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Petitioner claims a breach at the 129-year-old Mullaperiyar dam may lead to deaths of lakhs of people spread across five townships

Court directs Principal Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, to prepare action plan to ensure that norms are adhered to by all government schools

Till now we had no control over the conduct of the festivals at the district and subdistrict levels, and it was done by the teachers alone, he says, adding there may have been instances of undesirable practices in the conduct, but now everything, from the school level, will come under the purview of the Ministry of Education.

₹4,250 crore incentive due to industries since 2016 in the State

Former BJP councillor N.R. Ramesh had filed a complaint with the ED in connection with alleged irregularities in the asphalting of arterial and sub-arterial roads between 2013-2014 and 2023-24

The petition mentions usage of hate speech including other code of conduct violations which, some petitioners said were ignored by the Election Commission officials

Of them, two were serving life sentences and the other a 10-year sentence for rape

The study co-authored by species experts from all geographical regions of the world also revealed that a staggering one-quarter of the freshwater fauna are threatened with extinction. The study led by IUCN and published in the multidisciplinary science journal, Nature, underscores the historical underappreciation of freshwater ecosystems in global environmental governance