'Kozhikode is only the first'

'We are going to have plane crashes left, right and centre.' IMAGE: Wreckage of the Air India Express flight which crashed at Kozhikode airport on the evening of August 7, 2020. Photograph: ANI......

'We must not deny children the advantages of knowing English'

'English must be taught extremely well to all children in all schools, and especially so in those schools where the medium of instruction until Grade 5/8 is in the mother tongue/local......

At 61 feet, this Ganesha is India's tallest

Ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi, the Ganesh Utsava Committee in Khairtabad in Telangana has built a massive 61-feet-high idol of the elephant God, which it claims is the tallest in the country. Singari......

There were elections here 1,000 years ago!

Some 1,100 years ago, Uthiramerur had an election system similar to what India has today.T E Narasimhan reports. IMAGE: The Sundara Varadaraja Perumal temple. All Photographs: Kind courtesy......

How Lakshmi Vilas Bank eroded its wealth amid controversy and losses

How did a profitable bank founded to serve small businesses in 1926 by a group of businessmen from the Vysya community - a trader caste based in southern and central India - come to this pass? T E......

How states are ensuring food reaches your plates

Most key rabi-producing states of north India, such as Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, have staggered their procurement to enable farmers to come in batches, so that there is no overcrowding. The......

Truck sales crash 60% in August

The overall volume at India’s top four M&HCV makers - Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Eicher, and Mahindra & Mahindra - fell 59.5 per cent to 31,067 units during the month. Sales of......

Did NDA govt help Vedanta's Tuticorin factory?

The environment ministry till May 2014 (still under UPA) ordered that cases like Vedanta’s expansion plans need to consult people.  But in December 2014, the NDA government reversed this......

Srinivasan elected TNCA president for 12th straight time

N Srinivasan was on Sunday elected unopposed as President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) for the 12th year on the trot. In the 83rd Annual General Meeting and elections of the TNCA,......

Srinivasan re-elected TNCA president for eighth term

Board of Control for Cricket in Indiapresident N Srinivasan was on Thursday re-elected unopposed as president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Associationfor the eighth consecutive year, at its 82nd......

Readers speak out!

Neelesh(from hyderabad):the appointment of mr. john wright has been totally wright as his name is. the wright has change the teams phase in his own wrights & written his own tunes on which the......