Sumedh Salve plays the drunk brother in YUVA’s Kranti Nagar walk Indian prisoners are unaccustomed to chairs — their seating, like their sleeping, is communal, on the floor. Yet in several state prisons in Maharashtra, inmates are now engaging with a chair for an entirely different purpose: not to rest, but to speak — to…
For Dr Veena Murthy Vijay, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Kuchipudi is both a recognition of the past and a push towards the future. President Droupadi Murmu conferred the award for the year 2024 on her at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on August 13. The honour comes as Murthy Vijay’s Bengaluru-based school, founded…
Chennai: Former chief minister and DMK president M K Stalin on Saturday urged party members to regain the confidence of young people and women and continue working for the public even while in opposition. “We are specialists in making a comeback. We will make a strong comeback,” Stalin said while addressing the party’s executive committee…
2 dead, senior citizen hurt after 7-storied bldg on 50-sq yd plot collapses in IT corridor Two people died and several others were injured when an unauthorized seven-storey under-construction building collapsed in Anjaiah Nagar, Madhapur, Hyderabad on Saturday. Hyderabad: Two migrant workers died and a senior citizen suffered injuries after an under-construction seven-storied allegedly illegal…
Fire At Free School Street Lodge Kolkata: More than 100 hotels and guest houses across Kolkata stared at closure as civic and fire officials on Saturday continued the inspection of safety compliance and statutory clearances at these establishments. The city’s hotel room inventory was estimated to have shrunk by around 1,500 in just three days.The…
Margao: Twenty-five years ago, a group of Konkani language activists sat down to solve a problem that had quietly troubled them for years — an entire generation educated in English, Marathi and Portuguese, yet unable to find its voice in its own mother tongue. What emerged from those brainstorming sessions was a storytelling competition for…
Varanasi: Over 97% of the total seats in the undergraduate programmes in Banaras Hindu University are filled as the university winds up regular rounds of UG admissions for academic session 2026–27. Of the total 4,826 seats up for grabs in the Varanasi and Barkachha campuses, 4,720 seats are occupied, accounting for 97.8% of the total…
Today, the restored heritage building is preparing to open a new chapter as an Education and Innovation Centre for girls On a winter afternoon in 2020, Spanish architect Manuel M de Las Heras was passing through Ahmedabad’s Raikhad neighbourhood when a century-old govt girls’ high school caught his eye. The elegant vintage facade drew him…
CPCC flags pollution in Patiala Ki Rao, Faidan Choe Chandigarh: Patiala Ki Rao and Faidan Choe have recorded high levels of pollution, with several key parameters exceeding permissible limits and dissolved oxygen (DO) falling to nil, says a monitoring study carried out by Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC) during the first three months of 2026….
Guwahati: With an estimated 4.52 lakh out-of-school children aged 14-18 in Assam, Samagra Shiksha has launched the statewide “Shiksha Yatra – From Challenges to Aspirations” survey to identify, track and mainstream out-of-school children (OoSC), dropouts and students who have been absent for long periods. The exercise will also help plan open-schooling support for more than…
