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234 cases in Palakkad Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA As many as 234 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Palakkad district on Saturday. When 136 of them got the disease through direct contact with infected persons, there were 92 cases without an identifiable source of infection. Four cases had come from other States. There were two health workers among the newly infected persons. District health officials said that 178 people recovered from the disease on Saturday. Meanwhile, vaccinat...

A terrorist outfit reportedly gave a call to plunge city into darkness on Republic Day

CBI arrests labour official on corruption charge Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested an official of the Ministry of Labour on charges of taking bribe for issuing a licence, sources in the agency said. Acting on a complaint, CBI’s Anti-Corruption Branch officials laid a trap and arrested Regional Labour Commissioner Sivarajan in his office soon after he received ₹30,000 bribe. Further investigation is on, the sources added. SU...

‘No breakthrough in Ramateertham temple issue yet’ BJP State Executive Committee member Nadukuditi Eswara Rao urged the State government to concentrate on the investigation into the idol desecration at the Ramateertham temple in Vizianagaram district, instead of focusing on the arrests of the opposition leaders. Addressing the media at Ranasthalam of Srikakulam district on Thursday, he said that the Police Department was yet to get any break through in in the case. “The Police Departme...

Betting racket unearthed in Aminjikarai, two arrested Updated: Updated: Police raid a club in Mogappair West and arrest 20 persons for gambling Share Article Two persons were arrested on Friday for betting over cricket matches in T. Nagar. Following a tip-off to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Anna Nagar, a special team was constituted to trace the accused. The team of plainclothesmen acted as decoys and rounded up Jeetu alias Jeetendar, 28, and Suresh Jain, 37, in T. Nagar. They were handed o...

The Hindu Margazhi Classical Music Competition: Dhanush Anantharaman, second prize in Vocal, 13-19 years

The Hindu Margazhi Classical Music Competition: K. Akshay, second prize in Vocal Thukkada, 0 to 12 years

Updated: Share Article AAA The Anantapur Municipal Corporation on Thursday launched a campaign to make the city roads ‘pothole-free’ by recarpeting the main roads at a cost of ₹40 crore. Municipal Commissioner P.V.V.S. Murthy inspected the work on the Railway Station to Ramachandra Nagar stretch where all the projections on to the thoroughfare were removed, along with some other stretches in the city. Hot bitumen mix for recarpeting has become very scarce and the municipal body has been s...

Police intercept car, seize 100 kg ganja in Madhavaram Updated: Updated: Share Article Narcotics Intelligence Bureau (NIB-CID) has seized 100 kg ganja from two drug peddlers. Following a tip-off about ganja being smuggled from other States, a special team from NIB-CID mounted surveillance near Madhavaram. The team intercepted a car going from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh to Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district and found ganja concealed in gunny bags. The police nabbed Nallamperumal, 40, and...

Kala was not arrested, says Sajjala Updated: Updated: ‘TDP behind attacks on temples’ Share Article ‘TDP behind attacks on temples’ Adviser (Public Affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy has said that the police have not arrested TDP leader K. Kala Venkata Rao but have issued notice to him under Section 41A of the CrPC for interrogation. Addressing the media here on Thursday, Mr. Ramakrishna Reddy criticised TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu for making false allegations against t...