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Shawn Fain announced additional strikes as contract negotiations with big three automakers — GM, Ford and Stellantis (Chrysler) — remained elusive on economic issues, media reports said.The UAW is demanding a wage hike of 36 to 40 per cent and a 40-hour week pay for an actual 36 hours week work.The management of only one of the strike hit Stellantis has offered an 8 per cent wage hike but all three automakers are unyielding on the 40-hour pay demand.The workers want a Cost of Living Adjustment a.k.a. COLA restored to adjust against inflation.They also want the two-tier wage agreement scrapped…

A release, issued from Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s office said that all illegal weapons held by any person or groups across the state should be surrendered forthwith or within a period of 15 days from Friday. The state government is willing to take a considerate view for the persons depositing such illegal weapons within these 15 days. “At the end of the 15 days, security forces, both of the Centre and the state, will undertake a strong and comprehensive search operation all over the state to recover such weapons, and all persons associated with any illegal weapons will be…

The gory incident took place on Thursday evening.The accused, S. Velusamy, has been arrested by the police. The deceased has been identified as Murugan, who was a farmer and lived near the residence of the accused at Kannadikulam in Tenkasi district.The police said that Velusamy is married to Esakkiammal from Rajaputhukudi in Tuticorin district. Esakkiammal had an affair with Murugan, who stayed close by.Later, Esakiammal separated from Velusamy and went to live with her parents in Rajaputhukudi. Velusamy, according to the police, was irked by this and in a fit of rage he hacked Murugan to death. He then travelled…

The President appointed Justices Umesh Chandra Sharma, Renu Agarwal, Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, Mayank Kumar Jain, Shiv Shanker Prasad, Gajendra Kumar, and Nalin Kumar Srivastava as permanent judges of the High Court from the date they assume charge of their respective offices. “In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint S/Shri Justices (i) Umesh Chandra Sharma, (ii) Smt. Renu Agarwal, (iii) Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, (iv) Mayank Kumar Jain, (v) Shiv Shanker Prasad, (vi) Gajendra Kumar, and (vii) Nalin Kumar Srivastava, Additional Judges of Allahabad…

The observation was made by a bench, headed by CJI DY Chandrachud and comprising of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, as it heard three pleas – two pertaining to the women officers of the Army and one of the Navy – alleging denial of promotion owing to gender discrimination.”We cannot run the affairs of the army and how companies are commanded. We interfere in those cases on issues of principle. But we surely cannot start running the command structure of the Army,” it told senioraAdvocate Meenakshi Arora, appearing for the petitioners, when she raised the issue of the woman…

“One leader of his (Modi) party was glorifying the killer of Mahatma Gandhi and another MP used non parliamentary language against the fellow MP inside the Lok Sabha on the direction of the Prime Minister. Such a statement is highly objectionable, derogatory, non parliamentary and a matter of concern for our democracy and society. This is not an Amrit Kaal but it is a Vish Kaal,” the RJD President said.Shivanand Tiwari, the vice president of RJD told IANS: “The way Bidhuri has used the language inside the Lok Sabha is an insult to the parliament. Rajnath Singh has apologised of…

They were speaking at the Industry Connect meet on ‘Chemical Synergy: Bridging Industries with Synthetic Expertise’, organised by the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), here on Friday.C. Anandharamakrishnan, Director, CSIR-NIIST, highlighted India’s significant role as an exporter of chemicals, especially specialty chemicals.ElixGlobal Mentor, Srinivas Lanka, emphasised the need to minimise dependence on external sources like China and called for self-reliance in the chemical sector.“It is important to develop cost-effective methods for drug intermediates, and identify flow chemistry and enzyme technologies as promising areas for immediate exploration,” said Lanka.Rajeev R Jha, VP-R&D, Crystal Crop Protection Ltd., said, “To…

While leaders of the ruling Trinamool are highlighting the part of interim protection against any coercive action, the opposition parties are dwelling on portion regarding refusal of the plea for dismissal of the ECIR. According to veteran Trinamool leader Saugata Roy, the court order proves that Abhishek Banerjee was being unnecessarily harassed by the central agencies out of political vendetta. “I hope that the court order will now refrain them from continuing with such unnecessarily harassment,” he said. However, state BJP leader Rahul Sinha said that the protection against coercive action is just an interim affair and it does not…

On the eve of displaying the cups for football buffs to take photographs, the 143-year-old club posted on social media a picture of the four trophies lined up tastefully against the evening sky beyond the horizon even as a passenger boat moves past close-by.“The sun sets of Vembanad Lake in Kochi on our latest leg of the Treble Trophy Tour!” read the caption, followed by an image of the Indian tricolour and a gold-coloured football cup.Kerala Tourism Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas said it is really exciting that a prominent football club of the world is coming to Kerala with the…

In an apparent jibe at RSS, BJP and Modi government, he said that women reservation should not become another ‘Jumla’ like crediting 15 lakhs in account of every citizen which was failed promise of the saffron party.Chodankar addressed a press conference in the Congress House and demanded immediate implementation of the Women Reservation Bill.Girish Chodankar said that a special session of parliament was called and all were kept in the dark about the business. “People should understand why BJP is doing this, it is only because whenever our leader Rahul Gandhi raises the public issues, BJP tries to divert the…