New Delhi The Kerala government has proposed a 14.5 per cent ‘fat tax’ on burgers, pizzas and other junk food served in branded restaurants which officials from the quick service industry termed as ‘detrimental’ to consumption while some indicated the levy may not be passed on to customers. Fat tax on junk food, a reality in […]
Citibank will pay a huge fine for manipulating an important interest rate. The bank settled with attorneys general in 42 states for $100 million. Following an investigation, the states said Citibank manipulated Libor, a benchmark interest rate that helps set lending rates across the world. Citibank made millions of dollars of gains from its “fraudulent […]
New Delhi More parties and leaders have come out in support of the ongoing sit-in protest by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal’s office. According to reports, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, actors-turned-politicians Kamal Hassan and Shatrughan Sinha, the CPI-M, the CPI and West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool […]
New Delhi India on Thursday rejected the UN report alleging human rights violations in Kashmir. Calling it “ fallacious, tendentious and motivated,” New Delhi questioned the intent behind bringing out a report with “selective compilation of largely unverified information.” Earlier today, the United Nations released the first of its kind report on alleged human rights […]
New Delhi Data security is a modern age myth. In the recent times, tech giants, particularly Facebook, have been accused of aggressively and extensively harnessing user data. And now Facebook has just admitted how efficient it is at the task. The social media giant in a 225-page document responding to a set of 2,000 questions […]
India police said on Monday it will have x-rayed a pigeon it suspects was spying for Pakistan to rule out the possibility of any coded messages. According to Times of India, police in Ajnala town of Amritsar district will have the bird examined to ascertain it does not have a tiny spying object embedded to its body. The pigeon, the report said, […]
Bengaluru Nirav Modi, the billionaire jeweller at the heart of a more than Rs 13,400 crore fraud case in India, has fled to the UK, where he is claiming political asylum, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing Indian and British officials. Britain’s Home Office said it does not provide information on individual cases. Nirav […]
Patna Two years after the infamous topper scam, the Bihar School Examination Board was again in the limelight on Friday when some class XII students claimed that they scored higher marks than the total. Some others complained that they received marks in papers they never appeared for. One of the candidates, Bhim Kumar from Arwal district, got 38 […]
New Delhi Giving a boost to the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO, the central government has approved the over-10,000 crore plan to give an impetus to the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III programmes. The move will help ISRO further its launches of the light and heavy satellites. The cabinet, […]
