structure at L.B. Nagar after three labourers were killed in the cellar collapse on Wednesday. The notice is being issued as a preliminary step towards cancellation of the building permission and licence of the builder, […]
Union Minister for Communications and Development of Northeastern Region, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Wednesday called out to the community of entrepreneurs from Chennai to reignite the trade between the Brahmaputra and the Coromandel Coast. He was speaking at the Northeast Trade and Investment Roadshow held at Hotel Hilton here. Addressing the city’s business community, he […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Centre for Outreach and Digital Education has partnered with the CII Institute of Logistics to offer joint certification programme in supply chain management (SCM). It will offer advanced skills and global insights, featuring informative video lectures from the institute’s faculty, preparing participants to excel in a competitive industry. The […]
Regine Andersen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), Norway on Wednesday called for striking a balance between farmer-managed seed systems (FMSS) and the formal seed system, so that full potential could be achieved to ensure food security. Speaking at the MSSRF Millennial Lecture on FMSS and farmers’ rights Promoting seed and food security among smallholder farmers at […]
Hours after announcing that he would offer prayers at the Subramania Swamy temple and the Sikkandar Dargah in Tirupparakundram, as a counter to protests by the Hindu Munnani, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K. Selvaperunthagai was reportedly subjected to a ‘caste slur’ from a senior Congress leader from the south. The incident allegedly occurred […]
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, social reformer and founder of the Dravidar Kazhagam, remains the central point of political discourse in Tamil Nadu decades after his passing in 1973. It has become difficult to eliminate Periyar from the ideological spectrum — so much so that even one of Tamil cinema’s biggest stars, C. Joseph Vijay, declared him […]
Omega Hospital, Guntur, marked World Cancer Day on Tuesday (February 4) with a series of initiatives aimed at spreading awareness on cancer, early detection and patient support. According to a press release, hospital director and chief surgical oncologist M.G. Nagakishore said they treated over one lakh patients since the inception of the hospital in 2017. […]
The Police department and the Kerala Congress (M) came in for huge criticism at the delegates’ meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] Idukki district conference on Wednesday. According to sources, on the second day of the meeting, the delegates raised criticism against the Home department. The statements made by former Power Minister […]
