Secure release of five Tamils abducted in Mali: Non-Resident Tamils Welfare Board urges Centre

Secure release of five Tamils abducted in Mali: Non-Resident Tamils Welfare Board urges Centre

The Non-Resident Tamils Welfare Board on Monday (November 10, 2025) wrote to Union Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar, requesting immediate diplomatic intervention for the safe release of five Indian nationals from Tamil Nadu, who have reportedly been kidnapped in the West African country of Mali, while working on an electrification project. In his letter, … Read more

Telangana DGP urges parties to observe bandh on October 18 peacefully

Telangana DGP urges parties to observe bandh on October 18 peacefully

Telangana’s Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy on Friday (October 17, 2025) urged all political parties and organisations to ensure that the statewide bandh call given for October 18 is observed peacefully. In a statement released to the media, the DGP said that any attempt to disrupt public order or indulge in unlawful activities … Read more

Satheesan urges Centre to intervene in Air India Express service cuts

Satheesan urges Centre to intervene in Air India Express service cuts

Leader of Opposition V. D. Satheesan on Sunday sought the Centre’s immediate intervention over Air India Express’s reported decision to curtail services from the State’s airports from October. In a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu, Satheesan said the move has caused “serious concern among the people of Kerala”, especially the expatriate … Read more

BJP MP Raghunandan Rao questions Kavitha’s selective disclosures, urges probe into real estate project

BJP MP Raghunandan Rao questions Kavitha’s selective disclosures, urges probe into real estate project

M. Raghunandan Rao | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL BJP Medak MP M. Raghunandan Rao said there was nothing new in what MLC K. Kavitha revealed about the alleged scams during the BRS regime, and expressed hope that she would disclose more in the coming days. Addressing a press conference at the party’s State office on … Read more

Bommai urges Congress to release evidence to prove voter fraud charges

Bommai urges Congress to release evidence to prove voter fraud charges

Arguing that it is not proper for the Congress to defame constitutional institutions like the Election Commission of India for political motives, former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday urged the Congress to release evidence to prove their charges that voters’ theft had taken place in the previous Lok Sabha elections.  “The evidence is an … Read more

Doctors’ association urges government to act on paraquat poisoning

Doctors’ association urges government to act on paraquat poisoning

Members of Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) at a meeting with Karimnagar District Collector Pamela Satpathy on Thursday. In order to address the growing concern over paraquat poisoning, the Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) has urged the Telangana government to take action against the use of the toxic herbicide. A meeting on the issue was … Read more

Assisted dying: Esther Rantzen urges Lords not to block bill

Assisted dying: Esther Rantzen urges Lords not to block bill

Maia Davies & Johanna Chisholm BBC News Getty Images Dame Esther Rantzen told the BBC in 2023 that she had joined assisted dying clinic Dignitas Dame Esther Rantzen has appealed to the House of Lords not to block a bill giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to an assisted death, after … Read more