Mobile phone manufacturing company ‘Lava’ is establishing its plant in Tirupati in Chittoor district. The plant will be established on a 20 acre land at an estimated cost of Rs.500 crore according to Lava International Limited senior Vice President L.Prakash. The company will become operational by next year. This is the first plant to be established in South India. Another […]
» Read moreA Pakistani terrorist captured alive on Tuesday during an encounter in Kashmir has been identified as Bahadur Ali, a resident of Pakistan’s Lahore. Four other Lashkar terrorists were killed in the gunbattle near Nowgam sector in Kupwara district. Bahadur Ali, alias Saifullah, is 22 years old and is a trained Lashkar terrorist, sources said. The security forces recovered Rs. 23,000 […]
» Read moreThe Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday announced its awardees and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna finds a place in the list. Mr. Krishna will receive the award for “social inclusiveness in culture.” “He saw that his was a caste-dominated art that fostered an unjust, hierarchic order by effectively excluding the lower classes from sharing in a vital part of India’s […]
» Read moreOn a night awash in history, Hillary Clinton triumphantly became the first woman to lead a major American political party toward the White House, breaking through a barrier that painfully eluded her eight years ago. She put an electrifying cap on the Democratic convention’s second night, appearing by video from New York and declaring to cheering delegates, “We just put […]
» Read moreBangladeshi police stormed a militant hideout in a Dhaka neighbourhood and killed nine suspected Islamist extremists after a gunbattle on Tuesday morning, officials said. “Nine Islamist militants were killed after two hour-long gunfight” deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Masud Ahmed said, adding another extremist was shot and arrested during the raid in Kalyanpur neighbourhood. Police said they cordoned off […]
» Read moreTamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) has relieved former Congress and TMC MLA C Gnanasekaran as its vice-president. In a statement, TMC chief G K Vasan said apart from Gnanasekaran, Srinivasa Gandhi has also been relieved from Vellore district president post. Sources said both are joining AIADMK on Tuesday. Already former TMC leader S R Balasubramanian joined AIADMK and is now a […]
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