The Salem district police late on Monday evening arrested social activist Piyush Manush on the charge of instigating people against the Salem airport expansion project and the eight-lane green corridor project. Police sources said Mr. Piyush had launched a ‘Saleme Kural Kodu’ movement and was coordinating with the people of villages surrounding the airport to raise their voice against the […]
» Read moreThree minors died and at least 80 have been hospitalised owing to suspected food poisoning during a ”vastu shanti” ceremony at Mhahad village near Khopoli city in Raigad district of Maharashtra. Officials said the incident occurred on Monday around 9 p.m., when around 500 villagers were invited by Subhash Mane for dinner at a local temple on the occasion of […]
» Read moreLegendary mimicry artiste Nerella Venumadhav died here after a brief illness at his home in Mattewada in Warangal city. He was 85 and is survived by wife, two daughters, and two sons. Venumadhav served as MLC in 1971 in undivided Andhra Pradesh. He rose to international fame after his enthralling performance at the United Nations. He was conferred scores of […]
» Read moreWith an eye on the next Lok Sabha poll, the BJP will organise training workshops across the country for its leaders from backward castes and other backward class morchas. The focus will be on Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, party sources said. OBC leaders who have joined the BJP will also be invited to the meetings. The strategy to retain the […]
» Read moreJustice Huluvadi G. Ramesh, the senior-most judge of the Madras High Court, on Monday asked Justice S. Vimala to be the third judge to hear the 18 MLAs’ disqualification case since the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M. Sundar had delivered a split verdict in the case on Thursday. According to court sources, the High […]
» Read moreMaulana Fazlullah, the dreaded chief of Pakistani Taliban, has been killed in a United States drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, an Afghan Defence Ministry official confirmed on Friday. Fazlullah, who has been designated as a global terrorist by the US and carried a bounty of $5 million, had been on the run since his loyalists were routed in […]
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