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Union HRD Minister’s intervention sought in Kancha Gachibowli land auction; Laxman raises issue in RS

Union HRD Minister’s intervention sought in Kancha Gachibowli land auction; Laxman raises issue in RS

Telangana party president and Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy led a delegation of party MPs to the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Dharmendra Pradhan, to give a representation seeking his intervention in the auction of 400 acres land in Kancha Gachibowli, Hyderabad, on Tuesday (April 1, 2025) | Photo Credit: By Arrangement The Bharatiya

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Documenting India’s grand old acoustic pianos, one key at a time

Documenting India’s grand old acoustic pianos, one key at a time

Mirra Kannan | Photo Credit: Special arrangement An old acoustic piano, according to Mirra Kannan, is a time capsule. Beneath its dusty lid and in between its keys, one can find “little treasures” that will offer insights into its past. “These may be old newspapers, a coin or signs of restoration of its previous technicians,”

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Annamalai to step down as Tamil Nadu BJP chief? Alliance buzz with AIADMK heats up ahead of assembly polls

Annamalai to step down as Tamil Nadu BJP chief? Alliance buzz with AIADMK heats up ahead of assembly polls

K Annamalai may step down as Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamil Nadu president amid talks of a BJP-AIADMK alliance for next year’s assembly elections in the state. The decision is being made considering caste equations in the poll-bound state where the BJP has been trying to increase its footprint, a report in the Indian Express said.

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ACME forays into module manufacturing with 1.2 GW facility, eyes cell production in few years

ACME forays into module manufacturing with 1.2 GW facility, eyes cell production in few years

Cleantech major ACME Group has entered the renewable energy equipment manufacturing business with the commissioning of its 1.2 GW solar PV module facility in Jaipur and will also consider manufacturing solar cells in Rajasthan in the next few years, said chairman Manoj K. Upadhyay. Although the plant started trial production in January, the commercial operations

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Over half of district judges in Delhi lack official residences

Over half of district judges in Delhi lack official residences

There is an acute shortage of official accommodation for judicial officers in Delhi, with over half of the district judges lacking government housing. Against the sanctioned strength of 897 judicial officers, only 348 residences are available, leaving a shortfall of 549 residences, as per a Delhi High Court document issued in March. This shortfall has

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Ram Navami posters with pictures of Modi, Suvendu Adhikari surface in Kolkata on Id

Ram Navami posters with photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari surfaced in key spots across Kolkata on Monday (March 31, 2025), days before the occasion slated for April 6. The posters have been put up in large numbers in locations such as Shyambazar in north Kolkata and

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Delhi Sewer Deaths: The Lethal Cost of Contractual Sanitation Work

Delhi Sewer Deaths: The Lethal Cost of Contractual Sanitation Work

Panth Lal Chandra, 43, migrated to Delhi from Chhattisgarh, hoping for a better livelihood. What he instead found himself doing in the capital was the dehumanising practice of manually cleaning sewers. On March 16, Chandra descended into a clogged manhole in the posh New Friends Colony in south Delhi. He had no protective gear on,

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Govt’s equity-for-debt plan to aid Vi’s cash flow; survival concerns persist

Govt’s equity-for-debt plan to aid Vi’s cash flow; survival concerns persist

This is because, with the government converting spectrum dues worth â‚ą36,950 crore, the telecom operator would now have to pay a total of over 66% less in statutory dues over the next three years after the expiry of the current moratorium later this year. However, analysts said the company must meet a yearly â‚ą43,000 crore

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Modi’s Sri Lanka Visit: Adani’s $442M Wind Power Deal Faces Pricing Roadblock

Modi’s Sri Lanka Visit: Adani’s $442M Wind Power Deal Faces Pricing Roadblock

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in New Delhi on December 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR With Prime Minister Narendra Modi heading to Sri Lanka on April 4 for a three-day visit, the fate of the Adani Group’s proposed $442-million wind power project in that country will

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Annamalai changes tune on BJP-AIADMK alliance over a year after prompting the break-up: What did he say?

Annamalai changes tune on BJP-AIADMK alliance over a year after prompting the break-up: What did he say?

Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said the party’s central leadership will take an “appropriate call” on the shape and form of the alliance to be forged in the run up to the state assembly polls next year. Annamalai, whose controversial statements were considered a reason for AIADMK leaving the BJP-led NDA in 2024, seems

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