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Indian-origin U.S. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. File | Photo Credit: AP The Indian-origin U.S. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on Wednesday (October 14, 2026) voiced concern over reports of the removal of 13 crore voter names from the draft electoral rolls in India. “I am deeply concerned about the actions of the Indian government to purge 130 million…
A large number of patients from across north Keralam depend on the cardiology department at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh The Department of Cardiology at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, which is visited by hundreds of patients from across north Keralam every day, is facing a serious…
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Iran-backed Houthi rebels hit the headquarters of the Saudi state-owned oil company Aramco in an overnight strike, two regional officials said on Wednesday (October 14, 2026), damaging the offices of the firm’s chief executive and other top officials. The strike, in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran, was the latest demonstration of the Houthis’…
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One of the women entrepreneurs supported by the Science, Technology and Innovation hub of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) hub of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has helped set up 84 micro-enterprises in eight districts of Keralam between 2022 and 2026,…
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is looking to strengthen its existing radar network alongside installing new radars to improve weather observations and track monsoons. With the onset of Northeast monsoon on Thursday, the IMD’s Regional Meteorological Centre is maintaining the nearly 24-year-old Chennai’s S-band doppler weather radar in working condition. It is likely to be…
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This is Justin Rose’s second visit to India. The first was a good 22 years ago, when the English golfer played a skins game at DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon. “That was back in the day before DLF became the DLF of now,” Rose said. Rose’s own journey over the last decades has…
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Those detained during Delhi protests on October 10, 11 and 12 have filed petitions in the Supreme Court alleging police excesses and appealing for an independent inquiry into the police action, preservation of CCTV footage and bodycams and return of their phones and other belongings. The detainees alleged they were dragged, slapped and assaulted by…
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In an effort to optimise teaching duties, the School Education department conducted an AI-training workshop for teachers in Chennai on Wednesday. The training programme was conducted for 81 postgraduate teachers of Class XI and XII from government and corporation schools in Chennai in the first phase. “As the academic year progresses, the programme will be…
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In the crevices of boulders and beneath the rustle of leaf litter in the hills of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh lives a tiny population of the strikingly-patterned Jeypore ground gecko, which was presumed extinct for 130 years until it was rediscovered in 2010 by an Indian scientist. Just four individuals of…
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Sai Sudharsan. | Photo Credit: S. Prasanna Venkatesan B. Sai Sudharsan said on Wednesday that the National selectors had asked him to play in the Ranji Trophy as part of his preparation for India’s upcoming tour of New Zealand. Having been on India-A duty in Puducherry, he arrived here “at 10.40 p.m.” on the eve…
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