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Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami would lay the foundation for the Cauvery-Gundar river link project through vid

Ensure jobs for all conservancy workers, Minister tells officials Updated: Updated: Velumani holds review meeting Velumani holds review meeting Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development S.P. Velumani on Wednesday asked officials of the Greater Chennai Corporation to ensure that all conservancy workers rendered jobless after the privatisation of solid waste management work were absorbed by the contractors. He said this while reviewing the COVID-19 prevention and other deve...

Low-cost carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday reported a net loss of ₹57 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2020, which was narrower than the loss reported in the preceding quarter.The airline reported

Updated: Share Article AAA The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the State government to consider a representation sent by a petitioner to remove a portion of information from Class IX textbook and college books that claimed that UNESCO had conferred the title ‘Socrates of South Asia’ on Periyar. This was false, the petitioner said. Hearing the public interest litigation petition, a Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi directed the government to...

About 495 kg of red sanders worth ₹25 lakh was seized by Chennai Air Cargo Customs at Air Cargo shed from a consignment bound for Singapore.While the bill showed the consignment as having 600 cotton b

Houthis target Saudi airport, plane catches fire Updated: Updated: ‘4 bomb-laden drones used in attack’ Share Article ‘4 bomb-laden drones used in attack’ Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted the Abha International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire, the kingdom’s state television reported. Firefighters brought the blaze under control, Saudi state-owned Al-Ekhbariya TV said, without offering word on possible casualti...

Postal cover of Sevalal released Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A commemorative postal cover of Banjara spiritual leader Sadguru Shri Sevalal Maharaj was released here on the occasion of his 282nd birth anniversary. The function was held at Dak Sadan in Abids in the presence of Minister Satyavathi Rathod, Representative of Telangana in New Delhi Tejavath Ramachandrudu, Post Master General of Hyderabad region P. Vidyasagar Reddy and other senior postal officials. Speaking on the occasion,...

Identifying the source of SARS-CoV-2 is important for containing fresh outbreaks By concluding that a virus leak from a laboratory in China’s Wuhan, where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first emerged, is “extremely unlikely” and did not require further study, a 17-member WHO team and its Chinese counterparts have put to rest conspiracy theories that emerged early during the pandemic. While many scientists had dismissed the lab-origin theory, in mid-February 2020, a group of 27 prominent scientists...

Maharashtra has reported 17 ‘accidental’ deaths, Minister tells Rajya Sabha The government informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that data on the number of deaths of migrant workers after the announcement of lockdown in March 2020 were still being collected from States, but Maharashtra had reported 17 “accidental” deaths. In response to a question by Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi and Congress MP Phulo Devi Netam, Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in a written ...

Those with 10 years’ service in current or future vacancies The government has decided to post teachers (Vidya volunteers) of multi-grade learning centres or single-teacher schools who have been working on contract for more than 10 years to current or future vacancies in the General Education Department on seniority basis. The multi-grade learning centres were set up in the mid-90s to ensure universal primary education under the District Primary Education Programme across the State. These c...