HC seeks report on steps taken to preserve folk arts
The Madras High Court Bench took serious note of an article published in The Hindu Tamil on the pitiable plight of folk artists in the State.
The Madras High Court Bench took serious note of an article published in The Hindu Tamil on the pitiable plight of folk artists in the State.
The State’s largest district with 122 local bodies including 12 municipalities remains an Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) bastion, with the party currently in power in over 90 per cent of civic...
A traditional citadel of the Congress and by its extension the United Democratic Front (UDF), Ernakulam belies predictions when it comes to the local bodies. This was glaringly evident in...
Incidentally, the development came just ahead of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court was to hear a contempt plea in the case.
Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Friday urged her party cadre to work towards achieving a "massive victory" in the Assembly elections.
A group of tribal people found the calf stranded in the forest areas of Karulayi in Malappuram district on October 11.
Panic and chaos prevailed at Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Research Centre here on Friday evening when fire broke out in the third floor of the Hospital’s new building.While evacuating ove...
Opposition on Friday accused the PDP-BJP government of taking credit for projects started by their predecessors after Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed laid the foundation stone of a multi-level...
Efforts are being made to approve proposal for diversion of 26.244 ha of revenue forestland located inside Vedanta Aluminium Limited’s aluminium refinery complex in Odisha’s Kalahandi district in f...
Naxals allegedly killed a tribal youth at a village in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Friday for being a ‘police informer’, police said.The victim identified as Amrit Darro, a resident of...
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s birthday celebration was marred when 11 youths were injured when some gas balloons burst on them near his house here on Friday.The injured include nine...
Two labourers were injured on Friday in a pressure bomb explosion suspected to have been planted by naxals near an under construction road in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district, police...
Chilika Lake, the largest brackish water lagoon of Asia, where alien fish species had arrived in large number following cyclonic storm Phailin, that hit the State’s coast two years ago, are found t...
Pressing for urgent resolution of Kashmir issue, Huriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday invoked"former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee while asking the Narendra Modi government...
“Disregard may invite disciplinary action”
Vowing to turn the corner on developmental front in Jammu, J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Friday said the projects, which had been on “sleep mode”, are now being taken up for execution...
Various Sikh leaders on Friday hailed the decision of Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikh religion, which annulled its edict of pardoning Dera Sacha Sauda Sect Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Sin...
In a statement, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said over 18 lakh employees would be benefited by the hike.
Pinarayi addresses LDF conventions
With its latest direction, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has erased its current stand-off with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity (MOC) – which has stopped adoption servic...
Delhi University’s outgoing Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh on Friday said that the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) that was introduced during his term and had to be rolled back...
A decision on the appointment of the Capital’s Lokayukta – a post that has been lying vacant for close to two years – is likely to be made early next week at the initiative of Chief Mi...
Union Minister inaugurates South Avenue police station
The Delhi Police website is soon going to have a webpage featuring stories of valour and courage exhibited by its own men who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty over the years.The de...
With Navratri festival beginning, neighbourhood kebab joints that usually have a stream of cars line up outside wear a deserted look, even as vegetarian restaurants have people waiting...