Author: Rahul M

BBC Set in the immediate aftermath of World War I, “Peaky Blinders” is a captivating period crime drama about a Birmingham-based British street gang and crime family of Romani and Irish Traveller lineage under the leadership of boss Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy). He has his work cut out for him when Winston Churchill (Andy Nyman and Richard McCabe) sends Detective Chief Inspector Major Chester Campbell (Sam Neill) to get the city under control, but that doesn’t stop him from expanding his operations throughout the 1920s. Much like the crew in…

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Sunday denied reports of his appointment as the head of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Other Backward Classes (OBC) Advisory Council. The first meeting of the Council is scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on July 15. Speaking to reporters a day after reports of his appointment surfaced, Siddaramaiah said that though he had seen it in the papers, he was not aware of his appointment as chairman. “I will talk to the high command today (Sunday),” he said. Siddaramaiah told the media that he was not aware of what his position would be in…

In one of the most daring police operations in Bengaluru, a quick-thinking inspector’s split-second decision to disguise himself as an autorickshaw driver led to the dramatic rescue of a kidnapped teenager and the capture of his abductors in 2001. The swift operation was not just lauded by the public but also by the legendary Kannada film actor Dr Rajkumar.The case concerns the kidnap of the son of a movie financier’s son. But what followed was a nail-biting operation where a police inspector had to don the role of an autorickshaw driver and engage in a gunfight to bring the criminals…

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from the world of microbiology, one that blurs the lines between what we traditionally define as living and non-living. Researchers have identified a unique organism that appears to straddle the boundary between viruses and cellular life. This new entity, Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, defies conventional categorization, offering new insights into the complexity of life forms at the microbial level. Discovery Details and Origins The discovery was made by a team of researchers from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in collaboration with their Japanese counterparts. While examining the genome of marine plankton Citharistes regius, the team…

The Election Commission (EC) said Sunday that the initial phase of the printing and distribution of the enumeration forms to registered voters for the Bihar electoral roll revision was “almost complete” and that 21.46% of the filled-out forms had been submitted.“The initial phase of the exercise, during which enumeration forms were to be printed and distributed, is almost complete with the forms being made available to all electors who were available,” EC Deputy Director P Pawan said in a statement. However, there is a significant backlog in the number of forms uploaded to the poll body’s ECINET database, with only…

A study commissioned by the Karnataka government to investigate sudden cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and cardiac deaths, and their possible links to the Covid vaccine, recently found no causal association between the two. The pilot study was carried out on 250 patients below 45 years of age by the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research (JICSR). It gained significance after several deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases in the Hassan district. Story continues below this ad A committee, led by Dr C N Ravindranath, director of the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, found no connection between…

In the face of criticism from the Opposition and confusion on the ground in Bihar, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday defended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state, saying the poll panel had “invited all recognised political parties for interaction” on the matter and “no one was satisfied with the current status of electoral rolls for one reason or the other”.  The Election Commission (EC) also clarified that the SIR was being conducted as per its June 24 order announcing the exercise and “there is no change in the instructions”.The poll panel…

A former sanitation worker in Karnataka has written to police that he was forced to bury multiple murder victims over a decade ago. He has come forward to expose what he describes as a systematic cover-up of brutal crimes “out of remorse”. After his letter was released by advocates Ojaswi Gowda and Sachin Deshpande, the Dharmasthala police in Dakshina Kannada district registered a case on Friday under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita section 211(a) (omission to give information to public servant by a person legally bound to give it). The complainant, who worked as a sanitation worker in Dharmasthala from 1995 to…

Days after the Mahayuti-led Maharashtra government rolled back two Government Resolutions (GRs) on the introduction of Hindi in primary schools, estranged cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray came together for the first time in 20 years to hold a joint “victory” rally centred on Marathi identity Saturday.As Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj took the stage at the rally in Mumbai, the screen behind them displayed two words – Awaaz Marathicha or voice of Marathi. With the Thackeray cousins pledging unity in the fight for the rights of the “Marathi manoos (sons of the…

The Punjab government is attempting to bring in a legislation providing for stricter punishment against crimes of sacrilege, and is exploring legal options for a provision of death penalty for those found guilty.“We will be convening a special session of Vidhan Sabha on July 10 and 11 to bring a historic legislation for stricter punishment against those found guilty of sacrilege. The Centre should have done it. However, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is bringing it in Punjab as it understands the emotions of the people of the state,” AAP spokesperson Neel Garg said on Saturday. Sacrilege and the…