Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force to use satellite phones

March 18, 2024 09:20 pm | Updated 09:20 pm IST - TIRUPATI Members of the Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force (RSASTF) will soon be using satellite phones in the interior Seshachalam and Lankamalla forests to guard the precious redwood. A training programme was organised here on Monday for the police, …...Read More

Lok Sabha polls: Rumblings in JD(S)-BJP alliance over Kolar seat; HDK says party will contest from three places

March 18, 2024 09:19 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST - Bengaluru The rumblings in the Janata Dal (Secular) and BJP alliance over the Kolar seat and ignoring JD(S) leaders in BJP electoral campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, came to the fore on Monday as JD(S) leaders expressed …...Read More

River Board tells A.P., TS to get prior nod for operations and maintenance works on Nagarjunasagar hydel stations

March 18, 2024 09:18 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST - Hyderabad The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) has permitted the power generation corporations (Gencos) of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana which manage the hydro-electric generation stations at the Nagarjunsagar project to carry out the necessary operations and maintenance works by …...Read More

BSP purposely kept its distance from the ‘money power of big capitalists’, says Mayawati

March 18, 2024 09:18 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST - New Delhi In her first reaction to the electoral bonds scheme that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday pointed out how the revelations over the past week …...Read More

Study reports evidence of ‘missing’ spring in India

March 18, 2024 09:17 pm | Updated 09:18 pm IST - NEW DELHI Indian States have been gradually registering a withdrawal of spring — a period of relatively benign weather between the winter of January and the scorching summers of April, a 50-year analysis of meteorological records suggests. Researchers from …...Read More

CPI re-nominates K. Subbarayan in Tiruppur, fields V. Selvaraj in Nagapattinam

March 18, 2024 09:16 pm | Updated 09:17 pm IST - CHENNAI The Communist Party of India (CPI), a constituent of the DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu, on Monday re-nominated K. Subbarayan as its candidate for the Tiruppur constituency for the April 19 Lok Sabha polls. It also named V. …...Read More

Gisele Bündchen’s divorce from Tom Brady revealed she was ‘stronger than I thought’

Gisele Bündchen is still adjusting to her life post-divorce from Tom Brady. "My life is a little different," Bündchen told The Wall Street Journal. "I have my kids sometimes, sometimes I don’t have my kids. There’s a different ritual when I’m with them and when I’m not." The Victoria’s Secret …...Read More

Nashir Ahmed: Family pay tribute to man murdered in Edinburgh bus stop attack

The family of a man who died following an attack at an Edinburgh bus stop have said they are "devastated" over the senseless murder. Nashir Ahmed, 65, and his friend were approached and set upon by another man at around 8.30pm on Sunday 10 March. Mr Ahmed died at the …...Read More

36,162 new voters enrolled in Tirupati district

March 18, 2024 09:11 pm | Updated 09:34 pm IST - TIRUPATI About 36,162 new voters have been enrolled across the Tirupati district ahead of the ensuing general elections. Of the 17,94,733 voters in Tirupati district, 8,74,738 are males, 9,19,817 are females and 178 belong to the third gender; in …...Read More

Centre notifies rules allowing transfer of ‘captive’ elephants

March 18, 2024 09:10 pm | Updated 09:11 pm IST - NEW DELHI The Centre has notified a set of rules called the Captive Elephant (Transfer or Transport) Rules, 2024 that liberalise the conditions under which elephants may be transferred within or between states. The circumstances under which captive elephants …...Read More