The (BIE) has become the first school education board in India to be recognised by the National Council of Vocational Education and Training (NCVET) as an awarding body (dual category). “This milestone enables nationally recognised certification of vocational skills, beginning with the approved Sericulture Technician qualification, and opens up future-ready employment pathways for our youth,” … Read more
UDF cadres celebrating in Kottayam municipality on Saturday. | Photo Credit: VISHNU PRATHAP Riding a strong anti-incumbency wave, the United Democratic Front (UDF) has made significant gains across Kottayam district, wresting control of a majority of local bodies. The Congress-led coalition has won the district panchayat, secured a clear edge in most block and grama … Read more
Migrant workers at a plywood factory in Perumbavoor. Ernakulam district is home to a large number of migrant labourers. | Photo Credit: File photo for representation purpose only The forthcoming local body polls are special for Rajendra Naik, a native of Kandhamal in Odisha who works in a plywood company, as he will be casting … Read more
With the open campaigning for the Phase 1 of the local body polls in the State ending on Sunday (December 7, 2025), the State Election Commission has urged political parties to make sure that the celebrations marking the campaign finale are held peacefully. The open campaigning will come to a close at 6 p.m. on … Read more
AICC general secretary K.C. Venugopal, MP, with former KPCC president K. Sudhakaran, MP, and the UDF’s local body election candidates after he inaugurates the front’s candidate meet at Ammuparamba, near Thottada, in Kannur on Thursday. | Photo Credit: S.K. MOHAN With less than 100 hours left for the crucial first phase of the local body … Read more
Preparations under way at a polling booth ahead of the Maharashtra local body elections, in Nagpur. | Photo Credit: ANI The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday (December 2, 2025) directed the Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) to conduct the counting of votes for the local body polls on December 21, instead … Read more
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Getty Images A screening programme for prostate cancer for all men in the UK is not justified, according to a hugely influential group of experts. Instead they say only men with specific genetic mutations that lead to more aggressive tumours should be eligible. That would rule out black men who … Read more
Four former legislators, who had made a mark as members of the Assembly, are in the fray in the upcoming local body elections in the State. The former Congress legislators Anil Akkara, who represented the Wadakkanchery Assembly constituency in Thrissur district in 2016, and K.S. Sabarinadhan, who was elected from the Aruvikkara constituency in Thiruvananthapuram … Read more
In an age when Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated content is flooding social media, the State Election Commission is planning to keep its eyes peeled to make sure that such materials do not ‘contaminate’ the election scene in the upcoming 2025 local body polls in Kerala. State Election Commissioner A. Shajahan told The Hindu that the commission is … Read more
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Friday, in a counter-terrorism operation, arrested three ISIS-linked terrorists from Ahmedabad, the state’s capital, who were on a mission to exchange weapons for a potential terrorist attack. As per the officials, these three terrorists, Ahmed Mohiuddin Syed, Mohammed Suhail, and Azad Saifi, were on the radar of the ATS … Read more