Recent Views 8 Bengaluru: As many as 113 police personnel, including IPS officers and women cops, were awarded cash prizes, amounting to Rs 35 lakh, for investigating two criminal cases – a rape case against former Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna and a bank dacoity from Davanagere.“These two cases were unique in nature. Carrying out investigation…
Recent Views 8 Kane Williamson of New Zealand (Photo by Sameer Ali/Getty Images) New Zealand Cricket has secured a major boost ahead of next year’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, with five of the country’s top white-ball players signing casual playing contracts. Finn Allen, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Tim Seifert, and Kane Williamson have all…
Recent Views 7 New Delhi: A promising gymnast from Madhya Pradesh, Ujair Ali, died after suffering a neck injury during the School Games Nationals in Kolkata, prompting his family to allege negligence and accuse officials accompanying the state contingent of abandoning the 16-year-old boy after admitting him to a West Bengal govt-run medical facility.Ujair, from…
Recent Views 13 MUMBAI: FM Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday urged banks to ensure that customers can get service in branches while speaking in the local language and called upon lenders to tweak HR policies to give weightage to local language proficiency during appraisals.She asked banks to restore the human connect in customer service, insisting that…
Recent Views 8 MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday took a dig at DCM Eknath Shinde over moving his newly elected corporators to a 5-star hotel, saying Shinde is afraid of BJP. Uddhav said many of the corporators elected from the Shinde faction were Sena (UBT) defected corporators, and that BJP can…
Recent Views 8 Wayne Gretzky and his wife Janet Jones (Credit: Getty Images) The contributions of Wayne Gretzky to the game of hockey are immeasurable, and he has played his career with the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers. His wife, Janet Jones Gretzky, has had an equally inspirational…
Recent Views 5 NEW DELHI: Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII), has hinted at the prospect of purchasing a stake in the Indian Premier League franchise Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).On Wednesday, Poonawalla expressed interest in acquiring a stake in the franchise, which is owned by United Spirits, the Diageo-controlled owner of RCB,…
Recent Views 9 Screengrabs from the AI video shared by Bihar Congress NEW DELHI: An FIR has been registered in Delhi against Congress leaders over the circulation of an AI-generated video featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother, Heeraben Modi, news agency ANI reported.The video, shared on September 10 by the official X…
Recent Views 9 Bengaluru: Just as traffic jams choke city roads, a similar gridlock inside our cells may explain why Type 2 diabetes develops, a new study from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has found.After meals, the body must clear rising blood sugar quickly. Pancreatic beta cells do this by taking up sugar from the…
Recent Views 9 The government on Saturday said the threat posed by a possible El Nino this year is unlikely to cause major damage to agriculture, pointing to stronger irrigation systems, higher reservoir storage and better preparedness than in past drought-linked years.The assurance came after Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan chaired a review meeting ahead…
