March 15, 2024 05:27 pm | Updated 05:31 pm IST - KOCHI Fluoride contamination has been mostly detected beyond permissible limits in a total of nine areas in Palakkad, Malappuram and Alappuzha districts in Kerala, according to the State Environment department. The places include Muthalamada, Pallassena, Agali, Sholayur, Koppannu and …...Read More

March 15, 2024 05:04 pm | Updated 05:21 pm IST - New Delhi Mauritius is ensuring transparency in the financial services sector and there are no shell companies there, Mauritian minister Soomilduth Bholah has said as he pitched the island nation as the platform for Indian companies to tap the …...Read More

March 15, 2024 05:03 pm | Updated 05:33 pm IST The High-Level Committee (HLC) on ‘’One Nation, One Election,” headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind, submitted its report on the feasibility of conducting simultaneous polls to President Droupadi Murmu on March 14. The 18,626-page report contains 11 chapters along …...Read More

March 15, 2024 05:00 pm | Updated 05:00 pm IST - HYDERABAD A bike-taxi rider working with a bike aggregator was booked for allegedly misbehaving with a six-year-old girl near Tarnaka early on Friday. Following a distress call, Lalaguda Police reached the spot and took 29-year-old Sukesh Jadhav, a resident …...Read More

March 15, 2024 04:58 pm | Updated 04:59 pm IST - SRINAGAR Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Valley’s chief cleric who joined Ramzan prayers at Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid for the first time since 2019 on Friday, urged the authorities to “release thousands of Kashmiri political prisoners as a gesture of …...Read More

A murderer who killed his own brother, partner and his sibling's cat has been jailed for life and ordered to spend at last 30 years behind bars. Peter Duffy, 48, repeatedly stabbed John Paul Duffy, 51, and Emma Baillie, 26. He hid his brother's body under a pile of rubbish …...Read More

March 15, 2024 04:38 pm | Updated 04:38 pm IST - KALLAKURICHI District Collector Sravan Kumar Jatavath on Thursday, March 14, 2024, held consultations with representatives of various political parties on the rationalisation of polling stations as mandated by the Election Commission of India (ECI). According to a press release, …...Read More

March 15, 2024 04:32 pm | Updated 04:32 pm IST - CHENNAI Electoral alliance talks with the BJP are still underway and details would be shared after the talks conclude, former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam said on Friday, March 15, 2024. In a statement, Mr. Panneerselvam, a former coordinator of …...Read More

Cricket clubs have been told to discard a particular set of plastic balls used by children due to fears over their chemical composition. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said the balls that were given to participants of its All Stars and Dynamos youth engagement programmes for free were …...Read More

March 15, 2024 04:05 pm | Updated 04:05 pm IST - CHENNAI In line with the announcement by Minister K.N. Nehru in the Assembly in March last year, the Tamil Nadu government has issued orders upgrading Pudukkottai, Namakkal, Tiruvannamalai and Karaikudi into municipal corporations. While Pudukkottai Municipality and 11 neighbouring …...Read More