Smacking children should be banned throughout the UK as current laws are "unjust and dangerously vague" - making it harder to identify when youngsters are being abused, children's doctors have said. In a report, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is urging ministers in England and Northern …...Read More

April 17, 2024 09:48 am | Updated 09:48 am IST - New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted people on the occasion of Ram Navami on April 17 and said Ayodhya is in incomparable bliss as this is the first time the festival will be celebrated there after the consecration …...Read More

April 17, 2024 09:32 am | Updated 09:32 am IST - Ranchi The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has made four fresh arrests in connection with the alleged illegal land grab-linked money laundering case against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and others, official sources said on April 17. Those taken into …...Read More

April 17, 2024 09:12 am | Updated 09:12 am IST - KOCHI Campaigning by key fronts in the Chalakudy Lok Sabha constituency has peaked ahead of the polling on April 26. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) released its manifesto for the constituency on Tuesday. The promises include aero city centred …...Read More

April 17, 2024 09:08 am | Updated 09:08 am IST - NEW DELHI The bitter factionalism within Haryana Congress over ticket distribution has come into sharp focus as a three-member committee of the party has failed to resolve the differences that have emerged over the choice of Lok Sabha candidates …...Read More

April 17, 2024 08:46 am | Updated 08:46 am IST - NAGAUR Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) supremo Hanuman Beniwal’s first-ever alliance with Congress and his subsequent candidature from the Opposition INDIA bloc, has rendered the Lok Sabha contest in the Jat stronghold of Nagaur into a fight between old rivals. …...Read More

April 17, 2024 08:44 am | Updated 08:44 am IST - VIJAYAWADA A delegation of the Telugu Desam Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and Jana Sena Party has requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to transfer and immediately relieve Chief Secretary K.S. Jawahar Reddy, Director General of Police (DGP) K. …...Read More

April 17, 2024 08:43 am | Updated 08:43 am IST - VIJAYAWADA Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president and the party’s candidate for Kadapa Lok Sabha seat Y.S. Sharmila on Tuesday lambasted the YSR Congress Party government in the State for its “failure to complete the Handri-Neeva project”. Addressing a meeting …...Read More

April 17, 2024 08:41 am | Updated 08:41 am IST - GUNTUR The Election Commission of India (ECI) has clarified that the Model Code of Conduct will be applicable to the Government appointed Advisers in all capacities, in a press release here on Tuesday. All the 40 advisers in the …...Read More

April 17, 2024 08:37 am | Updated 08:37 am IST - VIJAYAWADA Andhra Pradesh Library Association (APLA) general secretary Raavi Sarada has been nominated as member of a committee on “Development Plan for Public Libraries in India: Vision for 2047”. In a statement on Tuesday, APLA vice-president V. Keshava Rao …...Read More