Literature enthisists attend the Book Brahma Literature Festival (BBLF) at St. John’s Auditorium in Bengaluru on Friday. Bengaluru: Young readers are increasingly drawn to fiction written by activists, with elders in literary circles encouraging the trend, Kannada author Vasudhendra observed at the third edition of the Book Brahma Literature Festival here Friday.Speaking at a masterclass…
We inherited a system that was riddled with corruption, says minister R Nirmalkumar Chennai: Former electricity minister V Senthilbalaji and incumbent minister R Nirmalkumar traded barbs in the Assembly on Friday over complaints of inflated power bills, defunct officials’ contact numbers and alleged lapses in power infrastructure development.The argument started when Coimbatore South MLA Senthilbalaji…
Hyderabad: In a breakthrough in a fraud case targeting farmers and aspiring entrepreneurs, Adilabad police arrested five members of an inter-state cybercrime gang from Bihar for allegedly cheating people by promising fertiliser franchises and loans. The operation, carried out in Bihar’s Nawada district, faced stiff resistance from locals, with police reporting stone-pelting during the arrests.Adilabad…
Gurgaon: A 31-year-old man found Rs 70,000 had been withdrawn from his bank account after two or three men watched him key in his ATM PIN and swapped his debit card at an ATM in Baskushla village, IMT Manesar.Ashish, a moulding operator from Baskushla village, told police he was withdrawing cash with his SBI debit…
Mursida Ali with her child Kolkata: In a bustling, overcrowded compartment of the Canning local train on Wednesday morning, what began as an ordinary daily commute quickly transformed into an extraordinary story of quick thinking, courage, and unexpected new life.Aarti Bain, a compassionate counsellor with NGO Cankids for children with leukemia at the haematology department…
The supply was disrupted after a contractor punctured the water supply pipeline while digging the ground around Ganda Nalla near B block Noida: Residents of Sector 19 were left without water for nearly 24 hours from Thursday morning after a water supply pipe in the area was damaged by a contractor carrying out maintenance work….
Villagers alleged that the farm continues to openly release wastewater into the nullah, the same water body traditionally used for Ganesh visarjan Margao: Villagers of Costi in Sanguem taluka have unanimously resolved to completely boycott the immersion of Ganesh idols in the local nullah this year, alleging that its waters stand contaminated with piggery excreta…
Varanasi: Deelip Veerpakshappa Swami, Managing Director, and Prafull Lahane, General Manager for Quality Assurance and Research, Maharashtra State Seeds Corporation Limited (MSSC), also known as MAHABEEJ, visited the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC), Varanasi, on Thursday to explore the Centre’s research facilities, field-based innovations and technologies supporting sustainable rice-based agriculture.The…
Rajkot: A 26-year-old resident doctor was allegedly abused, slapped and threatened by a senior colleague in the emergency room of Rajkot Civil Hospital on Thursday after a disagreement over the admission of a critically ill patient.Acting on a complaint filed by Dr Krisha Singala, Pradyuman Nagar police registered a case against Dr Ashwin Ramani.Dr Singala,…
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