Senior journalist Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty was on Sunday (December 14, 2025) elected as the first woman president of the Press Club of India. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Senior journalist Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty was on Sunday (December 14, 2025) elected as the first woman president of the Press Club of India. Ms. Pisharoty’s team…
Image for the purpose of representation only. | Photo Credit: File The Agra-based Indian School of Nature (ISN), an institution engaged in education and research in climate action, sustainable tourism, and environment-compatible agriculture, has won the Climate Guardian Award 2025 at the Tour Operators for Tigers (TOFT) Wildlife and Nature Tourism Awards. The award was…
Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan releases a commemorative postage stamp in honour of Emperor Perumbidugu Mutharaiyar II, along with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh, and Tamil Nadu BJP chief Nainar Nagenthran, at the Vice-President’s Enclave, in New Delhi. Photo: X/@VPIndia via PTI Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan on Sunday (December 14, 2025)…
President Droupadi Murmu. File | Photo Credit: ANI President Droupadi Murmu has rejected the mercy petition of Ravi Ashok Ghumare, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a two-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2012, officials said on Sunday (December 14, 2025). This is the third mercy plea rejected by the President since she assumed…
Agriculture Diploma College, Bidar. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Karnataka Pradesh Krishik Samaj (KPKS) has urged the State government to take a decision during the ongoing Winter Session of the Legislature on upgrading the existing Diploma Agriculture College in Bidar into a degree agricultural college. KPKS Bidar district president Siddaramaiah Swamy stated that Bidar…
An Indian Army personnel during a search and rescue operation after a minitruck carrying 21 construction workers from Assam plunges into a deep gorge, in Hayuliang, Arunachal Pradesh, on December 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI GUWAHATI The police in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district arrested two men on charges of supplying labourers illegally to Arunachal…
Honorary Doctorate being conferred to Gurupadalinga Mahashivayogigalu and Shashil Namoshi at the seventh convocation of Sharnbasva University, held at Sharnbaswappa Appa Anubhava Mantapa in Kalaburagi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI Sharnbasva University honoured three distinguished personalities with honorary doctorates during its seventh convocation held at the Dr. Sharanabasappa Appa Anubhava Mantap in Kalaburagi…
Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters ISRO has lined up seven launch missions by March next year, including one to demonstrate home-built electric propulsion systems for satellite and quantum key distribution technologies, and the first uncrewed mission of the Gaganyaan project. The first of the seven launches is expected to take…
KHAMMAM A Sarpanch candidate from Anasagaram Gram Panchayat in Khammam district’s Nelakondapalli mandal died of a suspected heart attack, hours before polling, during the second phase of panchayat elections on Sunday. Sources said that Damala Nagaraju, an Independent candidate in the fray from Anasagaram gram panchayat, was hospitalised after he fell ill on Saturday. He…
The South Western Railway (SWR) has nearly completed Railway Electrification on the 55 km Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat section on the Hassan – Mangaluru line. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Very soon, trains, both coaching and freight, on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru / Karwar sector will run on electric traction end-to-end, with the Railway Electrification (RE) on the…