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Leopard found dead near Emerald in Udhagamandalam Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A one-year-old male leopard was found dead near Emerald in the Udhagai South Range in the Nilgiris forest division on Sunday. Forest department officials said the animal was found with injuries to its neck. District Forest Officer, the Nilgiris division, D. Guruswamy, said a post-mortem was conducted and the cause of death was believed to be due to natural causes. The carcass was destroyed after the completi...

City girl Ameya Lagudu selected for Bal Puraskar Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Ameya Lagudu, a Class VIII student of Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar, has been selected for the prestigious Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Shakthi Puraskar 2021. She won this award under category of Art and Culture (for 2021). Ms. Ameya has been learning south Indian classical dance forms of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi since the age of 4 years. She has performed more than 100 programmes on various national and intern...

PM award for Kochi school student Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Veer Kashyap, a Class 5 student at Navy Children School, Kochi, was among the 32 children awarded the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2021 under the ‘Innovation’ category. Ten-year-old Veer created ‘CORONA-YUGA’ board game in April last year during the first phase of the lockdown while he was stuck at his grandparent’s house in Bengaluru and had only a few board games at home. Shaped like the coronavirus, th...

Students from 25 schools participated in the preliminary round. P. Jayasree Dheemanth from Viva School, K. Sai Tejaswini from Bhashyam Blooms and B. Charitasree from K.L.P. Public School bagged the first, second and third prizes respectively in the final round of the district-level inter-school Spell Bee competition, organised by Dr. KLP Public School in Guntur on Sunday. Students from 25 schools participated in the preliminary round. The winners will receive prizes and all the participants wil...

Amma mini clinic opened Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Minister for Electricity P.Thangamani inaugurated a Amma mini clinic at Karaikuruchi near Pudhuchitram here on Monday. Mr.Thangamani told reporters that 53 Amma mini clinics and six mobile clinics have been allotted for Namakkal and 18 clinics have been opened till date. The Minister said that all the clinics would be opened by January 30. On appointment of gangmen in Tangedco, Mr.Thangamani said that he had conducted discussions with...

Man charred to death as hut catches fire Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A 70-year-old man died of burns that he sustained after the hut in which he was living was engulfed in fire at Nathavaram mandal in Visakhapatnam district in the early hours of Monday. According to the police, the thatched hut caught fire from the bonfire that the deceased had lit to keep himself warm. The deceased was identified as R.N. Murthy. The hut was gutted and one cow near the hut was also burnt alive in the in...

CPI extends support to farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi Updated: Updated: Party plans a similar event in Srikakulam district Share Article AAA CPI State secretary K. Ramakrishna and the party leaders at a media conference in Srikakulam on Monday.   Party plans a similar event in Srikakulam district CPI State secretary K. Ramakrishna on Monday urged farmers and people to extend support to the farmers who have planned a tractor rally in Delhi on the Republic Day, as part of their protest aga...

‘Extend scheme benefits to tenant farmers’ Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Thanjavur District Cauvery Farmers Protection Association has urged the Union government to extend benefits of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to tenant farmers also. In a statement, Association secretary Sundara Vimalanathan said nearly 40 lakh farmers, cultivating various crops and agriculture/horticulture produces on the lands taken on lease by them from Hindu temples, mutts, choultries, mosques/darga...

Updated: Share Article AAA The district recorded 313 COVID-19 cases and 202 recoveries on Monday as the number of active cases stood at 4,177. While most of the cases have been attributed to local transmission, four health workers were also among those who tested positive. The death toll stood at 725 with five recent deaths being attributed to the disease on Sunday alone. The district administration placed 1,460 under quarantine, while 1,558 others have been permitted to conclude quarantine aft...

‘Nitin Gadkari has also been informed’ Minister for Large and Medium Industries Jagadish Shettar has said that the issue of pending bills of contractors for the works executed under the Central Road Fund (CRF) has been brought to the notice of the Chief Minister and also Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. Speaking to presspersons after performing bhoomi puja for the new Balamandir on Ghantikeri Balamandir premises in Hubballi on Monday, he said that he was aware of the problems caused due to de...