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Reporter: What is the policy of the government? Do you want the migrant workers or you don’t want them? Why is there so much ad-hoc-ism? Minister: We want the migrant workers. We want them to stay ‘as we allowed them to stay 4-5 years back when they came here.’ But,…
The Karnataka government has ordered a ‘selfie’ moment. Literally! And it is not once or twice in a fortnight, as is the norm for all those kept under home quarantine for COVID-19. Neither is it once a day but every single hour until the second test for the deadly infection…
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy tweeted the conspiracy out at around 3.45 pm on February 28. Swamy was actually a bit late on the take. A bunch of other handles on Facebook and Twitter, like the one below, had already begun to spread the conspiracy theory. The Lede spoke to reliable…
It is now Day 5 since the violence unleashed in north east Delhi since the first clashes were reported on Sunday, 23 February. Clashes intensified and peaked on 24 and 25 February as the US President was visiting India. With the courts and the people coming down hard on the…
For 26 years, Ravi Pujari ensured that the Indian police did not come anywhere close to him. His monitored calls yielded nothing because he had adopted technology like no other Mumbai-grown gangster had. But, technology, yet again, proved to be a great leveller. Pujari, wanted by the police of Karnataka,…
On February 05, Income Tax officials raided the properties of a producer, actor, distributor and financier while investigating financial irregularities and tax evasion. The movie in question was Bigil, tom-tommed to have grossed a whopping Rs 300 crore at the box office. The producer was Archana Kalpathi, the CEO of…
Karnataka has become the first southern state to suspend internet services. A government order has specifically pointed out that the internet services can be used to “inflame passions” in the coastal city of Mangaluru, where two persons have died and seven to eight persons are critical. The two persons who…
Qatar has endorsed a new law to establish a non-discriminatory minimum wage, the first in the Middle East, as part of its steps in abolishing the controversial Kafala system, on Wednesday. Started in the 1950s, the Kafala (Sponsorship) System regulates the relationship between employers and migrant workers in many countries…
The Congress high command has taken the safest option by naming Siddaramaiah as the leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka legislative assembly by ignoring the other claimants to the post. Siddaramaiah has been named not only the leader of the Congress legislature party but has also been given the…
A social activist in Kerala is fighting a case in Kerala High Court against the state government for reportedly ‘selling a division’ of man-made canal Parvathy Puthanar in Thiruvananthapuram to the Regional Director of Lulu Mall without the knowledge of the Coastal Shipping and Inland Navigation Department. “Sourced documents reveal…