BENGALURU: Karnataka BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa was arrested by Lokayutka police Monday evening at Kyatsandra near Tumakuru in an alleged bribery case. Virupakshappa has been arraigned as accused No. 1 in a bribery case, following his son Prashanth Kumar's arrest when he was caught accepting a kickback of Rs 40 lakh from a contractor on behalf of his father for a tender issued by the state-owned...
CHENNAI: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IIT Madras) have developed a three-dimensional (3D) paper-based portable device that can detect adulteration of milk in 30 seconds. The test could be performed at home. It can detect multiple substances used as adulterating agents, including urea, detergents, soap, starch, hydrogen peroxide, sodium-hydrogen-carbonate, salt and...
NEW DELHI: Delhi Finance Minister Kailash Gahlot on Monday lashed out at BJP MLAs who claimed that the government suffered losses in excise revenue and asked the saffron party members to read the Budget. During a discussion in the Delhi Assembly, BJP MLA Abhay Verma claimed that the city government's 2023-24 Budget showed a loss of Rs 3,100 crore in excise revenue.The allegation, however, was refuted by...
MUMBAI: In a major relief to motorists, the four-lane 918-meter-long balanced cantilever bridge connecting the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway on the Varsova creek near Ghodbunder Road in Thane was thrown open to vehicular traffic on Monday. Nitin Gadkari, Union minister of road transport and highways, tweeted that the bridge would provide significant traffic relief to the Mumbai-Surat corridor. The...
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The recent allegations by investor research firm Hindenburg against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey also extend to other employees of his company Block including Indian-origin chief financial officer Amrita Ahuja. And Ahuja is not the only Indian American who has been in the news lately for serious financial white collar crime. Here are some of the people of Indian origin who have been in the headlines for...
The extensive travel and the ongoing excitement in the USA leading up to the Oscars, seem to have taken their collective toll on maverick music maker MM Keeravani. He is now down with Covid.“All the travel and excitement have caught up with me. I am down with COVID and under medication and complete bedrest,” Keeravani tells us.He looks back at all the excitement leading up to the Oscars with...
THANE: A 70-year-old woman in Maharashtra's Thane district lost Rs 8.30 lakh in a case of cyber fraud, a police official said on Monday. The Mira Road resident had purchased six towels online and Rs 19,005 was debited from her account instead of Rs 1,169, after which she called her bank, the official said. "Soon, a man called her up claiming to be from the bank and asked her to download an app for the...
GUWAHATI: A Class XII student, who was appearing in the ongoing Council of Higher Secondary Examinations, Manipur, (CoHSEM), was shot dead in Kangpokpi district of the northeastern state on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. The examinations will conclude on April 1 with a paper on elective subjects.The incident assumed significance in the backdrop of the announcement made by the Centre and later by...
The share of affordable homes -- costing below ₹40 lakh each -- in the total fresh housing supply across seven major cities dipped to 20 per cent last year from 40 per cent in 2018, according to Anarock data. The share of the supply of affordable housing in 2019 remained at 40 per cent in the total new launches of 2,36,560 units.(Representative image/ Bloomberg) Real estate consultant...
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