Recently, replying to a question from Left MP V Sivadasan in Rajya Sabha, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the National Education Policy (NEP), started in 2020, unequivocally endorses and envisions a “substantial increase” in public investment in education by both the Union and State Governments so that the expenditure in education reaches 6% of […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a set of guidelines on Sunday recommending use of lower-sodium salt substitutes. While the international body had already strongly recommended reducing sodium intake to less than 2 g/day, it has proposed a set of guidelines to replace regular table salt with lower-sodium salt substitutes that contain potassium. This recommendation is for […]
The Samagra Shiksha Kerala (SSK) plans to implement projects to the tune of ₹890 crore in the public education sector in the 2025-26 academic year. A governing council meeting of the School Education Development Society of Kerala (SEDSK) gave its nod for the SSK and STARS (Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States) activities amid the […]
Amaravati Chief Minister and TDP President N. Chandrababu Naidu announced that all the nominated posts in the State would be filled by June. During a teleconference held with party MLAs, MPs, Ministers, and constituency in-charges, he emphasised the need for active participation in government programmes and party affairs. The teleconference, held on Tuesday, focused on […]
Exasperated by the increasing number of wild animal attacks, plantation workers across the State staged massive protests and sit-in in front of District Forest Offices on Tuesday. “If the Forest department and plantation owners fail to protect plantation workers from wildlife attacks, large-scale protests will erupt across Kerala,” said Kerala Plantation Labour Federation State president […]
A campaign was launched at the gram panchayat level to make Mysuru a “tuberculosis-free district” and the Department of Health and Family Welfare will take up awareness drives in villages across the district to educate the masses on the disease and its prevention. Inaugurating the drive here on Tuesday, ZP CEO K.M. Gayathri said everyone […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the early hours of Wednesday (January 29, 2025) will oversee the historic 100th launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota with the GSLV-F15 mission. The first launch, on August 10, 1979, was the experimental flight of Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV-3 E10) carrying the Rohini Technology […]
Stillness of a bleak hope was shattered as search teams retrieved the body of 21-year-old S. Ajay on Tuesday evening. This comes about 48 hours after he was reported missing following a fire during the celebration of ‘Bharata Mata Maha Harati’ event on Hussainsagar on Sunday night. Hours before the discovery, the regular visitors and […]
Young talents at the School of Engineering at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) have made a mark at an all-India engineering design competition. The 52-member ‘Yeti Racing’ team has won the overall title in the combustion category of the Formula Bharat 2025 competition in which students from colleges and universities across the […]
Edamalakkudy, the first tribal panchayat in the State, will be totally waste-free soon. The Haritha Keralam Mission will implement a project under the Malinya Muktham Navakeralam campaign to realise the objective. District coordinator of the mission Ajay P. Krishna says as the panchayat is in deep forest, it needs to be free of non-biodegradable waste. […]
