Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday indicated that the floods in Telangana cannot be declared as “national calamity” as sought by the state government even as he said the Centre would extend all possible help to the state. The Telangana government should use the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to help the flood-hit […]

Doctors at the King George Hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam successfully removed the calcified remains of a 24-week-old fetus from a patient’s abdominal cavity. The condition known as a ‘stone baby’ or “lithopedion”, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed […]

Chinar has stood testimony to the ever-changing history in Jammu Kashmir for so many decades. But over the years their numbers have been drastically decreasing. And now to keep the numbers from further decreasing, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has started geo-tagging them. One just has to follow Google to locate chinar trees in Kashmir. […]

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday alleged that “corruption” was the cause of the collapse of the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Sindhudurg district’s Rajkot Fort last month. Mr Pawar was speaking at an event in Kagal in Kolhapur district where BJP leader Raje Samarjeet Ghatge joined NCP (SP). “It […]

A 47-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly attempting to smuggle ganja into the Viyyur Central Jail, where her son is an inmate, an official said. Latha, a resident of Panniyode in Thiruvananthapuram, was caught by the Excise team with 80 grams of ganja hidden in her handbag. According to an Excise official, Latha’s […]