An explosion in an apartment building in Gothenburg, Sweden, injured up to 20 people early on Tuesday morning, according to Swedish media outlets. The explosion occurred in the early hours, and rescue services are still working to put out fires that spread to several apartments, the Swedish news agency TT and public…
The government has notified the Rs 10,683-crore Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for textiles, specifically aimed at boosting the production of man-made fibre (MMF) fabric, MMF apparel and technical textiles. We examine the details of the scheme which is set to provide incentives from FY25 to FY29. Which…
The Supreme Court Tuesday granted four months temporary bail to actor and producer Sachin Joshi in connection with a money laundering case. A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna, however, made it clear that no application for further extension of time would be entertained. The temporary bail…
“Blessed is the land which has given birth to a great leader like Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh. I’m extremely happy to smear the soil of this sacred land on my forehead,” wrote Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in the visitors’ book at the ancestral house at Khatkar Kalan in…
The government is set to start deactivating Import Export Codes (IECs) for firms that have not given updated information to the government starting October 6. This move is part of efforts to remove IECs of “front organisations” such as the one allegedly connected to the importer of the 2,988 kg of heroin that was…
Sonos today announced its sleek TV soundbar, the Sonos Beam in India. The Sonos Beam features four full-range woofers, support for Apple AirPlay 2, and more. Here’s all you need to know about the new soundbar. Sonos Beam: Features and specifications The Sonos Beam features four full-range woofers that…
Forced religious conversions cannot be the measure of spread of any religion in a nation like India, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday and asserted that both believers and atheists co-exist with equal rights in this country. In his interaction with prominent people from the…
With “procedural delays” marring the roll out of compensation to the kin of the Covid-19 victims in Karnataka, the ex-gratia amount of Rs 1 lakh meant for below poverty line (BPL) families that have lost their earning member to the pandemic has not been disbursed yet. A few days after the discussion on…
Microsoft Corp’s near-acquisition of social media app TikTok last year was the “strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,” Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said on Monday. TikTok had been ordered by then-US President Donald Trump to separate its US version from Chinese parent ByteDance because of national…
As the government pushes Atmanirbhar Bharat and ‘vocal for local’ campaigns, RSS-affiliate Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) has drawn attention to foreign control of Indian startups through “flipping” and demanded that such Indian companies be declared “foreign”. The organisation has cited the example…