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Minister of Heavy Industries H D Kumaraswamy | (Photo: PTI)2 min read Last Updated : Oct 12 2024 | 6:50 AM IST ADGP M Chandra Sekhar, who heads the SIT which is investigating illegal mining cases, on Friday lodged a police complaint against Union minister H D Kumaraswamy and his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy for allegedly threatening him to scuttle the probe against the former CM. The probe against Kumaraswamy pertains to allegations that he illegally approved a 550-acre mining lease to Sri Sai Venkateswara Minerals (SSVM) in Bellary district in violation of law during his tenure as Karnataka…

3 min read Last Updated : Oct 11 2024 | 10:36 PM IST Less than a third of those in the 15-29 age group can “search the internet; send or receive an email and perform an online transaction”, show the findings from the latest Comprehensive Annual Modular Survey (CAMS), released by National Statistical Office (NSO) this week. At national level the share of young people who could do these three tasks stood at 28.5 per cent, with significant variation among states.   Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp The share of the ones performing these…

With just about three weeks until Election Day, the two major party candidates are working hard to reach voters around the country — with a key focus on male voters.Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, was kicking off a new push to reach male voters in swing states, the Harris campaign confirmed to ABC News.This included “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan’s one-on-one interview that aired on Friday morning, as well as Walz’s Friday travel to Michigan where he met with Black male voters and did local TV interviews focused on hunting and high school football.He…

AURORA, Colo. — AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Donald Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that’s been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message, often using false or misleading claims and dehumanizing language, that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American cities and towns.Trump’s rally in Aurora marked the first time ahead of the November election that either presidential campaign has visited Colorado, which reliably votes Democratic statewide.The Republican nominee has long promised to stage the largest deportation operation in U.S. history and has made immigration core to his political persona…

Premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah was on Friday named vice-captain of India for the upcoming three-match home Test series against New Zealand, strongly indicating his possible elevation to the leadership role when the team travels to Australia from next month. The three-match series against the Kiwis will start on November 16 in Bengaluru, followed by the second Test in Pune from October 24 and third game in Mumbai from November 1. As reported by PTI on October 10, regular captain Rohit Sharma could skip one of the first two Test matches in Australia owing to personal reasons.The five-match Test…

In 1999, fans lined up at Blockbuster to rent chunky VHS tapes of The Matrix. Y2K preppers hoarded cash and canned Spam, fearing a worldwide computer crash. Teens gleefully downloaded Britney Spears and Eminem on Napster. But amid the caffeinated fizz of turn-of-the-millennium tech culture, something more transformative was unfolding. The release of NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 twenty-five years ago today, overlooked by all but hardcore PC gamers and tech enthusiasts at the time, would go on to lay the foundation for today’s generative AI. The GeForce 256 wasn’t just another graphics card — it was introduced as the world’s first…

The prior alleged wrongdoing of a former Louisville police officer accused of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and their neighbors in 2020, when Taylor was shot and killed in a botched police raid, cannot be introduced as evidence in the ex-officer’s trial, a federal judge ruled Thursday, according to WHAS11, the ABC affiliate in Louisville covering the case in the courtroom.The United States government filed the motion in August introducing two acts of alleged misconduct by Brett Hankison while he was employed as a Louisville police officer. According to court documents, Hankison was part of a…

Tata Sons has seen a remarkable surge in net profit in recent years, yet the group’s holding company has channelled these gains predominantly into new ventures, rather than opting for higher dividend payouts. The primary beneficiaries of the dividends remain Tata Trusts, which hold a 66 per cent stake in Tata Sons, and the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. The Trusts, in turn, use these proceeds to fund its wide array of philanthropic initiatives. In FY24, Tata Sons distributed 4.1 per cent of its net profit as dividend to its shareholders, slightly above the 3.2 per cent payout ratio recorded…

TikTok was aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective, according to internal documents and communications exposed in lawsuit filed by the state of Kentucky.The details are among redacted portions of Kentucky’s lawsuit that contains the internal communications and documents unearthed during a more than two year investigation into the company by various states across the country. Kentucky’s lawsuit was filed this week, alongside separate complaints brought forth by attorneys general in a dozen states as well as the District of…

Back-to-back hurricanes have jumbled the presidential campaign schedules of Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.Trump and Harris have separately gone to Georgia to assess hurricane damage and pledge support. Harris also has visited North Carolina, requiring the candidates to cancel campaign events elsewhere and use up time which is a precious resource in the final weeks before any election. Both Georgia and North Carolina are political battlegrounds.Meanwhile, a recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that a solid majority of Hispanic women have a positive opinion of Harris and a negative view of Trump.…