The Election Commission on Thursday issued notices to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress seeking an explanation, by Monday, for alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi. The Model Code of Conduct is a set of guidelines issued by the Election Commission for political parties, candidates and governments to follow during an election. It sets guardrails for speeches, meetings, processions, election manifestos and other aspects of the polls. In its letter to BJP National President JP Nadda and Congress President Mallikarju ..read more

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had proactively destroyed evidence of money laundering in connection with the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy, reported Bar and Bench. In an affidavit countering the Aam Aadmi Party leader’s plea challenging his arrest, the Enforcement Directorate also said that Kejriwal was directly involved in the formulation of the liquor policy, and was therefore “directly and indirectly” tied to the proceeds of crime that stemmed from it. The agency clarified that by “proceeds of crime”, it was refe ..read more

The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) has released the revised schedule of the TS EAPCET 2024 and TS ICET 2024. As per the revised notification, the EAPCET will be held from May 7 to 11 and the ICET will be conducted on June 5 and 6. “In view of the General Elections scheduled on 13.05.2024 in the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Telangana State Council of Higher Education has rescheduled the dates for TS EAPCET-2024 and TS ICET-2024 to avoid the TS EAPCET-2024 exam on day before the polling date and TS ICET2-2024 exam on day of counting date,” reads the notification ..read more

They inhabited altogether different musical worlds: the great Gauhar Jaan, with the high drama of her life as a singer-courtesan in the north, and Veena Sheshanna, the mighty veena stalwart and elite musician of the early 20th century Mysore court. What could possibly connect them? Nearly a half century of cultural confluence between Carnatic and Hindustani styles at the erstwhile Mysore court, says Geetha Ramanand, veena exponent and a keen music researcher. For over three decades Ramanand worked as a broadcaster, producing features for the All India Radio. One of her explorations throws lig ..read more

The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) has invited online applications from eligible candidates for admissions through the Art and Design Common Entrance Test ADCET-2024. Interested candidates can apply for the exam on the official website cets.apsche.ap.gov.in till May 22, 2024. Candidates who have passed 10+2 in any group (MPC/MEC/BiPC/MBiPC/CEC/HEC (or) Equivalent etc.) are eligible to apply. The correction window will open from June 1 to 3. The exam will be conducted on June 13 and the admit card will be released on June 4. The exam will be conducted for admission i ..read more

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday alleged that the Congress plans to introduce religion-based reservations in “every institution” in Indian society, including the armed forces, reported The Hindu. The veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader made the remarks during a public meeting in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on the Lok Sabha campaign trail. Singh claimed that the Congress’ poll manifesto hints at its plans for faith-based reservations. The Congress’ “Nyay Patra”, however, does not mention any such promise. Singh also referenced the Sachar Committee Report’s recommendation of a r ..read more

The Chennai Police have arrested Sheejith Krishna, a Bharatanatyam dancer and former professor at the Kalakshetra Foundation, for allegedly sexually abusing two of his students during their time at the institution, reported The Indian Express on Thursday. Krishna, 51, was arrested from his home in Neelankarai on Monday hours before he was set to travel to the United States, the newspaper quoted unidentified senior police officials as saying. Two of his former students have alleged that Krishna sexually abused them when they were students at the institution’s Thiruvanmiyur campus in Chennai be ..read more

A sanitation worker cleaning a sewer line at an under-construction building and a rescuer died on Wednesday in Mumbai’s Malad after inhaling toxic gases, reported The Indian Express. So far five sanitation workers and another individual have died after entering sewers in Mumbai and the surrounding areas this month. On Wednesday, 50-year-old Raghu Solanki fainted while cleaning the sewer line. A 19-year-old man named Akib Shaikh, who was playing nearby, went inside the sewer line to rescue Solanki. However, when he did not respond, Akib’s brother Javed Shaikh jumped in to rescue both. Both Jav ..read more

The Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC) will soon close the online application window for the State Service (Mains) Exam 2023. Eligible candidates can apply for the exam on the official website psc.cg.gov.in till May 2, 2024. The correction window will open from May 3 to 7, 2024. The exam will be conducted from June 24 to 26 in two shifts — 9.00 AM to 12.00 noon and 2.00 PM to 5.00 PM and on June 27 from 9.00 AM to 12.00 PM. The admit card will be available to download 10 days before the commencement of the exam. Here’s the State Service (Mains) Exam 2023 schedule. The recruitment ..read more

Your competitor’s toolkit is their capabilities – strengths, weaknesses, and their assumptions. In a later chapter, we go deep into how to gather competitive intelligence (CI) on their capabilities, but, for the purpose of this chapter, we’ll talk about whether you should even count them among your key players: What does the competition think about the market? What do they think about themselves? And most importantly, what do they think about your company? One of the questions I ask companies in war games is: Do you care about your competition? And even more importantly: Do they care ..read more