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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...

Migrant worker killed in drunken brawl Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A worker from West Bengal was allegedly killed by his room-mate from the same State, following a drunken brawl, at Ambalamedu on Sunday evening. The Ambalamedu police said Utpal Bala had been charged with hitting Biswajith Mitra, 36, from Harkuli, West Bengal, following a brawl in an inebriated condition. He was arrested, while the body of the victim was shifted to Taluk Hospital, Thripunithura. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY...

Updated: Counting of votes is underway. Share Article AAA Congress party workers during the counting of votes for Rajasthan Municipal Election 2021 result, in Ajmer on January 31, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI Counting of votes is underway. The ruling Congress in Rajasthan on January 31 won 398 wards, while the BJP bagged 333, according to results available for 994 of the 3035 wards for which polls were held. Counting of votes is underway. Fourteen wards have been won by the NCP, 12 by the RLP...

Parkal TRS MLA’s house attacked Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA BJP workers allegedly attacked the house of TRS MLA from Parkal Challa Dharma Reddy at Hanamkonda on Sunday with stones and eggs in protest against his comments over donations raised for construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya. Mr. Reddy said at a function earlier in the day that BJP collected funds without maintaining accounts. He alleged that ₹1,000 crore was received by the party in Telangana alone. “At this rate, ...

300 cases in capital Updated: Updated: Test positivity rate at 6.74% Share Article Test positivity rate at 6.74% The capital district recorded 300 COVID-19 cases and 382 recoveries as the caseload fell to 4,304 on Sunday. While 4,447 people were subjected to testing during the last 24 hours, the test positivity rate stood at 6.74%. Barring two imported cases, almost all the new cases have attributed to local transmission of the disease. The source of infection is unknown in 92 cases. Five healt...

Updated: Share Article AAA On the first day of Pulse Polio programme, a total of 36,42,598 children aged 0-5 years in Telangana were vaccinated on Sunday. There are over 38.31 lakh children in that age group in the State. On Sunday, the drops were administered at 23,331 booths. House-to-house activity would be taken up on February 1 and 2 to immunise the children who missed taking the pulse polio drops. Due to large extent of area in Hyderabad, the programme would be conducted on February 3 in ...

Modi likely to open phase I extension Updated: Updated: Prime Minister likely to visit Chennai on February 14 Share Article Prime Minister likely to visit Chennai on February 14 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Chennai on February 14 when he will inaugurate the Metro Rail project’s Washermenpet-Wimco Nagar line, an extension of phase I, among other schemes, according to a senior official. Sources in Chennai Metro Rail Ltd. said though the construction work on stations has b...

6 held in GST fraud case, 340 firms identified Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Six men were arrested in connection with a GST refund scam, the police said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Shailesh Kumar (29), Sandeep Singh Negi (30), Vivek Kumar (42), Harish Chand Girish (45), Gaurav Rawat (33) and Manoj Kumar (41), they said. The police received a complaint that some unknown persons had got three GSTINs issued on complainant’s PAN and Aadhaar card. GSTINs were issued in th...