Mumbai, 10/8: Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) on Thursday pledged to invest Rs 515 crore to set up a state-of-the-art plant to manufacture consumer products like soap and face cream in Chengalpattu district in Tamil Nadu that will provide jobs to over 400 people. The FMCG major, which sells its products in 85 countries, signed…
Chattisgarh, 1/6: Two Naxalites, one of them carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, surrendered in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, police said on ThursdayThe rebels turned themselves in before police and the Central Reserve Police Force’s second battalion officials here on Wednesday evening citing disappointment with “inhuman” and “hollow” Maoist ideology, a…
Mangalore, 26/5: Students of Mangalore University College staged a protest in the campus against wearing the Hijab in classrooms. They accused the Principal of failing to prevent over 40 Muslim girls from removing the Hijab before entering the college. The students also condemned the college’s failure in not implementing the Karnataka High…
New Delhi, 25/4: Olympian shooter Manu Bhaker clinched the 25m pistol bronze medal in the ISSF Pistol/Rifle World Cup to take India’s medal tally to seven, including a gold, here on Saturday. Bhaker, the multiple World Cup medal winner, had shot 290 in the precision round on Friday and entered day 2 of…
New Delhi, 31/5: The BJP and Congress on Monday welcomed the arrest of Delhi government minister Satyendar Jain and asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to remove him from his Cabinet. Jain was taken into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after a few hours of questioning on…
Bangalore, 26/1: IBM Corp on Wednesday said it would lay off 3,900 people as part of some asset divestments and posted flat fourth-quarter revenue due to lacklustre demand for its consulting services. Big Blue spun off its large and laggard managed infrastructure business, now called Kyndryl, in late 2021 to focus on its…
Bhubaneswar, 10/10: Hindalco Industries Limited, a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has once again demonstrated its commitment to sustainability as its Hirakud Power & Smelter and Aditya Aluminium at Lapanga, have been conferred with the prestigious ESG Awards for operational excellence in the field of sustainability. The awards were jointly presented by International…
Uttarakhand, 7/2: The Uttarakhand Assembly on Wednesday passed the Uniform Civil Code Bill, which may serve as template for other BJP-run states to enact similar legislation. The Bill, which was passed by voice vote, was introduced in the BJP-majority assembly a day earlier and the opposition had suggested that it should be sent to a…
New Delhi, 11/10: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday cut its projection of India’s economic growth in 2022 to 6.8 per cent, as it joins other global agencies that have trimmed forecasts. The IMF had in July projected a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 7.4 per cent for India in the…
Nilagiri: A bear was found dead of electrocution in Balasore district of Odisha on Monday. It was found entangled to an electric transformer in the Tailasahi village in Mitrapur Bit under Nilagiri Forest Division. It has been said that the bear might have died due to its greed for honey. It died after getting stuck in…
