A special court for the exclusive trial of cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on Wednesday (January 22, 2025) convicted and sentenced a 42-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing an eight-year-old girl. According to the prosecution, the accused identified as M. Nazir Basha, a grocery […]
India’s digital economy will grow twice as fast as the rest of the economy, and constitute 13.42% of national income by the end of 2024–25, as against 11.74% in 2022–23, according to a report prepared by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) based on a study by the Ministry of Electronics […]
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday (January 23, 2025) assured that there would be no recovery of funds disbursed under the ‘Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana’ scheme. The Ladki Bahin scheme, launched before the 2024 State Assembly election, provides eligible women from financially disadvantaged sections a monthly allowance of Rs 1,500. Maharashtra has […]
Tech behemoth Amazon Web Services (AWS) agreed to invest Rs.60,000 crore in data centres in Telangana. “AWS will be expanding its data centres in Hyderabad in a big way with plans for fresh investment of around Rs 60000 crores. With this AWS Region in Hyderabad will play an increasingly important role in supporting AWS’s growth […]
The Delhi High Court on Thursday (January 23, 2025) sought the stand of the NIA on Jammu and Kashmir MP Rashid Engineer’s plea on the issue of granting him bail in a terror-funding case. Justice Vikas Mahajan asked the agency to file its response and listed the matter for further hearing on January 30. Mr. Rashid leads […]
Young entrepreneurs, who had come up with out-of-the-box ideas that went on to become popular brands, were honoured at Vellore Institute of Technology’s Weekend Leader awards, in Chennai on Wednesday (January 23, 2025). Senthil Sankar, who launched a novel clothesline, Ecoline, manufactured from fabric that used recycled PET bottles, was presented the Weekend Leader VIT person […]
Software giant Infosys announced plans to expand its campus in Pocharam, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Plans were prepared to add 17,000 jobs at the campus. An agreement in this direction was made with the Telangana government to expand the facilities there. The announcement was made after Jayesh Sanghrajka, Group CFO of Infosys Limited met […]
Flight operations at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport were disrupted on Thursday (January 23, 2025) due to dense fog, affecting the movement of at least 72 flights, officials said. Kolkata Airport director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said 39 departures and 21 arrivals were delayed due to fog in addition to 12 flights getting […]
With Director General of Police-Head of Police Force (DGP-HoPF) Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao attaining superannuation by January 31 (this month end), ambiguity continued over appointment of the new DGP for the State. A 1989 batch IPS officer, Mr. Tirumala Rao, who served in different cadres in United Andhra Pradesh and in bifurcated AP, is the […]
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday (January 23, 2025) dismissed petitions filed by minority institutions against a 2021 amendment to the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Act, empowering the state to make rules for the appointment of teachers and other staff at private schools. The amendment violated the constitutional right of religious and linguistic […]
