Political cartoonist P Mahamud has won the first edition of an award set up in the memory of journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was assassinated in Bengaluru a year ago. The announcement was made on Wednesday by two India centres of writers’ organisation PEN.
India probably overestimated manufacturing output while calculating economic growth that topped 8 per cent in the June quarter, according to a member of the central bank’s rate-setting panel.
The CBI on Thursday said it has arrested four persons including the promoters and directors of Jayem Industries and officers of the Food Safety and Drug Administration and Excise Department in connection with the multi-crore gutkha scam in Tamil Nadu.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday recommended dissolving the state assembly, nine months before its term ends, to enable holding of early polls in the state.
Barely a week before the state's biggest public festival Ganeshotsav, petrol-diesel prices in Maharashtra's Parbhani shot up to Rs 88.77, perhaps the highest in the country, an official said.
The Indian rupee breached the 72 per US dollar mark for the first time on Thursday. Around 1 p.m., the rupee traded around 72.05 per dollar, against Wednesday's closing of 71.76 per greenback.
After Wednesday's congressional hearings, Facebook and Twitter will now face questions from the Justice Department (DOJ) over allegations of political bias, an issue flagged by US President Donald Trump.
Hubballi: A day after the Teachers’ Day, a teacher committed suicide by hanging himself at a classroom in the Government primary school in Koliwada village in Hubballi taluk.
BJP activists reportedly attacked Congressmen at a bar in Valapete late on Wednesday night. The victims have been identified as George (51) and Mohandas (42), residents of Krishna Nagar.
Normal life was partially affected in several parts of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday as several organisations staged protests as part of a countrywide agitation against the SC/ST Amendment Act.
