April 09, 2024 10:37 pm | Updated 10:40 pm IST - HYDERABAD Ugadi, the Telugu New Year, was observed with customary zeal throughout Telangana on Tuesday. Residences were adorned with mango leaf garlands, and the partaking of ‘Ugadi Pachadi’, a symbolic chutney, marked the auspicious occasion. Former vice-president M. Venkaiah …...Read More
Telangana rings in Ugadi with traditional zeal, embraces ‘Krodhi Nama’ spirit
Old Madras, a veritable Tower of Babel, and her Yellabanasar Street
April 09, 2024 10:36 pm | Updated 10:36 pm IST What do you do with a name like that? And sure enough, it did exist in this city of ours. The past few weeks have seen me poring over the history of mints in Madras and if you recollect, the …...Read More
Kerala medical student wins gold medal
April 09, 2024 10:18 pm | Updated 10:18 pm IST Renjini Radhakrishnan, a DM Nephrology student of Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, has won the Dr. H.L. Trivedi gold medal for coming first in the DNB Nephrology exam conducted at the national-level by the National Board of Examination. Dr. Renjini Radhakrishnan, …...Read More
Offices of poll observers begin functioning
April 09, 2024 10:13 pm | Updated 10:13 pm IST - Thiruvananthapuram Offices of the general observers appointed by the Election Commission of India for the Lok Sabha elections and the police observers in charge of law and order have started functioning. Rajeev Ranjan is the general observer for the …...Read More
Five members of benefit fraud gang who falsely claimed £50m in Universal Credit convicted
Five members of a benefit fraud gang who falsely claimed £50m in Universal Credit have been brought down in the largest prosecution of its type in English legal history. The gang made thousands of false claims for Universal Credit using either real people or hijacked identities and backed them up …...Read More
In an unusual twist, RJD MLAs campaign in support of the Independent candidate in Bihar’s Nawada
April 09, 2024 09:55 pm | Updated 10:20 pm IST - Patna Campaigning in Bihar’s Nawada Lok Sabha seat has created an unusual situation after two sitting RJD MLAs extended their support to Independent candidate Vinod Yadav instead of the party’s own candidate, Shravan Kushwaha. The RJD has taken a …...Read More
Professor Peter Higgs: 'Pioneering' physicist who gave name to Higgs boson particle has died
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs, the man behind the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, has died aged 94. The "truly gifted" scientist predicted the existence of the new subatomic particle as far back as 1964. His theory would not be confirmed until 2012, when experiments at the Large …...Read More
UK position on Israel arms sales remains 'unchanged', says Lord Cameron
The UK's position on arms sales to Israel remains "unchanged", Lord Cameron has said. The foreign secretary made the comment after being asked about the latest advice his government has received on whether the country has been breaching international law in Gaza. Number 10 has been facing growing pressure to …...Read More
Telangana student missing in Cleveland, USA dead
April 09, 2024 09:39 pm | Updated 09:39 pm IST - Hyderabad Mohammed Abdul Arfath, the 25-year-old student from Telangana who went missing in Cleveland, USA, has died, according to the Indian mission in New York. Mr. Arfath, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Nacharam, was reported as missing on …...Read More
Lok Sabha polls | Modi’s Chennai roadshow - yet another reflection of the BJP’s ‘southern push’
April 09, 2024 09:29 pm | Updated 09:56 pm IST - CHENNAI Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Tamil Nadu on April 9 and April 10 to drum up support for his party in the Lok Sabha election has only reinforced the perception that the BJP is devoting greater …...Read More
