Jaipur, 23/7: BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday lashed out at the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan, saying the minimum guaranteed income bill passed by it is aimed at serving its “political interest” ahead of assembly polls. The Rajasthan Assembly on Friday passed a bill to provide minimum guaranteed income to all adult citizens…
Dispur, 23/7: The Assam Rifles has registered a sedition and defamation case against the chief of the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an influential civil society group in Manipur’s capital. A highly-placed defence source said a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against COCOMI on July 10, after the outfit gave a…
Washington DC, 23/7: Twitter owner Elon Musk on Sunday took to the micro-blogging application and announced that he is changing the Twitter logo. The Tesla CEO also shared the design of the new Twitter logo on its social media platform and named it ‘X’. “And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand…
Alaska, 23/7: A helicopter carrying a pilot and three passengers who had been conducting fieldwork for an Alaskan government agency crashed Thursday night, killing all four people on board, the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday. The wreckage of the helicopter, a Bell 206, was found in a large, shallow lake in an extremely remote…
Manipur, 22/7: Manipur Police have arrested a sixth person in connection with the May 4 parading of two women naked in Kangpokpi district of the state, officials said on Saturday. Police said the arrested person is a juvenile. Police had made the first arrest on Thursday, a day after a 26-second video…
Mumbai,22/7: Edible oil major Adani Wilmar Ltd on Saturday said it has lodged a police complaint against a B2B platform for allegedly distributing counterfeit products in the name of its ‘Fortune’ brand. As part of a routine market survey, Adani Wilmar representatives discovered the malpractice. In a statement, the company said it has…
Jaipur, 22/7: Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for mentioning Rajasthan in his statement on the Manipur incident, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said he has “hurt the self respect” of Rajasthan. While condemning the incident of Manipur where two women were paraded naked and molested, Modi on Thursday made a reference…
Dispur, 22/7: The Assam government has decided to ban packaged drinking water bottles of less than 1 litre from October 2. From October 2024, bottles of less than 2 litres will also be banned in the state, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said after a cabinet meeting on Friday evening. “The cabinet decided…
Kerala, 22/7: A special POCSO court here on Saturday sentenced to death a 44-year old man for murdering his relative, a minor girl, and awarded him jail term till the end of his natural life for raping her minor sister in 2021. The special court to try offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual…
Mumbai, 22/7: Search and rescue teams on Saturday recovered three bodies from the debris at the landslide-affected Irshalwadi village in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, taking the death toll in the tragedy to 25, an official said. “Bodies of two women and a man were recovered from the landslide site in Irshalwadi on Saturday,” an…
