March 21, 2024 02:31 pm | Updated 02:32 pm IST Beauty parlours in Kerala’s prisons Four prisons across Kerala have opened beauty parlours. The first one, Freedom Xpressions at Central Prison, Kannur, was opened in 2016 and offered the public all cosmetics-related services, like hair cut, hair wash, hair dyeing, …...Read More

A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death of a baby girl at a Glasgow hospital. Sophia Smith was just 11 days old when she died at the Royal Hospital for Children at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus on 11 April 2017. The newborn became …...Read More

Rishi Sunak will guarantee that the pensions triple lock will remain in place under a future Conservative government, Sky News understands. The costly policy came under fresh scrutiny after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned this week that improved economic growth and public sector spending cuts might be needed to sustain it. …...Read More

March 21, 2024 02:21 pm | Updated 02:21 pm IST - Bengaluru Halasuru Gate police have registered an FIR against three MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, Bengaluru Central MP P. C. Mohan, and Udupi-Chikkamagalur MP Shobha Karandlaje — and 44 others for …...Read More

March 21, 2024 02:15 pm | Updated 02:29 pm IST - KOCHI Military establishments are increasingly seeking ivory from the Kerala Forest department to be displayed at their units after the Kerala government had recently cleared three such requests. The 4th Battalion of the 8th Gorkha Rifles is the latest …...Read More

March 21, 2024 02:01 pm | Updated 02:21 pm IST The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint (charge sheet) against Congress leader Karti P. Chidambaram, Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Limited and others, in connection with an alleged money laundering case. Among those arraigned under the Prevention of Money …...Read More

March 21, 2024 01:52 pm | Updated 01:52 pm IST BJP national president J.P. Nadda has said that the Congress is “blaming their irrelevance on financial troubles” in a retort to the opposition party, after its leaders held a press conference to allege that a systematic effort was under way …...Read More

March 21, 2024 01:40 pm | Updated 01:58 pm IST - HUBBALLI Four-time MLC Marithibbegowda of JD(S) has resigned from his Council membership. He submitted his resignation to Council Chairman Basavaraj Horatti at his residence-office in Hubballi on March 21. Speaking to mediapersons later, he said that he had taken …...Read More

March 21, 2024 01:32 pm | Updated 02:41 pm IST - New Delhi The Supreme Court on March 21 stayed a government notification of March 20 establishing the Press Information Bureau’s Fact Checking Unit (PIB FCU) to act as a “deterrent” against the creation and dissemination of fake news or …...Read More

March 21, 2024 01:30 pm | Updated 01:43 pm IST The Election Commission of India has directed Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to immediately halt delivery of “Viksit Bharat” messages over WhatsApp. According to sources, a compliance report in the matter has been demanded immediately from MeitY. Explained …...Read More