One lakh MSMEs launched for second successive year under entrepreneurship year initiative, says Industries Minister

March 13, 2024 06:14 pm | Updated 07:23 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM More than one lakh micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) were launched for the second successive year in Kerala under the Industries department’s entrepreneurship year initiative, Industries Minister P. Rajeeve has said. Addressing a press conference here on …...Read More

Chirag Paswan: Seat sharing with BJP finalised for LS polls in Bihar

March 13, 2024 06:12 pm | Updated 06:47 pm IST - New Delhi LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on March 13 said his party has finalised a seat-sharing formula with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls. Mr. Paswan announced this after a meeting with BJP chief J.P. Nadda …...Read More

BJP government colluding with corporate sector and neglecting real issues, alleges CPI(M) leader

March 13, 2024 06:08 pm | Updated 06:08 pm IST - SRIKAKULAM Former State Secretary of the CPI(M) P. Madhu on Wednesday alleged that the BJP government at the Centre colluded with the corporate sector and ignoring the real issues of people in the last 10 years. Along with the …...Read More

Craig Jackson and Connor McDougall jailed for cutting off man's fingers in Wishaw assault

Two attackers who cut off a man's fingers in a "sadistic" assault have each been jailed for seven years. Warning: Readers may find some of this content distressing. Craig Jackson, 29, and Connor McDougall, 30, dragged Gerald Tobin into a bedroom, held his hand on the floor and used a …...Read More

Multimedia laser light & sound show on Hyderabad’s Hussainsagar Lake launched

March 13, 2024 06:02 pm | Updated 06:07 pm IST - HYDERABAD A ₹50 crore new multimedia laser light and sound show with water screen and musical fountains on the Hussainsagar Lake, detailing the story of the Kohinoor diamond mined in Golconda and its saga over generations, was launched by …...Read More

Andhra Pradesh High Court directs ECI to take action on involvement of volunteers in poll process

March 13, 2024 05:55 pm | Updated 05:55 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA A division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court led by Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice R. Raghunandan Rao on March 13 (Wednesday) disposed of a writ petition filed by Citizens for Democracy (CfD) secretary N. …...Read More

People from disadvantaged sections biggest beneficiaries of govt schemes: Modi

March 13, 2024 05:55 pm | Updated 05:55 pm IST - New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on March 13 that people from disadvantaged sections like SCs, STs and OBCs are the biggest beneficiaries of his government's welfare schemes as he accused the previous Congress dispensations of neglecting them …...Read More

IIT-Hyderabad to support Telangana Commercial Taxes officials in the investigation into GST returns scam

March 13, 2024 05:51 pm | Updated 05:52 pm IST - HYDERABAD The Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad has said that it will extend all possible support to the Telangana Commercial Taxes officials in the investigation into the recent GST returns scam unearthed by the department and continue to provide …...Read More

Kerala Cabinet approves AVGC-XR policy

March 13, 2024 05:50 pm | Updated 05:50 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the State’s Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) policy. The policy aims at driving the inception and expansion of 250 such companies and creation of 50,000 new jobs in …...Read More

British troops 'knowingly exposed' to toxic chemical during Iraq war tell of cancer battles and daily nosebleeds

Iraq war veteran Andy Tosh points to his nose where he was treated for skin cancer and shows the red marks on his hand. His health has been permanently damaged - not by the baking heat of the Iraqi desert, he says, but by a toxic chemical at the industrial …...Read More