Hours after a blast at the popular Rameshwaram Cafe shocked Bengaluru on Friday, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah confirmed that the explosion was caused by a small improvised explosive device (IED). An NIA team has arrived at the spot, media reports said. Revealing details of the preliminary investigation, the chief minister said that a person who arrived to have breakfast left behind a bag at Rameshwaram Cafe. “It was reported that the person who had taken the token from the cashier and had breakfast there, left the bag. CCTV cameras are being checked. Clear information will be available soon,” Siddaramaiah jotted…
Author: Editor's Desk, Tattva News
Between 2013 and 2022, the Himalayan region in India accounted for 44 per cent of all the disasters reported in the country. Floods, landslides and thunderstorms – 192 in all – constituted the bulk of these incidents. In fact, the cloudbursts and torrential rains experienced in the region in 2023 are curtain-raisers to a future that is already upon us, and will become more pronounced with every passing year. This assessment of the Himalayan region and the impacts of climate change that it is encountering is a key focus of the recently released State of India’s Environment 2024 report. The report…
The leaders of more than 30 news organizations from across the world, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters, have joined an open letter affirming their solidarity with journalists reporting in Gaza. The letter, coordinated by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) with the support of the World Association of News Publishers (WANP-IFRA), demonstrates strong and unified support for colleagues reporting from Gaza in the deadliest conflict for journalists ever documented by CPJ. “For nearly five months, journalists and media workers in Gaza – overwhelmingly, the sole source of on-the-ground reporting from within the Palestinian territory – have been working in unprecedented conditions,” the letter…
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may win 35 out of a total of 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, while the opposition I.N.D.I alliance may win 13 seats if elections are held now, says India TV-CNX Opinion Poll. Details of the opinion poll were telecast on the news channel on Thursday. In the opinion poll projections, BJP leads the tally with 25 seats, while its allies Shiv Sena (Shinde) may win six and NCP (Ajit Pawar) may win four seats. In the I.N.D.I.A. alliance, Shiv Sena (UBT) may win eight seats, NCP (Sharad Pawar) may…
TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh, the main accused in the sexual abuse and land-grabbing case at Sandeshkhali, was sent to 10-day police custody by the Basirhat court on Thursday. Shahjahan, who was absconding for the last 55 days, was arrested by the West Bengal police on Wednesday night. Shahjahan, who has been absconding for the past 55 days, was nabbed from a house in Bamanpukur in the Minakhan police station area, around 30 km away from the island of Sandeshkhali on the outskirts of Sunderbans, in North 24 Parganas district. He was arrested in the case wherein his supporters assaulted Enforcement…
* 2023 breaks global warming records The year 2023 has been the warmest year on record in the history of the Earth – 1.48 degrees warmer than the 1850-1900 period (pre-industrial average); the year also had the highest number of days with global mean temperatures above 1.5oC. Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE’s) annual Anil Agarwal Dialogue, a national conclave of environment and development journalists, started off here today with these dire assessments of the year gone by. This and other data feature in the State of India’s Environment 2024 report, which was released at this Dialogue by economist Nitin…
The study “Uncovering news deserts in Europe. Risks and opportunities for local community media in the EU” by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) was published today. This research detects challenges and opportunities for local and community media in the 27 EU Member States, analysing the news deserts phenomenon from a holistic perspective. A network of researchers spanning all the 27 EU Member States ran the investigation, using the methodology developed by CMPF. They assessed risks based on 55 variables that relate to the local media market conditions; local journalists’ safety and working conditions, local outlets’ editorial independence and social…
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi may win 35 out of a total of 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, while making a clean sweep of all 4 seats in Himachal Pradesh, if elections are held now, says India TV-CNX Opinion Poll. Details of the opinion poll were telecast on the news channel today. Opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc may win five Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, says the survey. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, NDA had won 39 Lok Sabha seats, while Congress had won just one seat. RJD had failed to win a single…
The CBI has summoned Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav as a witness for questioning on Thursday in illegal mining cases, five years after registering the case. In a notice issued under section 160 of CrPC, the agency asked him to appear before it on Thursday in connection with the case registered in 2019, officials said. The section allows a police officer to summon witnesses in a probe. The case pertains to the issuance of mining leases in alleged violation of e-tendering process. The Allahabad High Court had ordered the probe. It is alleged that public servants…
Harsh Mahajan, the BJP leader who won the Rajya Sabha seat from Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, claimed that his party is going to form government in the state by ousting the ruling Congress as it ‘lacks majority’ in the house.Mahajan said several Congress MLAs are in touch with the BJP and the state is going to witness a change in the government. “The BJP is going to form government in the state. Some more MLAs of Congress are in touch with us. I got phone calls from some of their MLAs and ministers…The situation will change in the next few…