World Champion D Gukesh bears a striking resemblance to MS Dhoni. The Grandmaster, the youngest world champion, remains a picture of calmness when seated across the 64 squares. Nothing unsettles him. Even the world’s best, sitting opposite and plotting his downfall, fail to elicit the slightest emotion from him while he is at work. Sound … Read more
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images Oropouche virus, spread by biting midges and some mosquitoes, is on the list The UK has a new watch list of 24 infectious diseases that could pose the greatest future threat to public health. Some are viruses with global pandemic potential – like Covid – while … Read more
V. Ravichandar, Bengaluru Restructuring Committee member, says allowing GBA to nominate ward committee members is against the spirit of the 74th Amendment relating to decentralisation. | Photo Credit: file photo In what may contradict the spirit of decentralisation and the 74th Amendment to the Constitution, the Greater Bengaluru Governance (GBG) Bill 2024 has proposed granting … Read more
Advisor to the Telangana Government (SC, ST, BC & Minorities) Mohammed Ali Shabbir. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Telangana Government has issued a circular permitting Muslim employees to leave offices an hour early during the holy month of Ramzan, a move slammed by the opposition BJP, which wondered why such measures are not … Read more
The State government’s decision to hike fees for AYUSH courses has come under criticism. While condemning the move, the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) in Mysuru said the course fee under the government quota in private colleges has been hiked from ₹60,000 to ₹75,000. The increase in fee by 25% is nothing but “anti-student … Read more
Even as eight Naga legislators from Manipur signed a memorandum to the Prime Minister along with 32 of their Meitei colleagues in the Assembly, some terms that the Naga MLAs put their names to have now stirred up a hornet’s nest within the United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body of the 20 Naga tribes … Read more
Sources say University of Madras has a monthly recurring expense of about ₹18.61 crore. | Photo Credit: File photo Amid acute financial constraints and a proposal for grant-in-aid pending with the State government, the University of Madras has diluted the Contributory Pension Scheme Fund and Endowment Fund to disburse salary/pension and meet other obligatory expenses … Read more
The BJP fired a fresh salvo at Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal amid the row over the ₹45 crore expenditure comparing him with the likes of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in terms of “luxury”. | file photo | Photo Credit: ANI The BJP on Friday fired a fresh salvo … Read more
Xi’an says it may turn to lockdowns – a measure criticised as “excessive” after strict Covid controls. Source link
Students and teachers from Kozhikode District celebrating with the gold cup after they bagged the overall championship at the State School Arts Festival in Kozhikode on Saturday. | Photo Credit: K Ragesh The crowd must have been around 15,000. But there was a complete silence when K.S. Chithra began singing the light song Odakkuzhale odakkuzhale … Read more