The Vaduthala overbridge will be ready for commissioning in the third quarter of 2026, if everything works out as per schedule. The Roads and Bridges Development Corporation of Kerala (RBDCK), which was tasked with constructing the long-awaited bridge, floated tenders on Tuesday for the two-lane structure to be built on a design-and-build mode. Once the […]
Three city students have left for a Southern Ocean expedition, organised by the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa. Arya P. Kumar and Abel Varghese, research scholars at the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (Kufos), will analyse the presence of persistent organic pollutants and trace elements in the Southern Ocean, which will […]
The Uttarakhand government has designated one village in each of its 13 districts as an ‘Adarsh (ideal) Sanskrit village’ to preserve and promote the ancient Indian language which is also the State’s second language, State Education Minister Dhan Singh Rawat said on Tuesday. Terming Sanskrit as ‘devvani’ (language of the gods), Mr. Rawat said that […]
All pre-matric/post-matric scholarship benefits till 2023-24 have been provided to Scheduled Caste students, Minister for Finance K.N. Balagopal has said. He was replying to a submission by V. Sasi, MLA, in the Assembly on Sunday on timely distribution of e-grant for post-matric Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe students in the State. Mr. Sasi had sought arrangements […]
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has seized a consignment of 40 kgs of ganja in the express train at Arakkonam railway station in Ranipet on Tuesday.Police said that as part of security measures, a team of RPF personnel was conducting surprise checks in halted trains at the railway station. The team searched coaches of the […]
The new office bearers of the Rotary Club of VIT (RCOVIT) were sworn in at a ceremony held at the campus in Vellore. Oath-taking ceremony According to a press release, G. Viswanathan, founder and chancellor of VIT, inaugurated the event. The ceremony marked the beginning of a new term for the Rotary Club of VIT, […]
Kaveri 2.0, a web portal that was launched in 2023 to streamline property registrations in Karnataka, came under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack carried out through Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered bots recently. A denial-of-service (DoS) attack occurs when legitimate users are unable to access information systems, devices, or other network resources due to the […]
The third phase of Operation Soundarya, launched by the State Drugs Control department to check the dumping of spurious cosmetic products in the market, has seized cosmetics of substandard quality worth ₹1.5 lakh in raids conducted in over 101 outlets. A statement issued by Health Minister Veena George said that cases have been charged against […]
A patient with chondrosarcoma sternum, a rare and complex form of bone cancer, was recently treated in a city hospital. The patient underwent a 3D neo-sternum reconstruction using a custom-designed titanium implant. Chondrosarcoma sternum is a cartilage-forming tumour originating from the breastbone, and often untreatable. The slow growing cancer has the potential to spread […]
Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has congratulated renowned craniofacial and head and neck cancer surgeon Prof. Dr. SM Balaji on performing the first surgery at the newly inaugurated Cancer Specialty Hospital in Mauritius. After Mauritius Minister for Health & Wellness Anil Kumar Bachoo inaugurated the new state-of-art National Cancer Center in Mauritius, Dr. Balaji performed […]
