CAA will not take away citizenship, says Javadekar

March 31, 2024 08:15 pm | Updated 08:15 pm IST - Kozhikode Provisions of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act [CAA] will not take away the citizenship of anybody in the country, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Prakash Javadekar has said. He told the media here on Sunday that Muslims would …...Read More

Congress mandalam president injured in attack

March 31, 2024 08:13 pm | Updated 08:13 pm IST - ALAPPUZHA The Haripad police have registered a case against three persons, including a district office-bearer of Youth Congress, on the charge of attacking and injuring Congress Kumarapuram North mandalam president K. Sudheer. The alleged incident happened on March 29. …...Read More

Letter by advocates to the CJI is an attempt to misguide people, says lawyers’ union

March 31, 2024 08:11 pm | Updated 08:11 pm IST - New Delhi The recent letter by a group of lawyers, including senior Supreme Court advocates Harish Salve and Adish Agarwala, to the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, on safeguarding the judiciary, is a direct fallout of the exposure …...Read More

CSIR-IICT demonstrates tech to turn dry leaves into soil conditioner

March 31, 2024 08:09 pm | Updated 08:09 pm IST - HYDERABAD CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), which had indigenously developed high rate bio-methanation technology-based Anaerobic Gaslift Reactor (AGR) for the generation of biogas and bio-manure from organic waste, has now successfully demonstrated that it can be re-modelled to …...Read More

CADRRE to organise short film fete on autism

March 31, 2024 08:07 pm | Updated 08:07 pm IST - Thiruvananthapuram The Centre for Autism and other Disabilities Rehabilitation Research and Education (CADRRE), in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, will conduct the CADRRE International Filmlet Festival on Autism (CIFFA) 2024, a film festival showcasing short films on autism. Nine shortlisted …...Read More

World Autism Awareness Day event held in Tirupati

March 31, 2024 08:00 pm | Updated 08:01 pm IST - TIRUPATI Speakers at the ‘World Autism Awareness Day’ event in Tirupati on Sunday, called for mass awareness around the developmental disability and emphasised the need to care for children with autism. Organised by ‘Play to Learn’, a centre for …...Read More

Karnataka universities and other stakeholders oppose UGC’s decision to make NET scores criteria for PhD admissions across India

March 31, 2024 07:57 pm | Updated 07:57 pm IST - Bengaluru State universities and other stakeholders, including educationists and students, have opposed the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) latest decision to make the National Eligibility Test (NET) scores the criteria for admission to Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) across the country, …...Read More

Orphaned in the U.S., three-year-old T.N.-origin child to arrive in Chennai today

March 31, 2024 07:54 pm | Updated 07:54 pm IST - CHENNAI A three-year-old child, whose parents from Tamil Nadu were found dead in Mississippi in the U.S. in May 2022, is set to arrive in Chennai on April 1. The Indian aunt of the child has secured his custody …...Read More

Spot valuation of SSC exam answer scripts in Andhra Pradesh from April 1

March 31, 2024 07:50 pm | Updated 07:50 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA The spot valuation of the answer scripts of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Board examinations will be held in all 26 district headquarters in Andhra Pradesh from April 1 to 8. In a statement on March 31 (Sunday), …...Read More

Gang of three transporting 2.2 litre hashish oil worth ₹11 lakh from AP to Hyderabad nabbed

March 31, 2024 07:49 pm | Updated 07:49 pm IST - HYDERABAD Balanagar Special Operation Team on Sunday arrested a gang of three hashish oil smugglers transporting 2.2 litre of the contraband worth ₹11 lakh from Andhra to Hyderabad. Gollu Kumara Swamy, 21, Kodi Ajay Kumar, 24 and Lokavarapu Swami …...Read More