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Jana Sena Party MP Tangella Uday Srinivas seeks Centre’s support to establish ITDA for 59 tribal villages in Kakinada district

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Jana Sena Party MP Tangella Uday Srinivas seeks Centre’s support to establish ITDA for 59 tribal villages in Kakinada district

Tangella Uday Srinivas. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Kakinada Jana Sena Party Member of Parliament (MP) Tangella Uday Srinivas has sought the intervention of Union Tribal Welfare Minister Jual Oram to establish an Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) to be headquartered at Pedda Mallapuram in Prathipadu Assembly constituency, covering 59 tribal villages with 18,440 … Read more

Eknath Shinde announces comprehensive development plan for Maharashtra’s Thane district

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Eknath Shinde announces comprehensive development plan for Maharashtra’s Thane district

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde during an interview with PTI. | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has announced a comprehensive development plan for Thane district to tackle traffic congestion, modernisation of health centres and flood relief. During a district planning committee meeting on Friday (September 26, 2025), Mr. Shinde, who … Read more

Seven women injured in accident in Andhra’s Sathya Sai district

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Seven women injured in accident in Andhra’s Sathya Sai district

Seven women workers of a garments factory were injured, two of them grievously, when the auto in which they were travelling was knocked down by a speeding lorry at Kollakunta village of HIndupur rural mandal of Sri Sathya Sai district on Thursday late night (September 11, 2025). According to the police, the auto was carrying … Read more

Indira Canteen opened in Kalaghatagi in Dharwad district of Karnataka

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Indira Canteen opened in Kalaghatagi in Dharwad district of Karnataka

Labour Minister Santosh Lad inaugurated a newly-built Indira Canteen in Kalaghatagi taluk panchayat premises in Dharwad district of Karnataka on September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Labour Minister and district-in-charge for Dharwad Santosh Lad inaugurated a newly-built Indira Canteen in Kalaghatagi town on September 1. He called upon the people to avail the … Read more

Two farmers die of electrocution in Karnatatka’s Hassan district

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Two farmers die of electrocution in Karnatatka’s Hassan district

Shivamogga: Two farmers died after they came in contact with live electric wire at their farm at Shettikoplu village in Arasikere taluk on Tuesday (June 18, 2025). The police have identified the deceased as Balegowda, 73, of Shettikoppa and Hombe Gowda, 55, a native of Kudakundi village. They were neighbours. They came in contact with … Read more

Siddaramaiah directs district in-charge Ministers, Secretaries to rush to rain-hit areas

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Siddaramaiah directs district in-charge Ministers, Secretaries to rush to rain-hit areas

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has instructed district in-charge Ministers and district in-charge Secretaries to immediately visit areas affected by heavy rain and floods across the State and oversee the relief efforts. The Chief Minister has informed Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh to convene a meeting of all the Deputy Commissioners, chief executive officers of zilla panchayats, and district … Read more

Two children drown in pits dug by sand miners in Belagavi district

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Two children drown in pits dug by sand miners in Belagavi district

Sand miners had dug deep trenches in the bed of a stream. The trenches were filled with water. | Photo Credit: G. Moorthy Two young sons of a farmer drowned in a ditch filled with water in Sambaragi village in Belagavi district of Karnataka on May 27. Deepak, 9, and Ganesh, 7, children of Sanjay … Read more

Andhra Pradesh govt. renames YSR district as ‘YSR Kadapa’

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Andhra Pradesh govt. renames YSR district as ‘YSR Kadapa’

The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday officially renamed YSR District as YSR Kadapa District, restoring the historical reference of Kadapa to the district’s name. The G.O. Ms. No. 170 order was issued in this regard by G. Jayalakshmi, Special Chief Secretary, Revenue Department. The decision came just a day before the TDP Mahanadu event, scheduled … Read more

104-year-old life convict released from Uttar Pradesh’s district jail after 43 years

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104-year-old life convict released from Uttar Pradesh’s district jail after 43 years

A resident of Gauraye village in the Kaushambi district, Lakhan, born on January 4 1921, according to his jail records, was arrested in 1977. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A 104-year-old man who spent 43 years in jail on charges of murder and attempted murder was released from Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district jail after … Read more

FIR against more than 100 people for unauthorised protests in Maharashtra’s Thane district

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FIR against more than 100 people for unauthorised protests in Maharashtra’s Thane district

An official said the protests took place on the afternoon of May 16, 2025, despite the Prohibitory Orders imposed under the Maharashtra Police Act. File | Photo Credit: X/@DGPMaharashtra “A case has been registered against more than 100 people who participated in human chain protests allegedly held without permission in Maharashtra’s Thane district,” police said … Read more