Lok Sabha polls 2024 in Kerala | On the campaign trail

April 08, 2024 11:26 am | Updated 11:34 am IST With the polling for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections nearing, candidates and political parties in Kerala have been on the campaign trail. Braving a scorching summer, candidates and party workers from all the battling fronts in Kerala have raised the …...Read More

More than 90 dead after ferry accident off Mozambique’s coast: officials

At least 94 people, many of whom are believed to be children, were killed on Sunday after a makeshift ferry sank off Mozambique’s northern coast, according to officials in the area. The boat was carrying 130 people and was between Lunga and the Island of Mozambique, which is part of …...Read More

In Kollam, an MP and an MLA bank on past record, a newbie on ‘Modi’s guarantee’

April 08, 2024 11:17 am | Updated 11:17 am IST As M. Mukesh enters the lobby of Holy Cross Hospital, Kottiyam, there is an instant burst of activity. The candidate is mobbed by a crowd of visitors and staff who squeeze themselves into the frame for a photograph with the …...Read More

BRS leader Kavitha denied interim bail in Delhi Excise scam case

April 08, 2024 11:13 am | Updated 12:21 pm IST A court in New Delhi on April 8 denied interim bail to BRS leader K. Kavitha in the Delhi Excise policy-related money laundering case. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja dismissed the plea, saying the stage was not right to enlarge her …...Read More

Keep milch animals safe this summer: Aavin to T.N. dairy farmers

April 08, 2024 11:05 am | Updated 11:05 am IST - CHENNAI Aavin has asked dairy farmers in Tamil Nadu to take care of milch animals this summer. It has advised farmers to tie cattle under the shade of trees and provide them with additional water to drink, in view …...Read More

Maharashtra CM Shinde: I rebelled because Bal Thackeray’s ideology was being compromised

April 08, 2024 11:04 am | Updated 11:59 am IST - Nagpur Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on April 7 said he rebelled because Uddhav Thackeray abandoned the ideology of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Addressing a meeting of his party workers in Ramtek in Nagpur, Mr. Shinde said he …...Read More

Qutub Minar illuminates in remembrance of Rwanda Genocide of 1994

April 08, 2024 10:50 am | Updated 12:07 pm IST The Qutub Minar was lit up with the colours of the Rwandan national flag on April 7 in solidarity with the people of the east-African nation in remembrance of the 100-day massacre that claimed the lives of 8,00,000 people in …...Read More

'Right to live before right to vote, peace before polls': Common refrain in Manipur relief camps

April 08, 2024 10:41 am | Updated 11:17 am IST - Imphal "Why should I vote to elect a representative of a place which is no longer mine... elections mean nothing to us," says a distraught Nobi who lost her home 11 months ago to ethnic violence in Manipur, and …...Read More

Unrest over control of Matua matriarch's house in West Bengal

April 08, 2024 10:38 am | Updated 10:38 am IST - Bongaon (West Bengal) Matua-majority Thakurnagar area in West Bengal witnessed dramatic scenes as supporters of BJP MP Shantanu Thakur and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mamata Bala Thakur came face to face over the control of a house where community …...Read More

Two killed, 19 injured as speeding bus goes over under-construction bridge, falls, near Srivilliputtur

April 08, 2024 10:37 am | Updated 10:38 am IST - Srivilliputtur Two passengers were killed and 19 others injured in a road accident, when a speeding bus proceeding from Tenkasi to Coimbatore fell onto its side near Srivilliputtur, late on Sunday (April 7, 2024) night. The deceased were identified …...Read More