Coal review on Monday, BJP may soften its stand
With unrelenting BJP pressure on the government, an inter-ministerial group will meet on Monday to review the allocation of 58 coal blocks.
It is learnt that the recommendations of the IMG would bec
Law study needs a revamp: Moily
The Union minister for power and corporate affairs Veerappa Moily stressed on the dire need for reforms in legal education while giving the convocational address at the Nalsar University of Law on Sun
Isolated cases of rat fever reported in district
Despite the monsoon making a late surge by the end of August, there has been no major outbreak of epidemics in Ernakulam district while fever cases too had come down compared to June and July.
Howev
Cooking gas shortage looms over state
An LPG shortage looms large over Kerala following interruption in bulk LPG transport from the Mangalore refinery to the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) bottling plants in the state, in the wake of the Ch
All that you need to know to get your voter ID online
The website of Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer – http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in – makes the process of getting voter identity cards swift.
The website has primarily been set up to improve communic
Trees fall, roads flooded as rain, wind lash Chennai
Chennaiites can expect a few spells of rain on Monday.
As strong winds accompanied rain, a tree near KMC was uprooted, reducing traffic flow on Poonamallee high road.
Another tree fell across Nels
New swine flu strain discovered
Adding to the list of several lethal mutations of the swine flu virus, the Minnesota department of health (Mdh) in the United States recently zeroed in on a new strain variant, the H1N2V.
The new st
District hospitals short of nurses
A crisis seems to be looming large in the government health sector with the sudden shortage of staff nurses in government hospitals in the district.
Many of the temporary staff who were posted in th
Special courts can speed up trials
Except for the 2008 serial blast in the city, where a special court was set up to expedite the trial, no other terror-related cases in the city, including the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast case, were brou
Three parties keep distance from all fronts
Atleast three political parties — Bahujan Samaj Party, Biju Janata Dal and the AIADMK — which have together 44 members in the Lok Sabha, have been distancing themselves from the three Fronts — UPA, ND