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CM tells officials to mobilise more funds from Centre Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday held a meeting with officials on the Union Budget 2021-22 and financial allocations to various sectors. He wanted a concerted efforts to be made to get more funds from the Centre by properly liaisoning with it. Officials informed him that there were no major Budget allocations to the State, which suffered a heavy loss in terms of finances and infrastructur...

PM Modi speaks to Netanyahu on Delhi blast Updated: Updated: February 01, 2021 22:37 IST Earlier, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had spoken to his counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi and assured him of India’s support in conducting a full investigation into the incident. Share Article Narendra Modi   Earlier, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had spoken to his counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi and assured him of India’s support in conducting a full investigation into the incident. Prime...

Updated: Share Article AAA Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has said that it would re-open on February 8, as per the order issued by the State Government. In a release issued here on Monday, Dean M. Kalyanasundaram said the 10 UG programmes for the 2018 and 2019 batches offered in 14 constituent colleges and 28 affiliated colleges would be re-opened on that day. Classes for first year students would open on February 15, the release said. The university hostel would start functioning from Feb...

Farmers’ protest Updated: February 02, 2021 00:27 IST Updated: Share Article   For the imbroglio to subside it would take a much committed and rationalist government to adopt a humanitarian and realistic view of the concerns of the farmers — which is expecting too much from this government. That this government chose the pandemic period to usher in the farm laws and the repeal of labour laws, circumventing all mandatory procedures, says much about its motives. Let us not forget its earlier...

Andamans plan Updated: February 02, 2021 00:28 IST Updated: Share Article   It is perplexing why the very few remaining pockets of pristine nature reserves, which are not only ecologically fragile but also home to vulnerable and ancient tribes, are being targeted in the name of development (Page 1, “A bullet through an island’s heart”, February 1.) We have a very long coastline, much of which is untouched by “sustainable development”. The people living in these coastal regions are ye...

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Allow two courses at Anna varsity, Stalin tells Centre Updated: Updated: ‘Centre must change stand against reservation and grant nod to admit students’ Share Article ‘Centre must change stand against reservation and grant nod to admit students’ DMK president M.K. Stalin on Sunday urged the Centre to give up its stand against reservation and grant permission to Anna University to admit students in its M. Tech courses in Biotechnology and Computational Science, based on the 69% reservati...

MLA’s supporters protest police caning Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The police on Saturday caned a group of supporters of Hoskote MLA Sharath Bachegowda after they began protesting and sloganeering claiming that their political leader had been sidelined during a foundation stone-laying ceremony of a development work inaugurated by Municipal Administration Minister N. Nagaraj (MTB). The police canned the agitated supporters to disperse them. Taking objection to this, the MLA and his ...

Two die as their bike hits median in Virugambakkam Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Two men died after their motorcycle rammed the median on Arcot Road at Virugambakkam in the Pondy Bazaar police station limits on Saturday night. Parthiban, 22, and Balaji, 23, of Gandhi Street in West Mambalam, were returning home on the motorcycle after attending a birthday celebration at Porur on Saturday night. The two died on the spot when their bike hit the median on Arcot Road at Virugambakkam. The po...

Garment exporters seek RoDTEP Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Tiruppur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has appealed to the Central Government to implement the Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme and include additional sops to mitigate the ongoing challenges faced by the sector. In a memorandum to the Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani, the Association president Raja Shanmugham said that nearly 95 % of units in the garment sector were MSMEs. Subsequent t...