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The last time this happened was way back in June 2019, when Kerala schools opened for a new academic year, but amidst Covid blues, the first day of a new academic year in 2020 and 2021 was held online, but on Wednesday it was a return to the past, when close to five million school […]
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New Delhi: The much awaited Southwest Monsoon reached Kerala on Sunday, three days ahead of its normal date of onset of June 1, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. For the agrarian economy, the news of onset of SW monsoon – termed as the real finance minister of India – over Kerala is the most awaited […]
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Kochi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday, while recalling the attacks against Christians in the country, said that last year 486 anti-christian attacks happened in India. He said this while mentioning the alleged hate speech of former MLA PC George and the BJP’s support for him. Last year, 486 anti-Christian attacks took place in […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: A considerable number of the loss-making state-run KSRTC buses in Kerala will not be scrapped as decided earlier, but turned into classrooms, State Transport Minister Antony Raju said here on Tuesday. Several of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) buses, lying idle after the pandemic struck, are not in a condition to be put […]
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New Delhi: The Southwest Monsoon advanced into some parts of South Bay of Bengal, most parts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Andaman Sea on Monday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced. This comes a day later than the earlier announcement last week of the Southwest Monsoon reaching the South Andaman Sea on May […]
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Chennai: The Tamil Nadu health department has increased its vigil on all check posts bordering Kerala after it reported spread of tomato fever or flu among children. Health, police, and revenue officials are deployed at Walayar check-post from Palakkad district, Kalliyakavali from Thiruvananthapuram and at Theni check posts to scan children below the age of […]
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Hyderabad: Industry body FTCCI said the one-time settlement scheme (OTS) announced by the Telangana government will help release manpower engaged in legacy issues and allow more time for GST related issues. It also allows closure to litigations and at the same time effect early recoveries of tax dues. The State government on Monday announced ‘one-time […]
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Khammam: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was fueling sectarianism in the country and intolerance has become widespread, complained CPI( M) State secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram. In the wake of rise of sectarian forces Congress leadership lost political vigour and had failed to mobilise secular forces to defeat the BJP to save the democracy of the country. In […]
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New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 1,088 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,38,016, while the active cases dipped to 10,870, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,736 with 26 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: In a shocking incident, a 30-year-old man hacked to death his parents at Thrissur in Kerala on Sunday morning. Police sources told IANS that the incident occurred at 9 a.m. Kuttan (60) and Chandrika (55) were cleaning their courtyard when their son, Aneesh, hacked them with a sickle. Police said that Kuttan was attacked […]
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Hyderabad: Riding on P Priyanka’s 33-point show, Telangana women’s basketball team held their nerves to defeat Kerala 81-78 in a thrilling semifinal contest to make it to their first ever final at the 71st Senior National Basketball Championship in Chennai on Saturday. In a contest that went down the wire, TS hoopsters came out with […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana’s G Maheshwari won a bronze in the 3000M Steeplechase with the timing 10.47.30 sec in the 25th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championship at the Ch Muhammed Koya Stadium, University of Calicut, Kerala on Monday. Komal Chandra of Maharashtra won the event with a timing of 9.47.86 sec while Richa Bhadauriy of Uttar […]
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Hyderabad: The NTPC has announced the commencement of commercial operations of the third phase with capacity of 42.5 MW of the 100 MW Ramagundam floating solar PV project at Ramagundam from Thursday. With this, the total capacity of 80 MW was under commercial operation. The first and second phase with capacity of 17.5 MW and […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad suffered a massive eight-wicket loss against Madhya Pradesh on the third day of the Group Elite C men’ sunder-25 CK Nayudu Trophy match at the St Xavier’s KCA Cricket Stadium in Kerala on Thursday. For the winners, Ritesh Shakya scalped five wickets for 66 to skittle out Hyderabad to below-par total of 120 […]
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Hyderabad: A renowned anthropologist and sociologist from the United Kingdom, Filippo Osella, was denied entry into the country soon after landing in the Thiruvananthapuram Airport and was deported back to his country on Thursday. The move, for which no reasons were cited, has already triggered a controversy with some terming it a tactic of the […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad topped the list of cities with the highest number of transactions at physical touch points in 2021 for Worldline India, a technology partner to several banks and e-commerce giants. Also, Telangana figured among the top ten States with the highest transactions at physical touch points in 2021. Physical touch points include point of […]
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Warangal: Subedari police along with the Cybercrime wing of Warangal police commissionerate arrested a couple from Sector 32 of Dwarka locality in New Delhi on March 9 on the charges of cheating a man to the tune of Rs 1.17 crore. The police have brought them to Warangal on transit warrant after producing them before […]
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Social media sometimes wields the power to make a person an overnight star. Yesterday it was Kacha Badam singer Bhuban Badyakar and today it is Kisbu, a balloon seller from Kerala. Kishbu, who belongs to a Rajasthani family, became an internet sensation after photos of her makeover went viral. The teenager was selling balloons near […]
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Kochi: As many as 36 students hailing from Kerala arrived from Ukraine on Monday evening and 25 of them left for Kochi and the rest for Thiruvananthapuram. The Kerala government tweeted on Tuesday, “Kerala students update: Among 36 students arrived from Ukraine to Delhi yesterday evening, 25 left for kochi by Vistara UK 883 at […]
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New Delhi: India reported 16,051 new COVID-19 cases and 206 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Monday. Of the fresh fatalities, Kerala reported 92 deaths as per the state health department’s data. With this, the total cases of COVID-19 infections in the country moved up to […]