New way to celebrate Teacher’s Day
A Chennai-based educational services organisation has distributed wrist-bands to about one million students across 5,000 schools on which the students will write individual messages before tying the b
Onam cuisine has different shades
The most important part of Onam is the Sadya on Thiruonam day, which is relished by people cutting across communities and castes in the state.
And Kerala’s Onasadya is as diverse as the regions in t
NGO for auction of mining leases
With the Supreme Court constituted Central Empowered Committee (CEC) expected to submit its report by Friday recommending terms for re-opening of “A” category mines, owners of which are guilty of onl
Under-19 World Cup heroes return home
U-19 skipper dedicates win to mentor Sundar
While the world was coming to terms to India’s rising star Unmukt Chand’s brilliant show in the final of the Under-19 World Cup, the man credited with in
HC sets conditions for Rs 50,200 fee
The AP High Court on Tuesday ordered that only those engineering colleges that have been paying salaries as per the 1996 payscales or the VIII Pay Revision Commission’s recommendations to their facult
Garbage mess stinks of dirty politics
Turf wars between ministers and MLAs in the BJP government and between BBMP and four politically-connected contractors who are said to control the garbage contract system are behind the city’s garbage
Many young teachers clear eligibility test
With less than 1 per cent of teachers in the state qualifying for the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) it has come to light that mostly teachers in the age group of 25 to 30 years had cleared the test
Ex-judge’s bail plea rejected
Justice Samudrala Govindarajulu of AP High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail application of former judge D. Prabhakar Rao, accused in the cash-for-bail scam of mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy. Th
Wary MLAs rush to woo voters
Politicians of the three major parties in Karnataka are abandoning the cosy comfort of the state capital and making a beeline for their constituencies with the assembly polls hardly nine months away.
Rich & famous turn property tax defaulters
Chennai corporation’s property tax defaulters list reads like the who’s who of the metropolis.
There are not just multi-millionaires, corporate hospitals and five-star hotels, even prestigious clubs