Tripura Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha shakes hands with Indra Sena Reddy Nallu on his arrival in Agartala on October 25. | Photo Credit: ANI Indra Sena Reddy Nallu was sworn in on October 26 as the 20th Governor of Tripura. He was administered the oath of office by Tripura High Court Chief Justice Aparesh … Read more
File photo shows Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is seen with his private secretary V.K. Pandian. | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout V. K Pandian, the all powerful private secretary to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, has taken voluntary retirement from All India Civil Services, fueling speculation for his full-time plunge into State politics. Mr. Pandian … Read more
A view of the SYL (Sutlej-Yamuna Link) canal in Punjab. The Centrally-funded canal links Sutlej with the Yamuna. It is to carry Haryana’s share (3.5 million acre feet) of Sutlej waters. The Centre has spent about Rs. 450 crores on the canal. The construction was abandoned in 1990 at the height of militancy in Punjab. … Read more
A. Ravi Shankar, Visakhapatnam Commissioner of Police. | Photo Credit: V. Raju Senior police officer, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), A. Ravi Shankar has assumed charge as the new Commissioner of Police, Visakhapatnam city. He took the charge from C. M. Trivikrama Varma who has been relieved from the post. The new Commissioner was … Read more
Patients are driving for hours to be seen, and can’t get on waiting lists despite having broken teeth. Source link
The statue of wild elephant Arikompan statue installed near Kanjikkuzhi in Idukki. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT To express his affection for Arikompan, the wild elephant that was translocated from Chinnakanal, a vendor in Idukki has installed an eight-foot-tall cement statue of the animal near his shop at Thallakkanam, near Kanjikuzhi. Vettikkattu Babu, a cacao … Read more
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Representational file image of security personnel taking position in a forest area in Jammu and Kashmir. | Photo Credit: PTI A fresh firefight between the security forces and hiding militants took place in the Kandi Forest area in Jammu division’s Rajouri on May 6. The Army said the security forces engaged the hiding militants in … Read more
A court here on Monday took cognisance of the supplementary chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against businessmen Arun Ramchandra Pillai and Amandeep Singh Dhall in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam. This was the third chargesheet filed by the investigating agency in the case. It has so far … Read more
Santanu Bhattacharya assuming the office of the Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), in Tirupati on Wednesday. His predecessor K.N. Ganesh is also seen. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Santanu Bhattacharya, a professor of organic chemistry at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, took charge as Director of Indian Institute of … Read more