Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran has reiterated his willingness to relinquish his post, saying that the position is not a personal adornment. “The All India Congress Committee [AICC] can appoint anyone as KPCC president. I have no desire for the post,” he said in Kannur on Tuesday. Mr. Sudhakaran added that he […]
In the events preluding Republic Day, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh awarded the ‘Raksha Mantri Padak’, the highest honour to be bestowed on NCC cadets every year, to Under Officer V.P. Theja, during the investiture ceremony held at the Republic Day Camp in New Delhi recently. Ms. Theja, daughter of V.P. Baby and Smitha, is a […]
The Bommanahalli police have arrested a 45-year-old fortune-teller for allegedly robbing 115 grams of gold valuables from a homemaker on the pretext of performing puja for her well-being in March last year. The accused B.M. Venkataramana was caught moving suspiciously in the same area recently looking for a target when the beat police on suspicion […]
Minister for Commercial taxes and Registration P. Moorthy on Tuesday instructed officials to ensure that traders in their respective jurisdictions filed their GSTR returns within the deadline. In a meeting he chaired, Mr. Moorthy also instructed them to ensure that enterprises verified the input tax credit (ITC) and to ensure that vehicles with cargo were […]
The BJP Karnataka State core committee that met in the presence of party national general secretary and State in-charge Radha Mohan Das Agarwal is learnt to have emphasised the need to take everyone into confidence as part of efforts to resolve internal tussle that has taken centrestage in the party. Indicating this while briefing media persons […]
Key NDA ally Janata Dal (United) expressed reservations over the new University Grants Commission (UGC) draft regulations that give a bigger role to the chancellors, who in most cases are State Governors, in appointing Vice-Chancellors of State universities, arguing that it will impact the State’s own road map for higher education. Janata Dal (United) national spokesperson […]
A Delhi court on Monday (January 21, 2025) ordered the seizure of paintings of Hindu deities made by Padma awardee M.F. Husain, displayed in the Delhi Art Gallery. The paintings showed Hindu gods Hanuman and Ganesha holding nude female characters in hands and on the lap. The orders came on the complaint filed by Delhi […]
Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR-Crop Sciences) Deputy Director General T.R. Sharma said on Tuesday, January 21, that gene mapping of various plant species is crucial to tackling climate change in the future. Union Minister of State for Steel Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma and Mr. Sharma inaugurated the Genome Editing Laboratory at the Crop Improvement […]
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who passed away last month, was embroiled in a controversy in his early years as a politician. A former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, he was appointed as the Chairman of the University Grants Commission in 1991. However, within a few months, Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao inducted […]
Hotel Maris, which stands on Cathedral Road, turned 50 last week. I had helped in putting together a video commemorating this, and I must say it enabled me to secure some more stories to add to the extraordinary tapestry that is Chennai. In a brilliant talk that S .Muthiah delivered in 2003 at the Tag […]
