The multi-billion dollar deal for six advanced conventional submarines under project-75I has crossed a major milestone with the bid by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), Mumbai, and Germany’s TKMS (Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems) having cleared the technical evaluation conducted by the Defence Ministry. The bid by Larsen & Toubro in partnership with Navantia of Spain has […]
Space start-up GalaxEye on Thursday announced the successful deployment of its GLX-SQ payload aboard ISRO’s PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM) platform which was launched on December 30, 2024. Ground-breaking leap The start-up said that this milestone marks a groundbreaking leap in space technology, as it features the world’s first-ever fusion of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) […]
The India-Africa Trade Council hosted the India-Sierra Leone trade meet in Kochi on Wednesday (January 22) bringing together stakeholders from the south Indian business community. Besides Asif Iqbal, president of the Indian Economic Trade Organisation, and Rashid Sesay, High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to India, and a diplomatic delegation, including the Information Attaché from the […]
Telangana Housing Board will auction ‘stray pieces’ of land in Kukatpally Housing Board (KPHB) Colony on Friday. The board’s Vice-Chairman and Housing Commissioner V.P. Gautham said that only those plots which are located between houses, which cannot be put to use for Housing Board’s house construction schemes, are put up for auction. The official urged […]
CPI(M) district secretary E.N. Suresh Babu was reelected for the second term at the party district conference that concluded at Chittur near here on Thursday. Mr. Babu, 54, rose to the position after functioning in the student and youth wings of the CPI(M). He was SFI Chittur area president and DYFI block secretary. He was […]
PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss on Thursday condemned the State government’s proposal to allow private operators to ply mini buses in zones such as Sholinganallur, Alandur, Ambattur, among others. In a statement citing the media reports, he said that allowing private operators was not acceptable. The move has to be seen as a step towards privatisation […]
The Madras High Court on Thursday called for status reports from governments of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on the steps taken by them to implement a slew of 15 directions issued by the Supreme Court in 2018 for effective implementation of the laws related to protection of child rights. A Division Bench of Justices S.M. […]
Critic and orator Sunil P. Ilayidom stressed that plurality is the very foundation of Indian life. He was delivering the Sukumar Azhikode Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the 13th death anniversary of writer and orator Sukumar Azhikode, organised by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi on the theme ‘India: Roots of Plurality.’ In recent times, the […]
MLA for Srirangapatna Ramesh Bandisidde Gowda on Thursday said a large number of devotees are expected to attend the Maga Masa Hunnime programme at Sri Nimishamba Temple at Ganjam in Srirangapatna taluk on February 11 and 12. As many as one lakh devotees are expected to attend the festivities, and the district administration has been […]
The campaign to save Nilgiris Tahr vehicle was flagged off by Theni Collector R.V. Shajeevana here on Thursday. Speaking at the Government High School in Allinagaram, she said the Chief Minister launched the Save Nilgiris Tahr project in October 2023. It was important to save the animal and the role of the public was crucial […]
