Новости за 21.07.2015

The Gujarat high court has fined Hasmukh Pandya, 42, a teacher from Limkheda — in the tribal district of Dahod — for refusing to accept that he is the father of his three children.

A woman filed an atrocity complaint with the Viramgam police on Sunday, accusing a group of persons of assaulting her and using abusive words for her caste.

Two days after Namakkal constituency MP P R Sundaram's hate speech, Rasipuram town DMK secretary P Sankar lodged a complaint with the Rasipuram police on Monday evening demanding action against Sundaram.

Bharathiar University allegedly "spent 5 lakh" to conduct its 15-minute syndicate meeting in Chennai on Tuesday morning at the office of Selvi Apoorva, the principal secretary of higher education.

When the police apprehended two teenage boys who had allegedly murdered a resident of Kuniamuthur recently, they were taken aback by the casual manner in which they had confessed to the heinous crime to lead a life of luxury.

With 1,101 accidents in 2014, Tamil Nadu has topped the list in traffic accidents in school and college zones in the country.Tamil Nadu is also the only state that recorded more than 1,000 accidents in these zones.

More than 200 beef stall owners in Erode closed their stalls for the second day on Tuesday.

The commissioner of Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug Administration Department (TNFSDAD), Kumar Jayant, has ordered collectors and designated officers of Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri, Erode, Trichy, Villupuram and Perambalur, not to impose the proposed ban on transportation of wet sago starch.

The civic body has planned to re-open the 1.2km long stretch of bitumen road on the bund of Ukkadam big tank within two days.

A section of engineers in the city corporation have locked horns with the commissioner for finding fault with the quality of a road laid a few days ago.

The Home, Prohibition and Excise department of Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday revoked the detention order of Namakkal based human rights activist N Mathialagan.

The Gujarat forest department will collaborate with the German federal ministry for the environment, nature conservation, building and nuclear safety (BMUB) as part of the ‘Conservation and Sustainable Management of Existing and Potential Coastal and Marine Protected Areas’ (CMPA) initiative.

The Andhra Pradesh government has come up with a novel scheme to keep beggars away from the crowded ghats where Godavari Pushkaralu is now being held — they’ve been told to take home Rs 5,000 as compensation for loss of income and steer clear of the once-in-144-year event.

Teachers from 300 schools who gathered at Kala Academy on Tuesday, listened with rapt attention as members of the solid waste management cell of the department of science and technology educated them on solid waste management in their schools.

The professional degree seats in Goa have gone up by 31% over the last five years, but the seats reserved for people with disabilities have slid by 6%, mainly in the engineering stream. In fact, the number of seats reserved for this category has been lowered by 13 in 2015-16 from the earlier 37 in engineering courses.

The professional degree seats in Goa have gone up by 31% over the last five years, but the seats reserved for people with disabilities have slid by 6%, mainly in the engineering stream.

In the face of an international controversy that bribes were allegedly paid to a Goan minister for the JICA water supply project in Goa in 2010, PWD officials told TOI that all procedures were followed in the tendering and awarding of the work.

The second edition of India’s first international off-road motorsport event, Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge (RFC) India 2015, will have two Goan teams battling it out

Life for residents of villages in Goa is anything but rural, data of the just-released Socio and Economic Caste Census 2011 indicates.

An 18-year-old girl and her father were assaulted by an auto driver at the busy Rashbehari crossing on Tuesday night when they protested against abrupt shortening of a route.

At first glance, Zainab Sayeed looks petite and unassuming.

The report of Justice Sushanta Chatterjee commission, that probed the police firing on Youth Congress supporters on July 21, 1993, is gathering dust at Nabanna.

Police arrested the prime accused in the Botanic Garden rape case on Tuesday.

With the master plan for the AP capital Amaravati having been completed, the focus now shifts to its construction. According to sources, Ascendas-Singbridge and Sembcorp Development, two of Singapore’s developers, are likely to bid for the capital development.

The state may be starved of funds, but that does not appear to come in the way of the TDP regime bestowing a Rs 1,000 crore payment to irrigation contractors towards what it calls cost escalation.