Parliament in the wee hours of Friday, April 4, 2025, morning cleared the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2025, after nearly 14-hour debate in Rajya Sabha by 128 members voting in favour and 95 against. | Photo Credit: ANI Parliament in the wee hours of Friday (April 4, 2025) morning cleared the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2025, after … Read more
BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, Congress leaders and BC associations representatives at a meeting in the Secretariat | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As the Backward Classes organisations pointed out certain lapses in the Telangana Socio, Caste, Economic, Employment and Political Survey, the Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar tried to shatter the myth by engaging … Read more
T. Jeevan Reddy (Nizamabad LS candidate) Neelam Madhu Mudiraj (Medak Congress LS candidate) Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy Congress party’s Central Election Committee met in New Delhi on Wednesday night and cleared four names for the Lok Sabha elections. The party has named Congress MLC T. Jeevan Reddy (Nizamabad), TPCC vice-president Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy (Bhuvanagiri), … Read more
Nandini toned milk sold at ₹39 per litre, will now be sold at ₹42. File photo | Photo Credit: SRIRAM MA The Karnataka Cabinet that met on July 27 is learnt to have cleared the proposal by Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) to hike selling prices of its “Nandini” milk by ₹3 a litre. The … Read more
The Tamil Nadu Cabinet, headed by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, cleared 10 industrial projects, which will bring in ₹6,000 crore in investments. They have a potential to create 27,000 jobs. A senior official The Hindu spoke to said one of the biggest projects is from Godrej. “Godrej Consumer Products Limited will set up a plant … Read more
Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on May 19 will swear in two new apex court judges, Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and K.V. Viswanathan, who is a direct appointment from the Supreme Court Bar. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal tweeted their appointments late on May … Read more
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: ANI When an 18-year-old girl in Chhattisgarh cleared her class 10 state board examination, it was an extraordinary feat given her family background. Her parents are active Naxalites, living their lives under the shadow of guns, but that did not deter the teenager from single-mindedly pursuing … Read more
A poster of the movie ‘Pichaikkaran 2’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Madras High Court on Friday, cleared the decks for the release of Vijay Antony starrer ‘Pichaikkaran 2’ by dismissing an application by V. Rajaganapathy of Mangadu Amman Movies, urging the court to injunct the release of the movie on the grounds that … Read more
River Ganges at Shivala Ghat, Varanasi. File | Photo Credit: Prashant Nakwe The Jal Shakti Ministry’s National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) cleared eight projects worth ₹638 crore on Tuesday. The projects include the rejuvenation of river Hindon, a tributary of the Yamuna, stretches of which rank as among the most polluted in the country. … Read more
Bengaluru: Dozee announced its proprietary contactless vital signs (VS) measurement technology has received US FDA 510(k) clearance. According to nursing and midwifery professional organisations, India falls short of the WHO recommended rate of three nurses per 1,000 population and needs 4.3 million more nurses by 2024 to meet the WHO norms. Dozee aims to bridge … Read more