A petitioner and his advocate, who had filed a petition against a Karnataka High Court judgement in the Supreme Court, were slapped with a contempt notice by the apex court for using the derogatory remarks against the judges.

Kolkata Mar 25 PTI German luxury car maker Audi plans to develop the market in India by bringing in more products and expanding the network across the country an official of Audi India said on Friday Head of Audi India Balbir Singh Dhillon said that the company part of the Volkswagen Group presently assembles four internal combustion IC cars in India two SUVs and two sedans To develop the market in the country we will bring in more products and also expand the network We have presently 60 touchpoints across the country Dhillon said Audi India the third largest luxury car company in terms of sales is having enough capacity to meet the demand at its Aurangbad plant for the next five years These four models are assembled at the plant after bringing them in CKD form Other models are directly imported In 2021 the company sold 3293 cars 101 per cent growth over 2020 Dhillon said that the present conflict in East Europe may disrupt the supply chain since many components are sourced from Ukraine Dhillon said We dont aim to become number one in sales but to chase a sustainable business model To a query he said the company had already introduced five electric vehicles EV in India Dhillon added that the target is that by 2025 15 per cent of the companys sales will be EVs Globally Audi plans to stop sales of IC cars by 2033 and start selling all EV models He said by 2026 onwards all new generation cars will be electric Dhillon has also pitched for reduction in import duties on EVs by the Indian government for three to five years If we get reasonable volumes we can start assembly of EVs in India only he added The company stopped selling of diesel cars from April 2020 The company now is selling only petrol and EVs PTI DC RG NN NN

New Delhi Feb 24 PTI The Ministry of Defence on Thursday signed a Rs 1075 crore contract with Bharat Electronics Limited BEL for retro-modification of commander sight in 957 T-90 battle tanks so that they can detect targets at longer ranges an official statement said Commander sight is an optical observation device on a tank Commander sight of T-90 Indias premier battle tank is presently fitted with image converter IC tube-based sight for night viewing the ministrys statement noted Based on the requirement projected by the Indian Army the Defence Research Development Organisation DRDO and BEL have jointly designed and developed an advanced mid wave thermal image MWIR-based sight as a replacement for the existing IC-based sight it noted The new retro-modified commander sight employs a thermal imager capable of detecting the targets at 8 km during day and night and a laser ranger finder LRF to find the ranges accurately up to 5 km thereby enhancing its capability to engage target at longer ranges it mentioned With the corrections from ballistic software and LRF the commander of T-90 can detect engage and neutralize the targets with phenomenal accuracy it noted The indigenously developed sight completed extensive evaluations under field conditions successfully it mentioned PTI DSP SMN SMN

Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 16 (ANI): Research teams from IIT Bhubaneswar designed and developed a digitally intensive sub-sampling short-range low-power RF front end Integrated Circuits for enhancing IoT based sensing, monitoring and wireless devices.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 14 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Ultraviolette Automotive Pvt. Ltd., an innovator in sustainable mobility, today announced that it has raised a new round of capital in its Series C funding, led by TVS Motor Company to support Ultraviolette's vision of developing high performance mobility solutions for India and global markets.

Beijing [China], October 31 (ANI): Terming the latest US intelligence report on origins of COVID-19 as "unscientific", China once again accused Washington of political manipulation of virus probe, which it believes can damage the global efforts in fighting the pandemic.

New Delhi Sep 20 PTI The BCCI on Monday ratified a comprehensive Prevention of Sexual Harassment POSH policy which also brings the Indian cricketers into its ambitUntil now the BCCI did not have a specific policy to deal the matters of sexual harassment The policy is also applicable to office-bearers members of Apex Council and IPL Governing Council besides the cricketers from senior to U-16 levelIn a nine-page document in possession of PTI the BCCI states that a four member Internal Committee will be formed to investigate sexual harassment complaints It did not name the members during its Apex Council meeting on Monday The presiding officer of the IC shall be a woman employed at a senior level at the Workplace Presiding Officer reads the policy 2 members of the IC will be selected from among the employees preferably who are committed to the cause of women or have experience in social work or have legal knowledge 1 member of the IC will be selected from a Non-Governmental Organization or association committed to the cause of women or a person familiar with issues relating to sexual harassment External Member At least one half of the members of the IC will be women The complainant must file the complaint within three months from the date of incident and the IC will give seven working days to the accused to respond to the allegations The respondent gets 10 days to respond The ICC gets 90 days from the date of complaint to complete its inquiry and forward its recommendations to the BCCI which will act on it within 60 days The complainant or respondent can go to court if they are not satisfied with BCCIs verdict That must be done within 90 days of the receipt of the report of the IC The penalties include censure counselling community services warning fine loss of pay loss of seniority termination of employment among others BCCI to pay USD 15 million to Emirates Cricket Board for hosting T20 World Cup BCCI is paying ECB a fixed fee of USD 15 million from our host fee of USD 135 Million and operational costs of USD 55 million which will be covered by ICC Total fee payable is USD 7Millon read an official note Majority of the matches will be played in the UAE Oman Cricket which is hosting six matches gets a fee of USD 400000 PTI BS KHS KHS

Beijing [China], August 28 (ANI): Refuting results of a US report tracing the origins of the Covid-19 virus, Beijing has lodged solemn representations with Washington terming the report as "completely political, and having no scientificity and credibility."

Washington [US], August 28 (ANI/Sputnik): The US Intelligence Community (IC) assesses that the origins of the novel coronavirus disease may never be definitively identified without additional information, the declassified summary of a report commissioned by US President Joe Biden revealed on Friday.