In a significant victory, India got elected as Member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the principal global body focussed on gender equality and women empowerment, beating China in a hotly-contested election.
Bagalkot: Lashing out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman, Leader of the Opposition in Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramaiah has asserted that, it is inequitable that the central government failed to release the state’s GST share and flood relief funds when the state government is reeling under financial crisis.
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District on Monday reported 413 fresh cases of COVID-19. The district also reported five deaths due to the deadly virus in the last 24 hours.
New Delhi: The government on Monday banned the export of all varieties of onions with immediate effect, a move aimed at increasing the availability and curbing prices of the commodity in the domestic market.
New Delhi: A Delhi court Monday sent former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, to police custody for 10 days in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February.
Bengaluru: Karnataka on Monday reported 8,244 new cases of COVID-19 and 119 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 4,67,689 and deaths to 7,384, the health department said.
Mangaluru: Karnataka Meteorological Department has predicted heavy rainfall and winds in the Coastal Districts of the state till September 17, and has issued a warning to fishermen against venturing into the sea.
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has given its nod to the CBI for the prosecution of two senior IPS officers and three other police personnel in the IMA Ponzi scheme in which over a lakh people were allegedly duped of more than Rs 4,000 crore after being promised higher returns using Islamic ways of investment.
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Monday condemned the arrest of former JNU student Umar Khalid and alleged that the arrests, under the stringent UAPA, of students in the Delhi riots case were an assault on the "constitutional guarantees of the democratic right to dissent".
New York: Amazon will hire another 100,000 people to keep up with a surge of online orders. The company said Monday that the new hires will help pack, ship, or sort orders, working in part-time and full-time roles. Amazon said the jobs are not related to its typical holiday hiring.
