Trump campaign rips Politico for 'harebrained assertion' that China prefers him over Biden

The Trump campaign issued a blistering response to Politico's "false reporting" that China would prefer former President Trump back in the White House come November and is even aiding those efforts. "In Politico’s Nightly newsletter, Catherine Kim makes a harebrained assertion that China would prefer President Trump to return to …...Read More

Man doesn't know if ashes Hull funeral parlour gave him are his wife's

A man has said he does not know if the ashes given to him by a funeral parlour being investigated by police are his wife's. Mike Collinson was with his wife Jean for 50 years before she died back in November. Her family asked Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, based in …...Read More

Fighting forest fires with a plan and community cooperation

April 04, 2024 11:09 pm | Updated 11:10 pm IST Around 1.30 a.m. on March 10, T.M. Chashil Kumar a.k.a Unni Varadam’s mobile phone was unusually busy. As head of a conservation volunteer group, Kaattuthee Prathirodha Sena (force fighting forest fires), Unni was coordinating the movements of his co-volunteers from …...Read More

36 candidates in district submit nomination papers on last day

April 04, 2024 11:05 pm | Updated 11:06 pm IST - Thiruvananthapuram Thirty-six candidates in the district submitted their nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday, the last day for filing nominations. Twenty-two candidates filed the nomination papers in the Thiruvananthapuram parliamentary constituency while 14 submitted their nominations …...Read More

Karnataka child rescued from borewell to get a new name

April 04, 2024 11:01 pm | Updated 11:17 pm IST - Belagavi Satwik Mujagond, the child who was rescued from a borewell on April 4, will soon have a new name, Siddhalinga Mrutyunjaya, which literally means Siddhalinga who conquered death. The huge crowd that had gathered around the pit broke …...Read More

Postal ballot process gets underway in Villupuram Parliamentary constituency

April 04, 2024 10:59 pm | Updated 10:59 pm IST - VILLUPURAM The Election Department began the process of home voting / postal ballots to enable the participation of people above 85 years and differently-abled in the April 19 Lok Sabha election. According to District Election Officer and Collector C. …...Read More

Waterlogging issue haunts Vijayawada as drain project launched in 2016 remains incomplete

April 04, 2024 10:58 pm | Updated 10:58 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA Monsoons come and go, but work on the stormwater drain project, which was launched in Vijayawada during the Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) tenure in 2016, has hardly made any headway in the past three years and non-payment of …...Read More

Boston hospital to scale back on child abuse and neglect reports that can perpetuate 'structural racism'

A Boston, Massachusetts, hospital announced Tuesday that after finding Black mothers were more likely to be reported for child abuse and neglect if a toxicology report came back positive, it would be taking steps to reevaluate the process in order to avoid perpetuating "structural racism." "Black pregnant people are more …...Read More

3 human rights activists arrested in Belarus as a crackdown on the opposition persists

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Three activists of Viasna, the main human rights group in harshly repressive Belarus, have been arrested and charged with participating in an extremist organization, state television reported Thursday. The arrests were the latest in a long campaign by authorities to stifle opposition and independent media in …...Read More

In all, 358 candidates file nominations for April 26 Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka

April 04, 2024 10:54 pm | Updated 10:54 pm IST - Bengaluru Former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, his brother-in-law and cardiologist C.N. Manjunath, and Tejasvi Surya, incumbent Bengaluru South MP, were prominent among the 183 candidates who filed 224 sets of papers on Thursday, April 4, the last day for …...Read More