Category: India

Space scientist K. Kasturirangan visited parts of Sakleshpur taluk in Hassan in January 2013 to study the Western Ghats as head of the High-Level Working Group. | Photo Credit: File Photo Shivamogga K. Kasturirangan, the space scientist who passed away on Friday, had a distinct connection with the people of the Malnad region, located in…

BJP ex-district President Puppala Srinatha Reddy and district Secretary G. Lakshman Rao, submit a representation to Kadapa district Collector Sridhar Cherukuri on Friday, requesting the district administration to official monitor the Brahmamgari Gurupooja Aradhana Utsavam. | Photo Credit: KV POORNACHANDRA KUMAR The Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy Gurupooja Aradhana Utsavam, at the famed Brahmamgari Matham, is scheduled…

Kerala Fibre Optic Network (KFON) Limited, the State Government’s initiative aimed at providing free high-speed internet to economically backward families in Kerala, has announced an increase in the data limit for Below the Poverty Line (BPL) category users. The free internet data limit, previously set at 1.5 GB per day at 20 MBPS, has now…

SP VN Manikanta Chandolu speaking to the media in Chittoor on Friday. | Photo Credit: ARRANGEMENT To prevent thefts and housebreaks, and ensure foolproof community safety, the Chittoor district police have installed 3,000 CCTV cameras and distributed 16,500 smart door locks across the district. Additionally, the department has launched a series of awareness campaigns to…

Cotton bales turning into ashes in a fire accident in a godown at the old vegetable market in Bidar on Thursday night. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A major fire broke out at a cotton godown attached to a mattress manufacturing unit in the old vegetable market area in Bidar on Thursday night, causing damage estimated…

No one should play politics over the recent terror attack in Kashmir, the former Union Minister Sharad Pawar said in Belagavi on Friday. “What has happened in Pahalgam is an attack on India and not just on tourists. It is our responsibility to see that we do not play politics on the issue of terror….

Director of IIIT Dharwad Mahadeva Prasanna inaugurating a workshop organised by SDM College of Engineering and Technology in Dharwad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are modernising the chemical industry through enhanced data-driven decision-making, process automation and intelligent optimization systems,” Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology…

Congress leaders Salman Khursheed, former Union Minister Pallam Raju and women panelists Parnika Reddy, Monica Fein, Undram Chinbat, and Ann Linde, at a panel discussion on ‘Gender Justice and a Feminist Future’ during the Bharat Summit, in Hyderabad on Friday. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Hyderabad Invisibilising women in policy making, sexual harassment, women in…

The Central University of Karnataka at Kadaganchi near Kalaburagi. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI The Central University of Karnataka has been selected as Spoke Institute under the prestigious ANRF-PAIR (Partnerships for Accelerated Innovation and Research) programme, an initiative of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), in a major boost to its research capabilities. The research…

The harvesting of paddy cultivated under the ‘vithu gramam’ project of the Alappuzha district panchayat has begun at Edapon paddy polder in Nooranad grama panchayat. It was inaugurated by district panchayat president K.G. Rajeshwari recently. The local body launched the project to address the shortage of high-quality paddy seeds in the district. Officials said that…