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Railway okays Vaduthala bridge alignment Updated: Updated: Share Article The Railway has accepted the revised alignment of the Vaduthala overbridge, Hibi Eden, MP, said. The project had failed to take off despite funds being earmarked in the 2016-17 budget. Mr. Eden and T.J. Vinod, MLA, made efforts to overcome issues facing the project for which ₹47.50 crore was expected from the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB). “The Railway suggested a few revisions in the detailed p...

Updated: Share Article AAA Sundaram-Clayton Ltd.’s (SCL) standalone third quarter net profit rose multifold to ₹38.24 crore from ₹41 lakh on improved sales volume. Total income rose 22% to ₹376 crore. The net profit also included an exceptional item of ₹5.31 crore (₹4.31 crore), a one-time cost associated with voluntary separations, the company said in a regulatory filing. For the nine months period, SCL reported standalone net loss of ₹7 crore against net profit of ₹6.65 crore...

HC expunges remarks Updated: Updated: Share Article Madurai The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday expunged certain remarks made on Higher Education Secretary Apoorva by a single judge bench. The judge had made the remark while quashing a recruitment notification issued by Bharathidasan University, Tiruchi, that treated the entire university as one unit for applying reservation policy. A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi expunged the remarks and observed that t...

Cars to be serviced anywhere in airport parking area GMR Hyderabad International Airport has introduced one more initiative towards safe travel, a ‘waterless eco-washing’ facility to sanitize cars. This service includes — exterior cleaning, vacuum cleaning, tyre clean and polish, air freshener, dashboard dressing, deep clean services. This helps in the complete sanitization of the vehicles and ensures a safe travel. One of the kiosks is located at the entrance of the Car Parking zone –...

Stalls for GI products Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Karnataka boasts of a total of 42 products that have been included in the Geographical Indication (GI) of goods list. This is out of 370 goods have been given GI tag in the country. Separate stalls for GI goods would be set up at the Bengaluru and other airports in the State for their promotion, said Major and Medium Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar on Friday in the Assembly. He was replying to Abhaya Prasad of the Congress. Subsc...

Paddy stocked in the open near a DPC at Ammapettai in Thanjavur district.   A protest was held by the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday demanding immediate opening of direct purchase centres (DPCs) at Ammapettai and surrounding areas. According to R. Senthilkumar, Ammapettai, CPI Union Secretary, the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation has not opened a permanent DPC at Ammapettai and even temporary DPCs that were usually set up at Puliyakudi, Pallavaroyanpettai, Puthur and Kokkeri ar...

Contract conservancy workers allege irregularities in disbursement of wages Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Members of the contract conservancy workers’ union affiliated to the CITU staged a protest here on Friday alleging irregularities in disbursement of wages to those working for the Coimbatore Corporation. Though ₹ 614 a day was fixed as wages for the workers in 2017 and a government order was issued, the 3,000-odd workers working in Corporation were getting only ₹ 318. The dist...

Schools asked to comply with COVID-19 guidelines Punjab School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Friday said following conditional approval from the State government, all government, aided and private schools were set to reopen for Classes 1 and 2, and pre-primary classes from February 1. He said as the parents had firmly supported the decision of the State government to reopen schools, he had directed Education Department officials and school managements to strictly comply with the COV...

Man found dead after stabbing woman Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A 26-year-old youth, who fled after stabbing a young woman, was found dead in Madhavaram on Friday. The police said the woman, an IT firm employee, and V. Sudhakar, who owns a cellphone shop, were in love for four years. She ended the relationship recently following his bad behaviour. On Thursday, attacked her, inflicting injuries on her stomach, head, and hand, the police said. She was admitted to Government Stanley Hosp...

All COVID-19 regulations to be followed District Intermediate Education Officer Govindaram informed that the junior colleges in the district are ready for reopening and all steps were put in place to follow COVID–19 regulations. Informing that written permission from parents is mandatory for students to attend classes, he said that all the students would be screened for temperature before being allowed into classrooms. The students suffering with fever, cold or other problems will be sent to...