IIT Delhi is the first academic institute to have obtained the ICMR approval for a real-time PCR- based diagnostic assay. The development also comes against the backdrop of the Indian Council of Medical Research halting the testing for COVID-19 cases through China-made test kits because of massive variation in test results, compounding the challenge to check and contain the pandemic.
Some 1,100 years ago, Uthiramerur had an election system similar to what India has today.
Alagu Perumal Ramasamy from Chennai has plans to supplement the diets of a substantially large population in a limited way by raising fruit-bearing saplings.
Probe had uncovered a bid by Ibrahim Kargbo, then a player at Willem II Tilburg, to fix the outcome of a league match against FC Utrecht in August 2009 in co-operation with convicted Singaporean fraudster Wilson Raj Perumal
Backing beleaguered Tamil writer Perumal Murugan, who has withdrawn himself from literary world after a controversy over one of his novels, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Treasurer M K Stalin on Friday said the former was being "targeted and hounded" by "intolerant people".
It's all happening at the first Critics Choice Film Awards in Mumbai.
Colonel S Madhav Perumal, who died in a landmine blast triggered by militants in Assam two days ago was cremated with full military honors in Hyderabad in the presence of hundreds of mourners including the army men.The last rites took place amid gun salute as wreaths were laid on behalf of different units of army and the state government.
Protester Sasi Perumal's death has given a new fillip to the pro-prohibition movement, which was beginning to draw attention across Tamil Nadu after different political parties began to make it a part of their poll manifesto for next year, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The 70-year old first time MP, who was admitted to the Apollo Hospitals on August 10 after he tested positive for coronavirus, succumbed to the illness, a party spokesperson said.
There were no reports of loss of life due to the cyclone which uprooted trees. Incidents of wall collapse were reported from some parts of Tamil Nadu, state Revenue Minister R B Udhayakumar said.
Perumal Murugan's Songs Of A Coward reminds Uttaran Das Gupta of Orwell's Animal Farm and Ionesco's The Rhinoceros. Both works, as well as Murugan's stark poetry, are poignant for our times, when political figures build personality cults around themselves and demand absolute loyalty.
'I am really happy with how people remember my character.'
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All-India CA topper Prema Jayakumar, whose father Jayakumar Perumal drives an autorickshaw to make ends meet, shares her success.
Two young men have been sentenced to death by a special court in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu for the brutal murder of four members of a Dalit family, including two children, at a village in the district in 2007. Judge T S Nandhakumar of the Special Court, formed under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, also sentenced Katturaja, 32, and Vettum Perumal, 33, to five terms of life imprisonment which will run consecutively.
When Hadiya Standing her ground In the courtroom was compelled to beg: 'I want freedom' I ceased to breathe in my prison cell
Ajmal Ameer talks about making his debut in Telugu films with Rachcha
Imahes from the last day's play as West Indies 'A' scored a thunping 125-run victory over India 'A' in the second unofficial Test and level the three-match series at 1-1, in Arnos Vale, St Vincent, on Tuesday.
Continuing its probe in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation questioned two top telecom honchos besides close aides of former Telecom Minister A Raja, including his brother Kalia Perumal. The agency quizzed chief executive officer of Loop Telecom Sandip Basu and chairman of Sistema Shyam Teleservices Rajiv Mehrotra in connection with the scam, official sources said.
The CBI on Wednesday called Loop Telecom, CEO Sandeep Basu, Chairman of Shyam group Rajiv Mehrotra, former telecom minister A Raja's brother A K Perumal and close aide Sadiq Batcha, for questioning in relation with the 2G spectrum scam.
The follow-up of August 1 will star its original hero Mammootty.
'Denying access to the country to writers of both foreign and Indian origin casts a chill on public discourse; it flies in the face of India's traditions of free and open debate and respect for a diversity of views, and weakens its credentials as a strong and thriving democracy'
'While Prabhakaran made LTTE cadres consume cyanide in the face of imminent capture, he did not do so himself when he was cornered. This exposes Prabhakaran's hypocrisy,' says Varadaraja Perumal.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
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Tamil film Naalu Policeum Nalla Irundha Oorum is a tedious watch, says S Saraswathi.
Subsequently, Nivar weakened into a cyclonic storm and further into a deep depression, centered about 50 km west-southwest of Tirupati at 1430 hrs, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said. According to IMD, it is to weaken into a depression during the next six hours.
One of the main missions of the key functionary of the banned LTTE, who was arrested along with seven Sri Lankan nationals in Chennai on Thursday, was to kidnap rival group member and Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) leader Varadaraja Perumal and his family next month.
A portion of a two-storied building near Koramangala in Bangalore crashed late on Wednesday night.
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The seer, in his petition, said the Madras high court had erred by not considering the basis of facts narrated by the prosecution.
Some 18 people have been held in the murder of Sankararaman, manager of the Varadaraja Perumal temple on Sept 3.
Fed up with the treatment at the Nagpur central jail, his advocate has decided he will no longer deliver anything for Professor Saibaba, leaving it to the jail authorities to fulfill their legal responsibility to look after the professor.
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
CBI sources said a crack team raided a place where Perumal Swamy alias Babu was accepting a bribe of Rs 400,000 from an IRS official Anurag Vardhan.
Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum is not your average run-of-the-mill comedy, says S Saraswathi.
If purists are surprised as to why and how people are not demanding prohibition or not talking about past promises, both in the election manifestos five years back and even those made to the courts, the answer lies in how the state has been evolving and changing these past few years, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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