As many as 22 out of 43 crossing points along the Myanmar border under the revised Free Movement Regime (FMR) agreement have started functioning, said a senior government official on Thursday. At least 10 border gates, to regulate the movement of people living within 10 km of the India-Myanmar border, have started operations in Manipur, […]
Peveed at the alleged delay in completing the survey and laying of boundary stones for the Kundannoor-Angamaly NH 544 Bypass (Ernakulam Bypass), residents have approached the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nithin Gadkari. They said stone-laying had been only partly completed in four of the total 18 villages through which the proposed 44-km […]
District Collector N.S.K. Umesh has proposed that the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) ready a transport master plan for Ernakulam for 2035 with the cooperation of all stakeholders in order to decongest the city and its immediate suburbs. Inaugurating a stakeholders’ meeting organised by NATPAC here on Wednesday to address transportation issues and […]
If ever an installation was to epitomise the fury of a man cheated of his life’s savings, then the one in the parking lot 72 in Tower B of Chander Kunj Army Towers on Silversand Island, Vytilla, Kochi, would come close. On the floor, spread out like a floral carpet are concrete flakes of different […]
It’s January 31, a Friday. As the clock struck eight, Kondla Sambhu Reddi, 62, puts on his off-white dhoti and a wrinkled white shirt to go to the weekly shandy. He steps out of his wooden hut and checks the dried bamboo shoots hanging on a string in the verandah. The weakened current of the […]
In October 1990, riots broke out in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, Asia’s largest prison, after an inmate died of alleged medical negligence. Thousands of prisoners were trying to blast prison walls with LPG cylinders in a bid to escape. Members of the VIII Battalion of the Tamil Nadu Special Police (TSP), deployed for external security […]
The School Education Department has received 238 complaints of sexual abuse so far, and around 50 are still under scrutiny, said Minister for School Education Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi on Thursday. Speaking to mediapersons after inaugurating a meeting of education officers, he said the department had acted on all cases it had received so far. Of the […]
Hundreds of workers employed by City Municipal Corporation staged a protest demonstration outside their office in Kalaburagi on Thursday condemning the objectionable behaviour of an elected member of the civic body. Organised under the banner of Kalaburagi Corporation Officers and Employees Welfare Association, the agitating employees said that Riyaz Ahamad, an elected member of the […]
Eleven activists were detained by the police even as human rights and student groups were speaking to the press outside the Global Investors Meet in Bengaluru on Thursday. Representatives from organisations such as the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), All India Students Association (AISA), and Fridays For Future, Karnataka, were kept under preventive custody […]
A total of 73 Kerala Police officers have been chosen to become Cyber Commandos, part of a specialised training programme organised by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The officers were shortlisted through a national-level examination conducted by the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) from among 3,200 applicants. […]
