Lok Sabha polls | ECI bans Randeep Surjewala from campaigning for 48 hours over remarks on Hema Malini

April 16, 2024 06:42 pm | Updated 06:42 pm IST - New Delhi The Election Commission of India (ECI) on April 16 barred Congress leader Randeep Surjewala from campaigning for 48 hours over his alleged derogatory remarks against BJP MP Hema Malini. This is the first campaign ban imposed by …...Read More

YouTuber booked for trespass at KIA

April 16, 2024 06:41 pm | Updated 06:41 pm IST - Bengaluru The Kempegowda International Airport police on Monday booked a YouTuber for trespassing into restricted area to shoot a video to claim that he stayed in the airport for 24 hours hoodwinking security checks. Based on a complaint by …...Read More

Newsom refuses to back fellow Dems taking on Google, Big Tech through news link legislation

Gov. Gavin Newsom's office is staying silent on a Democrat-led bill moving through the legislature that would create a "link tax" requiring big tech companies, like Google, to pay media companies for linking to their pages. Last week, Google began removing news links to news pages while the legislation, dubbed …...Read More

More suspects taken into custody in A.P. CM stone-pelting case

April 16, 2024 06:39 pm | Updated 06:39 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA The NTR Commissionerate Police on April 16 (Tuesday) took more suspects into custody for questioning in connection with the stone pelting at Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy during his Memantha Siddham bus yatra in Vijayawada on April …...Read More

Wisconsin Republican leaders ignore the governor's request to spend $125M to combat 'forever chemicals'

Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday planned to ignore the latest call from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to spend $125 million to combat so-called forever chemicals. Evers invoked a rarely used power and called a meeting of the Republican-led Legislature's budget committee, urging it to release the funding that was previously approved …...Read More

Key stretches in Gudiyatham get nylon net ‘pandals’ for walkers to beat the heat

April 16, 2024 06:39 pm | Updated 06:39 pm IST - VELLORE Key stretches in Gudiyatham town near Vellore have got large nylon net ‘pandals’ along entire carriageway to provide much needed shade for road users, mainly walkers, to go to public utilities like government hospitals, markets, bus terminus and …...Read More

93% of voters issued booth slips in Tiruchi district, says Collector

April 16, 2024 06:38 pm | Updated 06:38 pm IST - TIRUCHI With just about 48 hours to go for polling in the Lok Sabha elections, authorities have said that more than 90% of the voters have been issued the voter information slips, commonly referred to as “booth slips”, in …...Read More

Will focus on creating employment opportunities for the youth, says TDP Bobbili Assembly candidate

April 16, 2024 06:37 pm | Updated 06:37 pm IST - VIZIANAGARAM The Telugu Desam Party’s MLA candidate and member of Bobbili royal family Baby Nayana on Tuesday said that he would give utmost priority to the creation of employment opportunities for the youngsters by concentrating on industrialisation and economic …...Read More

Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, soon Superman: When characters enter the public domain, anything goes

The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats. Christopher Robin begs for his life. And is that a sledgehammer about to pulverize a minor character's head? Thus unfolds the trailer for the 2023 movie "Winnie the Pooh: Blood …...Read More

Police arrest two involved in four house-break thefts

April 16, 2024 06:36 pm | Updated 06:36 pm IST - Bengaluru The Ramamurthy Nagar police on Tuesday arrested a rowdy-sheeter and his associates involved in four house-break thefts reported in eastern parts of the city. The police recovered valuables worth ₹15 lakh from them. Srinivasa, the rowdy sheeter in …...Read More