20 tonnes of red sanders seized in Kancheepuram In a major breakthrough against timber mafia dealing with red sanders in Kancheepuram, foresters on Wednesday arrested 3 persons and confiscated 20 tonne red sanders from a godown in Hanumanthapuram. According to forest department sources, a special team was formed to…
Kansas shooting: Srinivas and his wife were compared to ‘Amitabh and Jaya’ In a Facebook message posted after her husband’s funeral on Tuesday, Sunayana Dumala, wife of Srinivas Kuchibhotla – the Indian techie who was shot dead in a racially-motivated crime in Kansas, United States – revealed how the couple…
FBI investigating shootings of Indian men in Kansas as hate crime Trump’s statements on immigration. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Friday that it was absurd to link the killing to Trump’s “America First” stance. On Tuesday, the White House said it was looking more like the shooting…
Kerala priest admits to raping minor Fr Robin Vadakkumchery, former vicar of St Sebastian’s church, Neendunokki, near Kottiyoor, who was under custody over raping a minor girl, was arrested by police on Tuesday. He was already nabbed by a team led by Peravoor CI N Sunilkumar on Monday night, while he was trying to…
Gurmehar withdraws campaign against ABVP, requests to be ‘left alone’ DU student Gurmehar Kaur on Tuesday pulled out of the protest march held against ABVP while requesting to be “left alone”, and left for Jalandhar to be with her family. Her decision comes amidst a raging controversy over her social media…
In Vijayawada district on tuesday seven passengers died and 25 people suffered injuries during wee hours when a private travel bus fell in a canal in National Highway village of Krishna district. The Diwakar travels was on the way to Hyderabad from Vishakapatnam and it met with an accident when the driver lost…
Protests for water growing in Tamil Nadu Protests by residents with empty pots seeking drinking water are growing across Tamil Nadu. Chennai, Vellore, Kancheepuram and Krishnagiri are facing severe water shortage and the state police are facing a tough time with growing protests. Sensing that the situation is becoming…
SC denies nod to woman to terminate her 26-week foetus The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow a woman, who is in her 26th week of pregnancy, to abort her foetus on the ground that it suffered from ‘down syndrome’, saying “we have a life in our hands”. The apex court said that as per a…
‘Leave me alone’: Gurmehar Kaur withdraws from ‘Save DU’ campaign Delhi University (DU) student Gurmehar Kaur, who launched a social media campaign against RSS youth wing ABVP through a Facebook profile picture, said on Tuesday that she was withdrawing from the ‘Save DU’ campaign. “I’m…
Politics in TN different now than when Jaya, Karuna were in power: BJP Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pon Radhakrishnan on Monday said the political situation in Tamil Nadu now was completely different from that when DMK president M Karunanidhi and late AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa were at the…