The Bombay Chambers of Commerce at its board meeting has appointed Anjali Bansal as president for

There were reports that one tourist had been injured, but state officials did not immediately confirm that.... Montes de Oca’s office said earlier that “ there was a clash between rival groups of drug dealers on a beach ” near the hotels.... An employee who answered the phone at the hotel said the shooting occurred on the beach near the facility. Rival cartels often kill another gang’s street-level dealers in Mexico to eliminate competition and ensure their drugs are sold first....

Thursday’s shooting occurred on a beach just yards from luxury hotels.... Additionally, about 10 gangs are fighting over street-level drug sales in Tulum, a beach town further south.... Guests at both resorts posted social media images of tourists hiding or nervously milling in lobbies. Keith Jackson, a tourist from London, left the beach just before the shooting....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed states and union territories to implement the' one nation, one ration card scheme' till July 31, while asking the Centre to provide dry ration for free distribution among migrant workers till the COVID-19 situation continues.A bench of justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah issued a slew of directions on a plea of three activists seeking directions to the Centre and states to ensure food security, cash transfers and other welfare measures for migrant workers wh

The government has set up a nine-member advisory council, including Nandan Nilekani from Infosys and National Health Authority CEO R S Sharma, on steps required to design and accelerate adoption of open network for digital commerce( ONDC). The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade( DPIIT) in an order said it has initiated a project on ONDC and the task has been assigned to Quality Council of India." ONDC aims at promoting open networks developed on open sourced methodology, usi

A new classification of planet, so-called Hycean waterworlds, may be humanity’s best bet at finding a world which can sustain life, according to a new study. Astronomers from the University of Cambridge defined this new type of planet and believe focusing on them could enable alien lifeforms to be identified within three years. The search for life beyond Earth has thus far been a fruitless endeavour, with scientists now trying to find distant planets orbiting mysterious stars that they think cou

Nearly five years after public Wi-Fi was pitched by the government as a key driver of broadband coverage, India has missed its public Wi-Fi hotspot rollout target.... According to Statista, a German market research agency, the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots per million population is 175 times that of India in the UK, 50 times in the US, and 75 times in China.... At this rate, industry experts have said that India is also likely to miss its 50 million public Wi-Fi hotspots target by 2030, set

Lately, all Governments have been taking steps and taking measures to ensure that no human being should be affected by hunger and no one dies out of hunger.... The basic concept of food security globally is to ensure that all people, at all times, should get access to the basic food for their active and healthy life." The Constitution of India does not have any explicit provision regarding the right to food.... These unorganized workers did not have any permanent source of employment and have

An Australian court on Tuesday overturned a groundbreaking ruling from last year that required the country’s environment minister to consider harm to children from climate change before approving a coal mine. The full Federal Court decided unanimously in favour of the appeal by Environment Minister Sussan Ley against a judge’s ruling that she had a duty of care to avoid harming children when weighing approval for a coal project.... The court ruled" the duty should not be imposed upon the Minist

Sanjay Malhotra moves to head the country's central bank — the Reserve Bank of India( RBI) — at a time when the retail inflation is ruling above the comfort zone and the economic growth has slowed down.... So, the first and foremost task will be to rein in inflation, measured by consumer price Index( CPI), and align it with the target of 4 per cent, and take steps to support economic growth.... Now, going forward, the central bank will have to also start focusing on growth, she added....