Updated Orange Book suggests curbs on new constructions in areas hit by landslips in the 2018 floods

Updated Orange Book suggests curbs on new constructions in areas hit by landslips in the 2018 floods

A landslide hazard susceptibility map prepared by the Geological Survey of India (GSI).   After a delay of over two months, the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) has issued the updated Orange Book 2025, the monsoon preparedness and disaster-response guidelines for various State and Central agencies. The major highlight of this year’s Orange Book … Read more

Those behind Indore tourist’s murder will be brought to book: Meghalaya CM

Those behind Indore tourist’s murder will be brought to book: Meghalaya CM

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said his government will leave no stone unturned to ensure that those behind the murder of a tourist from Indore, Raja Raghuvanshi, are brought to book. Raghuvanshi (29) and his wife Sonam had gone missing on May … Read more

Sanjay Raut’s book refers to BJP bigwigs as ‘ingrates,’ triggering a political row

Sanjay Raut’s book refers to BJP bigwigs as ‘ingrates,’ triggering a political row

Shiv Sena (UBT) Sanjay Raut presents his book ‘Paradise in Hell’ to NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar and extends a formal invitation to the book launch ceremony, in Mumbai on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut’s controversial and as yet unreleased book Narkatala Swarg (Heaven in Hell) has made several claims … Read more

Union Minister Kishan Reddy unveils book authored by State Health Minister Satya Kumar

Union Minister Kishan Reddy unveils book authored by State Health Minister Satya Kumar

Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar and TDP State president Palla Srinivasa Rao releasing the book authored by Health Minister Y. Satya Kumar, in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO While it is easier for political analysts, experts, journalists to write detailed articles in the Editorial pages every week, it … Read more

Police book case against ‘unknown’ BJP cadre for assaulting Tamil daily photographer

Police book case against ‘unknown’ BJP cadre for assaulting Tamil daily photographer

The K.K. Nagar police have registered a case against 10 “unknown” cadre of the Bharatiya Janata Party in connection with the alleged assault on a photographer of a Tamil daily while the latter was covering a public meeting organised by the party on the National Education Policy at Mannarpuram in Tiruchi on Sunday night. The … Read more

Kho Kho World Cup: India men and women book quarterfinal spot with commanding wins

Kho Kho World Cup: India men and women book quarterfinal spot with commanding wins

The Indian men’s and women’s teams advanced to the quarterfinals of the Kho Kho World Cup in New Delhi on Wednesday. The men’s team achieved a decisive 70-38 victory against Peru, while the women’s team overwhelmed Iran with a 100-16 win. The men’s team displayed their championship potential with a commanding performance, marked by tactical … Read more

BJP’s Kalidas Kolambkar is confident in winning Maharashtra polls, aims to enter Guinness Book Record

BJP’s Kalidas Kolambkar is confident in winning Maharashtra polls, aims to enter Guinness Book Record

Kalidas Kolambkar, an eight-time Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA), exuded confidence in the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. File | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre Kalidas Kolambkar, an eight-time Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA), exuded confidence in the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections, stating that he aims to enter the Guinness Book of World … Read more

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

With Dasara drawing to a close, people waiting to board a bus at the Pandit Nehru Bus Station in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO Officials of the Road Transport Authority (RTA) in Andhra Pradesh have cracked the whip on erring private bus operators who fleeced the passengers taking undue advantage of the … Read more

Morning Digest | Assam Police book Rahul Gandhi for ‘violence’ during Nyay Yatra; Maldives rules out research by Chinese vessel in its waters, and more

Morning Digest | Assam Police book Rahul Gandhi for ‘violence’ during Nyay Yatra; Maldives rules out research by Chinese vessel in its waters, and more

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the supporters during the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, in Guwahati, Assam on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Assam Police book Rahul Gandhi for ‘violence’ during Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra The Assam Police on Tuesday booked Rahul Gandhi for “wanton acts of violence” as the political confrontation between the Congress leader … Read more

Book on Tamil Nadu’s contributions to the freedom struggle released

Book on Tamil Nadu’s contributions to the freedom struggle released

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday released the Tamil book, Viduthalai Porattathil Tamil Naatin Pangalippu, and its English translation, Tamil Nadu’s Contribution to the Freedom Struggle. The first copies of the books, brought out by the Tamilarasu publication run by the Department of Information and Public Relations, were received by former West Bengal … Read more