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Once seen as outcasts to begging at traffic junctions, a group of transgender persons have now redefined their role in society by taking on the role of traffic assistants with the Hyderabad city police. Lavpreet Kaur chronicles their journey of surviving stigma and standing proudly in uniforms, paving the way for inclusivity and dignity in public service

January 10 was a special day for 16 families living within the Saragodu Reserve Forest area in Chikkamagaluru district as they were on that day allotted lands to finally move out of their original habitation where dealing with wild animals is an everyday ordeal. But people of Bidarathala, who face similar problems in the same district, have a longer wait, writes Sathish G.T.

Mr. Khandre said that declaring eco-sensitive zones around wildlife sanctuaries would not cause any hindrance to the public or locals.

A discussion on the report was deferred on Thursday and it would be taken up in the next meeting, said Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil after the Cabinet meeting.

The award is in recognition of his exemplary leadership in implementing PRISM 10 during his tenure as Collector of Parvathipuram in 2022-24

Bande Mataram, published both as a English daily and weekly from Calcutta by Bipin Chandra Pal and Sri Aurobindo, had featured Chidambaram’s photograph on the front page in 1908. It is now known to the world through the columns of Bande Mataram that Subramania Bharathi had also edited Bala Bharata, an English monthly

Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate launched the hospital in a thatched shed in 1916. Even today, it treats 10 old patients daily and receives 60 fresh cases every year. Many come here as they can get their deformities corrected through surgery

Ahead of The Hindu Lit for Life 2025, which is scheduled for January 18 and 19 in Chennai, this fortnight’s Tamil Nadu InFocus features stories on Tamil literary personalities and the Jnanpith Award; how literature popularised a leprosy centre; and prominence accorded to Tamil leaders in a publication in distant Bengal

The project will be executed at a cost of ₹37.16 crore sanctioned by the Ministry of Road transport and Highways

Earlier, Jagdeep Dhankhar had publicly urged Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to talk to farmers

Over the past week, scores of turtle carcasses have washed ashore, with 80 found along the ECR coast. The mortality is higher than in previous years. The meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 20

They say the plant will have an adverse impact on the water bodies and farmlands in Mottur and ruin the livelihood of around 1,600 families who depend on farming and allied activities

Indian workers, most of them youth from Uttar Pradesh, say they are being held in prison-like conditions in Benghazi, Libya, lured there by fake recruitment agents. Their families point to cycles of debt and poverty at home, and the hope of economic mobility abroad as reasons for stepping into the unknown, find Mayank Kumar and Kunal Shankar

Made to play host to hundreds of arduous devotees of Lord Venkateswara, the quiet neighbourhood of Bairagipatteda became witness to the first stampede that happened for Vaikunta Ekadasi tokens in Tirupati. An over-enthusiastic, jittery crowd, which went beyond the control of the poorly coordinated security officials at the spot, turned the silent residential locality into a death zone for two minutes, leading to six deaths, finds A.D. Rangarajan