After ‘40% CM’ banner in Telangana, it’s ‘PAYCM’ in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Parts of the state capital got posters with the phrase ‘PAYCM’ and a picture with the likeness of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on the QR code, much to the ire of the state government.
The posters have been put up after a gigantic banner with the phrase ‘Welcome to 40% CM’ displayed by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) near the Secunderabad Parade Ground on the occasion of the ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’, recently.
Spoofs on the Paytm app logo, the new posters are seen on the walls of roadside buildings on Jayamahal Road and near the Indian Express office in Bengaluru.
Both, the banner and the new posters, seem in obvious reference to a recent accusation made by the president of an association of state contractors that they had to pay the Karnataka government 40 per cent commission to get their work done.
The government has been facing severe criticism and mockery too in various forms and the media since the accusation by the association chief.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
