Dr. Parameswaran Pattiyil Parameswaran Pattiyil, Professor and head of the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), has been made Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), United Kingdom, for his contributions to chemistry. The award is in recognition of Dr. Pattiyil’s research on chemical bonding and reactivity. A Fellow is the RSC’s … Read more
Sri Basavalinga Swami of Rudrakshi Mutt speaking at the 108th KLE Society foundation day programme in Hubballi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The contribution of the founders of Karnataka Lingayat Education (KLE) Society, who established the institution more than a century ago to provide education to all in North Karnataka region, was remembered during … Read more
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has said commercialisation of education and health can never be in the interest of society. He expressed hope that the current situation will change with the implementation of the new National Education Policy. Mr. Dhankhar was addressing the 11th foundation day ceremony … Read more
Policemen on Monday guarding the land recovered from the Agri Horticultural Society. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM The Chennai District Collectorate on Monday evening regained possession of a prime land measuring 6.35 acres of land in the heart of the city on Cathedral Road, just a few feet away from the U.S. Consulate here. … Read more
Photograph used for representational purposes only Despite the availability of ₹50 lakh of financial support for treatment of all rare disease patients, none of the six patients with Fabry Disease, who have been shortlisted for treatment on the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s crowdfunding portal, have been given the treatment, the Lysosomal Storage … Read more
CNN — Gunfire, explosions and overhead fighter jets were heard across Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Tuesday, as gunmen reportedly stormed the homes of people working for the United Nations and other international organizations, amid conflicting reports of an agreed ceasefire in the country. Fighting between the country’s armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces … Read more
CNN — South African prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against Zolile Sekeleni, the father of the girlfriend of high-profile convicted murderer Thabo Bester, who is accused of escaping from a South African prison after faking his own death in a fire, officials told CNN Monday. Sekeleni’s daughter, Nandipha Magudumana, a prominent medical doctor and … Read more
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat. | Photo Credit: ANI Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has said missionaries take advantage of situations wherein people feel the society is not with them, in an apparent reference to religious conversions. He was addressing an event on April 16, 2023, in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district, … Read more
CNN — As a boat carrying 400 migrants drifted, out of fuel, along a perilous migration route in the central Mediterranean last week, Italian authorities led a major rescue operation following the reported refusal of Maltese authorities to retrieve those on board. Passengers’ desperate pleas for aid went unheeded for nearly a week before they … Read more
Editor’s Note: “The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America” premieres on April 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN’s new Sunday primetime series, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. Darién Gap, Colombia and Panama (CNN) — There is always a crowd, but it can feel very lonely. To get closer to freedom, they have risked … Read more