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No truth in reports on closure of schools, says DEO Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA District Educational Officer (DEO) B. Lingeswara Reddy said that a fake news claiming that schools are going to be shut down from March 1 due to COVID-19 outbreak is being circulated in social media. He appealed to parents and students not to believe in such news, which is totally baseless. He also sought people not to believe and forward such posts. The DEO said that schools are being run in a very peaceful...

Updated: Share Article AAA A protest was organised by representatives of the A.P. NGOs Association at the NGO Home on the premises of the Collectorate here on Friday to protest against privatisation of the public sector unions (PSU) by the Centre on the call given by the All India State government Employees Federation. Association district president K. Eswara Rao alleged that the Centre, instead of allocating captive mines, has decided to privatise the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) on the ple...

Python rescued, released into forests Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Police rescued a python from a person at Lakshmi Nagar in the town and took one K. Gangajalam into custody. On receiving information from local residents, police visited the house of Gangajalam and recovered the eight-foot-long reptile. During questioning, the family members said the python was brought from Military Madhavaram village and was kept in a room. Police alerted the Forest Department personnel, who released it ...

Justice will be done to all oustees, promises Collector

Woman murdered Updated: Updated: Two men attacked her, daughter in Aminjikarai Share Article Two men attacked her, daughter in Aminjikarai A 47-year-old woman was stabbed to death and her 25-year-old daughter was injured after two men attacked them in their house on Friday in the Aminjikarai police station limits. The police gave the name of the victim as Jayanthi, a homemaker. Her daughter, Monica, works in a private firm. They were residents of Vallal Street at Aminjikarai. The two were at...

332 new COVID cases in Ernakulam Updated: Updated: 345 persons recover from illness Share Article 345 persons recover from illness Ernakulam saw 332 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, when 6,950 samples were sent for testing. As many as 345 people tested negative on the day, while 9,072 people are recovering from the infection. A total of 7,888 people are recovering at home, 36 patients are at the Government Medical College Hospital, 55 patients are at PVS Hospital, and 405 patients are being treate...

SHRC takes cognisance of woman IPS officer’s complaint Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of an incident of the woman IPS officer who was stopped by SP, Chengalpattu, while she was proceeding to lodge a harassment complaint against senior IPS officer Rajesh Das. The matter was taken cognisance based on a news item that appeared in an English newspaper on Friday. The SHRC directed the Home Secretary and Director-General ...

Police get banks to reverse the fraudulent transaction The cyber-crime cell of the Triplicane police district helped a credit card-holder get back his money, which was swindled by an online fraudster offering bonus points. Varaprasath, 38, a resident of Pudupet, had four credit cards. On February 18, a caller posing as a bank manager sought his credit card details and the OTP on the pretext of giving bonus points. Mr. Varaprasath gave him the details. Immediately, ₹87,631 was debited from...

No breakthrough yet in missing AMU student case Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA There has been no breakthrough in the case of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student who went missing from a market near the campus on Tuesday. University officials said they were working with the U.P. police to find out the whereabouts of Athar Ali, 22, a student of the final year of graduation. University Proctor Mohd Waseem Ali said his mobile’s location was traced to Delhi’s Anand Vihar by the police. ...

Updated: March 19, 2021 19:07 IST Meet the people who are going back to the basics of construction, but with a sustainable twist. Plus, post-pandemic home trends Share Article AAA Clockwise from far left: Deepak Guggari’s cardboard partition walls, domed residences on Iran’s Hormuz island, the glass Apple Store in Thailand, Aravind Manoharan’s new build - a farm house with cob walls, and Sameep Padora’s black limestone step temple   | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Meet the people ...