Bobby Kotick, the former head of Activision Blizzard, is reportedly considering buying TikTok, as the app could be banned in the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kotick has talked to ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, about buying the app, which could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.This comes as US lawmakers…
Ahmedabad: Blood donation camps may save lives, but they don’t qualify for GST relief. Gujarat Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that organising a blood donation camp does not qualify as a charitable activity for GST exemption. In the same order, however, the authority held that organising yoga camps does fall within the definition…
Time For New Govt To Study Old Lessons And Develop New Plans Jayashree Perumal is pursuing mechanical engineering at Kun-Shan in Taiwan, an exceptional journey from her tiny village, Pannandur, in Krishnagiri district to an international university. She will become the first graduate in her family when she completes the course.Jeyashree and 947 more girls,…
Police said the cases involve substantial financial dealings and directly affect farmers Pune: Akola police have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to conduct a coordinated probe into alleged irregularities in the sale and distribution of soybean seeds, following a spate of complaints from farmers during the ongoing kharif season.The SIT was formed on the…
Panaji: The town and country planning department has approved the designation of 23,02,189sqm of land across five large tracts as non-developable area under Section 39A of the Town and Country Planning Act, with the bulk of the land concentrated in Tiswadi and comprising mangroves, salt pans, khazan areas and paddy fields.The five proposals cover land…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah addresses the launch of NAFED’s auction portal ‘NAFEX.in’ at Atal Akshaya Urja Bhawan, in New Delhi, on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (Photo: IANS/Prem Nath Pandey) Gandhinagar: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah will visit the state on Saturday. He will chair the Gandhinagar…
Mumbai: As the house-to-house enumeration exercise for SIR ended on Monday, several citizens expressed fear of being omitted from the draft electoral roll and later the final roll, saying BLOs had not visited their homes. Nearly half of the ‘uncollectable’ forms have been from Mumbai, Thane and Pune.After enumeration began on June 30, many citizens…
The deceased woman, Akriti, had gotten married to Arastu Sikka in April this year. NEW DELHI: Police have registered a dowry death case and arrested the husband of the 28-year-old woman allegedly fell to her death from a residential building in south Delhi’s Palika Kunj.Cops say no evidence of foul play has surfaced so far…
Harley-Davidson has increased prices across the X440 range, with the Vivid, S and T variants all receiving revised pricing. The extent of the hike varies by variant, with the T registering the biggest increase. Launched in December 2025 as the latest addition to the lineup, the X440 T is also undergoing its first price revision….
Chennai: Three masked men strangled a 62-year-old woman and snatched her earrings after cutting them off near Tirukazhukundram in the early hours of Monday. Police are yet to trace or arrest any of them so far. The victim, Bhanumathi, a retired govt hospital employee, lived with her son and daughter-in-law at Irumbuliyur Krishna Street near…
