'It's demeaning': Sharon Osbourne hits back at Amanda Holden in row over Simon Cowell

Sharon Osbourne has hit out at Amanda Holden after the presenter appeared to call her "bitter and pathetic" over comments she made about Simon Cowell. The 71-year-old music manager and wife of former Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne said Cowell "doesn't know how to keep friends" in a conversation with …...Read More

After brief rain respite, temperatures soar again in State

April 13, 2024 08:10 pm | Updated 08:11 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM After an unexpected bout of summer rain on Friday brought down the temperature by about 2 to 4°C in parts of the State, the mercury has started to rise again in the State. Palakkad, which has been witnessing …...Read More

Muslims are coming to BJP because we don’t discriminate against them: Sarbananda Sonowal

Union Minister and BJP candidate in Dibrugarh, Sarbananda Sonowal, is confident about the BJP and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) bagging most of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the Northeast to achieve the 400+ target. He also said Muslims have seen through the accusation of polarisation …...Read More

Women’s panel speaks up against injustices towards pregnant women

April 13, 2024 08:07 pm | Updated 08:08 pm IST - Kozhikode The Kerala Women’s Commission has lashed out at injustices meted out to women in workplaces in the city during the time of pregnancy. Speaking on the sidelines of the Women’s Commission’s sitting at its regional office in Kozhikode …...Read More

Telugu Desam Party has neglected BC welfare, alleges Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy

April 13, 2024 08:07 pm | Updated 08:07 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on April 13 asserted that the TDP’s claim to have uplifted the Backward Classes (BCs) was just a piece of rhetoric, which was partly evident from the allocation of many BC seats …...Read More

Organic chemist Vijay Nair passes away

April 13, 2024 08:05 pm | Updated 08:05 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Vijay Nair, noted organic chemist and a former director of the CSIR-Regional Research Laboratory-Thiruvananthapuram (now CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology), passed away on Friday. He was 82. He was director of RRL from 1997 to 2001. …...Read More

Forest dept. to relax regulations on parading captive elephants at festivals

April 13, 2024 08:00 pm | Updated 08:00 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM With the Thrissur Pooram just around the corner, the Forest department seems to have bowed to pressure from temple committees and elephant owners to relax its regulations concerning the use of firecrackers within a 50-metre radius of captive …...Read More

With more people wanting to see the ‘fort’ on the Fort Kochi beachfront that saw the footfall of three colonial powers

April 13, 2024 07:58 pm | Updated 08:28 pm IST - KOCHI With more people wanting to see the ‘fort’ on the Fort Kochi beachfront that saw the footfall of three colonial powers — the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English — history buffs are seeking steps to conserve the …...Read More

Continuing recruitment to Russia raises suspicion in Kerala

April 13, 2024 07:58 pm | Updated 07:58 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Despite the controversy over Keralites being recruited to Russia to join the war against Ukraine under false promises, suspicious recruitments to Russia are still going on in various parts of the State with no system to ascertain the …...Read More

CBI forensic team begins probe into Kerala veterinary student’s death

April 13, 2024 07:55 pm | Updated 08:40 pm IST - KALPETTA A forensic team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the death of Sidharthan J.S., a second year student of the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookode, Wayanad, visited the college on Saturday as a part …...Read More