Protests raged in Kerala on Friday as outrage grew over shocking accounts from several female actors in the Malayalam film industry about sexual abuse, with the Leader of the Opposition, V D Satheesan, accusing the CPI(M)-led government of shielding the culprits, including actor-politician Mukesh, who stands accused of rape.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday apologised to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and those hurt by the collapse of the warrior king’s statue in coastal Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra.
Targeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on women’s safety, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that many states are not making sincere efforts in the direction of crime against women.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Friday ordered an enquiry over allegations of hidden cameras installation in a girl student’s washroom of an engineering college in Krishna district.
Majority of Indian organisations are progressing to the mid-level maturity stage on artificial intelligence (AI), with defined strategies and initial implementation of select use cases while aiming to scale these solutions further, a Nasscom report showed on Thursday.
A whopping 75 per cent of corneal blindness cases in India are untreated due to lack of eye donors, said an expert on Thursday.
India’s tyre exports have bounced back in the first quarter (April-June) of the current financial year with a 17 per cent jump to Rs 6,219 crore, according to a statement issued by the Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the government is making necessary policy changes, like removal of Angel Tax, to promote the fintech sector, even as he asked the regulators to take additional measures to check cyber frauds which can have a crippling impact on startups.
The Ukraine-Russia war has now stretched on for nearly two years, with devastating consequences not only for the people of Ukraine and Russia but for the world at large.