Caste census will boost economic equality, says Union Minister Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar

Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar. | Photo Credit: File Photo Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar has welcomed the Union Government’s decision to conduct a caste-based census, calling it a step towards the uplift of the backward communities and a move that…

ICMR hands over TB detection tech to pvt firm for commercial production

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has transferred an indigenously developed diagnostic technology to rapidly detect tuberculosis (TB) to a private firm for commercial production, according to an official release issued on Thursday. The ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, North East (ICMR-RMRC NE) has announced the successful transfer of its indigenously developed CRISPR-Cas-based diagnostic technology…

Candidates who cleared TET in 2013 plead for priority in appointment of govt. school teachers in the new academic year

A group of Tamil Nadu Teacher Eligibility Test (TNTET) qualified secondary grade teachers (SGT) on Thursday urged Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Minister for School Education Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi to appoint them to the vacancies in the schools by the new academic year. At a press conference held here, representatives of the TET SGTs from…