Chennai power shutdown: Several areas to face outage tomorrow. Check areas, timingsChennai Power Shutdown Areas: Chennai residents, get ready for a short power disruption. Power will be off in Teynampet and Minjur areas on...
Experts want Centre to set aside 'green expenditure' funds in Budget“Public expenditure allocations can intersect with a range of programmes across sectors, some of which could be tagged as ‘green' and it wi...
Coffee growers cite losses due to rains, seek rescheduling of bank loansThey also urged the Centre to direct banks not to invoke the provisions of the Sarfaesi Act and auction the pledged plantations to recover ...
Five ministers inducted in NDA cabinet in PuducherryA Namassivayam, K Lakshminarayanan, C Djeacoumar, Chandira Priyanga and A K Sai J Saravana Kumar were sworn in as Ministers by Lt Governor ...
Centre's budget for environment not enough to tackle climate crisis: Experts"It's good to hear a special mention of climate change and air pollution in the budget speech. Union Budget earmarked Rs 4,400 cr for Natio...
India’s worsening drought is forcing doctors to buy water for surgeryFailed rains last year and delays in this year’s annual monsoon have left nearly half of India facing drought-like conditions.
Energy-hungry India can neither abandon dams nor embrace the Chinese policy of building many large onesAs large dams built just after Independence reach their sell-by dates, tough questions are being raised on India's need for aggressive inve...
US academics raise concerns over PM Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' campaignAhead of PM's visit to Silicon Valley to promote 'Digital India' campaign, US-based academics have raised privacy concerns about the projec...
- Former Puducherry Minister Renuka Appadurai passes away
Speaker V Sabapathy made an obituary reference to the death of Appadurai and recalled her services to the union territory.
Anbumani Ramadoss was the first minister to use Tamil in Lok Sabha: PMKPMK welcomed a BJP minister's reply in Tamil to a question in Parliament, but said its leader Ramadoss was the first Union Minister in rece...
Rescuing 'Idea of India' from the clutches of political jingoismIn truth, the idea of India belongs to us. We, not any party, are its inheritors from parents who courageously loosened nooses of creed and...
- HP launches new digital offset press in Indian market
HP launched its first HP Indigo 7500 Digital Offset press for the Indian Market, by installing it at the Glo Digital Press here.
- Fake drug? Checking authenticity is now just an SMS away
Giant players have now stepped in with a mission to make it harder for pharmaceutical counterfeiters to operate.
Detect counterfeit drugs through cloud services technology, system evolved from HP's pilot African projectThe system evolved from a pilot programme implemented in Africa to check the authenticity of life-saving drugs distributed there.
- Eating the write stuff between the pages
Travellers' tales are important for countries. They help fix a country’s image, putting down the stereotypes and simplifications that are t...
- 19 MPs seek PM's intervention on spectrum issue
Pressure is mounting on GSM mobile operators to return surplus spectrum, with several lawmakers belonging to various political parties now ...
- Another forgotten food culture to the fore
My Oriya friend flipped through the copy of Healthy Oriya Cooking by Bijoylaxmi Hota and Kabita Pattanaik (Rupa Books), and sniffed. “How c...