Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday presented the Avvaiyar award to Shanthi Ranganathan, Honorary Secretary, T.T. Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, also known as TTK Hospital. The award, carrying a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh, an eight-gram gold medal and a citation, was instituted by the Chief Minister in 2012 to recognise the services of women in different fields of activity […]
» Read moreKoltaka: Noted Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen on Tuesday returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special Award to protest against communal attacks in the country. “This is my mark of protest against what happened in Dadri and the attacks on writers and rationalists in other parts of the country,” Ms Sen said. Ms Sen was given the Swarnajayanti Special Sahitya Akademi […]
» Read moreNEW DELHI: Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership knew about Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country much before the US navy SEALs killed him in a raid in 2011, the then defence minister of Pakistan has claimed. The Pakistani establishment, the country’s powerful army chief and the intelligence agency ISI were aware that Osama was living in Abbottabad, according […]
» Read moreHyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government is hoping to bring back many artifacts related to its new capital city Amaravati, which are on display in the British Museum in London. Andhra Pradesh chief secretary IYR Krishna Rao, who recently visited the museum, said about 30 to 40 artifacts that were excavated from and around Amaravati site are on the display at […]
» Read moreNew Delhi: Defence minister Manohar Parrikar will rename the prestigious missile complex in Hyderabad as “Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex”. The landmark event will take place at Research Centre Imarat (RCI) on Thursday on the occasion of the 84th birth anniversary of Dr Kalam, the “Missile Man”. Dr Kalam had joined Missile Complex, DRDO in 1982 and was a […]
» Read moreMumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone for two major elevated Metro routes — Dahisar(w) to D N Nagar (part of Dahisar-charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro-II project) and the Andher (E)-Dahisar (E) Metro-VII that will run along Western Express highway. The two Metro lines will decongest commuter transport in the crowded western suburbs and is being constructed at a collective […]
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