Hyderabad: Taking objections over state govt’s policy to pay income tax (I-T) of chairpersons of various corporations and advisors of cabinet rank along with the chief minister and ministers from the state exchequer, Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has urged governor Shiv Pratap Shukla to amend the Payment of Salaries Act, 1953, for payment of…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat reported bank frauds involving Rs 3,707.7 crore over the last three financial years. This is the sixth-highest among all other Indian states and Union Territories, according to Reserve Bank of India data.The value of reported frauds increased each year, rising 30.4% from Rs 986.2 crore in 2023-24 to Rs 1,285.9 crore in 2024-25,…
Bengaluru: Actor and former Kannada reality show contestant Aishwarya Sindhogi has approached police complaining of sustained online harassment by an unidentified person who has been posting defamatory comments and sending offensive messages that has damaged her reputation.Aishwarya said she suspects the targeted campaign is being carried out by a family friend. She alleged the suspect…
SSC Junior Engineer Tier 2 answer key: The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has released the SSC Junior Engineer (JE) Tier 2 Answer Key 2026. Candidates who appeared for the Paper 2 examination can now check their tentative answer key, question paper, and response sheet through the official website, which is ssc.gov.in.According to the official notice,…
David Hasselhoff, best known for his iconic roles in ‘Baywatch’ and ‘Knight Rider’, was spotted using a walker during a rare outing with his wife Hayley Roberts in the West Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The 73-year-old actor was seen grabbing the walker with both hands as the couple walked across a parking lot on…
Guwahati: A day after taking oath for a second consecutive term as chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, along with his cabinet colleagues, paid floral tribute to Assam’s first CM Gopinath Bordoloi at his memorial in the city on Wednesday.Sarma said his govt is committed to ensuring the security and development of the state while fulfilling…
JAIPUR: The wait had lasted over a decade, but for Rajasthan’s cricket fraternity, the dry spell finally ended on a historic Saturday morning in New Chandigarh. Not since Pankaj Singh stepped out in the pristine India whites has a cricketer from the state earned a coveted Test cap. After a 12-year hiatus, the desert state…
Digital infrastructure & teacher strength improved, with schools having computers increasing to 43,281, and the total number of teachers rising to 4.6 lakh School bag weighing machines in schools. A scene at Blossoms School at Bagalakunta. Bengaluru: The number of zero-enrolment schools in Karnataka — no students at all in several classes — has dropped…
Prateek Yadav LUCKNOW: Prateek Yadav, the step-brother of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and husband of BJP leader Aparna Yadav, died in Lucknow on Wednesday morning under mysterious circumstances. He was 38.According to hospital officials, Prateek was brought to the Civil Hospital in Lucknow at around 6 am by Aparna Yadav’s brother, Aman Singh Bisht. Doctors…
NEW DELHI: At least nine workers were killed and 15 injured in a boiler explosion at Vedanta Limted power plant in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district on Tuesday. “Nine workers have died, and 15 have sustained injuries,” Prafull Thakur, Sakti superintendent of police said, adding that the explosion occured in the afternoon.The SP further informed that right…
