Month: August 2019

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray’s son Aditya may contest the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra from Worli seat, said sources today.

Governor Banwarilal Purohit today stressed for greater spread of dentists in rural areas. Citing WHO report, he said the ideal dentist-population ratio is 1:7,500.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has made a major announcement on State-owned banks, that will see 10 of them being merged to form four bigger lenders to strengthen a sector struggling with a bad-loan cleanup.

An influential group of three lawmakers on Friday sought assurance from the Trump administration that it will make available to the Congress the full text of any agreement signed with the Taliban.

President Donald Trump says his Secretary was dismissed after making indiscreet remarks about his children and saying things that ‘were just a little bit hurtful.’ Madeleine Westerhout lost her job as director of Oval Office operations this week.

An entrepreneur hailing from Visakhapatnam on Thursday donated Rs 1.1 crore to the Lord Venkateswara shrine at Tirumala here, a temple official said.

For Sivakarthikeyan starrer ‘Namma Veetu Pillai,’ music composer Anirudh has crooned a song composed by D Imman. The highlight is that it has been penned by Sivakarthikeyan himself. The movie, directed by Pandiraj, who is reuniting with the actor for the third time after ‘Marina’ and ‘Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga.’

A software engineer reportedly missing for the last two days has been found dead in his friend-cum-business partner’s room in the city, police said here on Friday.

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy has made a fervent plea to government school teachers to ensure that they enrolled their children in State-run institutions instead of private ones as was seen now.

A teenage student jumped to his death from the second floor of a private college here where he was studying, on Friday, police said.