Chennai: The Madras High Court has stayed payment of a ₹ 1 lakh fine on actor Vijay for seeking exemption from trying to avoid paying entry tax on the import of a high-end car – a Rolls Royce Ghost. A two-judge bench of Justices M Duraiswamy and R Hemalatha also stayed a order passed by a single…
New Delhi: A new Chief Minister for Karnataka will be announced this evening — within 24 hours of the exit of BS Yediyurappa from the top post. The BJP has deputed two union ministers — Dharmendra Pradhan and G Kishan Reddy — as central observers for the state legislature party meeting, which is…
The past few years have seen a massive shift in our global climate systems, a fact that we are living with. For most of us in India, unbearably hot summers, colder winters and wetter monsoons are a norm now, setting a new high each time. Despite that, some of us still haven’t realized that climate change…
London: Total antibody levels start to wane six weeks after complete immunisation with Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines, and can reduce by more than 50 per cent over 10 weeks, according to study published in The Lancet journal. The researchers from University College London (UCL) in the UK noted that if the…
New Delhi: Covid vaccines for children are likely in a matter of days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told this morning at a meeting of BJP MPs at parliament. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said at the meeting of the BJP’s parliamentary party that the government would likely start vaccinating…
New Delhi: At least five Assam Police personnel were killed and 50 others were injured as Assam and Mizoram policemen allegedly fired at each other on Monday in a sudden escalation of a border dispute between the two states. Here is your 5-point cheatsheet guide to the Assam-Mizoram clashes: The clashes stem from…
Tesla Inc posted a bigger second-quarter profit than expected on Tuesday thanks to higher sales of its less-expensive electric vehicles, as it raised vehicle prices and cut costs. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, however, said a global chip shortage that led to temporary factory shutdowns for the automaker, remains serious, and…
Reliance Industries Ltd., the conglomerate helmed by Asia’s richest man, is among large Indian companies that have given at least one Covid-19 shot to almost all of its employees, a sign the country’s corporate sector is proving more efficient at procuring shots than the government, which has struggled with…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attacked the Congress for not allowing the functioning of the monsoon session of parliament, which has been marked by protests from the opposition and demands for discussions on the Pegasus phone-hacking row, the farm laws and other issues. Addressing a meeting…
New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee, in Delhi for the first time since her election victory in Bengal, has several meetings lined up today — three meetings with Congress leaders and the fourth with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the next three days, the Bengal Chief Minister is expected to meet Congress president…