PMK president Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday criticised the State government for taking oppressive measures against guest lecturers who are protesting for salaries as per the University Grants Commission’s recommendations. There are 7314 guest lecturers working in around 164 government arts and science colleges across Tamil Nadu. “Even though they are eligible in terms of […]
Personnel of the Hyderabad Disaster Response & Asset Protection Agency apprehended truck drivers dumping soil in Umdasagar lake at Jalpally on the night of February 3. Four tippers were seized along with an excavator which was being used for levelling the soil. The seized vehicles have been handed over to the Bandlaguda police station, and […]
A 48-year-old village assistant at Kozhavoor village near Polur town in Tiruvannamalai was arrested on Tuesday by sleuths of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) for demanding and taking a bribe of Rs 1,500 from a farmer to issue non-objection certificate (NOC) to enrol under Chief Minister’s Farmers Security Scheme for monthly allowance. DVAC sources […]
One of the question papers for the ongoing examinations at law colleges across Karnataka, affiliated with the Karnataka State Law University (KSLU), was found to have been leaked on social media. A member of the vigilance squad recently filed a complaint with the city cybercrime police, seeking a probe into the leak. In his complaint, […]
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislator Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra and J&K Peoples Conference chief Sajad Lone on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) accused the Business Rules Committee of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly of a “historic betrayal” and “ratification” of the decisions about J&K made by the Union government on August 5, 2019. The committee is chaired by the […]
When J. Rajesh Prabhu, 24, boarded an early morning train to his native Madurai on January 13, 2008, to celebrate Pongal, little did the young engineer know that it would be his last journey. For, death awaited him on the Nagercoil-Tirupati-Mumbai Express. Barely two hours after he boarded the train, some passengers saw him dead […]
The Union Culture Ministry has said that obtaining a signed undertaking from writers prior to award announcement that they would not return the honour for any reason, including political protests, would compromise the confidentiality of the selection process. It also expressed doubts before a Parliamentary Committee over the legal enforceability of such an undertaking. The […]
The city police have cracked the recent rape and murder case of domestic help in an apartment complex and arrested a water tanker driver who was supplying water to the same apartment for the crime. A 28-year-old woman, an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh was found sexually abused and bludgeoned to death on the Kalkere Lake […]
Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has sought a report from Kerala University on the violence that unfolded on the campus on Monday during an agitation conducted by the Students Federation of India (SFI). The protesters had barged into the office of Vice-Chancellor in-charge Mohanan Kunnummal and pasted posters, accusing him of being a functionary of the […]
Over 1.56 crore electors are set to seal the fate of the Delhi Assembly polls as all 70 Assembly constituencies will vote in a single phase on Wednesday from 7 a.m. onwards with a total of 13,766 polling stations set up at 2,696 polling locations. There are 699 candidates in the fray, with the Aam […]
