Post the expansion of the CM's Breakfast scheme on August 26, over 20 lakh school students will benefit from the initiative that is aimed at ensuring growth, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Sunday.
The Message of Humanity Forum, in association with Mangalore Welfare Association (Shadimahal), Blood Donors Mangaluru and Government Wenlock Hospital, successfully organised a blood donation camp at Shadimahal, Bolar, on Friday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday deplored "attempts to steal votes" in Bihar, ahead of upcoming assembly polls, in favour of the BJP which has allegedly "shut doors of opportunities" for the poor since coming to power at the Centre.
Police have busted a fake call centre allegedly involved in credit card frauds and arrested six persons, including a woman, officials said on Friday.
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday termed the BJP as a gang of looters, which has "captured institutions and resources" and ruined the economy.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has expressed condolocences over the death of senior leader and former MP Comrade Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy. He passed away in Hyderabad on August 22 at 10:20 p.m.
Police on Saturday arrested a private tutor in Odisha's Kendrapara district for allegedly sexually harassing and threatening to upload objectionable morphed pictures and videos of a 17-year-old girl on social media platforms, an officer said.
In an accident that occurred on the National Highway 66 stretch near Noor Masjid here on Saturday morning, a 61-year-old rider was killed on the spot and his wife was grievously injured as a speeding tanker hit their bike from behind and ran over the biker who had fallen on the road.
The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has been linked to four fatal accidents involving its buses over the past month.
In another alarming case of a stray dog attack, a 21-year-old woman from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, was viciously attacked by stray dogs while returning home from college. The brutal assault resulted in severe facial injuries, with doctors needing to stitch her cheek with 17 sutures.
