Nottingham attacks: Families urge NHS to release full report into killer Valdo Calocane

Nottingham attacks: Families urge NHS to release full report into killer Valdo Calocane

NHS England has been urged to publish a full report after a major investigation into the care received by Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and 65-year-old Ian Coates were killed by Calocane on 13 June 2023. The Independent Mental Health Homicide Review is due to be published this … Read more

Power tariff hike: amid uproar, consumers urge regulatory commission to reject KSEB proposals

Power tariff hike: amid uproar, consumers urge regulatory commission to reject KSEB proposals

A public hearing held here on Wednesday on the proposals to revise electricity tariffs intermittently relapsed into shouting matches between sections of the participants, even as a general demand arose that the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) reject the proposals which include a first-of-its-kind ‘summer tariff.’ The hearing was the fourth and final one … Read more

Protect children from vapes epidemic, doctors urge government

Protect children from vapes epidemic, doctors urge government

The government must ban flavoured and disposable vapes, doctors say, to protect children against a growing epidemic of use in the UK. The British Medical Association says bold action is needed and vapes have no rightful place in young people’s lives. Children are being targeted with colours, branding and flavours such as bubble gum or … Read more

Experts urge Kerala to tap e-mobility potential

Experts urge Kerala to tap e-mobility potential

Panelists at the International Energy Festival of Kerala 2024 have urged the State to fully explore e-mobility solutions. Small electric buses and micromobility options like e-bicycles and mopeds are cheaper and eco-friendly compared to conventional transportation systems, they opined. D. Dhanuraj, founder chairman, Centre for Public Policy Research said Kerala should promote electric ‘share autos’ … Read more

Activists urge Union government to sell Bharat dal through PDS outlets

Activists urge Union government to sell Bharat dal through PDS outlets

  Bharat brand of chana dal (Kadalai paruppu) is being sold at ₹60/kg in one kilo packets at crowded marketplaces in mobile vans to help reduce its prices in the open market.  The Union government’s exercise lacks transparency and seems like a political game where the ruling party at the Centre was trying to score … Read more

Sena Split: Shinde group urge separate hearing on disqualification plea, Uddhav camp counters

Sena Split: Shinde group urge separate hearing on disqualification plea, Uddhav camp counters

For representation. | Photo Credit: File The Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde requested Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday for separate hearings on disqualification petitions filed against them, while the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena group argued that all petitions shared the same ground and could be heard together. Though the hearing … Read more

State govt. to urge Centre to set up AIIMS in Kalyana Karnataka region, especially Kalaburagi

State govt. to urge Centre to set up AIIMS in Kalyana Karnataka region, especially Kalaburagi

Minister Sharan Prakash Patil says that the AIIMS can start functioning in the ESIC Hospital which is spread over around 50 acres of land in Kalaburagi. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil has said that the State government will urge the Union government to establish the All India Institute of … Read more

VCK will organise protest to urge T.N. to bring a law for SC/ST sub-plan: Thirumavalavan

VCK will organise protest to urge T.N. to bring a law for SC/ST sub-plan: Thirumavalavan

Thol. Thirumavalavan, VCK president, speaking at a conference organised by Social Awareness Society for Youth in Chennai on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi founder Thol. Thirumavalavan, on Tuesday urged the Tamil Nadu Government to enact a legislation on Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe sub-plan, similar to the one enacted by … Read more