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The panel said compliance with the NEP meant that States would have have to spend substantially on provisions such as dual degree, biannual admissions, four-year degree and multidisciplinary universities

The Minister while replying to a question raised by DMK Member Kanimozhi Karunanidhi on government’s policy regarding Tamil refugees said the government has not changed even a “full stop or comma in the policy as existed during the UPA government.”

Years before the 1968 law to rename the State came into being, the K. Kamaraj government decided to use the title, Tamil Nadu, for the State while referring to it in Tamil. Presenting the Budget for 1961-62, C. Subramaniam said he had substituted Tamil Nadu for Madras in the budget document in line with the February 24, 1961 announcement

Balu started out as a mill worker. Disillusioned with the British policies, he started organising workers and peasants. Along with five others, he was charged with the murder of a constable and awarded death penalty. He was hanged on February 22, 1951

Fighting marauding wild animals from the Western Ghats and the vagaries of nature, farmers of Puliyangudi decided to go in for lemon cultivation in the early 1950s. Its rich red and loamy soil transformed Puliyangudi into the ‘lemon city of India’. The lime, which awaits the Geographical Indication tag, is being sent to almost all the southern States

Mr. Thackeray reminded PM Modi of his ‘satta jihad’ jibe directed at the Shiv Sena(UBT) during the Maharashtra Assembly election

Operations were conducted within an electronically contested environment designed to replicate modern battlefield scenarios.

Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq termed the move of the administration as ‘extremely regrettable’ and ‘condemnable’

Sources in the BJP did not clarify the agenda of the meet, but the process of completing organisational elections within the party before the election of its new national president is continuing

Justice N. Anand Venkatesh rules that UGC Regulations, 2018, will not be applicable to minority run educational institutions

Minister Kollu Ravindra directs officials to raise awareness about the severe health risks associated with the consumption of ID liquor