Bengaluru, 21/3: The Karnataka Assembly on Friday passed Bills giving a 100 per cent salary hike to the chief minister and all lawmakers, which will cost the exchequer Rs 62 crore every year. The monthly salary of the CM will rise from Rs 75,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh. All ministers will get a 108 per…
Mumbai/New Delhi, ,21/3: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s group is battling allegations in court this month that its planned multibillion-dollar power plant and a luxury housing complex breach environment laws, adding to its many legal headaches. Such allegations have often troubled Adani projects in India and abroad. In Australia, the group battled a seven-year activist campaign…
New Delhi, 21/3: Farmers’ associations in Punjab on Thursday threatened to escalate their protests following a police crackdown at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders, which led to the arrest of several leaders on Wednesday night. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha announced a statewide ‘chakka jaam’ to protest the arrests of farmer…
Kolkata, 20/3: Kolkata Knight Riders’ home game against Lucknow Super Giants on April 6 is set to be shifted to Guwahati as police has expressed its inability to provide security for the IPL contest due to ‘Ram Navami’ celebrations in the city on the day, CAB president Snehasish Ganguly told PTI on Thursday BJP leader…
Bhubaneswar,20/3: While appreciating Guru Pankaj Charan Das Mahari Awards customs, dedication and the Dance festival organized by Guru Pankaj Charan Foundation at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar by Shri Amit Singh, Head Corporate Affairs, Vedanta Aluminium. He Congratulated to the winners of mahari awards and thanking the organizer and esteemed Odisha#1st forum member Smt Suhag Nalini…
Bijapur, 20/3: In a fresh offensive against Naxals, security forces killed at least 30 members of the banned CPI (Maoists) in two separate encounters in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region on Thursday, officials said. While 26 Naxalites were killed in Bijapur district, four Maoists were gunned down in Kanker by a joint team of the BSF and…
Bengaluru, 20/3: Social media giant ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against Government of India, challenging what it called unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship. It raised concerns over the Centre’s interpretation of the Information Technology (IT) Act, particularly its use of Section…
Bengaluru, 20/3: At least three companies linked to gold smuggling suspect Ranya Rao are on the radar of investigators from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), sources said. The companies are Ranya Rao Photography Pvt Ltd (incorporated on July 28, 2020), Ayrus Greens Pvt Ltd (May 12, 2021) and Ksiroda…
Mumbai, 20/3: The Indian men’s cricket team defeated New Zealand in the final earlier this month, in March, to win the International Cricket Commission’s Champions Trophy 2025. Now, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced Rs 58 crore reward for Team India. “Winning back-to-back ICC titles is special and this reward recognizes…
Kyiv, 19/8:Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday is holding a highly anticipated conversation with Donald Trump to hear details of the US leader’s telephone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, news agency AFP reported. The president of Ukraine is having a conversation by telephone with US President Donald Trump,” Zelenskyy’s spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told reporters.
