Malappuram municipality clears 2-decade-old dump

Malappuram municipality clears 2-decade-old dump

Minister for Local Self-Governments M.B. Rajesh inaugurating the Malappuram municipality’s reclaimed land at Puliyettummal near Karathodu by kicking a football on October 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: SAKEER HUSSAIN Malappuram municipality has achieved a historic milestone by transforming Puliyettummal’s two-decade-old waste dump into a reclaimed five-acre green space near Karathodu. Minister for Local Self Governments … Read more

Breaking barriers: First Chuktia Bhunjia girl from Odisha clears PhD

Breaking barriers: First Chuktia Bhunjia girl from Odisha clears PhD

A young woman from the Chuktia Bhunjia community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) in Odisha, successfully defended her doctoral thesis in Bhubaneswar on Friday (September 19, 2025) — becoming the first girl from the tribe to achieve this milestone. Jaiminee Jhankar, the 28-year-old girl from the Chuktia Bhunjia tribe, will be awarded a doctoral degree … Read more

US FDA clears Apple Watch hypertension feature

US FDA clears Apple Watch hypertension feature

Bengaluru: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Apple to roll out a hypertension detection feature on some of its smartwatches, the health regulator said in a statement late on Friday. The company unveiled a blood pressure monitor in its latest Apple Watch at a September 9 event, where it also introduced a … Read more

BRO clears Pir Panjal roads in J&K’s Rajouri after landslips; IMD issue alerts

BRO clears Pir Panjal roads in J&K’s Rajouri after landslips; IMD issue alerts

Indian Army personnel repair a damaged bridge over Tawi river, at Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu, Friday, August 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Friday (August 29, 2025) began road clearance operations in the Pir Panjal mountain range after rainfall and flash floods caused landslips and blocked connectivity in Rajouri … Read more

Parliament clears Waqf Amendment Bill

Parliament clears Waqf Amendment Bill

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

Ponnam Prabhakar clears apprehensions of BC leaders on caste survey results

Ponnam Prabhakar clears apprehensions of BC leaders on caste survey results

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

Congress CEC vets Telangana list for Lok Sabha polls, clears four names

Congress CEC vets Telangana list for Lok Sabha polls, clears four names

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

Karnataka Cabinet clears proposal to increase Nandini milk price by₹3 a litre

Karnataka Cabinet clears proposal to increase Nandini milk price by₹3 a litre

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

Tamil Nadu Cabinet clears proposals for investments worth ₹6,000 crore

Tamil Nadu Cabinet clears proposals for investments worth ₹6,000 crore

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

Centre clears the appointment of two judges to the Supreme Court 

Centre clears the appointment of two judges to the Supreme Court 

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