India

On April 15, 1959, then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru came down to A. Thekkur, a village in Tirupattur, near Sivaganga to inaugurate a high school building. That the Prime Minister deemed it fit to grace the occasion, perhaps had to do with the man who ran the school — ‘Kalaithanthai’ Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar. In […]

The much awaited Bekal Beach Carnival will be held at the Bekal Beach Park from December 21 to 31. This year’s 11-day event, replacing the annual Bekal Beach Festival, is being organised jointly by Bekal Beach Park, Red Moon Beach Park, and the Bekal Tourism Development Corporation (BRDC). Tourism Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas will inaugurate […]

PROBA, short for Project for Onboard Anatomy, is a space programme under the European Space Agency or ESA. Under PROBA, there have been a series of satellite launches. Today’s was the third in that series, hence the name PROBA-3. PROBA-3 is a solar mission. It’s aim is to study the Sun’s corona at a level […]

It has been announced by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS that they have received enough petitions to meet the cap for H-1B visas. So, can more people apply or will they be rejected? A congressional cap of 65,000 H-1B visas for regular applicants and an additional 20,000 visas for US advanced degree […]

More than 10,300 people lost their lives due to drowning, snakebites and natural disasters in Odisha over the past three years, revenue and disaster management minister Suresh Pujari informed the assembly on Thursday. In a statement, Pujari said 10,302 lives were lost and property worth Rs 2,301.51 crore was damaged due to floods, lightnings, snakebites, […]

Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (KPCTA) Kannur regional committee has called off its indefinite boycott of the “flawed” K-REAP software and the shortcomings of the ongoing evaluation camp, following a discussion chaired by Kannur University Vice-Chancellor (V-C) K.K. Saju on Thursday (December 5). The discussion, which took place on the first day of the strike, […]

The Malabar Regional Cooperative Milk Producers Union (MRCMPU) under the Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (Milma) will open a modern milk powder production factory at Moorkkanadu in Malappuram on December 24. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the facility, which was completed at a cost of ₹131.03 crore. Addressing the media after releasing a comprehensive […]

On the outskirts of Khatoli Ahir village in Haryana’s Mahendragarh, an old banyan tree, spread with age, is covered with a thick layer of fine grey dust. Not far from the State boundary of Rajasthan, the tree that appears snow-clad, bears silent testimony to the ordeal of thousands of families across a dozen villages in […]

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh has urgently recalled the mission heads of Agartala and Kolkata high commissions to Dhaka, a move that would further deepen the ongoing tension between the interim-Yunus government and New Delhi.The acting deputy high commissioner of Bangladesh in Kolkata, Shikdar Md Ashrafur Rahman, and the assistant high commissioner in Tripura, Arifur Rahman, were […]

Vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Vice president and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for prioritizing farmers’ issues. “The issue of farmers has been put by PM Modi at the centric stage in every walk of life, whether affordable housing, solar houses, or technology for farmers. Therefore, […]

Rahul Gandhi meets environmental delegation, assures to raise ‘air pollution’ issue in Parliament NEW DELHI: Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, met with a delegation of citizens and environment experts to discuss the issue of air pollution in the countryHe also assured them of raising the issue of pollution […]

The Directorate of Education (DoE) on Thursday issued a circular announcing the resumption of physical classes in all government and private schools in Delhi. The decision comes after the Supreme Court permitted the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to shift to Stage Two restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). The circular states, […]