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Solve problems of layout, plot owners urge VMRDA, GVMC Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Lakeview VUDA Layout Plot Owners Association(LVLPOA) at its recent general body meeting discussed the problems pertaining to the long-neglected layout, which was developed by VUDA at Madhurawada. Though the plots were auctioned by VUDA to the public way back in 2002, it had failed to implement a number of commitments made, at the time of plot allotment. The unfulfilled commitments include provision of...

Kanna Babu appointed Secretary of SEC Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The government transferred and posted K. Kanna Babu, Special Commissioner of Disaster Management (DM) and ex-officio Additional Secretary of revenue (DM) as the Secretary of the State Election Commission. He is kept in full additional charge of the posts of Special Commissioner and ex-officio Additional Secretary of revenue (DM), Managing Director of AP State Disaster Management Authority and the Commissioner of Fisheries...

Prisoner dies on way to hospital in Coimbatore Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A convict serving life imprisonment in the Coimbatore Central Prison died on the way to hospital on Friday. Police sources identified the deceased as P. Murugasamy (43) from Udumalpet in Tiruppur district. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act case in 2019. On Friday, he experienced difficulty in breathing and used an asthma inhaler, following which...

Updated: Share Article AAA Karnataka on Friday reported 468 new cases of COVID-19, taking its total to 9,38,401. With two deaths, the toll rose to 12,211. This is apart from 19 deaths of patients because of other reasons. As many as 607 persons were discharged on Friday, taking the total recoveries to 9,20,110. Of the remaining 6,061 active patients, 148 were being monitored in the ICU. While the positivity rate for the day stood at 0.68%, the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) touched 0.42%. Bengaluru ...

Updated: Share Article AAA The Economic Survey has forecast that air travel and aircraft movements will reach pre-COVID-19 level in early 2021. This is a “result of swift and decisive interventions and effective measures put in place by the government,” it said. However, curbs on domestic and international operations continue. Airlines are allowed to operate only 80% of their pre-COVID-19 schedule on domestic routes. International operations are only a fraction of the earlier level as the g...

Vintage car, bike show tomorrow Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Madras Heritage Motoring Club is organising a vintage and classic car and bike drive from Chennai to Mamallapuram on January 31. The vintage cars will first assemble for display at Bala Vidya Mandir, Adyar, from 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. C.K. Ranganathan, chairman and managing director, Cavinkare, will flag off the drive. The vehicles will then head to Dakshinachitra for a brief display and will proceed to Welcomhotel Kences P...

Updated: Share Article AAA Rane Engine Valve Ltd. has posted a net profit of ₹14 crore in the third quarter ended December 2020, against a net loss of ₹5 crore in the year-earlier period on account of higher sales. Total revenue stood at ₹93 crore (₹83 crore). The financial performance also included an exceptional item of ₹23.49 crore (income from profit on sale of land and VRS related expenditure), the company said in a regulatory filing. “There was a strong recovery in demand in Q...

Sudhakaran hits out at CPI(M) leader Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA KANNUR-KERALA 29-1-2021; K.Sudhakaran,MP,coming out through Thermal Scanner after he inaugurate it at Railwaystation in Kannur on Friday-PHOTO;S_K_MOHAN   | Photo Credit: S_K_MOHAN Kannur Member of Parliament and KPCC Working Committee president K. Sudhakaran on Friday criticised CPI(M) State secretary A. Vijayraghavan’s comments on the Congress leaders’ meeting the Indian Muslim Union League leadership at Panakkad. ...

Updated: Share Article AAA The T.G. Narayanan Endowment Lecture organised by the English Department (aided), Madras Christian College, will be delivered by novelist, poet and philanthropist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Saturday. Ms. Divakaruni, who is also a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston, will speak on “Bridging barriers through literary texts”. The lecture will be delivered online at 9 a.m. and will be livestreamed on the Department of English MCC Youtube Cha...

HC expunges remarks against official Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday expunged certain remarks made against 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 the reservation policy. A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi expunged the re...