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To curb illegal sale of liquor during the Assembly elections, flying squads have been formed in the district. District Election Officer and Collector C. Kathiravan in a release said that squad members

SEBI calls for mechanism to prevent market abuse Updated: Updated: MIIs told to formulate code of conduct Share Article MIIs told to formulate code of conduct SEBI on Wednesday asked stock exchanges, clearing corporations and depositories to put in place a code of conduct and institutional mechanism to prevent fraud or market abuse by them and their designated persons. Under this, the managing director (MD) or chief executive officer (CEO) of market infrastructure institutions (MIIs) will be ob...

Octogenarian keen to contest for 12th time Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Premadhar Bora, the grand old man of Assam’s electoral politics, is keen on contesting the coming Assembly elections for the 12th time. The 87-year-old retired teacher has won the Bihpuria seat as an Independent four times between 1967 and 2001, and has no intention of joining any party for “probably my last election.” He was the Education Minister in the Jogen Hazarika government in 1979 and the pro-tem Speake...

Fisheries department JD booked Updated: Hyderabad, Updated: Share Article Joint Director of State Fisheries department booked for abusing bidder Joint Director of State Fisheries department was booked by the Humayun Nagar police under SC and ST Atrocities Act for allegedly abusing a tender bidder in the name of his caste. According to Inspector Korani Sunil, one Jaswanth, an employee of HDFC Bank, who also bids tenders in Fisheries department, lodged a complaint on Tuesday stating that JD S...

Ladakh exhibition inaugurated Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh Radha Krishna Mathur inaugurated ‘Enchanting Ladakh’, a handloom and handicraft expo, at Dilli Haat. The expo has a wide variety of products that showcase the work of over 70 artisans from different parts of Ladakh. Mr. Mathur said that the products made by the Ladakhi artisans from remote villages of Kargil and Leh provide them a platform to showcase their crafts in the Capital will expose the...

528 new cases, three deaths Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The State on Wednesday reported 528 new cases of COVID-19, taking the total to 9,52,565. With three deaths, the toll rose to 12,346. This is apart from 19 deaths due to non-COVID-19 reasons. As many as 413 persons were discharged on Wednesday, taking the total recoveries to 9,34,143. Of the remaining 6,057 active patients, 116 are in ICUs. While the positivity rate for the day stood at 0.77%, the CFR touched 0.56%. As many as 68,33...

Kapu leader and former Minister Mudragada Padmanabham. File   | Photo Credit: The Hindu Former minister and Kapu reservation agitation leader Mudragada Padmanabham, along with few others appeared in Vijayawada Metropolitan Magistrate Court (Railway Court) in Tuni rioting case on Tuesday. The Kapu Gharjana Sabha, organised by some Kapu leaders in Tuni town in East Godavari district on January 31, 2016, seeking inclusion of Kapus in Bcs list, turned violent when some protestors stopped Ratnach...

Two minor siblings killed in Pak landmine explosion Updated: Updated: March 02, 2021 06:20 IST The incident occurred in Shawal valley of South Waziristan tribal district in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan Share Article AAA The incident occurred in Shawal valley of South Waziristan tribal district in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan Two siblings, aged 12 and 8, were killed in a landmine explosion in northwest Pakistan on Monday, polic...

Two murdered by armed gangs in Chennai; killers still at large Updated: Updated: DMDK functionary murdered in Anakaputhur; rice merchant hacked to death in Ponmar on Monday night Share Article Two murders were reported from two different places in the city on Monday night. One of the victims has been identified as Rajkumar, 36 who was running a tailoring shop in Anakaputhur. He was a DMDK functionary also. On Monday night, he had closed his shop and was on the way home on his bike. A few uni...

Copy code Joining us for this special episode today is Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mr Vaishnav’s research is centred around the Political Economy of India, for instance, state capacity, corruption, governance and electoral behaviour. He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics, and has edited a number of books. Milan is also an adjunct professor at the Edmund a Walsh School of foreign servi...