Blood donations dip this monsoon
Chennai has always been the leader in voluntary blood donation. However, there is a trend that is noticeable in donor patterns, say officials of key blood banks in the city.
“Every monsoon, we see a
CM’s employment plan hits interview roadblock
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s ambitious plans to provide 1.16 lakh government jobs for the unemployed took a hit as the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commis-sion (APPSC) has failed to release
Gold buyers go online shopping
Convinced about the convenience and security of online deals, net-savvy Indians are now shopping for gold and diamond jewellery online. With this, most online jewellery portals are pegging to double
Forest officials seek help in raids, but cops too busy
The police and the forest department are at loggerheads over conducting joint raids to curb illegal sale of protected birds and activities of poachers in the city.
The forest department has claimed t
Board set up to give boost to infrastructure
In an attempt to give a fillip to infrastructure facilities in the state and expedite the infrastructure projects, the state government has constituted the Tamil Nadu Infrastructure Development Boar
Winter sets in, city 6.5°C below normal
Winter has started to set in with the minimum temperatures plunging at many places in the state, said the director of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Hyderabad.
Adilabad has recorded the
Air tickets rise 70% in festive season
With a paucity of a minimum of 200 seats in every sector due to non-operation of Kingfisher Airlines, cost of air ticket have skyrocketed by about 70 per cent this festive season.
Industry experts s
State requested to help free NRIs in Dubai
Narrating her plight, S. Padma, wife of Hanumanthu, said, “My husband is in jail for the past seven years. With the constant efforts of the Migrants Rights Council, the wife of the Nepali guard has ag
Rushdie, Le Carré bury the hatchet
The decades-long feud between British spy writer John le Carré and author Salman Rushdie has finally come to end just a year after Nobel laureate V.S.Naipaul ended a bitter feud with his former friend
YSRC moves in for the kill in GHMC
The YSR Congress has intensified its poaching of Congress and Telugu Desam corporators in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation after the MIM severed its ties with the Congress on Monday.
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