Tiruchi-based Tamil writer Kannaiyan Daksnamurthy wins Sahitya Akademi Translation Award

March 13, 2024 03:30 pm | Updated 04:08 pm IST Tiruchi-based retiree Kannaiyan Daksnamurthy, 62, is still living down the news of winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation this week, for Karungunram, his Tamil version of The Black Hill, a gripping story of tribal communities interwoven with the turbulent …...Read More

CAA linked to NRC, won't allow detention camps in West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee

March 13, 2024 03:24 pm | Updated 03:24 pm IST - Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on March 13 asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is linked with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and that is the reason why she is opposing the new …...Read More

SCBA resolution condemns its chief's letter to Prez Murmu on electoral bonds verdict

March 13, 2024 03:20 pm | Updated 03:20 pm IST - New Delhi The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has condemned the views expressed by its President Adish C Aggarwala in his letter to President Droupadi Murmu urging her to seek presidential reference of the apex court judgement in the …...Read More

Second Vande Bharat Express between Secunderabad - Visakhapatnam flagged off

March 13, 2024 03:20 pm | Updated 03:25 pm IST - HYDERABAD Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast Region, G. Kishan Reddy, pointed out that Railways has been given a lot of importance during the last two terms of the Modi government, by providing funds generously and …...Read More

CAA implementation ahead of Lok Sabha polls ‘dirty vote bank politics’ of BJP: Kejriwal

March 13, 2024 03:13 pm | Updated 03:13 pm IST - New Delhi Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on March 13 said the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls was a “dirty vote bank politics” of the BJP and asserted that people want …...Read More

CAA | Only parliamentary law by Congress-led INDIA bloc govt can annul the Act, says Kerala Opposition Leader

March 13, 2024 03:12 pm | Updated 03:34 pm IST - Thiruvananthapuram Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has said only parliamentary legislation by a Congress-led INDIA bloc government can annul the “patently anti-Muslim” and schismatic Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Inaugurating the Congress’s march to Raj Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram …...Read More

Conservationists to propose Kazhuveli watershed region in T.N. for nomination to World Monuments Fund Watchlist 2025

March 13, 2024 03:09 pm | Updated 03:09 pm IST - VILLUPURAM The Eri (tank) network in the Kazhuveli watershed region in Villupuram district that comprises of an incredible network of tanks created thousands of years ago is to be proposed for nomination to the World Monuments Fund Watchlist 2025. …...Read More

New e-buses added to TSRTC fleet

March 13, 2024 03:07 pm | Updated 03:12 pm IST - HYDERABAD Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu flagged off as many as 22 electric buses that will be a part of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation’s (TSRTC) increasing fleet of environment-friendly vehicles. The Deputy CM was flanked by …...Read More

January's growth doesn't change the broader problem for the UK's flatlining economy - even if recession fears fade

Was that it then? Only a few weeks after we learnt that the UK had slipped into a recession, today we learnt that we may already be out of it. It's still too early to be sure - after all, the formal definition of a recession hinges, for some reason …...Read More

UP has unlimited potential, some people turned it 'bimaru': Adityanath

March 13, 2024 02:51 pm | Updated 03:28 pm IST - Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed previous governments on March 13, saying they turned the State "bimaru (sick)" in spite of its unlimited potential. He also said there was a time when no one was ready to …...Read More