Home Minister’s college told to pay ₹15 lakh compensation for cheating student of MBBS seat

Home Minister’s college told to pay ₹15 lakh compensation for cheating student of MBBS seat

Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara heads the Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education (SSAHE) in Tumakuru. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K The High Court of Karnataka has directed Home Minister G. Parameshwara-headed Sri Siddartha Academy of Education (SSAHE), Tumakaru (a deemed to be university), to pay a compensation of ₹15 lakh to a student … Read more

Home Guard arrested on charge of bid to smuggle three tonnes of beedi leaves to Sri Lanka

Home Guard arrested on charge of bid to smuggle three tonnes of beedi leaves to Sri Lanka

The Coastal Security Police have arrested a Home Guard on charge of reportedly trying to smuggling about three tonnes of beedi leaves to Sri Lanka. The police said the Coastal Security Police, during their patrol near Koodankulam, stopped a mini lorry around 3 a.m. on Wednesday. When the lorry driver tried to escape, the police … Read more

‘Meda’ takes the carbon-neutral home dream a step closer to reality

‘Meda’ takes the carbon-neutral home dream a step closer to reality

Babu Parambath and wife Valsala at their carbon-neutral home ‘Meda’ in Vengeri, Kozhikode. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh A new green home concept titled ‘Meda’ has achieved the carbon-neutral tag – arguably the first in the State to earn such a status and get it assessed by a reputed agency. Babu Parambath, project coordinator of … Read more

Flavour of crafts from Eastern India at this year’s Independence Day ‘At Home’

Flavour of crafts from Eastern India at this year’s Independence Day ‘At Home’

For those invited by President Droupadi Murmu for her customary evening reception or “At Home” this, the 79th Independence Day, the invitation sent out in her name will be showcasing the skill of craftspersons from Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. | Photo Credit: ANI For those invited by President Droupadi Murmu for her customary … Read more

Lions Club members distribute medicines, essentials in old age home

Lions Club members distribute medicines, essentials in old age home

Members of the Lions Club of Vijayawada rural, visited an old age home in Kesarapalli village, Gannavaram mandal and distributed medicines, provisions, and vegetables to the elderly residents. Club president P. Kiran Kumar, secretary Ravi Suresh Babu, treasurer K.S.R.K. Prasad, doctors L. Surendra Babu and D. Suvarna Babu participated in the programmme. Speaking on the … Read more

Covid care home policy was ‘least worst decision’ – Hancock

Covid care home policy was ‘least worst decision’ – Hancock

Former health secretary Matt Hancock has denied claims the government’s attempt to throw a protective ring around care homes in 2020, early in the Covid pandemic, was empty rhetoric. In an irritable exchange he urged the Covid Inquiry to focus on the substance of what the government was doing at the time. Mr Hancock said … Read more

Covid care home policy was ‘least worst decision’ – Hancock

Covid care home policy was ‘least worst decision’ – Hancock

Former health secretary Matt Hancock has denied claims the government’s attempt to throw a protective ring around care homes in 2020, early in the Covid pandemic, was empty rhetoric. In an irritable exchange he urged the Covid Inquiry to focus on the substance of what the government was doing at the time. Mr Hancock said … Read more