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JIPMER closure for Ram temple ceremony | Madras HC records emergency services will not be disrupted

A view of the decorated road ahead of the Ram temple’s Pran Pratishtha ceremony on January 22 in Ayodhya. | Photo Credit: ANI The Madras High Court on January 21 held a special sitting to hear an urgent PIL filed against the decision to close Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry for half a day due to Ram Lalla Pran Pratishtha (temple consecration) at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.The court recorded the submission of JIPMER stating that no elective/planned surgeries were scheduled in the forenoon session of Monday. The institute will be closed until 2:30 p.m. due to the Ram temple consecration.Also Read | AIIMS Delhi reverses decision to remain closed till 2.30 p.m. on Ram temple ceremony day; clinical services to remain openCh...
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Shamshabad diocese gets new administrator

Bishop Joseph Kollamparambil has been appointed diocesan administrator of the Syro-Malabar Diocese of Shamshabad in Telangana. He was appointed after Bishop Raphael Thattil was elected Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church last week. The new administrator took charge at the ongoing synod of the Church in Kochi.Bishop Kollamparambil was appointed auxiliary bishop of the diocese in October 2022. He would hold charge of the diocese until a new bishop was appointed, said a communication here. Source link
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Delay in getting degree certificates leaves students of Lakshadweep worried

The future of over 150 undergraduate students in Lakshadweep hangs in the balance as they run from pillar to post to clear hurdles that emerged following the decision of the Lakshadweep Administration to transfer the affiliation of their colleges from the Calicut University to the Pondicherry University. The affected students include those who enrolled for various undergraduate programmes at the P.M. Sayeed Calicut University Centre, Androth, and Calicut University Centre, Kadmat, in 2020. The affiliation of the institutions were shifted from the Calicut University to the Pondicherry University in 2021 after completion of the first and second semesters and the institutes were re-named as Government College of Arts and Science, Kadmat, and Government College of Arts and Science, Androth....
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YSR family feud | Capitalising on sibling rivalry
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YSR family feud | Capitalising on sibling rivalry

On January 4, even as All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge welcomed Y.S. Sharmila, daughter of the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), the former chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh, into the Congress with a shawl in the party’s tricolours, her brother and current CM, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), was in Hyderabad spending two hours with the convalescing K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR)—whose Bharat Rashtra Samithi had just lost the mandate in contiguous Telangana—and perhaps learning from their failure amid new challenges. Source link
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Exploring India’s diverse cultural heritage through GI tags | Data

A Lanjia Saora tribe youth preparing traditional Saora paintings at Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI) in Bhubaneswar on June 11, 2020. | Photo Credit: BISWARANJAN ROUT Last Thursday, 17 products from across six States/Union Territories got the Geographical Indications (GI) tag. The products ranged from handicrafts such as the Dongaria Kondh shawl from Odisha, to agricultural products such as the Sundarban Honey from West Bengal. A GI tag is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.What is a GI tag?In India, if one thinks of Tirupati or Nagpur, often laddus and oranges come to mind, respectively. Both these products have GI tags. While arguing for a GI tag, Tirumala Tirupat...
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West Asian nations hold the highest number of Indians in jails abroad | Data

Fishermen from India with their belongings sit while waiting in line before their release at Karachi’s District Malir prison | Photo Credit: Reuters About a week ago, a Qatar court commuted the death sentences of eight former Indian Navy personnel. The former Navy officers, employed by a Doha-based company, were arrested in August 2022 allegedly for espionage. This has brought to attention the issue of Indians incarcerated in jails abroad and the steps taken by the government to assist them in their legal battle.Cases involving Indian prisoners in jails abroad, such as the one in Qatar, in which information about the charges has not been disclosed to the public so far, are rare. In countries such as Canada and the U.K., details about arrests are not made public due to strong privacy la...
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