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The Hindu Carry it forward: On the BJP government in Odisha

The BJP government should continue development schemes in Odisha

The Hindu Air tourism service to connect cities in Madhya Pradesh launched

A 50% discount has been offered for 30 days from launch to promote the service

The Hindu A satyagrahi who funded the education of countless women in the Kongu region

T.S. Avinashilingam, who was born in 1903, established an orphanage in Coimbatore after gaining a law degree in 1924. As the Education Minister of the Madras Presidency, he advocated Tamil as the medium in secondary education. He initiated a scheme aimed at holistic development rather than turning out clerks and subordinates

The Hindu No progress in holding elections for tribal village committees in Tripura

Regional parties and forums representing indigenous people blame the State government for deliberately deferring the election to Village Committees over political considerations

The Hindu The message in the RSS chief’s speech

The ‘to whomsoever it may concern’ sermon has virtually laid out a road map for the government and prescribed a model code of conduct

The Hindu Robert Clive survived gunshot at the battle for Samayapuram

Robert Clive was wounded in two places in 1752 at the Mariamman temple at Samayapuram in Tiruchi, where a fierce battle broke out between the British and the French, according to F.R. Hemingway, an ICS officer, in his Trichinopoly District Gazette

The Hindu J&K schools told to play national anthem daily

Singing the national anthem is part of new guidelines issued by the School Education department for these schools for morning assemblies

The Hindu Dakshina Pradesh, an agglomeration of southern States, remained a non-starter

The idea of Dakshina Pradesh, comprising the States of Madras, Travancore-Cochin, and Mysore (with the addition of Kannada-speaking areas of Hyderabad and Bombay), was proposed when the States Reorganisation Commission was winding up its work in 1955 and formation of Karnataka and Kerala, on linguistic lines, was in sight

The Hindu Singular focus: On the new Union Ministers and portfolios

Science is now too vast to be administered by one minister

The Hindu Manipur Cabinet panel to oversee rehabilitation of internally displaced persons

Over 50,000 people have been internally displaced since the conflict began, most of whom are living in relief camps across the State

The Hindu The ideology of social peace is still working

India’s millennia-old civilisation has asserted itself in this general election, placing constraints on the politics of hatred