Bengaluru: Karnataka incurs a staggering Rs 51,000 crore annually in social costs due to heavy consumption of its alcohol drinkers, the state’s excise reforms report prepared by the Resource Mobilisation Committee reveals. Citing data from National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2021, the report released by the govt late Wednesday states Karnataka ranks seventh among the…
Fake e-way bills were generated for outward supplies of significant value, resulting in tax evasion to the tune of Rs 17 crore Hyderabad: The economic offences court on Thursday remanded Dasari Srikanth, accused in a ₹17-crore GST evasion case linked to the granite trade, to judicial custody for two weeks. He was sent to Chanchalguda…
File photo of IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals. A consortium of Lakshmi N Mittal, Aditya Mittal and Adar Pooonawala has acquired the IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals and its sister entities (Paarl Royals and Barbados Royals) for approximately $1.65 billion, TOI has learnt. A press release to the effect is expected to follow soon.After regulatory checks including…
Bombay High Court has permitted four individuals accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts to challenge charges under the UAPA and other offenses MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Wednesday allowed appeals filed by four accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case to challenge the charge framed against them under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA (Unlawful Activities…
In July 2013, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano found himself in a situation no astronaut ever wants to face. While performing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, water began leaking into his helmet. What initially seemed like sweat soon turned into a life-threatening emergency as the water rose around his face, impairing his vision and…
India’s first indigenous super pressure balloon, developed by Red Balloon Aerospace, has successfully launched from Vijayawada HYDERABAD: Near space startup Red Balloon Aerospace, which was founded by former Skyroot Aerospace executives, successfully launched India’s first indigenous super pressure balloon at Vijayawada on Wednesday.The Vijayawada-based startup, which recently conducted tethered trials of its super pressure balloon,…
Hyderabad: Telangana IT & industries minister D Sridhar Babu invited US companies to invest in the state’s fast-growing aerospace, defence and space sectors, pitching the state as a strategic manufacturing and technology hub during a meeting with a US National War College delegation in Hyderabad on Thursday.He sought collaboration with US companies, universities and research…
Kolkata: Scorching westerly and northwesterly winds kept Kolkata hot and humid on Sunday even as the maximum temperature slid marginally to 33.8°C. The Met office warned that warm and humid conditions will continue to prevail across most of south Bengal and Kolkata for the next five days, at least. Some places in the western districts…
Noida: A man in his 30s was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head inside a locked SUV in the Ecotech 1 area of Greater Noida on Sunday night, in what police suspect was a suicide.A patrolling police response vehicle (PRV) spotted the Mahindra Scorpio on an isolated stretch near Gharbara village. The…
Ajith Kumar celebrates his birthday on May 1. The actor who is turning 55, remains one of the biggest names in Tamil cinema.Director Adhik Ravichandran extended birthday wishes to Ajith Kumar. He shared a picture from the sets of ‘Good Bad Ugly’ and an update regarding his next ‘AK64’. Adhik Ravichandran’s wish ‘GBU’ director wrote,…
