commerce giants Flipkart and Walmart declared on Monday fresh investment for the Bengaluru-based start-up, Ninjacart, an online-grocery venture. The sum of investment amounts to $30 million or ₹ 220 crore for the grocery start-up. This is their second investment, followed by the first one in December 2019. The investment comes at the moment of rattling…
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa is supposedly seeking to have a little alteration in the cabinet. As per some sources, the health and family welfare portfolio will be bereaved from B Sriramulu, and might be handed over the charge of plum social welfare department. There were discussions and the health portfolio might be handed…
The state of Maharashtra is observing a bandh on Saturday to protest and demand the Maratha quota row. The band has been asserted by several Maratha outfits, urging the revival of reservation that will represent the Maratha community for the jobs sector and in schools and colleges. This comes after the Supreme Court (SC) on…
India has successfully test-fired Rudram-1 on Friday, which is the tactical anti-radiation missile that can be launched by the Indian Air Force from the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets for executing the enemy radars and surveillance systems. The launching speed of Rudram-1 is up to 2 Mach, that accounts to two times the regular speed of…
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) interrogated Ricky Rai, the son of the former underworld don Muthappa Rai on Wednesday. This happened a day post the CCB raided his residence for further investigation on Kannada cinema drug racket case. Ricky Rai was quizzed regarding Aditya Alva, the son of ex-minister, late Jeevaraj Alva, who has allegedly…
The Chemistry Nobel Prize 2020 has been jointly awarded to French scientist Emmaunelle Charpentier and American scientist Jennifer A. Doudna for the work of development of a technique for genome editing called as CRISPR. Regarding their discovery, the jury commented, “Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high…
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has announced that there will be a reduction in the penalty for not wearing a mask from Rs. 1000 to Rs. 250 in the urban areas and from Rs. 500 to Rs. 100 in the rustic areas. In an official statement, Yediyurappa stated that the reduction in fine was…
The Bombay High Court has approved the bail application of actress Rhea Chakraborty on Wednesday in the drug case related to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. She was approved the bail by personal bond of Rs. 1 lakh. The high court further iterated some conditions while acknowledging the bail. The court stated, “Rhea should…
The Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2020 was conjointly granted to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez on Tuesday for their discoveries and inventions that have further enhanced the understanding of the universe, which also comprises of their research on black holes. Dr. Roger Penrose was granted half the prize amount for…
Photo Credits: Deccan Herald/ B H Shivakumar The private buses in Bengaluru are ridiculing the ‘new normal’ by completely adjourning the new regulations of social distancing by filling in with travelers without any restraining limit. The buses appear to have too much crowd standing in vicinity without any distancing measures which where implemented to contain…
