Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Bangalore Urban Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar. Deputy Chief Minister and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D.K. Shivakumar on Sunday dismissed the BJP’s charge that the Congress government was encouraging religious conversions in the name of the socio-educational survey, and asserted that the exercise was intended to ensure justice for socially…
After five years of its inception, the State government has taken action for the ‘opt-in and opt-out’ statutes of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Maharani Cluster University in Bengaluru. The Governor and Chancellor of the university have approved the regulations made by Maharani Cluster University for adoption, namely, “Statutes governing absorption of opted…
The body of an 18-year-old youth who was swept away in a drain during heavy rain was found in a storm-water drain at M.B. Nagar here on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Muzamil Siddique Ahmed, a resident of Naya Mohalla in Jawahar Hind Colony in the city. He went missing on Saturday night….
With the High Court deadline of September 30 fast approaching, the Congress government in Telangana is preparing to issue a Government Order (GO) providing 42% reservations in local body polls, a key election promise. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday (September 20) held a strategy meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, senior ministers…
A 27-year-old man from Punjab has been arrested by Hyderabad cyber crimes police in connection with an online trading scam that cheated a city-based freelance trader of more than ₹86 lakh. The accused, Gurdit Singh of Janta Nagar, Ludhiana, operated bank accounts used to collect funds from victims lured into fraudulent investment schemes. An officer…
The Thiruvananthapuram district convention of Kerala Vidyabhyasa Samithi on Friday declared its firm resolve to resist all attempts at ‘saffronisation’ in the education sector. Inaugurating the convention, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) district secretary V. Joy cautioned against the Sangh Parivar’s agenda to disrupt the academic strides made in the State. Academic experts, teachers,…
HYDERABAD Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that he would meet Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai in Raipur on September 22, as part of his efforts to pursue a no objection certificate (NOC) for the Sammakka-Sarakka barrage and irrigation project. The barrage, being constructed at Thupakulagudem in Jayashankar-Bhupalapally district…
Vishnu Venugopal, the stem cell donor, meets Adinarayanan, the recipient, at M.G. College in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. In 2015, when a 20-year-old college student Vishnu Venugopal signed on a piece of paper agreeing to be a blood stem cell donor and allowed a mouth swab to be taken, he had no clue what he was signing…
