Tamilnadu Assembly speaker P. Dhanabal participated and addressed the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference held at Uganda.
The 6th edition of Writers and Artists International Film Festival organised by Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association will be held at Thiruvannamalai.
As part of National Postal Week celebrations, Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal conferred Dak Sewa Awards – 2019 on eight employees of TN Postal Circle.
A booklet on the awards was also released by him to mark 50 years of World Post Day.
The Vice Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, Dr Sudha Seshayyan, has been nominated as the Member - Medical Advisory Council (MAC) under the National Medical Commission by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit.
Through MAC, states put forth their concerns related to the medical education and other issues before the Commission.
The Rajasthan state government extended the unemployment allowance to transgenders who would now get Rs 3,500 per month as given to women under the scheme.
Transgenders, who are graduates, would be eligible for the benefit.
For the first time, a new eel-loach species has been discovered in a subterranean environment in Kerala. It has been named Pangio Bhujia.
Eels are native of fast-flowing streams of south and south-east Asia, Indonesia and the North-Eastern parts of India
Ecuador, one of the smallest members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has announced that it will leave the 14-nation bloc from January 1, 2020 due to fiscal problems.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed its economic growth forecast for India to 6.1% for the current fiscal from its July projection of 7%. It cited weaker than expected outlook for ‘domestic demand’.